Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has donated $70 million to the UNCF, as the nation’s largest private provider of scholarships to minority students works to raise $1 billion to strengthen all 37 of its historically Black colleges and universities.

The Trump administration is blocking Iranian diplomats from accessing the “wholesale club stores” like Costco and purchasing luxury goods while in the United States, State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott said.

President Donald Trump is expected to meet with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries this week as lawmakers stare down a government funding deadline, according to two sources familiar with the plans.

Trump announced that the FDA will be notifying physicians that use of acetaminophen during pregnancy "can be associated with a very increased risk of autism." However, experts say autism is caused by multiple factors, and the science concerning that connection is not settled.

Jimmy Kimmel Live!" will return to air on ABC tomorrow night, the network announced

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a rush appeal that will decide whether President Donald Trump acted lawfully as he has wrested control of independent federal agencies by firing the board members who led them:

Four prison guards pleaded guilty in the death of Robert Brooks, a Black inmate whose brutal beating at an upstate New York prison was captured on bodycam videos:

Angelina Jolie spoke up about the free speech debate going on in the United States. “I love my country, but at this time, I don’t recognize my country,” Jolie said. “I’ve always lived internationally, my family is international, my friends, my life.”

When Elon Musk and President Donald Trump’s feud reached a fever pitch, Charlie Kirk desperately wanted the two to put their fight to bed and make up:

Ryan Routh, the man accused of trying to assassinate then-candidate Donald Trump last year, will call his first witness at his federal trial in Fort Pierce, Florida, and may testify in his own defense.

The Trump administration is sharply expanding its use of artificial intelligence in immigration enforcement, using technology not just to track migrants but also to help determine who gets targeted for deportation.

Some political scientists see a pattern that suggests American democracy is being undermined in real time. The stakes are massive for the US economy and the business world:

President Donald Trump wants the world to understand that Charlie Kirk’s killing will not temper him or induce him to mend the country’s divides," Stephen Collinson | Analysis

Democrat Mikie Sherrill and Republican Jack Ciattarelli clashed over their responses to political violence and solutions to the rising cost of living in the first general election debate of New Jersey’s 2025 gubernatorial race.

President Donald Trump’s speech at Charlie Kirk’s memorial service took a detour into previewing an announcement he plans to make from the Oval Office on Monday about autism.

President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and a host of top administration officials vowed Sunday that the mission of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk would only grow stronger in the wake of his assassination.

The Trump administration urged the Supreme Court on Friday to withdraw deportation protections that had been extended to some 300,000 Venezuelans living in the United States – and it accused a lower court of engaging in a “needless affront” by ruling otherwise.

The US attorney who has been under pressure to charge New York Attorney General Letitia James with mortgage fraud should lose his job, President Donald Trump said.

The avalanche of unverified and unhinged claims from online influencers, podcasters and grifters is now commonplace after any shocking news event or mass shooting.

A memorial service Thursday for William Webster, former FBI and CIA director, served as something of a wake for an era that seems ever more distant in the age of Donald Trump.

Kamala Harris hasn’t made up her mind about whether she’ll run for president again in 2028 — but she does seem to have made up her mind about some of the other Democrats also looking at getting in.

US Attorney Erik Siebert told his staff he will be resigning, a source says, after intense pressure from President Donald Trump to charge New York Attorney General Letitia James with mortgage fraud.

President Donald Trump announced another lethal military strike on an alleged drug-trafficking vessel that he said was affiliated with a designated terrorist organization.

GOP Sen. Ted Cruz on Friday denounced Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr’s threats to pull ABC’s broadcast license as “unbelievably dangerous” and compared some of his rhetoric to “mafioso” tactics.

A Democratic mayor running for Congress in Illinois was teargassed Friday morning during a small protest outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in suburban Chicago, he said.

As Nepal’s famed Singha Durbar palace went up in flames last week, protesters determined to rattle the government hung a manga flag showing a skull wearing a straw hat against the building’s ornate golden gates

President Donald Trump pledged to bring down grocery costs. But his administration's policies are contributing to an acceleration in prices, food economists and companies say.

President Trump has justified his ramped up threats against the American political left by citing its supposed unusually violent nature. The data doesn’t back up these claims

Democrats on Capitol Hill are raising alarm over large banners with President Donald Trump’s face that can be seen on three federal buildings, saying they carry authoritarian undertones in the wake of a report from California Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff

President Trump signed an executive action to impose a $100,000 application fee for H-1B visas, and directed the creation of a “gold card” immigration pathway that he said would fast-track visas for certain immigrants in exchange for a hefty fee

Still locked out of power in Washington, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and his party are seizing on a fresh battle with President Donald Trump: A high-stakes gamble over this month’s government funding deadline:

Luigi Mangione’s lawyers urged a judge on Saturday to bar federal prosecutors from seeking the death penalty in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Prosecutors have asked a judge to sentence the person who attempted to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2022 to at least 30 years in prison:

Investigators spent the summer combing the wilderness of the Washington Cascades for Travis Decker – the man thought to have killed his three young daughters at a campground at the end of May.

mmigration attorneys, immigrants living in the US legally and non-White US citizens now worry that innocuous activities that aren’t indicative of illegal behavior will be used as reasons for law enforcement to stop and question them

Bringing luggage during an evacuation can slow the process, potentially risking the lives of passengers still on the plane, and bags can damage emergency exit slides.

Senate rejects both the House-passed stopgap funding bill and a Democratic alternative as an end-of-month government shutdown deadline nears.

Huston-Tillotson University, a private university in Austin, Texas, will receive a $150 million donation over the next 10 years – the single-largest gift ever given to a historically Black college or university

Three Russian MiG-31 fighter jets entered Estonian airspace over the Gulf of Finland without permission and remained there for a total of 12 minutes, Estonian foreign ministry said.

Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr built his brand in part by warning against government meddling in “free speech” — now it appears he’s using his office to do just that.

Judge rejects Trump's lawsuit against The New York Times, calling it "decidedly improper and impermissible." His team signaled plans to refile.

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to let it limit passport sex marker choice for transgender and nonbinary Americans.

With the Jimmy Kimmel saga, the media is learning what happens when you give a mouse a cookie

Baseless conspiracy theories about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk have exploded on social media in the week since the shooting, with partisans from both sides pushing a dizzying array of claims at a speed rarely seen before, experts say.

Cesar, a green card holder and student at Washington, DC's Georgetown University, never used to think he needed to carry proof that he was allowed to be in the United States.

Texas A&M University’s president is stepping down after facing criticism over a classroom video that showed a student objecting to a children’s literature lesson about gender, which led to the professor’s firing.

Officials say human remains found in Washington state are believed to be those of Travis Decker, a man accused of killing his 3 daughters.

Former White House chief of staff Jeff Zients testified behind closed doors at length about former President Joe Biden’s aging throughout the course of his term, including how he pushed Biden’s doctor to conduct a full medical workup, according to a person familiar with the transcribed interview.

Britain’s foreign intelligence service, MI6, is launching a new online portal called Silent Courier, aimed at using the dark web to entice potential spies to send it secrets, particularly targeting Russia.

One of the most significant moments for Jimmy Kimmel on his late-night comedy show wasn’t funny at all.