President Donald Trump on Friday said he would sign an executive order to begin the process of fundamentally overhauling or eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency. He made the remarks during a tour of North Carolina to see damage done by Hurricane Helene last year. Trump also said he wanted to secure two things from a visit to Californ…

President Donald Trump told the World Economic Forum on Thursday that businesses should make their products in the United States if they want to avoid facing a tariff. Appearing in a videoconference at the annual conference in Davos, Switzerland, Trump said that companies should set up manufacturing operations in the United States. Brooke Rollins, …

President Donald Trump vowed to hit the European Union with tariffs and said his administration was discussing a 10% punitive duty on Chinese imports because fentanyl is being sent from China to the U.S. via Mexico and Canada. A major winter storm that slammed Texas and blanketed the northern Gulf Coast with record-breaking snow moved east Wednesda…

President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance attended the national prayer service on Tuesday morning to mark Trump's first day in office. The service has been a post-inauguration tradition since former President Franklin D. Roosevelt took office. Rep. Elise Stefanik opened her confirmation hearing for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations by …

The Supreme Court refused to rescue TikTok on Friday from a law that required the short-video app to be sold by its Chinese parent company ByteDance or banned on Sunday in the United States on national security grounds. President-Donald Trump said today he spoke with Chinese leader Xi Jinping about the matter. South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, Donald …

The cease-fire deal between Israel and the Hamas terrorist group now seems to be up in the air again. Israel's cabinet was supposed to vote on the truce on Thursday, but the vote was delayed. A spokesperson for the Israeli government says that's because Hamas now wants to change the deal. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has picked Ashley Moody, the state…

Israel and the Hamas terrorist organization have agreed to a cease-fire deal, mediators announced on Wednesday, pausing a devastating 15-month war in the Gaza Strip. President-elect Donald Trump's choice for attorney general, Pam Bondi, vowed not to use the Justice Department to target people based on their politics when she appeared at her Senate …

Los Angeles County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone warned on Monday that high winds are returning to California. He said severe fire weather conditions will continue through Wednesday. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said that there has been progress in negotiating a hostage release deal. An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 struck the…

President-elect Donald Trump said during his New York sentencing on Friday that the case has been a "terrible experience." Justice Juan Merchan sentenced Trump to unconditional discharge for 34 counts of falsifying business records. Appearing virtually from Florida, Trump said he was innocent and did nothing wrong. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said…

Four massive wildfires tore across the Los Angeles area with devastating force. L.A. County fire chief Anthony Marrone says the Eaton Fire has killed at least 2 people and injured many more. The Palisades Fire has burned over 5,000 acres and is 0% contained. The cause of the fire is unknown. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland does not plan to pu…

President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a $20 billion new investment to build data centers across the United State. At a news conference at his home in Palm Beach, Florida, Trump said the investor is Emirati billionaire Hussain Sajwani, chairman of DAMAC properties. Social media giant Meta scrapped its U.S. fact-checking program for a com…

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Monday that he will step down as leader of the ruling Liberals after nine years in office but will stay on in his post until the party chooses a replacement. U.S. President-elect Donald Trump asked a New York judge to delay his Jan. 10 sentencing on his criminal conviction on charges in the campai…

President Joe Biden on Friday followed through on his pledge to block Nippon Steel's $14.9 billion bid for U.S. Steel, citing concerns the deal could hurt national security. A Manhattan federal judge will consider a request by two Georgia election workers to hold former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani in civil contempt for refusing to turn over p…

The New Orleans truck attack “was an act of terrorism,” Christopher Raia, deputy assistant director of the FBI's Counterterrorism Division, said at a news conference on Thursday. He said the suspect had no known accomplices and that no definitive link between the New Orleans attack and the Las Vegas attack has yet been found. Meanwhile, the FBI con…

The FBI said that the suspect who drove a truck into a large crowd in New Orleans' French Quarter early on Wednesday has been confirmed dead. At least 10 people were killed and 26 injured in the incident. Ukraine has halted Russian gas supplies to European customers through its pipeline network after a prewar transit deal expired at the end of 2024…

Sydney welcomed 2025 with the city’s biggest-ever fireworks display, which featured a golden waterfall effect falling from the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge. A blackout hit nearly all of Puerto Rico early on Tuesday as the U.S. territory prepared to celebrate New Year’s Eve, leaving more than 1.3 million customers in the dark. Officials said it coul…

Jan. 9, 2025, will be a national day of mourning for former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. The White House issued this proclamation following Carter's death on Sunday. President Joe Biden called on the American people to gather in places of worship on Jan. 9 to honor Carter. A federal appeals court has upheld a $5 million verdict that E. Jean Carroll…

The man accused of burning a woman to death inside a New York City subway train has been indicted on state charges, a prosecutor said on Friday, as authorities continue working to confirm the victim's identity. Azerbaijan Airlines said on Friday that preliminary results have shown that its plane that crashed in Kazakhstan on Christmas Day experienc…

Fourteen members of the Syrian police were killed in an "ambush" by forces loyal to the ousted Assad regime in the Tartous countryside, the transitional administration said early on Thursday. Elsewhere, demonstrations and an overnight curfew marked the most widespread unrest since Bashar al-Assad's removal more than two weeks ago. U.S. President-el…

A passenger jet crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, with many feared dead. The Azerbaijan Airlines flight went off course and officials did not immediately explain why, but the crash came shortly after drone strikes hit southern Russia. Top world leaders, including President Joe Biden, Pope Francis, Canadian Prime Minister Ju…

American Airlines on Tuesday lifted an hour-long ground stop of all its flights in the United States due to an unspecified technical issue, a notice on the U.S. aviation regulator's website showed. A U.S. NGO said that they believe the American journalist missing in Syria, Austin Tice, “is alive and we know that as a fact.” Meanwhile, protests brok…

Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally gunning down UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson on a Manhattan street, pleaded not guilty on Monday to state murder charges that describe him as a terrorist. Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) filed a lawsuit against the House Ethics Committee on Monday. The Committee subsequently released a repo…

The Congress was scrambling to avert a partial government shutdown on Friday, hours after more than three dozen Republicans rejected a demand by President-elect Donald Trump to use the measure to lift the nation's debt ceiling. The White House is abandoning its plan to cancel student loans for more than 38 million Americans. This is the Biden admin…

A state appeals court on Thursday removed Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the Georgia election case against Donald Trump and others. The new ruling means it will be up to the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia to find another prosecutor to take over the case. The suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO will return t…

The U.S. Supreme Court decided on Wednesday to hear a bid by TikTok and its China-based parent company ByteDance to block a law intended to force the sale of the app by Jan. 19 or face a ban on national security grounds. Former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz (R) reaffirmed his innocence in a statement on social media Wednesday. He responded to earlier rep…