President Donald Trump has taken a shine to the government taking stakes in the private sector.
President Donald Trump says he is weighing a taxpayer takeover of Spirit Airlines and would aim to resell the troubled carrier after oil prices drop.
An aviation safety bill seeking to address lessons learned from last year’s midair collision of a jet and an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., was approved by the House Tuesday.
Conservatives are holding one of their largest annual gatherings as President Donald Trump faces a tough moment and a growing rift over the Iran war.
Joe Kent’s resignation from President Donald Trump’s counterterrorism team is fueling a Republican fight over the Iran war and talk about Israel that critics call antisemitic.
President Donald Trump has predicted the destruction not just of college sports but the entire U.S. collegiate system unless the industry is fixed quickly.
Legislation to require all aircraft flying around busy airports to have key locator systems to prevent midair collisions failed to win approval in the House on Tuesday.
Democrats are playing catch-up in having online influencers and content creators promote their candidates and priorities.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is stepping up his race for the U.S. Senate with early voting about to begin for the March 3 GOP primary.
Donald Trump credits the mayor of a small Detroit suburb with helping him win over Michigan's Arab American community during the 2024 presidential campaign.
The Senate has moved quickly to close a loophole that could allow military aircraft to fly without broadcasting their locations, just like an Army helicopter was doing last January before it collided with an airliner over Washington, D.C., killing 67 people.
The Senate has given final passage to an annual military policy bill that will authorize $901 billion in defense programs.
Democratic senators are criticizing the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission for pressuring broadcasters to take ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel off the air.
The head of the Federal Aviation Administration says he won’t forget the 67 people who died when an airliner collided with an Army helicopter over Washington, D.C., in January.
In a story published Dec. 15, 2025, about aviation safety, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Sen. Ted Cruz was threatening another federal government shutdown if new restrictions on military flights are not approved by the end of January.
Senators from both parties are pushing to change a defense bill after crash investigators and victims' families warned it could undo key safety reforms.
Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett has launched a campaign for the U.S. Senate in Texas.
The Supreme Court has agreed to take up the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s order on birthright citizenship.
Billionaire spacewalker Jared Isaacman is back before the Senate after being yanked and then renominated by President Donald Trump for NASA's top job.
Major League Baseball says it will comply with a Senate committee's request for documents on gambling investigations.
NBA staff members have met with congressional staffers to discuss the league’s relationship with sportsbooks.
The Justice Department is urging a federal judge to reject James Comey’s claim that his prosecution amounts to political retribution.
U.S. President Donald Trump says he’s ordered the Pentagon to begin planning for potential military action in Nigeria.
President Donald Trump has opened the door for sanctions to be imposed on Nigeria for allegedly failing to rein in the persecution of Christians in the country.
Lawyers for former FBI Director James Comey want to review a transcript and audio recording of grand jury proceedings in his criminal case, citing what they say were “irregularities” in the process that should result in the dismissal of an indictment pushed by President Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump's nominee to be the U.S. ambassador to Kuwait is facing rejection by the Republican-controlled Senate.
Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier will not receive his salary while on leave due to his arrest on federal gambling charges.
Republican congressman Wesley Hunt is running for the U.S. Senate in Texas, defying Senate GOP leadership and adding a new element to an already contentious primary campaign.
Senate Democrats kept their promise to reject any Republican spending bill that didn’t extend or restore health care benefits, choosing instead to force a government shutdown.
The gunman who opened fire on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas hated the U.S. government and wanted to incite terror by killing federal agents.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has announced that the Stargate AI data center in Texas will be joined by five more across the U.S. This expansion is part of a $500 billion infrastructure investment promoted by President Donald Trump.
Jimmy Kimmel has returned to late-night TV after a suspension over comments about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
As they mourn slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, President Donald Trump, members of his administration and a broader universe of supporters have seemed to impose a double standard on speech.
The House declined late Wednesday to punish one of its own over commentary in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
The push to redraw congressional maps in Texas is shifting the dynamics of the state’s 2026 Senate campaign.
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is set to headline a major Republican event in South Carolina.
Investigators have found that a helicopter involved in a deadly crash with a passenger plane over Washington was flying above its height limit.
President Donald Trump toured the devastation from catastrophic flooding in Texas and lauded local officials amid mounting criticism that they failed to warn residents quickly enough that a deadly wall of water was coming their way.
A stark disagreement over regulating AI in Republicans’ tax cut and spending bill is the latest tension among conservatives about whether to let states continue to put guardrails on emerging technologies or minimize such interference.
A proposal to deter states from regulating artificial intelligence for a decade was soundly defeated in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, thwarting attempts to insert the measure into President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts.
President Donald Trump’s decision to strike three nuclear sites in Iran could deepen a divide among some of the Republican’s supporters.
The Senate parliamentarian has advised that a Republican proposal that would shift some food stamp costs from the federal government to the states would violate the chamber’s strict rules.
The latest effort by Congress to regulate college sports is generating predictable partisan outrage.
Senate Republicans have made changes to their party’s sweeping tax bill in hopes of preserving a new policy that would prevent states from regulating artificial intelligence.
