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The first US-led effort to evacuate private American citizens from the conflict in Sudan was completed Saturday, with a convoy organized by the US government reaching Port Sudan after a long journey from Khartoum.

It's one of the most commonly asked poll questions: How do Americans feel about the state of the nation? And recently, the answer has usually been a negative one.

There's been a series of findings about Supreme Court justices failing to fully disclose gifts and real estate deals. Here's what the former director of the US Office of Government Ethics has to say about ethics rules for justices.

On at least three occasions over the last two months, former President Donald Trump has claimed that the leaders of unnamed South American countries are deliberately emptying their "insane asylums" and "mental institutions" to send the patients to the United States as migrants.

President Joe Biden called for the release of detained journalists and citizens abroad at the White House Correspondents' dinner on Saturday, before poking fun at everything from his age to Elon Musk.

Since delivering Biden one of his biggest legislative wins last summer, Manchin has spent the last few months on a rampage against the administration, homing in on what he calls its "radical climate agenda."

The chief of staff of the US Army has grounded all Army aviators not involved in critical missions following two recent helicopter crashes that left 12 soldiers dead.

Colorado Democratic Gov. Jared Polis signed four bills into law Friday that raise the age requirement for gun possession and establish a minimum waiting period for gun deliveries, among other measures.

Florida lawmakers gave final passage Friday to a measure that clears a path for Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to run for president without resigning from his current job.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Joe Biden likely have a little more time to work out a deal to avoid a catastrophic debt default, thanks to procrastinating taxpayers.

Dozens of Army pilots are sounding the alarm on what they say is "gross mismanagement" of their service contracts that could result in them being required to serve three years longer than they'd originally anticipated.

Justice Samuel Alito said that he has a "pretty good idea" who was responsible for the unprecedented disclosure of a draft opinion of a Supreme Court ruling last year, suggesting it was someone who opposed reversing the Roe v. Wade precedent that protected abortion rights nationwide.

The House Judiciary Committee has sent subpoenas to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the Global Engagement Center for documents as it continues to investigate whether the federal government pressured social media companies to censor certain viewpoints.

The number of warrantless FBI searches of Americans' electronic data under a controversial intelligence program that aims to identify foreign threats dropped sharply from millions of searches in 2021 to over 100,000 last year, US intelligence agencies said in a report Friday.

President Joe Biden will convene more than 150 of his biggest donors at a lux Washington, DC, hotel over the next two days, a sign, even in the campaign's earliest stages, of the importance he will place on raising a war chest to take on Republicans in his reelection fight.

More than two dozen House Republicans who recently welcomed multi-million-dollar clean energy manufacturing investments in their districts voted Wednesday to repeal the tax incentives that stimulated those very same projects.

The Republican-controlled North Carolina Supreme Court -- reversing previous rulings that were handed down when the state Supreme Court leaned Democratic -- said Friday that North Carolina's constitution gave state courts no role to play in policing partisan gerrymanders.

Mayor Eric Adams wants the Federal Emergency Management Agency to stop allocating money to cities that are using the funding to rent buses and send migrants to New York City, according to a city official. Adams' call comes as the Biden administration braces for a further influx of migrants when the Covid-era border restriction, known as Title 42, expires in May.

A law passed 150 years ago that banned the mailing of contraceptives, lewd materials and drugs that induce abortions could provide a pathway for effectively banning abortion nationwide -- even in states where the procedure is legal.

President Joe Biden's three-minute video announcing his reelection bid Tuesday was his official ask to voters for another four years in office. Yet the video made almost no mention, at least in the voiceover, of what he's done in office so far.