The intended purchases, which total nearly $2 million, were described by a U.S. government official with information about the State Department’s spending plans.

Michigan advocates are working to make pregnancy and childbirth safer and more equitable for communities of color.

It was an extraordinary scene in the Oval Office as President Trump made a public break with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy. The two presidents and Vice President Vance argued for nearly five minutes in front of cameras.

The first round of firings started Thursday at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a government agency that monitors the oceans, the atmosphere where storms roam and space, and puts out hundreds of “products” daily. Those products generally save lives and money, experts say.

COP16’s successful conclusion is the first United Nations meeting in many months that ended on a positive note, as various meetings all through last year related to dealing with the global plastic pollution,

Some of President Trump's fervent allies stood behind his actions in the Oval Office with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy. But Ukraine supporters within the Republican Party have expressed concerns about how the meeting played out and fear it could derail further negotiations with the country.

With Republicans now in charge of the White House and President Donald Trump sidestepping Congress on previous funding decisions, a more contentious dynamic has emerged during negotiations, raising questions about whether lawmakers will avoid a shutdown this time.

Rafael Caro Quintero, the former leader of the Guadalajara cartel, was behind the killing of a U.S. DEA agent in 1985 and had been on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. Vicente Carrillo Fuentes is a former leader of the Juarez drug cartel.

Instead of being sent by the Office of Personnel Management, which functions as a human resources agency for the federal government but doesn't have the power to hire or fire, the email will come from individual agencies that have direct oversight of career officials.

Vice President JD Vance acknowledged the pope's criticism of the Trump administration’s crackdown, without responding to any of its specifics or to the pontiff’s apparent criticism of Vance’s own deployment of Catholic tradition to justify such policies.

President Donald Trump chided Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after Vice President JD Vance, one of the administration’s most skeptical voices on Ukraine, said Zelenskyy was being disrespectful for debating Trump in the Oval Office in front of the American media.

An attacker blew himself up Friday in a mosque at a pro-Taliban seminary in northwestern Pakistan. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the blast.