Two weeks before Election Day last year, Donald Trump dropped into western North Carolina, where the devastation from Tropical Storm Helene was still fresh and frustration with Washington was boiling over.

President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of former gang leader Larry Hoover on Wednesday as part of a wider clemency effort involving over two dozen convicts. Other people who had their sentences commuted include rapper NBA YoungBoy,

President Donald Trump met with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Thursday and the two discussed the economy but not Powell’s outlook for interest rates, the Fed said. Powell told Trump

Some advocates worry the nation’s capital could become one of the riskiest places for undocumented immigrants to live as a federal crackdown intensifies.

In a recent pair of focus groups, voters loyal to President Trump judged members of Congress almost entirely according to whether they backed him — and rejected lawmakers who dared to dissent.

Washington will host a parade for the Army's 250th anniversary. It coincides with Trump's birthday. U.S. military parades are rare.

Senior Trump administration officials on Thursday downplayed the impact of a U.S. trade court ruling that blocked the most sweeping of President Donald Trump's tariffs, expressing confidence it would be overturned on appeal and insisting there are other legal avenues to employ in the interim.

The administration immediately petitioned a court to allow the United States to continue imposing stiff tariffs.

A second federal court ruled President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs are unlawful, issuing an order Thursday and delivering another blow to the Trump administration just hours after a federal trade court struck the tariffs down Wednesday night.

Andrew Mellon, treasury secretary to three presidents, slashed government spending but ultimately saw his legacy tarnished by the Great Depression and changed by the New Deal.

Trump’s “drill, baby, drill” mantra is controversial, but the call for increased energy production has helped soften global prices and offered relief to major energy importing nations like Japan and India. At the same time, it is set to make the U.S. less dependent on unstable energy exporters, giving Washington new leverage in global markets.