President Donald Trump spoke in a pre-recorded video address while Vice President JD Vance attended the event. Protesters had come to the capital for decades to call for the repeal of Roe v. Wade, but now they want to build on their victories and focus on the state-by-state battles taking place over abortion.

The State Department has frozen new funding for almost all U.S. aid programs worldwide, making exceptions to allow humanitarian food programs and military aid to Israel and Egypt to continue.

In total, 1,500 active-duty troops will join about 2,500 National Guard members and helicopter crews already working at the southwest border in support of Customs and Border Protection. The forces will install physical barriers along the border and conduct detection and monitoring missions.

President Donald Trump surveyed disaster zones in California and North Carolina on Friday and said he was considering “getting rid of” the Federal Emergency Management Agency, offering the latest sign of how he is weighing sweeping changes to the nation’s central organization for responding to disasters.

U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta’s order on Friday comes two days after Stewart Rhodes visited the Capitol, where he met with at least one lawmaker, chatted with others and defended his actions during a mob’s attack on Jan. 6, 2021. Rhodes was released from a Maryland prison a day earlier.

The Trump administration circulated photos Friday showing U.S. troops loading shackled detainees onto a military cargo plane, as the White House declared a start to the mass deportation campaign the president promised along the campaign trail.

President Donald Trump said he’d prefer not to have to impose tariffs on China, his latest dovish remark toward the world’s second-biggest economy even as he continues to threaten sweeping action.

President Donald Trump announced plans to nominate Matthew Lohmeier to be the the Department of the Air Force’s second-highest ranking official.

Military families are incensed over sweeping cuts to reimbursement rates for service members who choose to manage their own moves when they change duty stations, rather than opt for defense contractors.

The Air and Space forces have been told to eliminate working groups aimed at improving equal employment for women, minorities, LGBTQ+ and disabled service members, according to a memo this week from the acting Air Force secretary.