The Alaska Republican’s decision Thursday comes ahead of a crucial test vote to advance Hegseth’s nomination toward confirmation.

U.S. oil and gas companies are unlikely to expand development in Alaska and the Arctic following President Donald Trump's executive order enabling them to do so, company officials and industry ...

In an interview aired Wednesday night, Trump said he may withhold aid to California until the state adjusts how it manages ...

Trump’s order says it is intended to protect women’s spaces from those who “self-identify” as women. It defines the sexes in an unconventional way, based on the reproductive cells — large cells in ...

It's been seen for some time that U.S. sovereignty over Greenland would bring strategic advantages, writes Colin Gordon for The Conversation.

Executive orders will enable more drilling, mining and other resource development, reversing Biden-era environmental restrictions, governor says ...

The president who built his fan base on isolationism is pivoting to a kind of imperialism that the U.S. hasn’t seen in decades.

In 1865, in the wake of the Civil War, the U.S. began looking to expand its influence on the world stage. This happened at precisely the moment when Russia, having just lost the Crimean War, was ...

CASTAIC, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters fought to maintain the upper hand on a huge and rapidly moving wildfire that swept ...

President Donald Trump started his second administration with a blitz of policy actions to reorient the U.S. government.

Money’s going to be tight, but a permanent education funding increase rather than another one-time increase is among the essential achievements needed this session, state Senate leaders said as the ...

Some of Trump's executive orders have an immediate policy impact. Others are more symbolic. Some already are being challenged ...