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Failed Republican gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon said former President Donald Trump advised her to "talk differently about abortion," as she took a hardline approach on the issue during her bid to unseat Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer last year.

The relationship between President Joe Biden's White House and Eric Adams began breaking down in private months earlier than previously known -- and long before the New York mayor started publicly blasting the president over the migrant crisis in his city.

The Proud Boy who smashed through a window to the US Capitol with a police riot shield on January 6, 2021, allowing the first wave of rioters to storm the building as members of Congress were being evacuated was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison.

Critics have cast the laws as a power grab by Texas' Republican-led legislature, aimed at disrupting how elections are run in an increasingly blue part of a traditionally red state.

Numerous challenges to the Afghan Special Immigrant Visa program remain two years after the chaotic and deadly US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the State Department's watchdog agency said in a new report released Thursday.

Donald Trump's former lawyer Rudy Giuliani and six other co-conspirators charged in the Georgia election subversion case pleaded not guilty on Friday and waived their right to an arraignment hearing.

The US Department of Defense has launched a website intended to be a "one-stop shop" for publicly available information on "unidentified anomalous phenomena" -- UAPs, more commonly known as UFOs.

The Biden administration is asking Congress for an additional $4 billion to replenish the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Disaster Relief Fund, pointing to what it says is a particularly brutal stretch of natural disasters across the nation.

Some of Donald Trump's co-defendants in the sprawling election subversion case in Georgia are trying all sorts of ways to fund their mounting legal bills -- yet the costs of the 2020 election fallout may quickly exceed their abilities to pay.

Hurricane Idalia is over, but the rebuilding effort has just begun. Residents in Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas can access federal, state and local assistance, as well as aid from nonprofit and charitable groups, to help them contend with storm damage to their homes, vehicles and other property.

Soon after he became chief justice of the United States, John Roberts faced what he believed was a "crisis" involving the judiciary: Federal judges were underpaid.

It turns out that there is a heavy price for trying to steal votes, defaming defenseless election workers and invading the US Capitol to try to thwart a democratic transfer of presidential power. And accountability is moving ever closer to Donald Trump.

Ever since last week's Republican presidential primary debate, Vivek Ramaswamy has found himself with more money, more name recognition and dramatically negative focus from his rivals.

Two men pleaded guilty to threatening elections officials in separate criminal cases, the Justice Department announced Thursday -- the latest in a department effort to crack down on election threats nationwide.

Over a span of four days, Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy made two different false claims about what he wrote in his own 2022 book.

In an urgent appeal to wealthy Republicans who had assembled in Milwaukee ahead of the first GOP presidential primary debate, top brass for the super PAC backing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis told donors they needed an injection of $50 million over the next four months, according to leaked audio obtained by CNN.

The ruling does not extend to federal court, where no cameras or recording equipment are allowed

The Biden administration on Thursday proposed rules intended to require people selling firearms at gun shows and on the internet to conduct background checks on potential buyers, in an effort to curb the so-called gun show loophole.

Russian military hackers have been targeting Ukrainian soldiers' mobile devices in a bid to steal sensitive battlefield information that could aid the Kremlin's war on Ukraine, the US and its allies warned Thursday.

US service members deployed on the Afghanistan withdrawal mission will receive the Presidential Unit Citation, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced Thursday, the two-year anniversary of the withdrawal.