WASHINGTON — What began as a campaign-trail promise to release the Jeffrey Epstein files has become one of the most fraught tests of President Donald Trump's second term — opening a rift in his political coalition and raising the stakes for an administration now under intense pressure to ...

WASHINGTON — They gathered at the Washington National Cathedral on Thursday — former presidents, vice presidents, sworn political foes and newfound friends — in a show of respect and remembrance for Dick Cheney, the consequential and polarizing vice president who became an acidic scold of ...

Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers retreated from his most prominent public roles Wednesday as he severed ties with OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, and other organizations over recently released emails showing he maintained a friendly relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Meanwhile, Harvard ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — Federal agents have now arrested more than 250 people during a North Carolina immigration crackdown centered around Charlotte, the state's largest city, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday. The operation that began over the weekend is the latest phase of ...

BILLINGS, Mont. — President Donald Trump's administration moved Wednesday to roll back protections for imperiled species and the places they live, reviving a suite of changes to Endangered Species Act regulations during the Republican's first term that were blocked under former Democratic ...

WASHINGTON — The Labor Department said Wednesday that it will not be releasing a full jobs report for October because the 43-day federal government shutdown meant it couldn't calculate the unemployment rate and some other key numbers. Instead, it will release some of the October jobs data ...