As Donald Trump’s administration settles into a global trade war — at least momentarily obscuring its war on the federal government and on the limitation of executive power, which continues on many fronts — it’s a good time for a reality check on the political capital he carries into the next turbulent phase of his second presidency.

Where President Donald Trump's approval ratings stands in a new nation poll, and where he stands in comparison to his White House predecessors during their first three months in office

A U.S. judge on Friday barred the Trump administration from implementing a new policy allowing it to rapidly deport hundreds if not thousands of migrants to countries other than their own without giving them a chance to show they fear being persecuted,

A U.S. appeals court has denied the U.S. Justice Department's request to prevent a lower court from probing whether the Trump administration complied with an order to return a man wrongly deported to El Salvador,

The Trump administration is pressing Harvard University to turn over records on the money it receives from foreign sources going back a decade, the latest in a growing pressure campaign against the nation’s most prominent university.

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Harvard University is abusing its tax-exempt status as he escalated his fight with the institution. "I think Harvard is a disgrace," Trump told reporters.

President says university should lose government research contracts after it refused demands to accept outside political supervision. Trump says Fed chair Powell’s 'termination cannot come fast enough' 11:38 President Donald Trump blasted Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell on Thursday for not lowering interest rates,

"I want to thank President Trump for having accepted an invitation to pay an official visit to Rome in the near future," Meloni told reporters. (Reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt and Katharine Jackson; Editing by Jasper Ward) Copyright 2025 Thomson Reuters.

President Donald Trump will meet with Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni on Thursday at the White House amid a tariff standoff with the European Union. The talks come a day after Trump met with Japanese officials and spoke with Mexico's Claudia Sheinbaum.