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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s bid to appease hardliners in his caucus and get the House moving again has some Democratic worried about the road ahead

Communities from Houston to New Orleans are opening cooling centers to bring relief as steamy hot temperatures settle across a broad swath of the U.S. South

The city of St. George must issue a permit for a Utah-based group that organizes drag performances to host an all-ages drag show in a public park, a judge ruled

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who recommended her, says she makes history as the first Bangladeshi American as well as the first Muslim American woman to be a federal judge

The ruling doesn’t preclude Gov. Kim Reynolds and lawmakers from passing a new law restricting abortion, however. Currently, abortions are allowed in Iowa up to 20 weeks of pregnancy.

Judge James Patrick Hanlon’s order also blocks provisions that would prohibit Indiana doctors from communicating with out-of-state doctors about gender-affirming care for their patients younger than 18

Trump vowed to retaliate against President Joe Biden if he is elected president in 2024. Experts said that underscores how the former president is willing to abuse the office to carry out purely personal activities

The producer, Alex McCaskill, offered to resign with two weeks’ notice, but was told to clean out his desk and leave immediately, according to his version

The Mexican singer sings Rocío Dúrcal’s lyrics over the DJ’s dance music beat in ‘Invítame A Un Café’

Ellsberg had announced in February that he was terminally ill with pancreatic cancer. A letter released by his family says he died Friday morning

The hefty fine caps off a two-year investigation into the mayor’s use of taxpayer dollars to cover the travel costs of NYPD officers who accompanied him during cross-country campaign stops

Jurors must now decide whether the 50-year-old should be sent to death row or sentenced to life in prison without parole as the federal trial shifts to a penalty phase expected to last several weeks

An immigrant family grieves after a respiratory virus outbreak claimed their little girl’s life

The sweeping two-year civil rights investigation concluded that systemic problems in the Minneapolis Police Department ‘made what happened to George Floyd possible,’ according to the DOJ

About 475,000 customers were without electricity in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Oklahoma as of Friday morning, as another series of fierce storms made its way through Southern states

The first political rally of the president’s reelection campaign is being held at a union gathering in Pennsylvania, punctuating just how much the president is counting on labor support to carry him to a second term

Their diverging prospects illustrate the differences in the two countries and how a parliamentary system is harder for populists to crack than the U.S.’s two-party presidential one

The walkout happened despite voters passing a ballot measure in 2022 that disqualifies lawmakers with 10 or more unexcused absences from reelection

What law says and does, and the reactions of tribal leaders and the law’s opponents are among the things to know after the Supreme Court’s 7-2 decision Thursday upholding the law

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said the migrants were sent to Los Angeles because California had declared itself a “sanctuary” for immigrants

A former National Security Agency contractor who pleaded guilty to the charge in 2019 after investigators found classified documents strewn about his home, car and storage shed was sentenced to nine years in prison

The Food and Drug Administration’s scientific advisers said the next round of shots in the U.S. should only include protection against the newest variants that are now dominant worldwide

He was arrested in April on charges of sharing highly classified military documents about Russia’s war in Ukraine and other top national security issues in a chat room on Discord, a social media platform that started as a hangout for gamers

In closing arguments on Thursday, a prosecutor told the jury that Robert Bowers targeted his victims because of their religion: ‘He is filled with hatred for Jews’

Jurors in Camden, New Jersey found that race was a determinative factor in the company’s firing of Shannon Phillips

Federal prosecutors in Pennsylvania say 55-year-old Cedric Lodge stole dissected portions of cadavers that were donated to the Harvard Medical School from 2018 to early 2023