Andrew Zabavsky and Terence Sutton Jr. were pardoned by President Donald Trump. The Washington, D.C., police officers were convicted in the 2020 death of a man during a police chase.

The decision leaves refugees who have completed a lengthy process stranded abroad and facing extended separation from loved ones already in the U.S.

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Bishop Budde locked eyes with President Trump and made a plea for mercy — and the war over spiritual authority in America was ignited anew.

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More is coming, but many directives will take time to be implemented or will face political, legal or practical obstacles.

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A record number of border crossers and the continuation of a Trump-era policy were factors.

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Forty-six Democrats joined Republicans to further bill requiring detention of undocumented immigrants for theft

The US House on Wednesday gave final passage to a bill requiring the detention of undocumented immigrants charged with theft-related crimes, sending the proposal to Donald Trump’s desk and giving the new president his first legislative victory as he presses his hardline immigration agenda on multiple fronts.

The House vote was 263 to 158, with 46 Democrats joining every present Republican in supporting the Laken Riley Act, named after a 22-year-old Georgia nursing student who was murdered last year by a Venezuelan national who was in the US unlawfully. The House vote came two days after the US Senate passed the legislation in a vote of 64 to 35, with a dozen Democratic members backing the bill.

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World leaders gathered in Davos, Switzerland for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum. Jeanna Smialek, a New York Times reporter, describes how there was a veneer of anxiety over the event, with attendees wondering: How will the new Trump administration affect Europe?

Trump named Sean Curran, the head of his personal Secret Service security detail, as his nominee for director of the U.S. Secret Service on Wednesday.

Sources tell Fox News Digital that CNN star Jim Acosta is "getting hosed" as network boss Mark Thompson urged the anti-Trump anchor to take the midnight slot.

Gavin DeGraw, best known for his song "I Don't Want to Be," which became the theme for "One Tree Hill," said he was proud to support President Trump at his inauguration.

We're approaching the first weekend of President Donald Trump's second term – and the Senate is already running behind in confirming his Cabinet nominees.

President Trump re-designated the Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO) in an executive order, four years after his administration made an identical move that was reversed.

OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has gained two allies in her push to take energy exports off the table, as Canada's first ministers ponder a response to United States President Donald Trump's threatened 25 per cent tariff on all Canadian goods. Read More

After unveiling of Stargate, Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Satya Nadella of Tesla, OpenAI and Microsoft trade barbs

Major tech moguls had their claws out for each other on Wednesday, hissing at their rivals over enormous pledges to invest in AI that had been announced by Donald Trump the day before.

Trump announced Stargate, a $500bn project to be funded jointly by OpenAI, Oracle and Softbank, on Tuesday. During the announcement, the president was flanked by the leaders of those companies: Sam Altman, Larry Ellison and Masayoshi Son, respectively. Son is slated to be the chair of the project. All three are multibillionaires. Absent from the photo op was a representative from MGX, Abu Dhabi’s state AI fund, another principal investor.

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Donald Trump signed executive order to rename body of water in honor of ‘American greatness’

The US Coast Guard (USCG) and the state of Florida have started referring to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America – a new label pushed by Donald Trump – despite the name of the body of water not yet being formally changed.

On Tuesday, following a flurry of executive orders signed by Trump on his first days in office, the USCG announced that it would deploy additional assets to multiple locations, including the “maritime border between Texas and Mexico in the ‘Gulf of America’”. Similarly, Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, cited the new moniker in a winter storm executive order on Monday, saying “an area of low pressure [was] moving across the Gulf of America”.

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Favoring TikTok over national security, releasing rioters, undermining global health efforts — these actions put all of us at risk.

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Rep. Tim Burchett clashed with CNN anchor Jim Acosta over President Trump's pardons of January 6 defendants, with Acosta repeatedly asking Burchett to condemn the pardons.

The House of Representatives has passed the Laken Riley Act again and is sending it to President Donald Trump's desk.

President Trump ruffled feathers with his plan to buy Greenland, and a Danish MEP is pushing back in a coarsely worded response put in 'words [he] might understand.'

President Trump is seeking to deter the practice of on diversity, equity and inclusion in federally funded higher-education institutions.

Brittany Aldean has shared her thoughts on President Trump's inauguration now that she's back home in Florida. Aldean shared that she's "so happy" the once former president is back in office.

Olympic gold medalist Klete Keller expressed his gratitude in a recent interview after he was one of approximately 1,500 January 6 defendants pardoned by President Donald Trump on Monday.

Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale told "The Will Cain Show" that the battle against the "woke mind virus" is not yet "won" despite Big Tech's embrace of Trump.