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At the peak of the crackdown, thousands were being arrested every week.

The White House says President Donald Trump is sending envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Pakistan to take part in a new round of talks with Iran

Afghanistans foreign ministry says Afghans who helped the U.S. war effort and are stuck in Qatar can safely return home

President Donald Trump has made it clear he expects his choice for Federal Reserve chair to quickly cut interest rates once he takes office

New York Citys new correction commissioner is the first formerly incarcerated person to oversee the citys jails

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is embracing a statue it once kept at arms length

King Charles III embarks on a state visit to the U.S., aiming to strengthen ties between the two nations

U.S. envoys are expected to travel to Pakistan in a new bid to salvage ceasefire talks with Tehran

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The U.S. military says it launched another strike on a boat accused of ferrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two people Friday

A proposal that would require California to verify proof of citizenship when a person registers to vote and require voters to provide identification at polling places will appear on the November ballot

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves is announcing a special session for judicial redistricting following an upcoming U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a major Voting Rights Act case

A jury has convicted Brian Scott Lorenz in the 1993 murder of Deborah Meindl near Buffalo

Louisiana police say a podcast helped them solve the decades-old rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl

Two buses have crashed head-on near a Pentagon bus stop, injuring 23 people, including Defense Department personnel

The Justice Department will adopt firing squad as a permitted method of execution as the Trump administration moves to ramp up and expedite capital punishment cases

Jack Thornell, the Associated Press photographer whose picture from an assassination attempt on James Meredith in 1966 won a Pulitzer Prize, has died at age 86

Melania Trump is growing the White House honey program

Late-night votes are an age-old pressure tactic for congressional leaders in both major political parties

The Palm Beach Zoo in Florida has two reasons to celebrate

The White House said that Trump issued a 90-day extension to the Jones Act waiver, making it easier for non-American vessels to transport oil and natural gas in the wake of the Iran War

Three professors at Emory University have filed a lawsuit claiming the school violated its free speech policies during a 2024 campus protest over the Israel-Hamas war

Amnesty International and U.S. civil rights groups have issued a World Cup travel advisory, warning visitors about rising authoritarianism and increasing violence in the U.S. under President Donald Trump's immigration policies

The new U.N.-backed international force charged with combating Haitis violent gangs has received more pledges than the 5,500 military and police it is seeking, and Chadian troops have already deployed in the capital, Port-au-Prince

One of two men who helped carry a fellow runner across the finish line of the Boston Marathon said he had been struggling earlier himself but drew strength from the supportive crowd

Officials say a powerful tornado that barreled through Oklahoma damaged homes and sent emergency crews door-to-door in hard-hit neighborhoods

Federal investigators have released a preliminary report on last month's deadly airplane crash at a New York City airport

A small Indigenous village in Alaska wants to reclaim its status as a top spot for polar bear tourism

Josh Shapiro may be heavily favored to win reelection as Pennsylvania governor, but that doesnt mean there isnt a lot on the line for him this year

Airlines around the world are canceling flights as the war in the Middle East squeezes global jet fuel supplies and pushes up prices

President Donald Trump's gold card visa program, which allows foreigners to live and work in the U.S. for at least $1 million, has approved just one person since December, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced this Thursday

Havana won't abide by any American ultimatums to release political prisoners as part of new talks

Two Chinese nationals face charges in the U.S. that they managed a sprawling compound in Myanmar where authorities say workers were forced to participate in cryptocurrency investment fraud scams

A couple from Utah face parental kidnapping charges after being accused of taking a 10-year-old child to Cuba amid a complicated custody fight involving the childs gender identity

Retiring Kentucky athletic director Mitch Barnhart wont take on a new high-paying role at the school after all

Six current or former Mississippi law officers have pleaded guilty to charges arising from what prosecutors described as a drug trafficking bribery scheme

Offshore wind turbines roughly three times the height of the Statue of Liberty were spinning off the coast of Rhode Island on Thursday, sending clean electricity to the region

A North Carolina woman has been charged in an alleged conspiracy to attack a Texas synagogue

Michigan regulators have been cleared of liability in a 2020 dam failure that flooded communities, destroyed more than 100 homes and drained a popular summer lake

The National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday that all new school buses should be equipped with alcohol detection systems to ensure drivers are not intoxicated

Federal authorities say they've arrested nearly two dozen members and associates of the Mexican Mafia during a crackdown across Southern California

Two University of South Florida doctoral students have gone missing, and authorities are seeking help to find them

Wildfires tearing through the South this week have forced hundreds of residents in Georgia to flee in minutes

Tesla's profit rose in the first quarter as its car sales rebounded from a sharp slump in 2025

Voting and civil rights groups are suing Alaska elections officials, alleging their sharing of the states voter registration list with the U.S. Department of Justice is unconstitutional

A Colorado district attorney has charged an immigration agent after a protester said she was held in a chokehold during demonstrations against the detention of an immigrant father and two children

President Donald Trump has turned to naval blockades to pressure the governments of Venezuela, Cuba and now Iran to meet his demands

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators wants government food assistance programs to cover rotisserie chicken from grocery stores

The Senate has taken the first steps in a new effort to reopen the Department of Homeland Security, voting to adopt a budget plan that would fund ICE and Border Patrol over Democratic objections

The Trump administration has taken the unusual step of sending a government plane to Cuba to return a 10-year-old at the center of a complicated and contentious custody fight involving the childs gender identity