The Congressional Budget Office estimates that implementing President Donald Trump's executive order to change Defense Department to War Department could cost between a few million dollars and as much as $125 million.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that executions of protesters in Iran are coming to a halt. "We've been told that the killing in Iran is stopping and that there's no plan for executions," he said from the Oval Office."I've been told that on good authority."

The U.S. has completed its first sales of Venezuelan oil under a new Trump-era arrangement valued at about $500 million. The proceeds are being held in U.S.-controlled accounts, including a main one in Qatar.

The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee debated whether women are coerced into medicated abortions in a Wednesday hearing about the safety of mifepristone and misoprostol.

Widespread anti-government protests in Iran have entered their third week, with the death toll continuing to climb amid a violent crackdown by security forces, yet military analysts suggest the latest uprising could actually lead to change.

The Trump administration is starting an $11 billion global health initiative designed to replace the U.S. Agency for International Development with a model that sends aid directly to foreign governments and health institutions, Axios reported.

Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., warned Wednesday that any U.S. move to seize Greenland would devastate America's alliances and undermine NATO at a critical moment of global instability, calling it an act that would incinerate "the hard-won trust of loyal allies."

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sounded almost incredulous Wednesday, saying President Donald Trump's fondness for McDonald's, candy, and Diet Coke leaves him baffled that the 79-year-old is still standing.

Louisiana officials are moving to bring a California physician back to the Bayou State to face criminal charges tied to alleged abortion-drug shipments, according to state Attorney General Liz Murrill.

Accusing the Department of Health and Human Services of unlawfully attaching discriminatory conditions to federal funding affecting transgender people, Washington Attorney General Nick Brown has filed his 50th lawsuit against the Trump administration.

The White House is "deeply concerned" about a vast new Chinese embassy complex in London likely to be approved next week by the British government.

Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr hedged during a House hearing Wednesday when asked whether he had the authority to change the broadcast ownership cap.

The Justice Department on Wednesday filed a federal lawsuit against Minnesota, challenging the state's requirement that all government agencies implement sex- and race-based affirmative action plans and consider "affirmative action goals" in every hiring and personnel decision.

Skeletal remains that washed up on a Washington beach almost 20 years ago have been identified as a former Oregon mayor who was declared dead in 2006, KOIN reported on Wednesday.

The United States could be looking at a bill as high as $700 billion if it tried to fulfill President Donald Trump's long-stated goal of buying Greenland, according to three people familiar with a cost estimate developed for planning purposes.

A Minnesota judge on Wednesday declined to issue a temporary restraining order that would have stopped U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in the state, saying more evidence is needed before a ruling.

Iran issued a direct assassination threat against President Donald Trump on Wednesday, airing a chilling image on state television showing Trump during the 2024 rally shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, with the warning: "This time it will not miss the target."

Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders officially endorsed Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., in his bid to become the Sunshine State's next governor, marking the first time a sitting governor has backed the Naples Republican in the 2026 Florida gubernatorial race.

Donald Trump's second-term Iran policy is moving quickly from fiery rhetoric to the edge of open confrontation.

Republicans struck a bipartisan, bicameral funding deal with Democrats to send roughly $50 billion overseas, defying DOGE-backed spending cuts and President Donald Trump's push to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development, Foreign Policy reported.