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Sewage overflowed parts of a makeshift tent camp for displaced Palestinians in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

$1 billion gets a permanent seat on Donald Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza, as India and others invited

January 18, 2026 at 2:36 p.m.

At least six more countries said Sunday the United States has invited them to join U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace,” a new body of world leaders meant to...

Senator Chris Coons from the Democratic Party speaks during a press conference with the American delegation, consisting of senators and members of the House of Representatives, in Copenhagen, Denmark, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. (Ida Marie Odgaard/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

President Trump says 8 European countries will be charged a 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland

January 17, 2026 at 12:00 p.m.

President Trump said in a social media post that Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Finland would face the tariff.

FILE – Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, right, and President Donald Trump look over a document of cost figures during a visit to the Federal Reserve, July 24, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

DOJ investigation of Fed Chair Jerome Powell sparks backlash, support for Fed independence

January 12, 2026 at 3:29 p.m.

The Trump administration’s criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell appeared on Monday to be emboldening defenders of the U.S. central bank against the efforts of President Trump to...

A government supporter holds an image of President Nicolas Maduro during a women’s march to demand his return in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026, three days after U.S. forces captured him and his wife. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

US seeks to assert its control over Venezuelan oil with tanker seizures and sales worldwide

January 7, 2026 at 8:37 p.m.

President Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday sought to assert its control over Venezuelan oil, seizing a pair of sanctioned tankers transporting petroleum and announcing plans to relax some sanctions so...

President Donald Trump speaks during an address to the nation from the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025, in Washington. (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

In prime-time address, President Trump insists the economy is stronger than many voters feel

December 17, 2025 at 9:33 p.m.

President Donald Trump says he is sending a $1,776 bonus check to U.S. troops for Christmas.

FILE – Goldie Getter, the wife of a civil service employee who was furloughed due to the government shutdown, unpacks groceries her husband received from a food bank, in Gulfport, Miss., Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

This holiday season isn’t very merry for consumers, an AP-NORC poll finds

December 12, 2025 at 9:48 a.m.

This holiday season isn’t quite so merry for American shoppers as large shares are dipping into savings, scouring for bargains and feeling like the overall economy is stuck in a...

President Donald Trump arrives for the lighting of the National Christmas Tree on the Ellipse, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, near the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Trump says he’s fixing affordability problems. He’ll test out that message at a rally.

December 9, 2025 at 7:53 a.m.

President Donald Trump will road-test his claims that he’s tackling Americans’ affordability woes at a Tuesday rally in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania — shifting an argument made in Oval Office appearances...

The White House is seen from the National Mall, Friday, Nov. 28, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

President Donald Trump commutes prison sentence for former private equity executive David Gentile

November 30, 2025 at 3:15 p.m.

President Donald Trump has commuted the prison sentence of former investment manager David Gentile, who was convicted of defrauding investors — the latest in a series of clemency actions Trump...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio talks to the press at the U.S. Mission to International Organizations in Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

Marco Rubio says US-Ukraine talks on Russia war were productive but much work remains in search of a deal

November 30, 2025 at 2:17 p.m.

U.S. and Ukrainian officials completed roughly four hours of talks Sunday aimed at finding an endgame to the war between Russia and Ukraine.

Travelers wait in the main hall of the Simon Bolivar Maiquetia International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025, after several international airlines canceled flights following a warning from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration about a hazardous situation in Venezuelan airspace. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

President Donald Trump says Venezuela’s airspace should be viewed as closed. It’s not clear what that means.

November 29, 2025 at 1:01 p.m.

President Donald Trump on Saturday said that the airspace “above and surrounding” Venezuela should be considered as “closed in its entirety,” an assertion that raised more questions about the U.S....

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