Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced a series of policy changes to help military service members and their families deal with rising housing, food and childcare costs amid high inflation.
Several GOP senators raised new concerns Thursday about former President Donald Trump's handling of classified documents, rejecting his claim that he could simply declassify the secret records by "thinking about it."
The special master overseeing the Mar-a-Lago documents investigation has ordered former President Donald Trump's lawyers to back up out-of-court assertions that the FBI may have planted evidence at the property during their search last month.
House Republicans on Thursday rallied around a policy blueprint that will serve as their political mission statement this fall, after getting a sneak peek of the document on Thursday from GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy and hearing messaging advice from a former House speaker and former Donald Trump adviser.
House Democrats are moving ahead with consideration of a package of policing and public safety bills -- narrowly voting to open debate after a hold-up of several hours on Thursday as leadership faced issues locking in support to pass the legislation.
A state judge on Thursday blocked an Indiana law banning abortion at all stages of pregnancy with limited exceptions from being enforced, a week after it went into effect.
For months, the families of American veterans Alexander John-Robert Drueke and Andy Tai Ngoc Huynh, who were captured while fighting in Ukraine, had heard nothing from them.
French President Emmanuel Macron is warning about a "crisis of democracies," including in the United States, following years of "pressure" and "destabilization" efforts in an exclusive US interview with CNN's Jake Tapper.
Former President Donald Trump's business practices included some eyebrow-raising moments, such as once being paid with gold bars that were wheeled into his Trump Tower apartment, according to reporting obtained by CNN from a forthcoming book by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman.
Russia's military is divided over how best to counter Ukraine's unexpected battlefield advances this month, according to multiple sources familiar with US intelligence, as Moscow has found itself on the defensive in both the east and the south.
Supporters of QAnon on former President Donald Trump's social media platform have celebrated what they see as his renewed embrace of the conspiracy theory over the past week after he shared a meme that was viewed as one of his most brazen nods to QAnon yet.
A Democratic lawmaker in Florida is expected to file a lawsuit seeking to block Gov. Ron DeSantis from transporting any more migrants from the southern border to other states.
The House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, has come to an agreement with Ginni Thomas, the conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, to be interviewed by the panel in the coming weeks, according to a source close to the committee.
The US Army has implemented "63 of the 70" recommendations from the Fort Hood report released in December 2020 and "four of the six priority" Independent Review Commission recommendations to improve the military branch's handling of sexual assault and harassment, Undersecretary of the Army Gabe Camarillo told lawmakers during a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Wednesday.
The case against the man accused of slapping Rudy Giuliani on the back in a Staten Island supermarket has been adjourned "in contemplation of dismissal," and is expected to be dismissed in six months, according to a source with knowledge of the case.
Ruling is a strong rebuke of the Trump team's attempt to suggest without evidence that materials were somehow declassified. Two of the three judges were Trump nominees.
A humanitarian program aimed at helping Central American children reunite with family members in the United States has gotten off to a slow start under the Biden administration despite an attempt to revive the program from its Trump-era cancellation, according to a new report from the International Refugee Assistance Project.
Leonard Francis, the former military contractor known as "Fat Leonard" who orchestrated the largest corruption scandal in US Navy history, was arrested Tuesday morning by authorities in Venezuela at the request of the US Marshals Service, according to the agency.
A day of double legal blows undermined ex-President Donald Trump's battle to avoid criminal action for hoarding classified documents and left him exposed to potential civil penalties targeting the business wealth on which his political mystique is built.
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