Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett broke new ground Wednesday night as the first Black woman Democrat to play in the Congressional Baseball Game's 114-year history.
The Pacific Maritime Association and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union reached a tentative agreement Wednesday after more than a year of negotiations. The contract between the two expired July 1, 2022 and 22,000 dockworkers have been working in good faith for nearly a year as the two sides hammered out a deal.
Georgia election officials have been aware of existing vulnerabilities in the state's voting software for more than two years but continue to insist the system is safe and won't be updated until after 2024, according to a report that was unsealed this week as part of a controversial court case in Georgia.
Four major environmental groups endorsed President Joe Biden's 2024 reelection for president on Wednesday night, ahead of the president's speech at a League of Conservation Voters dinner in the nation's capital.
Russia launched deadly attacks on civilians in Odesa and Donetsk on Wednesday, Ukrainian officials said, a day after 11 people died in a Russian missile strike on Kryvyi Rih.
The Department of Justice announced Monday it reached an agreement with Madison County Schools in Kentucky to settle a federal investigation "into complaints of serious and widespread racial harassment of Black and multi-racial students."
The live-in boyfriend of Irene Gakwa was sentenced Wednesday to up to six years in prison and ordered to pay more than $13,000 in fines and restitution after pleading guilty to stealing thousands of dollars from her in the weeks after she vanished more than a year ago in Wyoming, according to the Gillette News Record.
Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to 37 charges Tuesday in a brief but historic court appearance following his arrest and processing on federal charges.
A jury on Monday found in favor of former Starbucks regional director Shannon Phillips, who sued the company for wrongfully firing her, claiming she was terminated for being White.
Tom Hanks has starred in some of the most iconic films of all time, but he passed up the opportunity to star in a certain 1989 classic because of a personal matter, according to wife Rita Wilson.
When "Ted Lasso" writer and star Brett Goldstein had his eye on casting Ford in his AppleTV+ comedy "Shrinking," the idea, he said on a segment of Variety's Actors on Actors published Wednesday, felt "so unrealistic."
A Mississippi civil rights attorney alleges she was wrongfully arrested over the weekend and believes it may have been in retaliation for her advocacy work in the city of Lexington highlighting claims of discrimination by police against its Black residents.
The US military is set to launch a formal investigation into a drone strike in Syria in early May, six weeks after the operation and following reports it killed a civilian rather than a senior al-Qaeda leader as first claimed, three defense officials familiar with the matter told CNN.
An active-duty Marine and another individual have been charged with using a Molotov cocktail to firebomb a Planned Parenthood clinic in Costa Mesa, California, in March 2022, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.
House Republicans took their most concrete and public step this week toward pursuing the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. But behind the scenes, supporters of the effort are still working to convince key holdouts to get on board with the potentially divisive plan.
President Joe Biden and his team are in the midst of a high-stakes conversation with fellow NATO members on how and when Ukraine may join -- a debate that could expose strains in the alliance ahead of a key summit.
The mayor of the Mexican border town of Tijuana has been forced to take up residence at an army base, following escalating threats from organized criminal groups.