President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk are showing no signs of reconciling on Friday, but Republicans are increasingly urging them to settle their dispute.
The Take It Down Act, which seeks to enact stricter penalties for the distribution of non-consensual intimate imagery, sometimes called ‘revenge porn’ online, is heading to President Donald Trump's signature after its bipartisan passage in congress.
House Republicans surprised tech industry watchers and outraged many state governments when they added a clause to Republicans’ signature “big, beautiful” tax bill that bans states and localities from regulating artificial intelligence for a decade.
Sen. Ted Cruz asked whether a hotline between military and civilian air traffic controllers in Washington, D.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and executives from Microsoft and chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices testified on Capitol Hill about the biggest opportunities, risks and needs facing an industry which lawmakers and technologists agree could fundamentally transform global business, culture and geopolitics.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says it is “unacceptable” that two commercial aircraft had to abort landings at a Washington airport this week because of an Army Black Hawk helicopter that was flying to the Pentagon.
President Donald Trump has signed the Take It Down Act, which seeks to enact stricter penalties for the distribution of non-consensual intimate imagery, sometimes called ‘revenge porn’ online.
Since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump has launched an unprecedented campaign of immigration enforcement that has pushed the limits of executive power and clashed with federal judges trying to restrain him.
Hundreds of university researchers in the U.S. have had their National Science Foundation funding abruptly canceled to comply with President Donald Trump’s directive to end support of research on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as the study of misinformation.
President Donald Trump was in Miami for his latest appearance at a sports event as he watched UFC fighters and was joined by several Cabinet members and top administration officials.
A supercharged U.S. Senate GOP primary in Texas between Sen. John Cornyn and state Attorney General Ken Paxton is off to a fast start of personal attacks and expectations of a high-spending race.
Air traffic controllers at Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport will be offered crisis counseling and additional supervision after a fight in the tower and another alarming near miss two months after a midair collision between a passenger jet and an Army helicopter killed 67 people.
The head of the Federal Aviation Administration has told Congress that the agency must do more to ensure flying remains safe after a midair collision over Washington, D.
Former U.S. Rep. Mia Love of Utah, a daughter of Haitian immigrants who became the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress, died on Sunday.
Attacks on property carrying the logo of Elon Musk’s electric-car company are cropping up from coast to coast and even overseas.
The Supreme Court is wrestling with whether to restart plans to temporarily store nuclear waste at sites in rural Texas and New Mexico even as some justices worried about safety issues and the lack of progress toward a permanent solution.
House Speaker Mike Johnson is encouraging Republican lawmakers to skip town halls that have been rife with protesters.
A Hong Kong-based conglomerate has agreed to sell its controlling stake in a subsidiary that operates ports near the Panama Canal to a consortium including BlackRock Inc., effectively putting the ports under American control after President Donald Trump alleged Chinese interference with the operations of the critical shipping lane.
Melania Trump says it’s “heartbreaking” to see teens and especially girls grapple with the fallout after they’re targeted by malicious and sexually explicit online content.
New FBI Director Kash Patel has told senior officials that he plans to relocate 1,000 employees from Washington to field offices around the country and move an additional 500 to a bureau facility in Huntsville, Alabama.
President Donald Trump’s pledge to help make Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream a reality is viewed with skepticism by many prominent Black and Hispanic civil rights leaders.
Transportation secretary nominee Sean Duffy promised to not interfere in ongoing agency investigations into Elon Musk’s electric car company if confirmed to head the department.
Stressing his own organization’s ability to pay out $1.2 billion over 10 years to help settle an industry-changing lawsuit, NCAA President Charlie Baker also urged Congress to pass legislation that could put college sports on a better path.
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth spent a second day on Capitol Hill meeting privately with Republican senators.
The NCAA’s yearslong efforts to get lawmakers to address myriad problems in college sports could pay off in the new, Republican-controlled Congress.
The Associated Press declared that Republican Sen. Ted Cruz successfully defended his seat against Democratic Rep. Colin Allred based on the incumbent’s competitive showing in the state’s large population centers, bolstered by his overwhelming leads in more conservative rural areas across the state.
Republicans were one seat away from seizing the Senate majority late Tuesday after firebrand Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas defeated Democrat Colin Allred, pushing the GOP closer to wresting control of the chamber.
Billions of dollars in ads are raining down on voters across the Rust Belt, Rocky Mountains and American southwest as the two major political parties struggle for control of the U.S. Senate.
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz and Democratic Rep. Colin Allred are making their final pitches to Texas voters at campaign stops across the state as Election Day nears.
Democrats backing Rep. Colin Allred’s bid to defeat Texas Sen. Ted Cruz are investing $5 million in an ad campaign focused on abortion.
Republicans have a stranglehold on every statewide elected office in Texas and control the state Supreme Court, both chambers of the Legislature and both U.S. Senate seats.
Former President Donald Trump will deliver remarks on his “No Tax For Tips” policy proposal at a campaign event in Las Vegas Friday afternoon.
Presidential conventions can be memorable for floor fights and bloody battles on the streets outside or for scenes that stand out as outlandish or awkward.
If nothing else, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris agree on one thing, at least: Both say they want to eliminate federal taxes on workers’ tips.
