Trump's military parade is a US outlier in peacetime but parades and reviews have a long history
Troops marching in lockstep. Patriotic tunes filling the air. The commander in chief looking on at it all.
Bill Barrow, The Associated Press
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Mike Johnson downplays Musk's influence and says Republicans will pass Trump's tax and budget bill
With an uncharacteristically feistiness, Speaker Mike Johnson took clear sides Sunday in President Donald Trump's breakup with mega-billionaire Elon Musk.
Hall of Famers. A Heisman winner. An MMA fighter. Tuberville is not the only sports politician
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) -- Tommy Tuberville is a U.S. senator and wants to become the next Alabama governor. But his new campaign paraphernalia recognize his old job: coach.
The Democrats' path back to power might start in places like this Appalachian town
PAINTSVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Janet Lynn Stumbo leaned on her cane and surveyed the two dozen or so voters who had convened in a small Appalachian town to meet with the chair of the Kentucky Democratic Party.
Pritzker and Ocasio-Cortez: A billionaire and a former bartender emerge as Trump resistance leaders
ATLANTA (AP) -- The billionaire heir and the former bartender.
In their words: What judges and Trump's government say about Abrego Garcia's mistaken deportation
President Donald Trump's administration has dug in on its contention that the government should not have to repatriate Kilmar Abrego Garcia, despite U.S. Supreme Court and lower court rulings that he was wrongly deported and should be returned to the United States.
Even in Alabama, some Republicans worry about Trump's sweeping agenda
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- On a day when stock markets around the world dropped precipitously, Alabama Republican Party Chairman John Wahl led a celebration of the president whose global tariffs sparked the sell-off.
Even in conservative Alabama, there are quiet concerns and caveats amid Republican cheers for Trump
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- On a day when stock markets around the world dropped precipitously, Alabama Republican Party Chairman John Wahl led a celebration of the president whose global tariffs sparked the sell-off.
In conservative Alabama, Republicans are cheering for Trump - with some quiet concerns and caveats
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- On a day when stock markets around the world dropped precipitously, Alabama Republican Party Chairman John Wahl led a celebration of the president whose global tariffs sparked the selloff.
Why does the US restrict its presidents to 2 terms? A look at the tradition Trump is questioning
ATLANTA (AP) -- Only one person in U.S. history has defied the two-term example set by the first president, George Washington. And voters responded by forbidding future presidents from being elected more than twice.
Critics see Trump attacks on the 'Black Smithsonian' as an effort to sanitize racism in US history
ATLANTA (AP) -- President Donald Trump's order accusing the Smithsonian Institution of not reflecting American history notes correctly that the country's Founding Fathers declared that "all men are created equal."
California's Gavin Newsom opposes trans athletes in women's sports, splitting with progressives
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidate, used the inaugural episode of his new podcast to break from progressives by speaking out against allowing transgender women and girls to compete in female sports.
A Project 2025 author carries out his vision for mass federal layoffs
ATLANTA (AP) -- The Trump administration's demand that federal agencies plan to radically downsize is driven by a key figure in the conservative movement who has long planned this move.
The few Republicans who still oppose Trump gather in search of a path to oppose him
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Conservatives from across the country filled a ballroom a few blocks from the White House and lamented that the United States is abandoning the ideals that forged a great nation. Some attendees donned red hats with various inscriptions mocking President Donald Trump and his "Make America Great Again" movement.
'Waste, fraud and abuse' is a political fight older than the nation. Here's what to know
ATLANTA (AP) -- Good-government advocates, anti-tax conservatives, politicians of various stripes and everyday Americans grouse about "waste, fraud and abuse" across the U.S. government.
What has Donald Trump not done yet? Here are some policy areas where he might act next
ATLANTA (AP) -- Donald Trump's second administration has put forth an avalanche of policy changes and political pronouncements that have jolted Washington and the world.
Trump is leveraging tariffs. Is he ready for potential fallout? Are consumers? Here's what to know
ATLANTA (AP) -- President Donald Trump has taken executive action to impose or threaten new tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico and China.
Trump followed through on tariffs. Is he ready for the fallout? Are Americans? Here's what to know
ATLANTA (AP) -- President Donald Trump has taken executive action to impose or threaten new tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico and China.
Trump kept his pledge on tariffs. Is he ready for the fallout? Are Americans? Here's what to know
ATLANTA (AP) -- President Donald Trump has taken executive action to impose new tariffs on imports from Canada, China and Mexico.
What to know about Trump's tariffs targeting Canada, Mexico and China
ATLANTA (AP) -- President Donald Trump has taken executive action to impose new tariffs on imports from Canada, China and Mexico.
Former Federal Reserve adviser indicted and arrested for alleged espionage in dealings with China
Federal authorities have arrested a former Federal Reserve senior adviser for allegedly giving inside economic information to China.
