The policy, which has been in effect for months, allows immigration authorities to deny asylum to migrants who arrive at the US-Mexico border without first applying online or seeking protection in a country they passed through
The US exit from the agency in 2017 followed a 2011 move by UNESCO to include Palestine as a member state, which led the US and Israel to cease financing the organization
The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act requires that insurers provide the same level of coverage for both mental and physical health care
Republicans continue to escalate their ongoing investigation into his handling of the probe into Hunter Biden
The Justice Department has warned Gov. Greg Abbott that the barrier is unlawful and the Biden administration will sue if the state doesn’t remove it
The environmental lawyer and son of Bobby Kennedy – who was assassinated in 1968 – is running in the 2024 Democratic Party presidential primaries. His candidacy has been attracting some Republicans and Trump supporters
Emmett Till’s lynching in 1955 and his mother’s insistence on an open casket helped galvanize the civil rights movement
More than a dozen high-profile Republicans are looking to New Hampshire to help stop Trump’s march toward a third consecutive Republican presidential nomination
President Joe Biden’s administration told Republican Gov. Greg Abbott that the barrier installed this month near the border town of Eagle Pass, Texas, was “unlawful”
A career diplomat and former ambassador to Russia, Burns was sent to Moscow months before the war to warn Russian President Vladimir Putin of Washington’s analysis
Biden’s decision to tap Franchetti goes against the recommendation of his Pentagon chief. But Franchetti, the current vice chief of operations for the Navy, has broad command and executive experience
Some of the guidelines call for third-party oversight of the workings of commercial AI systems, though they don’t detail who will audit the technology or hold the companies accountable
His campaign plans to raise and spend around $2 billion in coordination with the national and state Democratic parties
The Wednesday hearing came after the president’s son pleaded guilty last month to misdemeanor tax charges in what Republicans have derided as a ‘sweetheart’ deal
The Republican-led Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government is set to convene Thursday
The committee’s legislation would impose new standards for transparency around recusals, gifts and potential conflicts of interest
The new rule took effect May 11 with the expiration of a COVID-19 restriction known as Title 42 that had limited asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border
It is unclear how much longer special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation will last, but its gravity is evident
Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is pushing forward with judicial changes that have sparked widespread protest in Israel, and he has authorized the construction of thousands of new housing units in the West Bank
Kerry met on Tuesday with the ruling Communist Party’s head of foreign relations Wang Yi, telling him Biden hoped the two countries could ‘achieve efforts together that can make a significant difference to the world’
Rebel Democratic Senator Joe Manchin, Biden’s main domestic opponent, supports a non-partisan platform that aspires to a united bid for the White House
On his Truth Social platform, the former president and Republican presidential candidate said he received the target letter on Sunday night. Such a letter often can precede an indictment
As the case over the former president’s handling of classified documents reaches preliminary arguments, focus now alights on Aileen Cannon, appointed by Trump himself and ratified by both parties in Congress
Biden’s original plan would have canceled up to $20,000 in federal student loans for 43 million people. Of those, 20 million would have had their remaining student debt erased completely
In his first comments on the delivery of cluster munitions to Ukraine from the U.S., the Russian president said that Moscow has not used cluster bombs in its war in Ukraine so far
Washington has agreed to supply Ukraine with a munition that has been banned by over 100 countries and which will wreak havoc on the civilian population for decades after the end of the war
The move affects 804,000 people and comes after the Supreme Court struck down the president’s plan to eliminate $400 billion in debt for tens of millions of borrowers