More than $60 million and tens of thousands of hours of labor have been poured into building the arena.

By most accounts, strikes by the U.S. and Israel have significantly degraded Iran's military capabilities and killed scores of senior leaders. But those tactical successes don't necessarily translate into achieving all of President Donald Trump's strategic aims, even as the administration said Friday that it was meeting the goals it had laid out.

Independents have grown increasingly unhappy with President Donald Trump during his second term, a new AP-NORC polling analysis finds, particularly those without a college degree.

A judge on Friday denied a request from the Kennedy Center to pause a ruling ordering President Donald Trump's name removed from building. Yet the Kennedy Center's leadership didn't abandon its legal efforts to keep Trump's name in place.

President Donald Trump nominated Jay Clayton, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, to be the next permanent director of national intelligence on Thursday. A veteran Trump administration official, Clayton is seen as a more conventional choice for the role compared to the president's earlier choice made last week.

President Donald Trump's handpicked board at the Kennedy Center is mounting a last-minute effort to keep his name on the facade of the iconic performing arts facility before a court-ordered deadline to remove it by Friday.

U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled that the fund will remain blocked until further notice from the court.

President Donald Trump has long been looking for this weekend to be a big one for his presidency.

Devlin Barrett has covered federal law enforcement for more than two decades. His new book pulls back the curtain on President Trump's Justice Department and the way he has used it as a tool to settle political scores. Amna Nawaz sat down with Barrett to discuss "The Department of Revenge: How Trump Took Control of American Justice."

President Trump said he called off a third night of airstrikes on Iranian targets. In the Oval Office, he again said that a deal was close between the U.S. and Iran, and that it might be signed this weekend. Iran denied any movement toward a longer-term agreement. William Brangham reports.

To discuss the latest developments in the conflict between the U.S. and Iran, Amna Nawaz spoke with Joel Rayburn and Suzanne Maloney. Rayburn is a retired Army colonel and is now at the Hudson Institute. Maloney served in the State Department during the George W. Bush administration and is now at the Brookings Institution.

President Donald Trump opened three marine protected areas in the Pacific Ocean to commercial fishing with a proclamation on Thursday that he said will boost the U.S. seafood industry.

President Trump announced his plans to nominate Jay Clayton as director of national intelligence. The choice comes as lawmakers refused to extend a key surveillance tool over stalled privacy concerns and questions about the qualifications of the interim intelligence chief. Congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardins reports.