US president claims widespread and varied emergencies to justify executive authority in first year of second term.

New details of deliberations show how aides with overlapping agendas drove the United States toward a militarized ...

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Dec. 29 The Washington Post on Trump's China policy, deal with Taiwan The Trump administration’s approval of an $11.1 billion arms ...

Admittedly, 2025 wasn’t the most tumultuous year in local news, but sometimes it felt that way as Mecklenburg County and its residents found themselves buffeted by developments across the nation and ...

After Zohran Mamdani cruised to victory in New York City’s mayoral election last November, Republican politicians and ...

Trump’s 2025 agenda didn’t just change policy; it redrew the map for how the administration defines threats. Synthetic ...

The crackdown and detentions swept from one coast to the other: day laborers in Los Angeles, a flower seller in Chicago, ...

“I am more and more convinced we are the best government in history,” the president says, speaking quietly and sombrely in ...