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This is the penalty phase of a civil defamation trial stemming from columnist E. Jean Carroll’s claims he sexually attacked her in a department store dressing room

DeSantis, who ultimately ended up beating her for second place in Iowa, is the only candidate committed to Thursday’s event

The number of migrants trying to fight their deportation in front of U.S. judges has grown by 50% in less than a year

The 70-year-old Austin was admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Dec. 22 and underwent surgery to treat cancer detected earlier that month

The American Alliance for Equal Rights is citing the section to go after a venture capital fund called the Fearless Fund, which invests in businesses owned by women of color

The role of the military in particular has come under scrutiny as former President Donald Trump runs to reclaim the White House and has laid out an aggressive agenda should he win

Proposals to honor Dr. King with a federal holiday surged immediately after his assassination. The first observance was on 1986

Each of the more than half-dozen Iowans who were interviewed in line were adamant about their plans to support Trump and had considered no other candidate

The session is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. Monday. Landry, who called for the special session only a few hours after taking office, is expected to address the Legislature shortly after they gavel in

Local restrictions in Michigan derailed more than two dozen utility-scale renewable energy projects as of last May, according to a study by the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University

The Aug. 8 blaze killed 100 people, destroyed more than 2,000 buildings and displaced 12,000 people. Experts estimate it will cost $5.5 billion to replace the structures exposed to the fire

The U.S., a close Israel ally, has rejected them as unfounded, the U.K. has called them unjustified, and Germany said it “explicitly rejects” them

It’s the big threat. A cheap, white powder — 50 times more powerful than heroin — which kills more than 70,000 people each year in the United States and countless others across the rest of the Western Hemisphere. EL PAÍS, in a long-term investigation that spanned two continents and included interviews with anti-drug czars in the U.S. and China, visited the clandestine laboratories in Sinaloa, where fentanyl is manufactured. In the vicinity of these Mexican labs, addicts serve as guinea pigs for drug traffickers. This newspaper has gathered testimonies about how this lethal substance crosses the border to the north and spreads like a plague through the streets of the most powerful country in the world. The trafficking of fentanyl is part of a global network with one foot in China, which the White House has declared war on

The temporary measure will run to March 1 for some federal agencies whose approved funds are set to run out Friday and extend the remainder of government operations to March 8

U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Texas Democrat, accused the state of failing to act amid escalating tensions between Texas and the U.S. government over immigration enforcement

Figures issued this past week reflected a historic level of progress on battling high prices, hinting that inflation could be near the Federal Reserve’s 2% target around the time of November’s election

Some fear the controversy will hurt the party’s ambitions to make inroads with nonwhite voters who may be repelled by minimizing the historical atrocity of slavery

The murder of an Indigenous man from the Ayoreo tribe has been denounced to the authorities. He had been living in voluntary isolation in Paraguay

Elderly Iowans, the backbone of the caucus, are wondering how they will make it to their sites Monday. Political types are mentally downgrading their expected turnout and wondering who a smaller, harder-core electorate will favor

The country’s crime rate has rocketed, but the problems of drug trafficking and gang violence have been brewing since the 1980s

Methane is a climate ‘super pollutant’ that is more potent in the short term than carbon dioxide

Former US President shared a story from a right-wing website that often spreads misinformation that claimed James visited the White House three times

Republican Sen. Eric Tarr said retired officers told him that ‘we need people in our schools who are trained to run at a gun at an instant when it’s necessary’

The FAA is reconsidering its longstanding practice of relying on employees at aircraft manufacturers to perform some safety analysis of planes

The border state put up fencing to take control of a nearly 50-acre public park in Eagle Pass, which has a boat ramp that agents use to launch their boats into the Rio Grande

This is the first time Attorney General Merrick Garland has authorized a new pursuit of the death penalty

U.S. homes on the market that excludes those pending a finalized sale climbed 4.9% to 714,176 in December from a year earlier, the biggest annual increase since June