Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared Saturday that the United States will not allow China to seize control of the Asia-Pacific and pressed American allies to raise defense budgets to 3.5 percent of GDP or stop expecting Washington to carry their weight.
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a motion Friday asking a federal judge to recuse herself from a Georgia election records case, arguing that her prior ties to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis make impartial proceedings impossible.
President Donald Trump announced Sunday that Tom Barrack, the U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, will take on expanded duties as Special Presidential Envoy to both Syria and Iraq, placing a single diplomat at the center of three overlapping pressure points in the Middle East.
American children receive more than twice as many vaccine doses as kids in some European nations, and President Trump is ordering federal health officials to do something about it.
President Donald Trump called on a federal judge Sunday to immediately throw out a lawsuit blocking construction of a rooftop drone base at the White House, warning the judge would be personally "held responsible" for any future attack on the executive mansion if he refuses.
Former Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday called on the Trump administration to scrap a nearly $1.776 billion Justice Department fund created to compensate people claiming to have been victimized by the Biden administration, saying the money could end up in the pockets of convicted January 6 rioters.
A former Cuban military pilot accused of helping shoot down two unarmed humanitarian planes and kill four Americans in 1996 was sentenced Friday to seven months in federal prison, a term he has already nearly served in pretrial detention.
