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The rapper Pras Michel was found guilty in federal court in Washington on Wednesday of 10 criminal counts related to an international conspiracy reaching the highest levels of the US government.

The judge overseeing a civil battery and defamation trial for columnist E. Jean Carroll against Donald Trump warned the former president's counsel on Wednesday about comments their client made on social media about the case.

The US House of Representatives has passed the GOP's debt limit plan, a symbolic win for Republican leadership. The measure isn't expected to pass the Democratic-led Senate. Follow here for the latest live news updates.

Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson formally kicked off his presidential campaign on Wednesday with a speech in Bentonville, Arkansas, seeking to distinguish himself from the GOP field with his long career in government and as a "consistent conservative."

The board appointed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to oversee Disney's special taxing district on Wednesday sought to claw back its power from the entertainment giant, voting to invalidate an agreement struck between Disney and the previous board in February, just before that board's dissolution.

Walt Disney Parks and Resorts on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the board that oversees the company's special tax district.

Former magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll took the stand Wednesday in her battery and defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump, testifying in chilling detail about the alleged sexual assault by the former president in a New York City department store.

The sprawling military base on Cape Cod where Airman Jack Teixeira allegedly stole classified intelligence is home to a 24/7 intelligence operation that is theoretically a highly secure government facility but one where nobody noticed top secret military papers slip out the door.

A Senate committee voted along party lines on Wednesday to move forward with President Joe Biden's pick to lead the Department of Labor, marking a key milestone in the nomination process amid high-level efforts by the White House to secure Julie Su's confirmation.

House Republicans are using the debt ceiling standoff to advocate for one of their longstanding goals -- requiring more low-income Americans to work in order to receive government benefits, particularly food stamps and Medicaid.

President Joe Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol announced a key new agreement at the White House on Wednesday that aims to deter North Korean aggression, including a new US commitment to deploy a nuclear-armed submarine in South Korea for the first time since the early 1980s.

The House voted Wednesday to pass a bill raising the nation's debt ceiling, after days of wrangling Republican lawmakers to unify behind the package, which would bolster House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's position at the negotiating table with the White House.

Prosecutors with the Manhattan district attorney's office have asked the judge overseeing Donald Trump's criminal case to impose a protective order restricting the former president's ability to publicize information about the investigation.

Alarm bells ought to be ringing on Wall Street and across the country.

It's growing more likely that the US could default on its debt as soon as early June if Congress doesn't act, according to a trio of new analyses.

A Democratic senator introduced what appears to be first-of-its-kind legislation aimed at so-called "judge-shopping," a tactic used by litigants from all sides of the political spectrum to secure sweeping court orders blocking national policies by steering cases to judges perceived to be sympathetic to their causes.

E. Jean Carroll and two other women will testify in the battery and defamation trial against former President Donald Trump to show Trump's pattern of alleged violent behavior, Carroll's attorney told jurors during opening statements on Tuesday.

Fox News had plenty of reasons to get rid of Tucker Carlson.

Montana Sen. Steve Daines, who heads the Senate Republican campaign committee, said reaction has been "positive" to his unexpected endorsement Monday of Donald Trump to be president and he described the move as something that will help Republican candidates win in next year's elections.

The ISIS-K leader who planned the deadly 2021 suicide bombing at the Kabul international airport's Abbey Gate was killed by the Taliban, according to the National Security Council.