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Paxton sat by himself on a bench and did not say anything during the brief court hearing. The next court date in the case was set for Oct. 6.

If implemented, it would be an extraordinary step by the Pentagon as it grapples with a renewed effort by Iran to harass and seize ships traveling in the strait

As the reenactment takes place, technicians outside a three-story classroom building will record the sound of the shots, seeking to capture what the deputy assigned to the school heard during the six-minute attack

The lockdown Wednesday started when local police received a call around 2:30 Wednesday afternoon warning

Trump is expected to be processed by law enforcement, be officially taken into custody and enter a not guilty plea in front of a judge before being released

More defendants mean more defense lawyers, and more legal motions and more delays, according to legal scholars and former prosecutors

The party Trump leads has essentially given up on criticizing his actions, countering his impulses or putting a check on his accumulating power

Tuesday’s indictment is being held up as proof of a conspiracy to take down Trump and a continuation of the effort by Democrats, the media and the so-called deep state to interfere with the nation’s elections

The early contours of a potential legal and political defense began to emerge in the hours after the charges were unsealed

Trump has now been indicted three times, the latest over his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election

The 45-page indictment is informed, in part, by contemporaneous notes that Pence kept of their conversations in the days leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol

As of Wednesday morning, it was 30% contained after roaring through California’s massive Mojave National Preserve and crossing into Nevada

The FBI said Wednesday that police in Reno, Nevada, arrested 29-year-old Negasi Zuberi on July 16, a day after he fled from his home in Klamath Falls, Oregon, where he had taken the Seattle woman

Candidates seeking to get to the second debate will need at least 3% in two national polls or will need 3% in one national poll as well as two polls from four of the early-voting states

The lawsuit filed Wednesday in Atlanta comes after Republicans pushed through a law earlier this year that creates a commission to discipline and remove prosecutors

Body camera video released by the Frisco Police Department shows the car’s driver sobbing after officers with guns drawn order her to walk backwards with her hands raised

The victims of the blaze at the National Institute of Migration, which left 40 dead, speak for the first time about what happened on the night of March 27

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, his closest rival, did not defend Trump, but he said that he would “end weaponization of government” if elected president

The indictment accuses Trump of brazenly conspiring with allies to spread falsehoods and concoct schemes intended to overturn his election loss to President Joe Biden

The third criminal case into Trump details what prosecutors say was a massive effort to “impair, obstruct, and defeat” the federal process for certifying the results of a presidential election

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who was nominated to the bench by President Barack Obama, will oversee the case accusing Trump of trying to overturn his 2020 election loss

The newest charges describe how Trump repeatedly told supporters and others that he had won the election, despite knowing that was false, and how he tried to overturn the legitimate results

Here’s the U.S. government file containing the full indictment against the former president

The former president, who is facing his third trial, has been indicted on four counts for his attempts to reverse Biden’s legitimate win in 2020 and for encouraging the Jan. 6 attack

While a looming ban on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in Texas higher education shouldn’t apply to academics or admissions, students and professors worry the botched hiring is a harbinger of things to come

No cause of death was given, Gov. Phil Murphy’s office said in a statement from the Oliver family. Oliver was serving as acting governor while Murphy and his family are on vacation in Italy

The blaze was mapped at roughly 125 square miles on Tuesday, with 23% containment. That makes it the largest wildfire of the season in California