Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel says he's agreed to join U.S. Presdent Donald Trump’s Board of Peace.

President Donald Trump is heading to the World Economic Forum in the Swiss Alps where his ambitions to wrest control of Greenland from NATO ally Denmark could tear relations with European allies.

Iran's foreign minister has issued a direct threat against the United States, warning of retaliation if attacked.

Democrats are rethinking their midterm election strategy due to the controversial immigration crackdown in Minnesota.

U.S. futures are higher and world shares are mixed ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump’s speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

President Donald Trump’s plane, Air Force One, has safely returned to Joint Base Andrews about an hour after departing for Switzerland on Tuesday evening.

President Donald Trump closed out 2025 with his plan to end the Israel-Hamas war in fine fettle.

Lindsey Halligan, who as a top Justice Department prosecutor pursued indictments against a pair of President Donald Trump’s adversaries, is leaving her position.

U.S. forces have boarded and taken control of a seventh oil tanker connected with Venezuela.

Vice President JD Vance and his wife, second lady Usha Vance, are expecting their fourth child.

The Supreme Court seems likely to strike down Hawaii restrictions on carrying guns in stores in the justices’ latest firearm case since their landmark decision expanding Second Amendment rights.

President Donald Trump’s bid to reshape the Federal Reserve board is putting the Supreme Court in a familiar position, weighing an emergency appeal from the president’s lawyers in a politically charged case.

Mexico's security minister says the country has sent 37 more cartel members to the United States.

Iran has warned Donald Trump not to take any action against the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, days after the U.S. president called for an end to Khamenei’s near 40-year reign.

President Donald Trump is fighting a two-front war at the outset of this year’s midterm campaigns, working to prevent Democratic victories while also attempting to purge the Republican Party of the few remaining members who have defied him.

President Donald Trump promised the largest mass deportation operation in U.S. history, but achieving his goal wouldn’t have been possible without his big tax and spending cuts bill.

President Donald Trump has commanded attention during his second term.

Iranians have been struggling with a near-total internet blackout for nearly two weeks.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that Russia has launched more than 300 drones and missiles in a nighttime attack on Ukraine's power grid.

The British government is defending its decision to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius after U.S. President Donald Trump criticized the move.

On the anniversary of his inauguration, President Donald Trump is heading to the World Economic Forum in Davos, an annual gathering of the global elite.

Stocks sank on Wall Street after President Donald Trump threatened to hit eight European countries with new tariffs as tensions escalate over his attempts to assert American control over Greenland.

A federal judge has refused to temporarily block the Trump administration from enforcing a new policy requiring members of Congress to give a week’s notice before they can visit immigration detention facilities.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will attend the Supreme Court’s oral arguments Wednesday in a case involving the attempted firing of Fed governor Lisa Cook, an unusual show of support by the central bank chair.

European Union leaders are using strong language like "intimidation" and "blackmail" to describe U.S. President Donald Trump's threat of new tariffs over Greenland.

Three U.S. Catholic cardinals have urged the Trump administration to use a moral compass in foreign policy.

An Israeli official says the nation has been asked to join U.S. President Donald Trump’s new Board of Peace that will supervise the next phase of the Gaza peace plan.

The Swiss town of Davos hosts the annual meeting of elites from business, government and culture this week.

European shares mostly fell and U.S. stock futures skidded Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to slap a 10% extra tariff on imports from eight European countries because they oppose having America take control of Greenland.

Hackers have disrupted Iranian state TV to air footage supporting the exiled crown prince.

The Pentagon has ordered about 1,500 active duty soldiers to be ready in case of a possible deployment to Minnesota, where federal authorities have been conducting a massive immigration enforcement operation.

At least eight more countries say the United States has invited them to join President Donald Trump’s new Board of Peace overseeing next steps for Gaza.

Republican lawmakers are scrambling to contain President Donald Trump’s threats of taking possession of Greenland.

