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WASHINGTON – President Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration got some help Tuesday when the Supreme Court ruled that it’s legal to detain non-citizens indefinitely, pending deportation. After reaching a 4-4 deadlock on the issue last year, the justices ruled 5-3 against a group of immigrants protesting detentions averaging 13 months. …

WASHINGTON — The United States cut back aid to Cambodia Tuesday to protest shrinking democracy in the Southeast Asia nation, where the party of longtime ruler Hun Sen swept Senate elections after facing no serious opposition. The White House said it was suspending or curtailing U.S. programs worth $8.3 million …

WASHINGTON – After a testy exchange this past week over a proposed U.S. border wall, Mexico President Enrique Pena Nieto canceled plans to visit the White House. Pena Nieto and Trump spoke Tuesday, spending a considerable amount of their nearly hourlong call on discussions of the border wall, according to …

WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump on Friday recited the lyrics of a song seen as anti-immigration called ‘The Snake’ to drive home his point about restricting immigration – an inflammatory move that harkened back to his days on the campaign trail. In a speech to conservatives at a convention …

WASHINGTON — Special counsel Robert Mueller secured the cooperation of a third aide to President Trump’s campaign on Friday, as former deputy Rick Gates pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy and lying to the FBI and promised to give information to prosecutors investigating Russia’s election interference. Gates is the fifth …

WASHINGTON – A tentative plan for President Donald Trump to host his Mexican counterpart in Washington has been put on hold, the White House confirmed Saturday. Trump and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto have agreed that now is not the right time for Pena Nieto to make his first visit …

Donald Trump is America’s worst president, says a New York Times opinion piece that’s based on a survey of 170 members of the American Political Science Association’s Presidents and Executive Politics section. The survey was conducted by Brandon Rottinghaus, a professor of political science at the University of Houston, and …

WASHINGTON—Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne says “we’re very worried” about the possibility that U.S. President Donald Trump will impose a tariff on Canadian steel and aluminum. “It would hurt us,” Wynne said in an interview Saturday in Washington, saying it would “increase the cost of cars.” Wynne was visiting to promote …

WASHINGTON: Pakistan need not kill or capture militants such as members of the Haqqani network but could push them across the border instead, a senior U.S.official said on Friday. Evicting the militants would put them at risk of attack from Afghan and U.S. forces trying to keep Afghanistan from becoming …

WASHINGTON — The heaviest, the largest, the most impactful — those were the superlatives the Trump administration used to describe its latest sanctions against North Korea. But were the Treasury Department designations of more than 50 companies and ships accused of illicit trading with the pariah nation really the toughest …