Donald Trump

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump, left, claps as Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk prepares to depart after speaking at a campaign event at the Butler Farm Show, on Oct. 5, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump, left, claps as Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk prepares to depart after speaking at a campaign event at the Butler Farm Show, on Oct. 5, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Nearly 40% of contracts canceled by DOGE are expected to produce no savings

Nearly 40% of the federal contracts that the Trump administration claims to have canceled as part of its signature cost-cutting program aren’t expected to save any money.

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Trump expresses hope Russia’s war in Ukraine is nearing an endgame as he meets with France’s Macron

Trump backs Musk as he roils the federal workforce with demands and threats

Trump says Canada and Mexico tariffs are ‘going forward’ with more import taxes to come

A man walks to the Earle Cabell Federal Building in downtown Dallas, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Federal workers return to offices amid threat from Elon Musk

Trump backs Musk as he roils the federal workforce with demands and threats

President Donald Trump is backing Elon Musk’s demand that federal employees explain their recent accomplishments or risk getting fired.

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Trump expresses hope Russia’s war in Ukraine is nearing an endgame as he meets with France’s Macron

Letter carriers protest Trump’s proposal to take over the US Postal Service

AP sues 3 Trump administration officials, citing freedom of speech

Judge extends temporary block to huge cuts in National Institutes of Health research funding

Argentine president gifts Elon Musk a chainsaw

Trump jokes that Canada can keep ‘O Canada’ anthem as 51st US state

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Members of the Dwaima family stand on the rubble of their home, which was leveled by an Israeli airstrike during the Israel-Hamas war, in the Tal al Hawa neighborhood in Gaza City, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Palestinians struggle to restart their lives in the ruins of Gaza

The air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport is pictured, Friday, Jan. 31, 2025, in Arlington, Va., near the wreckage of a mid-air collision between a Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines jet in the Potomac River. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

What to know about air traffic control towers after a midair collision in Arizona prompts questions

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, right, participates in a welcome ceremony with Saudi Arabia's Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025, at the Pentagon in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Hegseth says he fired the top military lawyers because they weren’t well suited for the jobs

Pennsylvania changes policy to follow Trump order on transgender athletes in high school sports

Protesters filled the Iowa state Capitol in Des Moines on Monday, Feb. 24, 2025 to denounce a bill that would strip the state civil rights code of protections based on gender identity. (AP Photo/Hannah Fingerhut)

Iowa Republicans back a bill that would strip gender identity from the state’s civil rights code

Governor Josh Shapiro speaks during a news conference regarding the shooting at UPMC Memorial Hospital in York, Pa. on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Pennsylvania’s governor says the Trump administration has unfrozen billions in grants and loans

Kash Patel, President Donald Trump's new director of the FBI, is pictured during his ceremonial swearing-in, Friday, Feb. 21, 2025, in the Indian Treaty Room at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump’s Cabinet members have already backtracked on some promises made before being confirmed

President Donald Trump speaks with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., left, as he arrives at Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Ky., Oct. 13, 2018, to travel to Richmond, Ky., for a rally. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Kentucky Senate hopeful Daniel Cameron praises Trump, criticizes his mentor, Mitch McConnell

People walk amidst the destruction caused by the Israeli air and ground offensive in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

The fragile ceasefire in Gaza faces a key deadline. Will it last?

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, left, looks on as his wife Casey DeSantis speaks at a campaign event in Bluffton, S.C., June 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard, File)

Ron DeSantis talks up his wife as next Florida governor and takes a shot at Trump’s pick

Judge blocks Trump immigration policy allowing arrests in churches for some religious groups

Former Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger, of Illinois, speaks during the Democratic National Convention, Aug. 22, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

The few Republicans who still oppose Trump gather in search of a path to oppose him

This screenshot made from a video shows the 18-karat toilet, titled "America," by Maurizio Cattelan in the restroom of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Sept. 16, 2016. (AP Photo, File)

Prosecutor says golden toilet was stolen from English palace in ‘audacious raid’

Kash Patel, President Donald Trump's new director of the FBI, reacts as Alexis Wilkins watches during Patel's ceremonial swearing-in, Friday, Feb. 21, 2025, in the Indian Treaty Room at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

New FBI Director Kash Patel is sworn in as acting ATF chief, AP source says

Apple announces $500 billion investment in US amid tariff threats that could affect the iPhone

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration campus in Silver Spring, Md., is photographed on Oct. 14, 2015. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

FDA moves to rehire medical device, food safety and other staffers fired days earlier

The U.S. Department of the Treasury building is seen in Washington, Nov. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

US imposes more sanctions on Iranian oil trade after Trump calls to drive exports ‘to zero’

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump, left, claps as Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk prepares to depart after speaking at a campaign event at the Butler Farm Show, on Oct. 5, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Judge blocks 2 federal agencies from disclosing personal records to Trump adviser Musk’s DOGE

Paul Mack poses for a portrait in Redwood City, Calif., Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Patients struggle with lack of consistent coverage for popular weight-loss drugs

Electronic screens in New York's Times Square announce the Robinhood IPO, July 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Robinhood says SEC has closed its investigation into the company

Wind turbines operate as the sun rises at the Klettwitz Nord solar energy park near Klettwitz near Klettwitz, Germany, Oct. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

Germany will likely continue its leadership on climate action. But expect a change in tone

Emil Bove, attorney for former US President Donald Trump, sits Manhattan criminal court during Trump's sentencing in the hush money case in New York, Jan. 10, 2025. (Jeenah Moon/Pool Photo via AP, file)

Trump’s Justice Department enforcer is no stranger to complaints about his conduct

Elon Musk speaks at an indoor Presidential Inauguration parade event in Washington, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

The young techies behind DOGE are a lightning rod for criticism but also a youth magnet for the GOP

A Taiwan national flag flutters near the Taipei 101 building at the National Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan, May 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying, File)

Trump’s abrupt change of US policy on Ukraine raises questions about Taiwan support

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attends the High-Level Segment of the 58th session of the Human Rights Council at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

UN chief Guterres says human rights are being suffocated by autocrats and warmongers

Friedrich Merz, right, member of the German Christian Democratic Party, arrives for a press conference in Berlin, Germany, Oct. 31, 2018. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)

Who is Friedrich Merz, the man on course to take Germany’s top job after election?

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, European leaders attending the ceremony at the memorial to the fallen Ukrainian soldiers on Independence Square in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Western leaders visit Kyiv and pledge military support against Russia on the war’s 3rd anniversary

Friedrich Merz, the candidate of the mainstream conservative Christian Democratic Union party, reacts to the speech of Markus Soeder, leader of CSU and Minister-President of Bavaria, at the party headquarters in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025, after the German national election. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Merz prioritizes Ukraine and US, vows to tackle migration and economy after German election win

US Ambassador Dorothy Camille Shea votes in the UN Security Council, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025, at the United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

US refuses to blame Russia for Ukraine war, splitting with European allies in UN votes

Vivek Ramaswamy announces his candidacy for Ohio governor, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025, in West Chester Township, Ohio. (AP Photo/Kareem Elgazzar)

Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy joins the Ohio governor’s race