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President Donald Trump has reopened a debate in the fight over the federal government’s role in education policy after signing an executive order to dismantle the U.S. Education Department

April poses yet another round of proposed tariffs from US President Donald Trump. Whereas prior announcements were largely generalized, this time around it's all about the auto industry. If you haven't already perused our post on the 25-percent tariff for all foreign-built vehicles, check it out. It's a good overview…

Editorial: The decision to put documents on the assassination of John F Kennedy into the public domain comes alongside a ‘digital book burning’ of data

Critics argue that a series of rollbacks undermine efforts to combat financial crime and organized corruption, both domestically and abroad

Trump wants to purge the federal bench of judges who disagree with him. Thomas Jefferson did too, and it didn't work out.

The chance of the president succeeding in his radicalism is small, but amid the chaos are challenges to convention that were overdue, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Senior Republican and Democratic US senators issued a bipartisan call Thursday for a probe into a scandal over an accidentally leaked chat between top officials on Yemen air strikes that has engulfed Donald Trump's White House.

Mexico said Thursday that it wanted preferential treatment if US President Donald Trump goes ahead with steep car tariffs, vowing a "comprehensive response" to Washington's duties.

"I'm still furious that Jose Ibarra wasn't sentenced to death in Georgia—because that's the justice Laken Riley deserved," added State Senator Colton Moore