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It happens to every American president: a trip abroad gets derailed when crises are unfolding at home.

John Durham, the special counsel who led the investigation into potential misconduct in the FBI's Trump-Russia probe, has made a career of investigating high-profile public corruption.

Special counsel John Durham on Monday released his highly anticipated report surrounding the investigation into Donald Trump's campaign and Russia during the 2016 election.

Virginia Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly said two staffers were injured Monday by a man wielding a bat who came into his district office in Fairfax.

It's still likely that the US could default on its obligations early next month -- possibly as soon as June 1 -- if Congress doesn't act, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen reiterated Monday.

Special counsel John Durham concluded that the FBI should never have launched a full investigation into connections between Donald Trump's campaign and Russia during the 2016 election, according to a report compiled over three years by the Trump-administration appointee and released on Monday.

Special counsel John Durham concluded, in a report published Monday, that the FBI should never have launched a full investigation into connections between Donald Trump's campaign and Russia during the 2016 election.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is asking a Georgia court to dismiss Donald Trump's request to toss the final report and evidence from a special grand jury that spent months investigating efforts by the former president and his allies attempting to overturn the 2020 election.

The Supreme Court on Monday sided with a death row inmate in Alabama -- whose scheduled execution by lethal injection was called off at the last minute by the state -- who seeks to die by nitrogen gas when he is ultimately executed.

The Supreme Court granted a request from the Biden administration to review a federal appeals court decision that allows for a handful of members of Congress to sue a government agency for records related to a Washington, DC, hotel once partly owned by former President Donald Trump -- even if they don't have enough votes to issue a subpoena.

The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to consider a lower court decision that struck down a congressional district in South Carolina as an illegal racial gerrymander.

President Joe Biden will nominate Dr. Monica Bertagnolli, who currently leads the National Cancer Institute, to be the next director of the National Institutes of Health, the White House announced on Monday.

Supreme Court justices are entering the peak season for back-channeling.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's struggle to cling to power in a tight election in Turkey is the latest twist in a tale of global strongmen who are defining Joe Biden's presidency.

Former Energy Secretary Rick Perry on Sunday teased a possible 2024 presidential run while declining to support Donald Trump's campaign, becoming the latest onetime Trump appointee to distance himself from the former president's third White House bid.

House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul announced Sunday that he had formally requested a series of transcribed interviews from current and former State Department officials as part of his panel's investigation into the Biden administration's withdrawal from Afghanistan.

President Joe Biden is expected to meet Tuesday with congressional leaders on the debt ceiling limit following "productive" staff-level negotiations over the weekend, two sources familiar with the talks told CNN on Sunday, as the US barrels toward a deadline that could come as soon as June 1.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Sunday that it is "too early" to know whether the surge in migrants at the US southern border has peaked since the expiration of Title 42 last week.

Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth, the first US senator to give birth in office, offered a heartfelt Mother's Day message on Sunday, celebrating moms nationwide for "growing the next generation for our nation."

In a small conference room just off a runway at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia, some of the US Air Force's most elite F-16 pilots were gathered. They spoke casually to one another, snacking on granola bars and fruit; water bottles and paper littered the table beneath laptops and tablets.