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The FBI arrested a Nevada man for allegedly making several threatening phone calls to the Nevada Secretary of State's Office on the morning after the attack on the US Capitol, the Justice Department announced Thursday.

The headlines seem very simple: Violent crime is on the rise.

Supreme Court Justice Steven Breyer and President Biden is holding a White House event to formally mark the justice's retirement after serving for more than two decades on the high court. Follow here for the latest news.

President Joe Biden committed to nominating the nation's first Black female Supreme Court justice, as he honored retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer at the White House on Thursday.

There's a new lie emerging from Covid-19 skeptics of late: Athletes are dying after getting the vaccine.

Justice Stephen Breyer appeared alongside President Joe Biden at the White House after announcing his retirement. Read a transcript of his remarks below:

Lawmakers in New Mexico are expected to take up a proposal that would make it a crime to intimidate election workers -- becoming at least the fourth state to consider new laws this year to confront the onslaught of threats against them.

Backers of the Equal Rights Amendment are pressuring the Biden administration and the US archivist to publish the amendment, arguing that the ERA should be taking effect on Thursday.

The car of Democratic Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri was struck by gunfire early Saturday morning in the St. Louis area, a Bush spokesperson confirmed to CNN on Thursday.

Over-classification of government secrets both undermines national security by blocking the intelligence community's ability to share critical information and "erodes the basic trust that our citizens have in their government," the US director of national intelligence, Avril Haines, said in a letter to Congress obtained by CNN.

Andy Parker, whose daughter Alison, a TV reporter, was fatally shot during a live broadcast in 2015, announced Thursday that he's running for Congress.

President Joe Biden received a much-needed political opening on Wednesday. But neither he, nor anyone close to him, appeared ready to celebrate it.

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer can come across as a bookish government man, captivated by the nitty-gritty of regulations and convinced that Washington, on the whole, works.

A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit brought by WinRed that had attempted to block attorneys general in four states from investigating its fundraising practices.

A flight chartered by the US government left Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, marking the first evacuation departure since November, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

The last thing an internally estranged America needs is an alienating Supreme Court confirmation battle. But that's almost certainly what lies ahead following Justice Stephen Breyer's decision to retire.

Florida radio host Joseph "Big Joe" Ellicott is cooperating with the US Justice Department's investigation into Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida after pleading guilty in a separate bribery scheme, Ellicott's attorney tells CNN.

Whatever issues Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have caused for President Joe Biden's legislative agenda, their records on Biden's judicial confirmation efforts are a positive signal for the President as he seeks to replace the retiring Justice Stephen Breyer.

Stewart Rhodes, the Oath Keepers leader accused of seditious conspiracy to overthrow the Biden presidency, will remain in jail as he awaits trial, a judge ruled on Wednesday.

Debunked election fraud claims made in Michigan by former President Donald Trump's legal team ended up in a draft executive order directing the military to seize voting machines nationally, the state's top election official said on Wednesday.