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San Antonio loan officer Matthew Mazzocco pleaded guilty Friday to a misdemeanor charge related to the US Capitol insurrection.

President Joe Biden welcomed the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers to the White House on Friday, marking the return to a regular tradition the Covid-19 pandemic had interrupted.

With the US withdrawal from Afghanistan just days away, the Biden administration is asking countries in Central Asia to temporarily house thousands of Afghan interpreters and translators while they wait for visas to the United States, according to a US official and another source familiar with the discussions.

The last US troops are expected to leave Bagram Air Base on Friday, a senior defense official tells CNN.

A conservative YouTuber who participated in the January 6 riot accompanied Republican members of Congress on a trip to the border Tuesday night, serving as a translator at times.

The White House released the results of an independent review commission on sexual assault in the military Friday, announcing a series of recommendations aimed at combating military sexual assault and moving prosecution of assaults outside the chain of command, in what one senior administration official called "a monumental pivot in how the Department does business."

Sitting alongside Afghanistan's President in the Oval Office last week, President Joe Biden didn't try to sugarcoat the situation: Things were not looking great for his guest's country.

President Joe Biden on Friday touted America's economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic after the US added 850,000 jobs in June.

The US Supreme Court on Friday declined to take up an appeal from a Washington state florist who refused to make an arrangement for a same-sex couple out of religious concerns regarding same-sex marriage.

Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch on Friday said the Supreme Court should revisit the breadth of the landmark First Amendment decision in New York Times v. Sullivan and explore how it applies to social media and technology companies.

The Biden administration is introducing an unprecedented effort to encourage eligible immigrants to apply for US citizenship, according to a US Citizenship and Immigration Services official.

The Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts has hollowed out the historic Voting Rights Act, curtailed regulation of big political donors and limited challenges to partisan gerrymandering.

As Democrats enter a critical stage in the negotiations over the shape of a sweeping, multi-trillion dollar social safety net expansion, President Joe Biden plans to lean on a key group to sell the proposal, according to an internal White House memo: his Cabinet secretaries.

No matter the charge, the defense is the same: Donald Trump is the victim of a vicious political vendetta.

Attorney General Merrick Garland has ordered a temporarily halt to federal executions as Justice Department senior officials review the policies and procedures for the controversial punishment.

On Thursday, New York prosecutors charged the Trump Organization and its chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, with running a 15-year alleged tax scheme designed "to compensate Weisselberg and other Trump Organization executives in a manner that was 'off the books."

Charges are expected to be unsealed Thursday against the Trump Organization and its chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, related to a criminal tax investigation in connection with an array of perks and benefits awarded to employees.

The Justice Department has rounded up several new defendants this week accused of destroying thousands of dollars' worth of professional broadcast equipment outside the US Capitol on January 6, in a scene captured on multiple videos showing Trump supporters gleefully taking out their anger at the mainstream media.

Patients would no longer receive surprise medical bills for emergency treatment and certain other health care services from out-of-network providers starting in January under a rule issued Thursday by the Biden administration.

California voters will decide whether to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom in an election on September 14, the state lieutenant governor said Thursday.