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President Trump signed an executive order to establish a 'Strategic Bitcoin Reserve' and a 'U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile' ahead of the White House's first crypto summit.

An unvaccinated New Mexico man tested positive for measles after death, becoming what health officials say could be the second death reported in the ongoing outbreak that has infected over 160 people in at least nine states.

While recent tariff battles probably won't raise the price of your flight or hotel, indirect effects could bump up travel costs, anxieties or both.

Some officials in South Korea say agreeing to the pipeline investment might placate the U.S., but Trump is still threatening tariffs.

Citing financial problems, Hunter Biden this week asked a federal judge to drop the laptop hacking lawsuit he filed against a former Trump administration aide in 2023.

The Trump administration is impeding the National Institutes of Health-backed science that enabled treatment of retinoblastoma, a rare childhood eye cancer.

London and the rest of the country rely heavily on tourists from the United States, particularly California and greater New York. But their numbers have fallen.

A new $100,000 retirement benefit per each Olympic Games will help Team USA athletes go for gold without going broke.

Nearly 332 million people visited America's national parks last year, a record high. That popularity hasn't shielded the agency from the Elon Musk team's purge of the federal workforce.

As President Trump publicly embraces anti-democratic dictators he is forfeiting the United States' 80-year leadership of the free world.

The CFPB has dropped a lawsuit accusing Zelle and its bank backers of failing to clamp down on fraud. It's Trump administration's latest move to drop enforcement actions.

Trump repeated false claims he made on the campaign trail, including that Biden secretly flew migrants into the U.S. and that many immigrants are violent criminals.

'There will not be submission,' President Claudia Sheinbaum said Wednesday, adding she hopes to speak to Trump this week. 'Mexicans are valiant and strong.'

The high court, by a 5-4 vote, turned down an appeal from President Trump's lawyers on Wednesday on the disbursement of nearly $2 billion in foreign funds.

Partisan rancor during President Trump's speech was remarkable and fiery from the moment it began, and the most contentious in recent memory.

President Trump's largely rosy assessment of the U.S. under his new administration is contradicted by other indicators, including public polling, economic markets, court rulings and remarks from U.S. allies.

President Trump laid out an aggressive approach to 'renewing the American dream' in his address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday.

President Trump turned on Volodymyr Zelensky because he wants to take credit for ending the conflict as a talking point regardless of the durability of the peace.

The U.S. Supreme Court will decide if Mexico can sue U.S. gun makers for damages. Most of the justices, liberal and conservative, sounded skeptical of Mexico's lawsuit.

The Supreme Court's conservative majority ruled for San Francisco in limiting the power of environmental regulators to prevent ocean discharges of polluted stormwater.

Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, were described as private but neighborly by those who got to know them over many years.

President Trump's sweeping tariffs threatened to upend free trade in North America and sent shock waves through the global supply chain.

Californians are among the nation's largest consumers of imported Mexican avocados, tequila and beer. Prices of all are expected to spike because of Trump's new tariffs.