The U.S. will seek agreements with eight allied nations as part of a fresh effort to strengthen supply chains for the computer chips and critical minerals needed for AI technology, according to the top State Department official for economic affairs.

The initiative, which builds on efforts dating back to the first Trump administration, unfolds ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Monday signed into law a measure authorizing billions of dollars in federal funding to help prevent drug overdoses and aid patients recovering from addiction, according to the White House.

The measure effectively reauthorizes a public health program that was first established under Trump in 2018 and expired five years ...Read more

Two protesters who joined an effort to block a planned Immigration and Customs Enforcement crackdown on Canal Street in lower Manhattan were charged with felony assault after injuring two officers trying to control the crowd, prosecutors said.

The two were among a total of 18 arrested during a chaotic protest that included forming a human chain...Read more

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said the Trump administration’s efforts to place restrictions on a critical federal funding program for housing and homelessness services will cost the city $29 million and leave 1,100 people out on the streets this winter.

Wu announced Monday that the city has joined 11 jurisdictions and nonprofit organizations in ...Read more

Federal officials on Monday renamed the National Renewable Energy Laboratory — which is headquartered in Golden — and removed any mention of renewable energy.

The decades-old energy research hub is now called the National Laboratory of the Rockies, Department of Energy officials said in a news release.

“We are no longer picking and ...Read more

A cup bearing a “Nalayah’s 2nd Birthday” label rested in the parking lot at 1937 Lucile Ave. in Stockton, California, on Monday morning, frozen in time and filled with half-eaten food.

The site had hosted a child’s birthday party that became the scene of a mass shooting that killed four people — three of them children — and wounded ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and Sen. Bernie Sanders joined the picket line with striking Starbucks workers in Park Slope Monday.

The workers at unionized stores have been on strike since last month as they demand a contract that includes better hours and higher pay.

“These are not demands of greed — these are demands for ...Read more

The Trump administration moved to restrict immigration after an Afghan national shot two members of the National Guard deployed in the District of Columbia last week, killing one and critically injuring the other.

The government put an immediate pause on all asylum decisions, halted visas for individuals traveling from Afghanistan and said it ...Read more

Sean “Diddy” Combs claims Netflix’s upcoming docuseries about his trials and tribulations is a “shameful” attack that uses personal footage the imprisoned rapper has been collecting for more than 35 years to paint him in an unfavorable light.

“Netflix’s so-called ‘documentary’ is a shameful hit piece,” representatives for ...Read more

The administration said a temporary injunction to halt potential work on the Eisenhower Executive Office Building is unnecessary since President Donald Trump has not made a final decision as to whether painting the building is part of his plan to change the look of Washington.

In a filing with the U.S. District Court for the District of ...Read more

The Trump administration wanted to prove that large numbers of undocumented immigrants were voting. So in September, the Department of Justice asked states for voter roll data.

That drew concerns about privacy and overreach. In some states, like Nebraska, voters took the issue to courts. Many states decided to turn over information that did not...Read more

President Trump’s doctor Monday said recent MRI scans were performed on the president’s heart and abdomen, and showed the president remains in “excellent overall health.”

Hours after Trump vowed to release the results of the October MRIs, Dr. Sean Barbarella said the scans showed his major organs, key blood vessels, heart chamber sand ...Read more

Honduras risks weeks of uncertainty after Sunday’s presidential election was tied between a candidate backed by Donald Trump and a former sportscaster the U.S. leader attacked as a “borderline communist."

Nasry Asfura, a conservative former mayor of the nation’s capital, had 39.91% of votes when the electoral authority declared the quick...Read more

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has slammed a report alleging he ordered U.S. service members to launch a second strike on a suspected drug-carrying vessel after an initial attack left two survivors, denying experts’ claims that he may be guilty of war crimes.

“As usual, the fake news is delivering more fabricated, inflammatory and ...Read more

The White House defended the Pentagon’s handling of a September attack on an alleged drug-running boat and denied that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had given an order to kill everyone on the vessel, rebutting a report that had led to allegations of possible war crimes.

White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt confirmed there were two ...Read more

The rural Haiti town of Pont-Sondé, where at least 70 people were killed in a brutal gang massacre a year ago, is once again under assault.

Fresh attacks by armed members of the Gran Grif gang that escalated over the weekend have left at least 10 people dead, dozens injured and hundreds of homes burned or destroyed in Haiti’s Artibonite ...Read more

Viral images circulating online that appear to show Sean “Diddy” Combs in prison with fellow inmates were generated using AI, according to his rep.

One selfie circulating on social media shows the disgraced mogul smiling and hugging an inmate, while another photo shows him posing for a shot with what appears to be a cup of instant ramen ...Read more