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WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is working to increase the retirement age for U.S. Capitol Police officers as the number of…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Ethics Committee announced Thursday it is investigating Republican Rep. Chuck Edwards of North Carolina over…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The bitter divorce between an Ohio congressman and his former wife, the daughter of one of…

SEATTLE (AP) — A tourist from Washington state is facing federal charges after a witness recorded what prosecutors say was…

A federal jury has awarded $49.5 million to the family of a 24-year-old global nonprofit worker killed in the 2019…

On Thursday, former death row inmate Richard Glossip was freed from jail hours after he was granted bond by an…

Six people who were found dead in a rail yard shipping container in Laredo, Texas, were from Honduras and Mexico…

A Tennessee man who goes by the moniker Chud the Builder and is known for posting racist videos is charged…

The Justice Department on Thursday accused Yale University of illegally considering race in admissions to its medical school — the…

NEW YORK (AP) — Layoffs have been piling up recently, especially in the tech world. And the words “artificial intelligence”…

Government emails obtained by The Associated Press show that FBI Director Kash Patel went on a “VIP snorkel” session last…

BOSTON (AP) — A man accused of wounding two drivers when he fired at least 70 rounds from an assault-style…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday announced $1.8 billion in additional funding for U.N. humanitarian aid, saying…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s efforts to sanction some of the nation’s most prestigious law firms “strike at the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of U.S. Border Patrol, the agency tasked with securing the nation’s frontiers and increasingly tapped…

An Oklahoma man who has narrowly avoided execution three separate times could walk free from a county jail after a…

Lawyers for Elon Musk and OpenAI made their final arguments Thursday in the landmark trial whose outcome could shape the…

Senators have unanimously approved a resolution to withhold their pay during government shutdowns. Lawmakers said the measure approved Thursday would…

The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate edged lower after rising the previous two weeks. The benchmark 30-year fixed rate mortgage…

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal immigration court in Lower Manhattan has come to represent the Trump administration’s deportation campaign…

President Donald Trump is stopping offshore wind projects in the United States, just as the industry was poised to grow…

NEW YORK (AP) — Many companies ended remote work arrangements that began during the coronavirus pandemic despite resistance from employees…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed a man to sue a major logistics company after he lost…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is challenging efforts to sanction attorneys from the first and second Trump administrations, asserting…

Shoppers tempered their spending in April as higher gas prices fueled by the Iran war meant less money left over…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans filing for jobless aid rose last week but remains historically low despite the…

A NASA spacecraft chasing a rare metal asteroid is swinging past Mars for a gravity boost. The Psyche spacecraft will…

NEW YORK (AP) — The leader of an Eastern European neo-Nazi group has been sentenced to 15 years in prison…

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Twice this week, U.S. President Donald Trump has expressed interest in turning Venezuela into his country’s…

The coronavirus pandemic’s impact lingers, influencing our lives in both obvious and subtle ways. Work-from-home jobs, mask-wearing and hand sanitizers…