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The House Judiciary Committee is holding a field hearing Monday near the offices of the New York DA who charged former president Donald Trump a few weeks ago

Two young Black Tennessee state legislators have gone from neophyte politicians to national prominence. They’re being heralded as living echoes of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s

The Biden administration says it’s seeing minimal damage from the disclosure of highly classified documents related to the war in Ukraine and U.S. views of its allies and partners

Congress has tasked the IRS with looking into how to create a government-operated electronic free-file tax return system for all, an idea that doesn’t sit well with the big tax-prep companies

The trial will test press freedom and the reputation of conservatives’ favorite news source. It will also illuminate the flow of misinformation that helped spark the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol

So much has been invested in the sector that there can be no rolling back of moves to end carbon emissions, he said

WRBL-TV reported the shooting occurred at a dance studio during a possible birthday party for a teenager

A federal judge ruled in 2019 that Bruce Webster has an IQ in the range of severe intellectual disability and so cannot be put to death. But four years on, he hasn’t been moved

The annual State of Black America report documents an increase in recent years in hate crimes and efforts to change classroom curriculums, as well as attempts to make voting more difficult

‘As we mark 10 years, we will gather together in community on April 15 to remember the lives that were lost, the many injured, and the spirit of humanity displayed that day,’ said Mayor Michelle Wu

The Republican has been buoyed by a big bump in donations since the announcement of criminal charges against him in New York

Leading Republicans are struggling as they concede that the party’s policies are unpopular with the very voters they need to win the presidency

On Monday, he will speak at the New York Stock Exchange. It’s one more sign of his rising influence, but he has an uneasy grip on the speaker’s gavel

The Biden administration floated two ideas this week for how Western states and Native American tribes could reduce their water use from the dwindling Colorado River

For the second year in a row, the National Rifle Association is holding its convention within days of mass shootings that shook the nation

Cubans were stopped nearly 43,000 times at the U.S. border with Mexico in December, becoming one of the largest nationalities entering the United States

States like California and New York have policies intended to protect women who travel from states with abortion bans in order to obtain them. But the new ruling could jeopardize those protections

The charges were filed against cartel leaders, as well alleged chemical suppliers, lab managers, fentanyl traffickers, security leaders, financiers and weapons traffickers

Billing records of an internet social media platform helped the FBI identify a Massachusetts Air National Guardsman in the leak of highly classified military documents

The decision temporarily keeps in place federal rules for use of the drug mifepristone, while the high court takes time to more fully consider the issues raised in a court challenge

One of the two survivors of a deadly abduction last month in Mexico says she watched the video of the drug cartel shootout that killed two of her close friends from one of her kidnappers’ phones

The indictment of officers Adam Ahmad and Steven Sanchez comes nearly a year after Herman Whitfield III’s death

The mother of the six-year-old was arrested on charges of child neglect and failing to secure her handgun

Electroshock, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, verbal and sexual abuse, and other forms of torture were also part of the experiments, which sought to develop a drug that could help manipulate an individual’s behavior

An evacuation order for people living near the disaster remains in place for now, though the fire could be out by Thursday night or Friday

The FAA can levy civil fines for misbehaving on planes, but it has to ask the FBI to file criminal charges in the most serious cases

Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old airman from Massachusetts, was arrested Thursday in connection with the leak investigation. He will be charged with the unauthorized removal of classified national defense information