Trump fills his government with billionaires after running on a working-class message
ATLANTA (AP) -- President Donald Trump's brash populism has always involved incongruence: the billionaire businessman-politician stirring the passions of millions who, regardless of the U.S. economy's trajectory, could never afford to live in his Manhattan skyscraper or visit his club in south Florida.
Everything Trump did in the first executive orders and actions of his presidency
President Donald Trump started his second administration with a blitz of policy actions to reorient the U.S. government.
Everything Trump did in the first executive orders of his presidency
President Donald Trump started his second administration with a blitz of policy actions to reorient the U.S. government.
Donald Trump has sweeping plans for a second administration. Here's what he's proposed
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump has promised sweeping actions in his second administration.
'American Carnage': Looking back at Trump's first inaugural address before his second
Eight years ago, Donald Trump delivered an inaugural address that overshadowed the typical optimism and promises of unity with a dark portrait of national life.
Jimmy Carter honored with Washington funeral before burial in his Georgia hometown
Jimmy Carter, who considered himself an outsider even as he sat in the Oval Office as the 39th U.S. president, is being honored Thursday with the pageantry of a funeral at Washington National Cathedral before a second service and burial in his tiny Georgia hometown.
Jimmy Carter will be honored at a Washington funeral before burial in his Georgia hometown
Jimmy Carter, who considered himself an outsider even as he sat in the Oval Office as the 39th U.S. president, will be honored Thursday with the pageantry of a funeral at Washington National Cathedral before a second service and burial in his tiny Georgia hometown.
Jimmy Carter will be honored at Washington funeral before burial in Georgia hometown
Jimmy Carter, who considered himself an outsider even as he sat in the Oval Office as the 39th U.S. president, will be honored Thursday with the pageantry of a funeral at Washington National Cathedral before a second service and burial in his tiny Georgia hometown.
Jimmy Carter's life intersected with slavery's legacy. His record on Civil Rights is complicated
ATLANTA (AP) -- Young Jimmy Carter and his friends were walking across a pasture after a day's farm labor during the Great Depression. As they came to a gate, his companions stood aside and let Carter enter first.
Jimmy Carter continues to lie in state at Capitol Rotunda ahead of his state funeral
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Jimmy Carter will lie in state for a second day Wednesday after his remains arrived in Washington a day earlier as part of state funeral rites.
Jimmy Carter on his way back to Washington, where he remained an outsider
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nearly 44 years after Jimmy Carter left the nation's capital in humbling defeat, the 39th president returns to Washington for three days of state funeral rites starting Tuesday.
Jimmy Carter will be honored in Washington, a city where he remained an outsider
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nearly 44 years after Jimmy Carter left the nation's capital in humbling defeat, the 39th president returns to Washington for three days of state funeral rites starting on Tuesday.
Jimmy Carter raised climate change concerns 35 years before the Paris Accords
PLAINS, Ga. (AP) -- When Jimmy Carter chose branding designs for his presidential campaign, he passed on the usual red, white and blue. He wanted green.
Jimmy Carter's state funeral has started. Here's what to know
ATLANTA (AP) -- Six days of funeral observances for former President Jimmy Carter begin Saturday in Georgia, where he died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100.
Jimmy Carter's state funeral starts Saturday. Here is what to know
ATLANTA (AP) -- Six days of funeral observances for former President Jimmy Carter begin Saturday in Georgia, where he died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100.
Jimmy the Baptist: Carter redefined 'evangelical,' from campaigns to race and women's rights
PLAINS, Ga. (AP) -- Before reaching the 1978 peace deal between Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin, Jimmy Carter managed months of intense preparation, high-stakes negotiations at Camp David and a field trip to the Gettysburg battlefield to demonstrate the consequences of war.
Jimmy Carter and Playboy: How 'the weirdo factor' rocked '76
PLAINS, Ga. (AP) -- Jimmy Carter already had drawn months of media scrutiny as a devout Southern Baptist running for president. Then the 1976 Democratic nominee brought up sex and sin as he explained his religious faith to Playboy magazine.
The new right gathers to celebrate Trump and the splintering of the Republican Party
PHOENIX (AP) -- As Washington heaved over the possibility of a partial government shutdown, leading far-right figures gathered with thousands of Donald Trump's most ardent supporters and, for the most part, gloried in splintering the president-elect's party.
The new right celebrates Trump at a conservative conference and sidesteps inconsistencies
PHOENIX (AP) -- As Washington heaved over the possibility of a partial government shutdown, leading far-right figures gathered with thousands of Donald Trump's most ardent supporters and, for the most part, gloried in splintering the president-elect's party.
Takeaways from Trump's 1st rally speech as president-elect
PHOENIX (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump came to Arizona on Sunday for his first rally speech since winning the November election.
Democrats' outgoing chair says Trump's win forces party to reassess how it reaches voters
ATLANTA (AP) -- As he concludes his time as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Jaime Harrison is downplaying his party's November loss to President-elect Donald Trump and arguing Democrats avoided even greater losses that parties in power have faced around the world.
