The trial of an ISIS fighter accused of assisting in the kidnapping, torture and death of several Americans, Europeans and other foreign nationals from 2012 to 2015 began Tuesday in Alexandria, Virginia, with opening statements from each side.
The Biden administration is planning to end Trump-era pandemic restrictions on the US-Mexico border by May 23 that have largely blocked migrants from entering the US, according to three US officials.
Businessman Mike Gibbons has gained ground in Ohio's competitive Republican primary for the state's open US Senate seat. And like some of his rivals, Gibbons has been making wildly inaccurate claims about the 2020 election.
The "Hurricane Hunters" Air Force unit that flies specially equipped aircraft directly into severe weather has opened an investigation after one of its training flights landed at Martha's Vineyard to pick up a motorcycle belonging to one of the crew members, according to a statement from the 403rd Wing.
A delegation of Ukrainian lawmakers visiting Washington, DC, on Wednesday said they believe Russia is just using peace talks with Ukraine as a "smokescreen" for their forces to regroup and re-strategize in Ukraine.
President Joe Biden spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for nearly an hour Wednesday as airstrikes near Kyiv seemed to bear out Western skepticism that peace talks could ease Russia's assault on Ukraine.
Chief Justice John Roberts has long trumpeted the Supreme Court's institutional integrity, but in the controversy over Ginni Thomas' political activities, he's stuck
As Russian artillery began raining down on his homeland last month, one Ukrainian computer researcher decided to fight back the best way he knew how -- by sabotaging one of the most formidable ransomware gangs in Russia.
President Joe Biden signed a bill into law on Tuesday that makes lynching a federal hate crime, acknowledging how racial violence has left a lasting scar on the nation and asserting that these crimes are not a relic of a bygone era.
The White House will not assert executive privilege over Jared Kushner's testimony to the committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection, White House communications director Kate Bedingfield said Tuesday.
Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson met with two closely watched Republican senators on Tuesday -- Mitt Romney of Utah and Susan Collins of Maine -- but it is still unclear whether she will win any GOP support.
Criticism of Justice Clarence Thomas' refusal to recuse himself from a case involving White House January 6 records the Supreme Court considered this year has increased in the wake of recently revealed texts Thomas' wife had sent about the bid to overturn the 2020 election.
A Georgia state Senate committee on Tuesday gutted a controversial elections overhaul -- a day after local election officials from both parties blasted it as complicating their work in an election year.
In a new interview published Tuesday, former President Donald Trump called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to release any damaging information he has about the Biden family, in a brazen request for domestic political assistance from America's top adversary.
Russia insisted for weeks when massing more than 100,000 troops on Ukraine's borders that it had no plans to invade. Then it did. So it's not surprising that deep skepticism greeted its Tuesday announcement of a scaled-back offensive.
A Justice Department investigation into Hunter Biden's business activities has gained steam in recent months, with a flurry of witnesses providing testimony to federal investigators and more expected to provide interviews in the coming weeks, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.
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