Politics

International artists hoping to perform in the United States are finding the visa process much more arduous and expensive. Last year, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services instituted a 250% visa fee increase for global musicians entering the United States. And immigration lawyers say changes in the way visa petitions are processed ...

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy plans to cut 10,000 workers and billions of dollars from the USPS budget and he’ll do that working with Elon Musk’s DOGE.

President Donald Trump has promised to preserve Medicaid and other federal safety-net programs.

The Senate passed a six-month funding bill Friday to avert a government shutdown hours ahead of the midnight deadline, sending it to President Donald Trump to sign into law.

The U.S.-Canada trade war could shift economic ties as tariffs rise and tensions grow, raising concerns about future trade stability, experts say.

President Donald Trump used a triumphant visit to the Justice Department on Friday to air a litany of grievances about the criminal investigations that threatened to torpedo his political career, decrying in often profane terms his adversaries and casting himself as a victim of unfair and biased prosecutions.

The Trump administration has delivered an extraordinary ultimatum to Columbia University, threatening to permanently end federal funding to the school unless it cedes control of an international studies department and implements sweeping changes to other campus policies. In a letter sent Thursday night, federal officials said the university must im...

Hamas says it has accepted a proposal from mediators to release one living American-Israeli hostage and the bodies of four dual-nationals, hostages who had died in captivity. The militant group did not immediately on Friday specify when the release of soldier Edan Alexander and the four bodies would occur, or what it expected to receive in return. ...

The S&P 500 has fallen more than 10% from its record high, entering a correction and shedding trillions of dollars in market value.

Smartmatic settled a related defamation lawsuit in April against One America News for an undisclosed sum.

Elon Musk paid an unannounced visit to the National Security Agency on Wednesday and met with its chief, an NSA spokesperson said, days after he called for revamping the country’s top cyberespionage hub, NBC News reported.

U.S. District Judge James Bredar granted a temporary restraining order against numerous agencies and departments affected by the administration’s reduction in workforce efforts.

The mother of four U.S. citizen children, including a 10-year-old girl recovering from brain cancer, is pleading for her family’s return to the United States, NBC News reported.