Some Democrats are frustrated over Joe Biden reversing course and pardoning his son Hunter
ATLANTA (AP) -- Already reeling from their November defeats, Democrats now are grappling with President Joe Biden's pardoning of his son for federal crimes after the party spent years slamming Donald Trump as a threat to democracy who disregarded the law.
Trump 2.0 has a Cabinet and executive branch of different ideas and eclectic personalities
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump's personnel choices for his new Cabinet and White House reflect his signature positions on immigration and trade but also a range of viewpoints and backgrounds that raise questions about what ideological anchors might guide his Oval Office encore.
Trump 2.0 has a Cabinet and executive branch of different positions and eclectic personalities
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump's personnel choices for his new Cabinet and White House reflect his signature positions on immigration and trade but also a range of viewpoints and backgrounds that raise questions about what ideological anchors might guide his Oval Office encore.
After Trump's Project 2025 denials, he is tapping its authors and influencers for key roles
WASHINGTON (AP) -- As a former and potentially future president, Donald Trump hailed what would become Project 2025 as a road map for "exactly what our movement will do" with another crack at the White House.
Trump taps Rollins as agriculture chief, completing proposed slate of Cabinet secretaries
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that he will nominate former White House aide Brooke Rollins to be his agriculture secretary. Rollins, who heads the Trump-allies America First Policy Institute, was the director of his office of American innovation in his first term.
What to know about Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Trump's pick for labor secretary
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump on Friday named Oregon Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer to lead the Department of Labor in his second administration, elevating a Republican congresswoman who has strong support from unions in her district but lost reelection in November.
Harris and Trump will both make a furious last-day push before Election Day
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A presidential campaign that has careened through a felony trial, an incumbent president being pushed off the ticket and multiple assassination attempts comes down to a final push across a handful of states on the eve of Election Day.
Trump and Vance make anti-transgender attacks central to their campaign's closing argument
ATLANTA (AP) -- Donald Trump has made his opposition to transgender rights central to his closing argument before Election Day, using demeaning language and misrepresentations to paint an exceedingly narrow slice of the U.S. population as a threat to national identity.
Trump makes anti-trans attacks central to his campaign's closing argument
ATLANTA (AP) -- Donald Trump has made his opposition to transgender rights central to his closing argument before Election Day, using demeaning language and misrepresentations to paint an exceedingly narrow slice of the U.S. population as a threat to national identity.
Inside 'the weave': How Donald Trump's rhetoric has grown darker and windier
DULUTH, Ga. (AP) -- No scene has dominated U.S. politics since 2015 quite like Donald Trump on stage, waxing on for an hour-plus in front of a chorus of red "Make America Great Again" hats.
Charlie Kirk and his group Turning Point take center stage in Donald Trump's campaign
ATLANTA (AP) -- Charlie Kirk and Vivek Ramaswamy took the stage recently in downtown Atlanta, a decidedly liberal environment for two famous conservatives to hold court with college students.
In North Carolina, Trump and Harris navigate a hurricane and a rollercoaster governor's race
RUTHERFORDTON, N.C. (AP) -- Renee Kyro already has voted for Republican nominee Donald Trump for the third consecutive presidential election. But she plans to volunteer for the first time, reaching out to her neighbors in hurricane-battered western North Carolina to make sure they have a voting plan amid a flurry of precinct changes.
Trump's protests aside, his agenda has plenty of overlap with Project 2025
ATLANTA (AP) -- Donald Trump insists that Project 2025, a nearly 1,000-page blueprint for a hard-right turn in American government and society, does not reflect his priorities for a White House encore.
Donald Trump offers tax breaks to US citizens overseas but no specifics
ATLANTA (AP) -- Donald Trump is proposing to grant a key tax break to U.S. citizens living overseas, pitching the idea as an effort to court votes from potentially millions of Americans who could benefit.
Trump and Georgia Gov. Kemp use hurricane recovery to make first 2024 appearance together
EVANS, Ga. (AP) -- After making up privately, Donald Trump and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp used the aftermath of Hurricane Helene to put their detente on public display, with the former president praising a fellow Republican he blistered just months ago and promising to treat the state well if he returns to the White House.
Donald Trump and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp use hurricane recovery to make first appearance together
EVANS, Ga. (AP) -- After making up privately, former President Donald Trump and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp are using the aftermath of Hurricane Helene to put their detente on public display with a month to go before Election Day.
What to watch as JD Vance and Tim Walz meet for a vice presidential debate
ATLANTA (AP) -- Republican JD Vance and Democrat Tim Walz will meet Tuesday in the lone vice presidential debate of the 2024 election, bringing together undercards who have spent two months going after each other and the opposing nominees who top the major-party tickets.
In Alabama, Trump goes from the dark rhetoric of his campaign to adulation of college football fans
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) -- As Donald Trump railed against immigrants Saturday afternoon in the Rust Belt, his supporters in the Deep South had turned his earlier broadsides into a rallying cry over a college football game as they prepared for the former president's visit later in the evening.