Trump Administration

Dreamers as well as asylum seekers will no longer be eligible to apply for a popular federal home loan program. Mekahlo Medina reports for the NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on Thursday, May 1, 2025.

The development could potentially pave the way for the world’s two largest economies to start negotiations to resolve a trade war that has rumbled financial markets.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development will require permanent residency from applicants starting on March 25.

President Donald Trump’s massive China tariffs are jeopardizing American fireworks shows, threatening to drive up prices and limit supplies.

For the last 14 years, when it rains in Lowndes County, Alabama, contaminated standing water builds up around Annye Burke’s home. When the septic tank breaks down, raw sewage backs up into her toilet, she said.

A federal judge on Thursday barred the Trump administration from deporting any Venezuelans from South Texas under an 18th-century wartime law.

A former federal employee who was fired, rehired after a judge’s order and then fired a second time says her health insurance coverage was canceled and backdated after she had surgery, leaving her with the bill.

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he would nominate national security adviser Mike Waltz to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Trump said he’s nominating national security adviser Mike Waltz, who was at the center of the Signal chat controversy, to be United Nations ambassador.

Activists around the globe are kicking off May Day demonstrations with workers’ rights rallies and marches for social justice causes.

The corporate updates come shortly after Trump imposed a 25% tariff on automotive imports into the U.S. earlier in the month.

The White House announced an economic partnership with Ukraine that includes an agreement on the ownership and extraction of natural resources from the war-torn nation.

Reshoring more of the U.S. auto industry would require untangling supply chains that leave many components vulnerable to a series of tariffs Trump has repeatedly revised.

The U.S. Education Department is investigating Chicago Public Schools amid allegations that a new program designed to improve academic success and retention among Black students and educators violates federal law.

Trump also appeared to be unmoved by the idea that American consumers will face empty store shelves if his trade war drags on.

The president told ABC News he “could” have Kilmar Abrego Garcia returned from El Salvador but, “we have lawyers that don’t want to do this.”

For as long as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has falsely claimed that vaccines cause widespread harm — from autism to sudden death — he has pointed to the one source he says could immediately prove it.  

Donald Trump acknowledged his tariffs could result in fewer and costlier products in the U.S., but insisted China will suffer more from his trade war.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called President Trump’s first 100 days a “failure” on Wednesday.

The U.S. economy contracted 0.3% in the first quarter of 2025, the first negative reading since the Covid pandemic, according to an initial measurement by the Commerce Department.