President Donald Trump has not shied away from controversy in a busy start to 2026. What is his approval rating as midterm elections approach?

President Donald Trump has told Fox News host Sean Hannity that the US military may take its fight against drug cartels onto land.

U.S. President Donald Trump posted a chart on his social media account late on Thursday that included job-market data that was not publicly released until Friday morning, a break with long-standing practice the White House said was inadvertent.

Trump is expected to give a news conference at 11 a.m. ET on Jan. 3 from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, where he will give more details about the U.S. operation in Venezuela. You can watch Trump's news conference using the video embed at the top of this page, or tune into USA TODAY's YouTube channel.

Supreme Court: The court has said it plans to release the first opinions of its new term on Friday. One highly anticipated decision concerns President Trump’s tariffs, but that case is one of more than two dozen the Supreme Court has heard since October. It isn’t known whether that opinion will among those released.

Donald Trump, 79, discussed age and health, calling his predecessor, Joe Biden, 83, the "worst thing that ever happened to old people" in a new interview.

Slovenian newspaper Dnevnik’s supplement magazine Objektiv took a bold artistic approach in its latest cover Friday, depicting President Donald Trump wearing a Venezuela flag pin and bleeding oil from his nose in an image that makes him appear similar to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.