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Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, served roughly four months for his role in a decade-long tax fraud scheme.

Gov. Ron DeSantis' political allies overseeing Disney's special taxing district threatened on Wednesday to hike taxes, raise utility rates and develop land around the entertainment giant's Central Florida theme parks as retribution for the company's efforts to avoid a state takeover.

The US manufacturer of the generic version of a medication abortion drug sued the Biden administration Wednesday, the latest legal development in the dramatic court fight over abortion pills.

The US government is tracking more than 650 potential cases of so-called "unidentified aerial phenomena," commonly known as UFOs, according to the director of the office created last year to focus on the sightings.

While Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held a meet-and-greet on Capitol Hill Tuesday evening, former President Donald Trump and his team aimed to be one step ahead -- planning a dinner at his Mar-a-Lago resort with members of the Florida congressional delegation just two days after the DeSantis reception.

The Air Force unit to which the Air Guardsman who is suspected of leaking classified documents online was assigned is "not currently performing its assigned intelligence mission," the Air Force said Tuesday in a statement.

Francisco "Franky" Carrillo, who spent two decades behind bars and was featured in the Netflix series "The Innocence Files," is launching a campaign on Wednesday for California congressional seat targeted by Democrats trying to win back the US House.

The Supreme Court cleared the way on Wednesday for Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed to seek post-conviction DNA evidence to try to prove his innocence.

President Joe Biden's pick to be the next labor secretary, Julie Su, has yet to secure the support of key Democrats ahead of her nomination hearing on Thursday, suggesting she faces an uphill battle to being confirmed by the Senate.

House Republicans are trying to restart momentum on a border security package that faced early opposition in the current Congress by beginning to move a slightly revamped package through the committee process on Wednesday, but early reactions indicate many of the same sticking points and hurdles remain.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the anti-vaccine activist and environmental lawyer, described himself as a truth-teller who will "end the division" as he launched his bid for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination on Wednesday in Boston.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy has settled on a plan to raise the national debt limit by $1.5 trillion in exchange for an array of cuts across domestic programs, setting off a furious effort to wrangle GOP votes and escalating a high-stakes standoff with the White House.

The US government's Afghanistan watchdog told lawmakers Wednesday that he cannot say with certainty that US aid to the country is "not currently funding the Taliban."

The fraught politics of tax season have been met by the White House with a perhaps surprising response: a welcoming embrace.

All eyes are on the Supreme Court as it could say at any moment before midnight Friday how it will handle a blockbuster medication abortion case that landed on its doorstep late last week.

A detention hearing for the Air National Guardsman who is accused of posting a trove of classified documents to social media was postponed on Wednesday after a judge granted a request from lawyers involved in the case to have additional time.

A federal judge on Wednesday denied a request by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office for a temporary restraining order to stop a House Judiciary Committee subpoena of former prosecutor Mark Pomerantz.

Aya Ibrahim's phone is lighting up. The Biden administration senior adviser is in a 90-member group text with other Muslim American staffers, and during this holy month of Ramadan, it's lively.

The Biden administration unveiled Tuesday a $1.1 billion program aimed at providing Covid-19 vaccines and treatments to the uninsured at no cost after the federal supply is exhausted.

Fox News will pay $787.5 million for transmitting lies that a small voting technology firm helped steal the 2020 election. But it's impossible to put a price on damaged trust in US democracy.