Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Elon Musk joined President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Tuesday, where he addressed reporters for the first time amid his controversial cost-cutting efforts across the federal government. Musk defended DOGE as Trump asked him to speak about the team’s work. The Tesla billionaireRead More →

Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Three weeks into Donald Trump’s breakneck effort to remake the federal government, the rapid pace of lawsuits pushing back against his orders — and a number of legal setbacks for the Trump administration — have challenged the Department of Justice, seemingly overwhelming theRead More →

George Frey/Getty Images, FILE (NEW YORK) — Refrigerators, beers and bicycles stand at risk of higher prices as a result of tariffs on steel and aluminum announced by President Donald Trump this week, experts told ABC News. The tariffs, which take effect next month, slap a 25% tax on allRead More →

Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — In his first appearance since the Justice Department moved to drop the case against him, New York City Mayor Eric Adams celebrated the end of what he called an “unnecessary ordeal.” “As I said from the outset, I never broke the law, andRead More →

Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In a pair of lawsuits filed over the past 24 hours, several nonprofit groups that rely on government funds to provide healthcare and other services abroad are accusing the Trump administration of failing to disperse congressionally approved funds by freezing all foreign aidRead More →

Aaron Schwartz/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Trump administration is reigniting a legal fight over whether it can unilaterally freeze billions of dollars in funding in loans, grants and financial assistance. Lawyers with the Department of Justice asked the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to stay a decision byRead More →

Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Trump administration has removed a career Justice Department official from his role as the acting head of the DOJ’s National Security Division after the longtime prosecutor served in the position for less than a month, sources told ABC News. Devin DeBacker, who in thatRead More →

ABC News Illustration (NEW YORK) — At least 26 states are under alerts for snow, ice and flooding as three winter storms cross the country over the next few days. The first storm is moving into the Ohio River Valley on Tuesday with snow coming down from Paducah, Kentucky, toRead More →

Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As part of his plan to cut alleged federal government waste, President Donald Trump is literally pinching pennies, ordering his Treasury Secretary to stop the U.S. Mint from producing new 1-cent coins. In an announcement Sunday on his Truth Social platform, TrumpRead More →

Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Two weeks after the Department of Justice, now under new leadership following Donald Trump’s reelection, moved to dismiss their appeal of Trump’s classified documents case, a circuit court formally dismissed the appeal of a case that once accused the president of mishandling someRead More →