Live updates and the latest news as President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump tour the Texas flood devastation and the U.S. prepares to impose blanket tariffs on trading partners.

During his first weekend back in the White House, Trump again visited North Carolina to scope out Helene damage and toured the aftermath of devastating wildfires in Los Angeles. But he also used those trips to sharply criticize the Biden administration and California officials.

A professional clown spoke out against comparing President Donald Trump and members of his administration to clowns in a Washington Post op-ed on Thursday.

President Donald Trump said his administration is weighing whether to take control of the city of Washington, DC, to help combat crime, in a move that would represent a dramatic upheaval to the capital’s half-century of home rule.

During his first term, Trump issued an executive order forbidding modernist architecture in federal buildings. Progressives howled, and Biden reversed the order upon taking office. Then Trump reinstated it when he came back. Whether you prefer Ionic columns or brutalist facades, it seems, is now a culture war issue.

President Trump is set to visit law enforcement and families in Kerville, Texas after devastating floods but federal disaster aid is up in the air.

During a Senate Appropriations Committee business meeting, Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) urged the committee to not allow the Trump Administration to move the FBI Headquarters to the Ronald Reagan building.

President Donald Trump praised a new book by the Washington Examiner’s Salena Zito, saying it provides an eyewitness account of the “unbreakable spirit” demonstrated after his assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met his Japanese and Philippine counterparts in a meeting Thursday on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ annual ministerial meetings in Malaysia. The U.S., Japan and the Philippines have been building a trilateral bloc to broaden security and economic cooperation.

US trading partners braced for a volley of tariff hikes this week, but a deadline for their imposition came and went as President Donald Trump delayed them again until August -- but unveiled new coppe

WASHINGTON — President Trump will soon travel to China — likely to talk tariffs and other issues, Secretary of State Marco Rubio revealed Friday following a meeting with his counterpart from Beijing.