President Donald Trump plans to sign the Laken Riley Act into law as his administration's first piece of legislation.

It’s still early days, but President Donald Trump has already managed to keep a slew of election promises. Declare war on clean energy? Done! Issue pardons to criminals who beat police officers, defecated in the halls of the Capitol and tried to overturn an election?

The president’s efforts to remake the federal government extend even to the buildings that house it, as he pushes designs that he says “command respect.”

Jackie Nelson, president of the Rome branch of the NAACP, said, "It was disturbing to hear that" about the initial concern to remove the lessons from the Air Force curriculum. Nelson said her thoughts immediately turned to Rome's own Tuskegee Airman,

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis said Donald Trump’s plans to impose mass deportations of immigrants would be a “disgrace,” as he weighed in on the incoming U.S. president’s pledges nearly a decade after calling him “not Christian” for wanting to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border.

C onflicting SIGNALS are reaching the new American administration from Rome. And some carry a whiff of incense. While Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, was preparing to fly to Washington to schmooze President Donald Trump and his chums, a leader on the other side of the Tiber was communicating stark disapproval of their plans.

With Donald Trump’s inauguration as president on Monday, we contemplate the impact his administration could have on our democracy. Historians Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Timothy Snyder have drawn from 20th-century political disasters to warn us about the dangers of dictatorship.

Spectacle – shock and awe – is the name of the game in 2025 in Trumpian America, just as it was in imperial Rome

Democrats slammed Trump for not delivering on a promise to lower grocery prices "immediately" after he took office.

Vatican City • Donald Trump might not be president yet ... Trump adviser Steve Bannon attempted to create a monastery near Rome to prepare the next generation of Catholic conservatives, and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo traveled to the Vatican ...

He hails a fantastic woman sweeping all before her in Europe. She praises a strong and shrewd defender of the West. Donald Trump and Giorgia Meloni are fast forging a new transatlantic "special relationship".

The pope’s comments provided the latest indication of a potential rekindling of frictions between the Vatican and the next Trump White House.