Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that negotiations with the United States to end the Russia-Ukraine war are moving on to the “next steps” following a flurry of meetings between the two sides in Florida this week. U.S. and Ukrainian delegations held peace talks in Miami throughout the week after Middle East special envoy Steve Witkoff

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth called President Donald Trump the “true and rightful heir” of Ronald Reagan at a defense forum named after the former president in Southern California on Saturday. Speaking at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Hegseth based the comparison on Trump and Reagan’s shared “peace through strength” foreign policy doctrine. “Like President

KIGALI, Dec 6—The United States and Rwanda have signed a five-year deal for the provision of $228 million for the health sector in the East African nation, the State Department said, the second such pact under the Trump administration’s new approach to overseas aid. Kenya became the first country this week to strike a deal

The King of Country Music, the Italian Stallion, and Broadway’s original Phantom of the Opera gathered in the Oval Office on Dec. 6 as some of this year’s recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors Medallion. “I’ve been a fan of all of them, and it’s been a real honor to get to know them during

U.S. government officials and defense leaders attend the 2025 Reagan National Defense Forum on Dec. 6 at two sites in the Reagan Center, California. (Video courtesy of Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute.) Schedule (Air Force One Pavilion): 7:45 a.m.–9:00 a.m. PST – Panel 1 & Breakfast Opening Plenary: The Nation’s Voices on National Defense:

For months, federal judges have been ordering President Donald Trump to reinstate heads of agencies despite his interest in removing them. Their decisions have been based on a 90-year-old Supreme Court precedent, known as Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, that says Congress can limit the reasons for which presidents remove officials like members of labor

WASHINGTON—The good news came on Heather Knuckles’s wedding day: her mother, bedridden with a failing liver and kidneys, had an organ match. It was the happiest day of their lives, Knuckles said, recalling her mother smiling while picturing a new life in front of her. Instead, she said, what began was a nightmare. Knuckles’s mother

The U.S. Supreme Court decided on Dec. 5 to review whether President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship is constitutional. The court’s decision took the form of an unsigned order without comment. No justices dissented. The case is known as Trump v. Barbara. Trump’s Executive Order 14160 has prompted debate over the meaning of

A federal judge on Friday granted a Department of Justice (DOJ) request to unseal grand jury records a Florida case involving sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and convicted co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell. U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith wrote in a brief order that a recent federal law ordering the release of records related to Epstein and Maxwell

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Dec. 4 declined a request from the federal government to block a district court order requiring it to continue providing grants to school mental health workers. The grants, which have been issued by the Department of Education under the Mental Health Service Professional Demonstration Grant