The eight European countries targeted by U_S_ President Donald Trump for a 10% tariff for opposing American control of Greenland have criticized the move in an unusually strong joint statement, warning that his threats “undermine transatlantic relations and risk a dangerous downward spiral.”.

A Cuban immigrant who lived in the U.S. for nearly three decades died in a Texas immigration facility during an altercation with guards.

A third round of retaliatory strikes by the U.S. in Syria has resulted in the death of an Al-Qaeda-affiliated leader.

President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” that was initially seen as a mechanism focused on ending the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza is taking shape with ambitions to have a far broader mandate of other global crises.

A Ukrainian delegation has arrived in the United States to discuss a U.S.-led diplomatic push to end the nearly 4-year-old war.

President Donald Trump says he'll impose a 10% import tax starting in February on goods from eight European nations because of their opposition to American control of Greenland.

Sen. Thom Tillis isn't holding back in his final year in Washington.

The Federal Aviation Administration is urging U.S. aircraft operators to “exercise caution” when flying over the eastern Pacific Ocean near Mexico, Central America and parts of South America, citing “military activities” and satellite navigation interference.

A U.S. judge has ruled federal officers in a Minneapolis-area immigration operation can’t detain or tear gas peaceful protesters who aren’t obstructing authorities, including when these people are observing the agents.

President Donald Trump this week quietly appointed four new members to the Commission of Fine Arts, one of two federal panels reviewing his plan to build a White House ballroom.

National Guard troops will be on the streets of Washington, D.C., until the end of the year.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from agrochemical manufacturer Bayer to block thousands of state lawsuits alleging it failed to warn people its popular weedkiller could cause cancer.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado says she’s confident of her country’s eventual transition to democracy after the U.S. military ousted former President Nicolás Maduro.

President Donald Trump is thanking Iran for not following through on executions of more than 800 political prisoners.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe has met with Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez.

President Donald Trump plans to pardon former Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vázquez, a White House official said.

The Justice Department is investigating whether Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey have impeded federal immigration enforcement through public statements they have made, according to two people familiar with the matter.

U.S. President Donald Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the U.S. controlling Greenland.

The Education Department is opening fewer sexual violence investigations at schools and universities.

A new AP-NORC poll finds nearly a year into President Donald Trump’s second term, his work on the economy hasn’t lived up to the expectations of many people in his own party.

A Iran returns to an uneasy calm after protests led to a violent crackdown, a senior cleric is calling for the death penalty for detained demonstrators.

U.S. President Donald Trump has turned Greenland into a geopolitical hotspot with his demands to own it.

Stocks edged a bit lower on Wall Street as the first week of corporate earnings season closes out with markets trading near record levels.

The White House and a bipartisan group of governors are taking aim at power shortages and price spikes from data centers for artificial intelligence.

As Attorney General Pam Bondi approaches her first anniversary on the job, the firings of career attorneys have defined her turbulent tenure.

President Donald Trump isn't waiting for future generations to decide to name important things in his honor — he's doing it himself.

A group of U.S. senators is voicing concern over U.S. Postal Service processing changes and what those could mean for voting with mail ballots.

Former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema allegedly had a romantic relationship with a member of her security detail, leading to the breakup of his marriage.

The Trump administration has identified a host of athletic competitions it classifies as “major sporting events” — aside from soccer's 2026 World Cup and the 2028 Olympic Games — that athletes and coaches will be allowed to travel to the U.S. to take part in despite a broad visa ban.

Several Middle Eastern allies of the United States have urged the Trump administration to hold off on strikes against Iran for the government’s deadly crackdown on protesters.

The Defense Department says it is revamping the military newspaper Stars and Stripes to focus on “reporting for our warfighters” and eliminate woke distractions.

President Donald Trump has announced the outlines of a health care plan he wants Congress to take up.

The U.S. is imposing new sanctions on Iranian officials accused of repressing protests against Iran’s theocratic government.

