The 19th century term describes the perceived right of Americans to use force or the threat of force to wrest desireable land ...

On Feb. 6, 1899, Congress approved the Treaty of Paris, which also ceded the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam to the U.S.

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin speaking at a conference in 2017 Donald Trump has warned he will impose high tariffs and further sanctions on Russia if Vladimir Putin fails to end the war in Ukraine.

President Trump wants Panama to return its namesake canal to the U.S.

A few hours later, he signed an executive order that praised how the 25th president “heroically led our nation to victory in the Spanish-American War” — not a conflict most modern presidents ...

The White House website dropped its Spanish language portion of the site ... which makes any child born on American soil a citizen regardless of their parents' citizenship. He signed an order ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. U.S. flags around the Washington Monument are at full staff ahead of the 60th Presidential Inauguration ...

President Donald Trump has missed his deadline for ending the war in Ukraine ... he offered no specific pledges of continued American assistance to Kyiv. For now, it appears Trump’s first ...

On October 14, 1912, shortly before the presidential election, Theodore Roosevelt was shot at a campaign rally. The bullet was impeded by a copy of Roosevelt's speech and his glasses case.

"Most people thought that war would have been over in one week," Trump said. "I think he’d be very well off to end that war." Meanwhile, Putin signaled openness to negotiations with the new US ...

Trump's aides have conceded that a deal to end the war could take months or longer, although the president-elect boasted on the campaign trail that he would quickly reach a settlement to stop the ...