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President Trump on Monday celebrated the biggest trophy yet for his tariff agenda: a Minnesota company's plans to build a $15 billion steel mill in Iowa, where midterm voters are being promised the first new steel plant built in the U.S. in 57 years.

Prosecutors in upstate New York revived a criminal investigation Monday into an alleged drug-fueled fraternity gang rape at Cornell University after a woman filed a civil lawsuit against the seven men she has accused.

A former U.S. Army soldier was sentenced Friday to 70 months in prison and ordered to pay $294,978 in restitution for his role in a scheme to hack telecommunications companies and extort them, the Justice Department said.

Andrew Bailey, the co-deputy director of the FBI, announced Monday that he is leaving his job.

The federal government spends $1 billion a year to keep foreign citizens in its prisons, according to a study released Monday.

Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy and GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri are spearheading new funding legislation to advance air traffic control modernization with a $30 billion price tag.

NASA welcomed four new Artemis Accords signatories -- Albania, Croatia, Cote d'Ivoire and San Marino -- bringing total participation to 76 countries, the agency announced.

The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee signaled Monday that if his party wins back the House, Democrats could dig into how the Trump administration's $400 million White House ballroom was funded.

The current federal infrastructure law is set to expire on Wednesday, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is sounding the alarm.

A federal jury in the Middle District of Florida convicted a Cuban national on charges tied to an international alien smuggling and money laundering conspiracy, the Justice Department announced.