U.S. national debt stands at over $36.2 trillion as of May 2025. A president’s decisions on how to spend government money, such as funding wars or providing government aid, affect the national debt.

As immigration raids continued across the country, a curfew went into effect Tuesday night in Los Angeles, the epicenter of protests that spread coast to coast against the detention and removal of ...

WASHINGTON − President Donald Trump has launched a sweeping crackdown on legal entry into the United States through a revived travel ban, as his administration takes dramatic steps to block ...

President Trump has argued since he first ran for president in 2015 that the United States is in turmoil and that only he can restore it to greatness. Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times ...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been charged in the United States with transporting illegal immigrants into the country. The Maryland man was mistakenly deported to his native El Salvador nearly three ...

WASHINGTON, June 4 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump signed a proclamation on Wednesday banning the citizens of 12 countries from entering the United States, saying the move was needed to ...

Trump officials asked the justices to lift a lower-court order that barred the administration from ending TPS for Venezuelans while litigation continues.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Elora Mukherjee of Columbia Law about the impact of the U.S. visa policy reversal on international students and what's at stake beyond elite universities.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday sided with the Trump administration, at least for now, in a dispute over the Department of Education's freeze of DEI-related grants. The administration has taken ...

Boise has long flown under the radar as a family travel destination, but this year, the city has captured the spotlight with its feature in National Geographic’s 2025 ‘ Best of the World ’ list.

As I started to travel more in my 30s, eventually to all 50 states and 63 major United States national parks, I found that not only did they all exist, but that there was an almost never-ending ...

"It’s critical for the United States to demonstrate all of our national power to support our alliances," Aquilino said, adding that the U.S. has mutual defense treaties with both Japan and South ...