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Protasiewicz, who was backed by Democrats in her winning election in April, never said how she would rule on a redistricting lawsuit

Dominion Energy and the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority ceremonially broke ground on the 835-acre project Tuesday

More than half the states have enacted substantive new laws this year regarding gun policies or school safety measures — most often tightening firearm restrictions in Democratic-led states and loosening them in Republican-led ones

In the decades before and after 1963, Black churches and denominations have had diverse priorities and political approaches

It’s never easy to attribute a single event to climate change, especially so quickly and with El Nino being a prominent factor

So far, no deaths, serious injuries or extreme damages have been reported in California, though officials warned that risks remain, especially in the mountainous regions where the wet hillsides could unleash mudslides

James Burke led the Suffolk County Police Department for a tumultuous three-year period that culminated in his arrest and guilty plea to federal charges for beating a handcuffed man

In touristy Dominican Republic, over 4,000 tons of waste are unloaded every day in the Duquesa garbage dump

Both the Biden administration and Mexico want the barrier removed. The Justice Department has accused Texas of unlawfully putting the buoys on the international boundary

The indictment alleges that Eastman pushed to put in place a slate of ‘alternate’ electors falsely certifying that Donald Trump won and tried to pressure Mike Pence into rejecting or delaying the counting of legitimate electoral votes for Joe Biden

Former Obama administration attorney Ed Siskel is the new White House counsel. His job is to advise on legal and policy questions related to the presidency

Haley, the state’s first Asian American governor, and Scott, the state’s first Black senator since Reconstruction, are both waiting for their breakthrough campaign moment that could come during the first debate

The Republican has used terms such as ‘animal’ and ‘rabid’ to describe Black district attorneys. And on social media, he has deployed terms that rhyme with racial slurs as some of his supporters post racist screeds about the same targets

The staggering number of people who remain unaccounted for presents huge challenges for officials, who are trying to determine how many of those perished and how many may have made it to safety but haven’t checked in

The former president’s move also likely deprives Fox of a huge late-summer audience after a tough year that has included paying $787 million to settle a defamation lawsuit and firing popular personality Tucker Carlson

The President and first lady Jill Biden on Monday viewed the devastation wrought by the flames that ripped through the western part of the Hawaiian island

The Spanish singer was at home with his two 12-year-olds when a group of 10 armed thieves entered the property

Prabhakar is helping to guide the U.S. approach to safeguarding AI technology, relying in part on cooperation from big American tech firms like Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta

Some of the division within the field has come over whether there should be a national ban on the practice and after how many weeks

The conservative demands include adding legislation that aims to build more wall at the southern border and restrict asylum, and no ‘blank check’ for Ukraine war funding

Trump is also barred from intimidating co-defendants, witnesses or victims in the case — including on social media — according to the bond agreement signed by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, Trump’s defense attorneys and the judge

The National Hurricane Center in Miami downgraded Hilary to a post-tropical storm Monday, but warned that ‘continued life-threatening and locally catastrophic flooding’ was expected over portions of the southwestern U.S.

In a ruling issued Sunday, Judge Sarah Geraghty granted a preliminary injunction sought by several transgender children, parents and a community organization in a lawsuit challenging the ban

Eric Molitor and brothers William Null and Michael Null are charged with providing material support for terrorist acts in the scheme against Democrat Gretchen Whitmer

U.S. Army Special Operations Command, in a lengthy study, reported a wide range of ‘overtly sexist’ comments from male soldiers, including a broad aversion to females serving in commando units

The storm on Monday was located 240 miles (390 kilometers) south of the Dominican Republic and had maximum sustained winds of 50 mph (85 kph)

Republicans chose Milwaukee for the first debate and for the national convention in just 11 months largely because of Wisconsin’s well-earned status as a swing state