The final day to select Affordable Care Act health insurance for the year has arrived across much of the country.

A federal appeals panel has reversed a lower court decision that released former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil from an immigration jail, bringing the government one step closer to detaining and ultimately deporting the Palestinian activist.

U.S. forces in the Caribbean Sea have seized another sanctioned oil tanker the Trump administration says has ties to Venezuela.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has discussed her country’s future with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House.

Senators from opposing parties are working together in hopes of finally banning members of Congress from trading stocks.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers has proposed creating a new agency with $2.5 billion to boost production of rare earths and the other critical minerals.

President Donald Trump’s second term has been eventful, but you wouldn’t know it from his approval numbers.

The U.N. Security Council in an emergency meeting Thursday discussed Iran's deadly protests.

Troops from European countries, including France and Germany, are arriving in Greenland to boost security.

Press freedom advocates are concerned this week's raid on a Washington Post journalist's home will deter reporting on government actions and silence whistleblowers.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado says she presented her Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Donald Trump.

The ongoing debate over health care in the U.S. remains as contentious as ever.

Stocks steadied on Wall Street.

U.S. and Iranian officials faced each other at the U.N. Security Council, where America’s envoy renewed threats against the Islamic Republic despite President Donald Trump’s efforts to lower the temperature between the two adversaries.

An Oval Office ceremony meant to celebrate milk was overshadowed by President Donald Trump making news on other fronts.

A top Democrat is slamming the Trump administration for cutting thousands of substance abuse and mental health grants and then abruptly reversing course.

Whole milk is heading back to school lunch cafeterias.

President Donald Trump says he’s been told “on good authority” that plans for executions in Iran have stopped, even as Tehran has signaled fast trials and executions ahead in its crackdown on protesters.

Federal officials are reinstating hundreds of U.S. health workers who were laid off last year from a small health agency that aims to protect workers.

A legal memo that came out days before the U_S_ military operation against Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro said such a move would “not rise to the level of a war in the constitutional sense” and would serve “important national interests."

The State Department says it will suspend the processing of immigrant visas for citizens of 75 countries whose nationals are deemed likely to require public assistance while living in the United States.

The United States says it’s moving into the next phase of a Gaza ceasefire plan involving disarming Hamas, rebuilding the war-ravaged territory and establishing the group of Palestinian experts that will administer daily affairs.

Jeff Landry has embraced his role as President Donald Trump's special envoy to Greenland, but the Republican governor of Louisiana says he hopes to connect with everyday islanders rather than with Danish diplomats.

The Supreme Court is reviving a Republican challenge to a law allowing the counting of late-arriving mail ballots, a target of President Donald Trump.

Attorney General Pam Bondi says the search of a Washington Post reporter’s home was done at the Pentagon’s request as part of a leak investigation.

Some personnel at a key U.S. military base in Qatar have been advised to evacuate.

Democratic lawmakers who appeared in a video urging members of the military to resist “illegal orders” have confirmed that they're under investigation from the Trump administration.

The Senate sidelined a war powers resolution Wednesday that would have put a check on President Donald Trump’s ability to carry out further military attacks on Venezuela, as the president put intense pressure on his fellow Republicans to vote down the measure.

Judges on a Colorado appeals panel expressed skepticism about the sentence for a former county elections clerk convicted of orchestrating a breach of election equipment.

A new poll shows most Americans believe President Donald Trump has “gone too far” in using the U.S. military to intervene in other countries.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says he expects President Donald Trump to interfere with the midterm elections.

Iran's top judge has hinted that trials and executions are ahead as activists say the death toll from Iran's protests has risen to at least 2,586.

Nearly 1,000 households displaced by wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui in 2023 are anxiously awaiting news on federal assistance.

Senate Republicans have voted to dismiss a war powers resolution that would have limited President Donald Trump’s ability to conduct further attacks on Venezuela.