Officials in Cuba report an island-wide blackout in the country of some 11 million people as its energy and economic crises deepen.

Officials say an Afghan immigrant whose family said had worked with U.S. forces in his home country died at a Texas hospital after having been detained by immigration authorities.

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles has been diagnosed with early stage breast cancer but plans to continue working through her treatment, retaining her place as one of President Donald Trump’s closest aides.

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The outgoing head of the Ms. Foundation says the fight for political equality in the U.S. is far from over.

Illinois voters will choose nominees for a full slate of offices in a state primary Tuesday.

President Donald Trump's decision to replace Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem gives him an opportunity to reset his mass deportation agenda — or to double down on a campaign promise.

Fears of a global energy crisis persist as the war in the Middle East rages on.

Oil prices are down, and stocks are up, though such moves have been quick to reverse since the war in Iran began.

A few artists at Hollywood's biggest night protested more than just the Trump administration’s immigration policies.

President Donald Trump relied on his gut and largely side-stepped diplomatic coordination as he made the decision to launch strikes on Iran with Israel.

President Donald Trump says he has demanded about seven countries send warships to keep the Strait of Hormuz open.

About 3,800 workers began a strike at one of the nation’s largest meatpacking plants.

The United States’ war with Iran is entering its third week, but Congress has yet to publicly test the Trump administration’s case for the conflict.

Every day more than $4 billion worth of goods cross the United States’ borders with Canada and Mexico – U.S. auto parts headed for car factories in northern Mexico, cartons of Mexican avocados bound for California supermarkets, Canadian aluminum destined to become cans of Campbell Soup.

The 98th Academy Awards on Sunday saw “One Battle After Another” win big with six awards, including best picture, director, supporting actor and casting.

UEFA said Sunday that the game between Argentina and Spain known as Finalissima that was supposed to be held in Qatar has been canceled after the widening Middle East war.

Pope Leo XIV has urged a ceasefire in the Middle East and called on leaders in the Iran war to reopen talks.

The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown is expanding, but the public data that tracks it is drying up.

A company that evaluates news outlets and websites to see which produce reliable journalism says it's under attack by the Trump administration.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he is ready for the next trilateral peace talks with the U.S. and Russia, but the meeting depends on Washington and Moscow.

China's official news agency Xinhua reports that representatives from Beijing and Washington have begun their economic and trade talks in Paris.

Vietnam hold a nationwide vote to choose a new five-year National Assembly, just two months after the ruling Communist Party confirmed its leadership at its national congress and reelected To Lam as general secretary.

President Donald Trump says he has “demanded” that about seven countries heavily reliant on Middle East oil join a coalition to police the Strait of Hormuz.

Gulf countries have reported new Iranian attacks as the war in the Middle East entered its third week.

Two weeks into the war with Iran, President Donald Trump has increasingly been knocked back on his political heels.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” has been crowned best picture at the 98th Academy Awards.

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright has directed a Texas-based oil and gas company to restore operations in waters off southern California that were damaged by a 2015 oil spill, invoking the Defense Production Act.

Turkey’s foreign minister says diplomacy between the U.S. and Iran is stalled, but he thinks quiet back-channel talks remain possible.

Federal prosecutors in New York have accused a lobbyist of trying to extort a former client and the client’s son for $500,000.

The American flag has been raised over the U.S. Embassy in Caracas for the first time since 2019.

The massive sewage pipe that ruptured and leaked millions of gallons of raw waste into the Potomac River has returned to operation after the completion of emergency repairs.

A federal judge says a Democratic lawmaker is entitled to participate in a Kennedy Center board meeting to discuss President Donald Trump’s plan to close the performing arts center for two years of renovations.

The Justice Department has moved to dismiss charges against an Army veteran who set fire to an American flag near the White House last year to protest President Donald Trump’s executive order on flag burning.

Construction is finished on a major Massachusetts offshore wind farm, the first project to reach this stage during President Donald Trump’s time in office.

Congressional Republicans are pushing voting legislation that's backed by President Donald Trump and would require voters to produce documentary proof of citizenship in order to register for federal elections.

Burt Jones is Georgia's lieutenant governor and he seemed to have a clear path to be the Republican nominee for governor this year with President Donald Trump's endorsement, But then health care tycoon Rick Jackson got into the race in February and he's already spent more than $30 million of his own money on television campaign ads.

North Korea on Saturday has fired about 10 ballistic missiles toward the eastern sea, South Korea’s military says, staging its own show of force as the rival South conducts a joint military exercise with the United States.

Iran has threatened for the first time to attack civilian infrastructure in a neighboring country, urging people to evacuate three major ports in the United Arab Emirates it claimed the U.S. military was using to launch strikes on Iran.

Anti-Muslim rhetoric is on the rise among some Republican lawmakers.

The White House wants to build an underground center to provide security screening before visitors access the grounds.

The Trump administration this week stepped up its ambitious effort to replace about $1.6 trillion in lost tariff revenue that was eliminated by the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down a range of the president’s import taxes.

The World Anti-Doping Agency is considering rewriting its rules to try barring President Donald Trump and all U.S. government officials from attending the LA Olympics in 2028.

Three acts of ideologically inspired violence in the past week in the United States have laid bare the heightened terrorism threat unfolding against the backdrop of the war with Iran.

Richard Grenell is stepping down as president of the Kennedy Center after leading changes that drive artists away.

The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed weakening air pollution limits for a chemical used to sterilize medical equipment.

Florida voters could be required to prove their citizenship at the ballot box, but not until after the 2026 elections, under a bill headed to Gov. Ron DeSantis.

A federal judge on Friday quashed Justice Department subpoenas issued to the Federal Reserve in January, a severe blow to an investigation that has already attracted strong criticism on Capitol Hill.

