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ConocoPhillips' massive Willow oil drilling project on Alaska's North Slope has galvanized a sudden uprising of online activism against it.

More than two years after an alleged Russian hacking campaign exposed glaring weakness in US federal defenses, the Department of Homeland Security's cyber agency has not updated a key agency blueprint for maintaining communications in the event of a major hack, the department's inspector general said Monday.

A top adviser to the core group of senior officials at the center of President Joe Biden's White House is set to depart the West Wing in the coming days.

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said US troops are "ready to remain in Iraq" in his remarks during an unannounced trip to Baghdad on Tuesday, according to the US press pool traveling with him.

Voters in Oklahoma will reject a ballot measure that would have legalized recreational marijuana in the state for adults ages 21 and older, CNN projects.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson aired newly released footage on his show Monday from the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack, that included images of the rioter known as the "QAnon Shaman," as well as of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died following the attack.

The same fundamental dynamic that decided the 2016 Republican presidential primaries is already resurfacing as the 2024 contest takes shape.

Donald Trump says he'd end the war in Ukraine in one day and avert World War III, while Ron DeSantis is keener on waging a culture war than a proxy one to save a foreign democracy.

In the coming weeks, Gov. Ron DeSantis is poised to show Floridians -- and the country -- just how much further he is willing to go than any other Republican leader to turn his state into a conservative vision where abortion is nearly outlawed, guns can be carried in public without training, private schools are subsidized with taxpayer dollars and "wokeness" is excised.

Florida, West Virginia and Missouri withdrew on Monday from the Electronic Registration Information Center, the bipartisan multi-state partnership aimed at helping states maintain accurate voter rolls.

First lady Dr. Jill Biden warned parts of East Africa are "on the precipice" of famine as the region is dealing with a severe drought, threatening livelihoods and the ability of families to feed their children.

The Biden administration is considering reinstating the policy of detaining migrant families who cross the border illegally, a practice President Joe Biden had ended when he came into office, two administration officials said.

The US State Department on Monday imposed a visa sanction on a Syrian military official whom it says killed at least 41 unarmed civilians in a neighborhood of Damascus in April 2013.

Eight Republican senators are pressing Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines to provide them with the raw materials that informed the intelligence community's latest assessment on the origins of Covid-19, according to a letter they sent Haines on Monday.

The US has surpassed 100 mass shootings in 2023, a disturbing milestone that underscores the grave cost of inaction in Washington and state legislatures across the country.

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will have a street named after her where she was raised in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

Former Vice President Mike Pence has filed a motion asking a judge to block a federal grand jury subpoena for his testimony related to January 6 on the grounds that he is protected by the Constitution's Speech or Debate Clause, according to a source familiar with the filing.

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan has subpoenaed the former executive director for the Department of Homeland Security's Disinformation Governance Board, Nina Jankowicz, according to a copy of the document obtained by CNN.

The FBI is searching for a Florida woman who did not show up to court in Washington, DC, on Monday, when she was set to go to trial on federal charges related to the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot.

Paul Manafort has agreed to pay $3.15 million he owes to the US government over misrepresentations he made on his tax returns almost a decade ago, bringing to a close the former Trump campaign chairman's financial tangles in court.