US President Donald Trump suggested on Tuesday that Vice President JD Vance is "most likely" to secure the Republican party nomination for president in 2028.

Donald Trump is pulling hard on the levers of power to strengthen Republicans through redistricting in Texas and other states, the latest offensive in escalating moves by both sides to shape the battlefield of US democracy for the midterm elections.

U.S. President Donald Trump suggested on Tuesday that Vice President JD Vance is "most likely" his heir apparent to serve as the Republican nominee in 2028, the furthest he has gone in backing Vance as a future presidential candidate.

The test is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2028 and will be known as FTI-X, short for Flight Test Integrated.

Billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Yass along with crypto industry donors helped President Donald Trump raise $236 million for his political operation in the first six months of 2025 - an unprecedented sum for a second-term president.

A former CIA official who led the intelligence assessment on Russian interference in the 2016 election has slammed Tulsi Gabbard's claims of a "treasonous conspiracy" against Donald Trump, calling them false and uninformed.

US President Donald Trump on Saturday (local time) demanded that Kamala Harris and several top American celebrities be prosecuted for allegedly receiving and paying millions of dollars for endorsements during the 2024 presidential election.

A man charged with attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump in South Florida last year was back in court this week, asking a federal judge to let him represent himself, as prosecutors tried to block him from introducing irrelevant evidence.

Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for helping later serial sex offender Jeffrey Epstein recruit young girls for sexual abuse, is reportedly planning to meet with federal prosecutors this week.

Russia allegedly had damaging intelligence about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's "psycho-emotional problems" during her 2016 presidential campaign against Donald Trump, according to a newly declassified intelligence report.

As the national intelligence director, Tulsi Gabbard is responsible for guarding America's secrets and discovering threats from overseas. But when she made a surprise appearance in the White House briefing room Wednesday

Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, on Wednesday released a slew of documents that she said implicate members of the Obama administration for weaponising US intelligence.

At a recent White House event, US President Donald Trump caused fresh controversy by praising Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard as "the hottest one in the room".

Former US President Barack Obama has broken his silence on Donald Trump's "treason" accusations, calling the Republican leader's attack "a weak attempt at distraction".

Donald Trump on Tuesday accused his predecessor Barack Obama of treason and called for his prosecution over a report alleging that officials in the Democrat's administration manipulated information on Russia's interference in the 2016 election.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's coalition lost its upper house majority in an election on Sunday; the "Japanese first" Sanseito party, created only five years ago, increased its seats from two to 15.

Ellen DeGeneres said she moved to the UK shortly after the 2024 presidential election results were announced in November.

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba faces an increasingly uphill battle in Sunday's upper house election, and a loss could worsen political instability at a time of daunting challenges, such as rising prices and high US tariffs.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio instructed US diplomats worldwide not to comment on the fairness or integrity of elections conducted by foreign countries.

Rice prices in Japan soared 99.2 percent in June year-on-year, official data showed Friday, piling further pressure on Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba ahead of elections this weekend.

Indian origin billionaire Republican Vivek Ramaswamy has stepped up his attack against New York's mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani's "radical left" policies, warning that if the Muslim leader is elected, America's biggest city can lose its identity.

The United States has deported five immigrants from Vietnam, Jamaica, Cuba, Yemen and Laos, to Eswatini, a small country in southern Africa where the king still holds absolute power.

As Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Donald Trump trade blows, the person they are fighting over has sent mixed signals to investors trying to divine who will blink first.

Donald Trump's insistence that "spoiled" Japan imports more US rice is adding to Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's problems ahead of elections that could sink his premiership after less than a year in office.