President Donald Trump has signed two executive orders that aim to make housing and mortgages more affordable.

As the U.S. flu season winds down, health officials say the flu vaccine didn’t work very well.

The U.S. is temporarily easing part of its sanctions measures on Russian oil, a reflection of global worries about sharply higher oil prices due to the Iran war.

The NCAA is warning schools about potential travel headaches ahead of the men's and women's basketball tournaments.

U.S. job openings rose to nearly 7 million in January, better than expected at a time when the American labor market has looked sluggish.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the U.S. 30-day waiver on Russian oil sanctions amid the Iran war is “not the right decision” and won’t help bring a stop to Russia’s more than 4-year-old invasion of Ukraine.

Newly released data shows the U.S. economy was already showing signs of strain even before the launch of the Iran war, underscoring the risks that rising energy prices could pose.

Pushing back on U.S. President Donald Trump’s comments, Iran’s national soccer team says “no one can exclude” it from playing in the men’s World Cup in the United States.

One grew up in rural Haiti amid the poverty and violence.

President Donald Trump says the U.S. bombed military sites on an island vital to Iran’s oil network.

A Lebanese-born man who had learned a week earlier that four of his family members were killed in an Israeli airstrike in his native country, waited in his car outside a Detroit-area synagogue for two hours before ramming into the building.

The man accused of killing Charlie Kirk on an Utah college campus was in court as a state judge denied some defense efforts to limit public access to certain documents.

Senate Democrats have filed legislation that would prevent the U.S. from attacking Cuba without congressional approval.

U.S. Marines are being deployed to the Middle East as American and Israeli strikes pound Iran.

Wall Street’s losses deepened as the ongoing fallout from the war in Iran keeps pushing oil prices higher, ratcheting up inflationary pressure on the global economy.

Venezuela and Colombia cancel a high-profile presidential border meeting, even as both sides say they still want closer ties.

The Trump administration is denouncing CNN for airing a portion of the new Iranian supreme leader's first public statement since he got the job.

At the White House on Thursday, Clay County Sheriff Michelle Cook was honored by President Donald Trump while attending a Women’s History Month event in Washington, D.C.

One of the hottest tickets in Rome these days is for a four-lecture series on the Antichrist being given by Silicon Valley tech billionaire Peter Thiel.

The Trump administration is suing California over the state's nation-leading vehicle emission standards.

The Trump administration is scrambling to replace the revenue the federal government lost when the Supreme Court struck down his biggest and boldest tariffs last month.

Senate Republicans plan to launch a full debate next week on legislation to impose strict new proof-of-citizenship requirements.

Live Nation and the U.S. government struck a deal this week that they say would give artists and venues more choice when it comes selling concert tickets to music fans.

A Missouri court has rejected a legal challenge to new U.S. House districts backed by President Donald Trump.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will meet Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in Paris for trade talks that set the stage for President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing.

Oil and gas prices have spiked with the war in Iran.

Pro-Iranian hackers are targeting sites in the Middle East and starting to stretch into the United States during the war.

A group of four migrants deported from the United States have arrived in the African nation of Eswatini, under a third-country program that rights groups protest.

In a rare bipartisan effort for a deeply divided Congress, the Senate has passed a broad bill to make U.S. housing more accessible and affordable.

President Donald Trump says he doesn't think it'd be “appropriate” for the Iranian soccer team to attend this year's World Cup.

When stock markets are falling, it’s natural to want to do something quickly to protect your retirement savings.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says there's no imminent threat to the state from Iran.

Georgia’s film industry is struggling.

The National Museum of African American History and Culture is removing a rare slave ship timber from its “Slavery and Freedom” exhibit and returning it to South Africa.

China is signaling it will stay focused on technology and economic growth, even as U.S. tensions with Iran rise.

South Korean lawmakers have passed a law to implement a pledge of $350 billion in U.S. investments Seoul made last year to avoid the Trump administration’s highest tariffs.

Iran’s secretive new leader has issued his first public statements, resolving to keep fighting.

U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran have damaged at least four cultural and historical sites across Iran.

States are setting new rules for cash purchases after the U.S. Mint stopped making pennies and the 1-cent coins get scarcer.

Utah has found itself at the forefront of a states' rights battle between itself and prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket.

Rural school districts say the Trump administration’s visa changes are jeopardizing a key source of teachers.

Iran’s new supreme leader vowed to keep attacking the country's Gulf Arab neighbors and using its threat of closing the Strait of Hormuz as leverage.

Worries about the war with Iran sent oil prices back to $100 per barrel and stocks sinking worldwide.

China has adopted a sweeping ethnic unity law that critics say tightens assimilation and weakens minority rights.

Senators are venting their frustrations about the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security as travelers endure long lines at airports.

The Trump administration is opening a new trade investigation into manufacturing in foreign countries.

Outdated intelligence has likely led to the United States carrying out a deadly missile strike on an elementary school in Iran that killed over 165 people, many of them children, in the opening hours of the conflict, according to a U.S. official and a second person briefed on findings of a preliminary U.

A U_N_-backed panel of independent experts focusing on racial discrimination says racist hate speech by U_S_ President Donald Trump and other American political leaders, along with a crackdown on immigration in the United States, have led to “grave human rights violations.”.

President Donald Trump is weighing an endorsement in the Texas Republican Senate runoff, and some state party members say he risks backing the wrong candidate.

The State Department will permanently close the U.S. consulate in Peshawar, Pakistan, which has been America’s closest diplomatic mission to the Afghan border.

Among dozens of companies competing for Pentagon contracts to supply attack drones, one stands out: Powerus, flush with cash and ballooning in size as it buys up rivals.

House lawmakers are digging into Jeffrey Epstein’s sprawling financial portfolio.