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President Donald Trump walks across the South Lawn of the White House, Sunday, March 2, 2025, in Washington, after returning from a trip to Florida. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

How to watch the first joint address to Congress of President Donald Trump’s second term

March 3, 2025 at 8:32 a.m.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday night will deliver the first joint congressional address of his second presidency.

FILE – President Donald Trump meets with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Trump Tower, Sept. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

Ukraine and Europe worry about being sidelined as Donald Trump pushes direct talks with Russia on war’s end

February 16, 2025 at 4:55 p.m.

President Donald Trump’s approach to ending Russia’s war against Ukraine has left European allies and Ukrainian officials worried they are being largely sidelined by the new U.S. administration as Washington...

The U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, is pictured Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

What is USAID? Explaining the US foreign aid agency and why President Donald Trump and Elon Musk want to end it

February 3, 2025 at 1:12 p.m.

Over the last two weeks, President Donald Trump’s administration has made significant changes to the U.S. agency charged with delivering humanitarian assistance overseas that has left aid organizations agonizing over...

Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, listens at the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee confirmation hearing for South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be Secretary of Homeland Security, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

How key Republican senators are responding to Donald Trump allies’ primary threats

January 25, 2025 at 12:24 p.m.

From activists on the far right to Elon Musk, allies of President Donald Trump have been quick to threaten primary challengers for Republican senators who don’t back his Cabinet picks...

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump listens during an event on combating antisemitism at Trump National Golf Club, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024, in Bedminster, N.J. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

How Donald Trump’s political and business interests will intersect in the White House

January 17, 2025 at 10:53 a.m.

As he assumes the presidency for a second time, Donald Trump brings with him a broad expanse of business relationships and financial entanglements — and the possibility that those associations...

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson of Louisiana, speaks during a ceremony as the flag-draped casket of former President Jimmy Carter lies in state, at the Capitol, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025, in Washington. Carter died Dec. 29 at the age of 100. (Kent Nishimura/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Speaker Johnson orders US Capitol flags raised to full height for Donald Trump’s inauguration

January 14, 2025 at 1:34 p.m.

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday ordered that flags at the U.S. Capitol be raised to their full height on Inauguration Day, pausing a 30-day flag-lowering order following the death...

This combination photo of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees who will have confirmation hearings Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025, shows Interior Department nominee North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, from left, Secretary of Veterans Affairs nominee Doug Collins and Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth. (AP Photo)

Trump’s Cabinet picks are set for Senate hearings. Here’s the schedule

January 14, 2025 at 9:12 a.m.

Senate hearings are scheduled this coming week for several of Donald Trump’s picks for the Cabinet.

President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump says he will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico

January 7, 2025 at 4:29 p.m.

President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that he would move to try to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” a name he said has a “beautiful ring...

The flag flies at half-staff for the late President Jimmy Carter at the White House, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024. Carter, who was 100 years old, died Sunday at his home in Plains, Ga. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Why are US flags being flown at half-staff on Inauguration Day?

January 3, 2025 at 7:49 p.m.

The U.S. flag code lays out parameters for lowering the U.S. flag to half-staff, including a 30-day period for current or former presidents to cover flags at federal government buildings...

FILE—Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., takes questions from reporters after presenting his final version of an interim pending bill to his caucus, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024. President-elect Donald Trump has now abruptly rejected the bipartisan plan to prevent a Christmastime government shutdown. Instead, he’s telling House Speaker Mike Johnson and Republicans to essentially renegotiate — days before a deadline when federal funding runs out. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

What to know about the debt ceiling debate as a government shutdown looms in Washington

December 19, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.

A debate over the debt ceiling is at the center of a dispute over funding that is pushing Washington to the brink of a federal government shutdown.

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