Article 5 is the principle that an attack on one member of NATO is an attack on all members. If a Russian attack extended into one of Ukraine's neighbors that is a NATO member, Article 5 could trigger direct involvement from the US and other members of the alliance.
Roughly 114 US Capitol Police officers reported injuries as a result of the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, a government watchdog said in a new report Monday, well above the previously widely reported estimate of around 80 injured officers.
The Senate passed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act of 2022 on Monday night by unanimous consent. The bill, which would make lynching a federal hate crime, now heads to President Joe Biden's desk for his signature.
The Supreme Court on Monday night denied requests from Republicans challenging congressional maps in North Carolina and Pennsylvania that had been approved by state courts, in two rulings that could benefit Democrats in the midterm elections.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is increasingly targeting civilians. Meanwhile, his government is cracking down on the media to control what Russians see and think. Such government controls over life and information are the hallmark of dictators.
Prosecutors doubled down on their portrayal of the legislator-hating, gun-toting, right-wing extremist Guy Reffitt as the person who showed rioters outside the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, how to push back against a police line.
A Saudi detainee at the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was sent back to his home country for mental health treatment after being detained by the US government for more than 20 years, the Defense Department announced Monday.
Earlier this month, the January 6 committee alleged in a court filing that former President Donald Trump (and right-wing lawyer John Eastman) were part of a "criminal conspiracy" to overturn the 2020 election results.
Mike Pence's advocacy group has launched a $10 million ad campaign hitting the Biden administration on US energy policy and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The Biden administration is rolling out more stringent emissions standards for heavy-duty vehicles like large trucks and buses and announcing more than $1.3 billion in funding to deploy more clean transportation and school buses.
The Supreme Court left in place Monday an opinion by Pennsylvania's highest court that overturned comedian Bill Cosby's sexual assault conviction, rejecting a bid from Pennsylvania prosecutors to review the decision.
In advance of the release of Bill Barr's memoir of his time in the Trump administration on Tuesday, NBC's Lester Holt sat down with the former attorney general to talk about his time as the nation's top cop.
A powerful, bipartisan group in Congress announced Monday that it would craft legislation suspending normal trade relations with Russia and Belarus, and grant the White House the authority to increase tariffs on the two countries, in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Republicans are bracing for the next Supreme Court confirmation battle, signaling that they're eying a measured but "painstaking" approach to an historic nominee who would not change the lean of the court and who could be confirmed without any GOP support.
Security personnel at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Sunday night arrested one person with a weapon, while another remains at large, according to a news release, shortly after Vice President Kamala Harris had arrived on the base.
Schools could lose the pandemic waivers that provide them with extra federal funds and flexibilities to cope with supply chain and labor issues if Congress doesn't agree to extend them in the spending bill being hashed out this week.
US and European officials have been discussing how the West would support a government in exile helmed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should he have to flee Kyiv, Western officials told CNN.
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