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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

Pentagon says Navy Secretary John Phelan has left Trump administration, marking latest departure of a top defense leader

The Pentagon has abruptly announced that Navy Secretary John Phelan is leaving his job

No charges will be filed in the fatal shootings of three people at a Detroit gas station after a middle-of-the-night car crash following an illegal drag racing event

The hottest new celebrity in Washington, D.C., is Asian elephant calf Linh Mai

The decision in Colorado to charge an immigration officer with assault after a protester was grabbed by the neck and pulled away could test the boundaries of immunity provisions for federal agents in the line of duty

Wrestler and actor Andre The Giant is being honored with a roadside marker in a small town in North Carolina that was once his home

Potentially millions of Americans suddenly have a much easier path to Canadian citizenship

The winning numbers in Wednesday evenings drawing of the Powerball game were: 24-29-32-49-63, Powerball: 11

Peru's defense and foreign ministers have resigned after the country's president stalled a $3.5 billion deal for U.S. F-16 fighter jets

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says that Washington cannot dictate the terms of the continental trade deal known as USMCA

Democrats are celebrating an election win in Virginia that could put them slightly ahead in the national redistricting competition that President Donald Trump triggered in an attempt to preserve his partys House majority in this years midterms

A Houston city ordinance that limited police officers cooperation with federal immigration agents has been amended after Texas governor had threatened to take away millions of dollars in public safety grants

Six people have been charged with plotting to steal at least 20 cars from the Washington, D.C., area and sell them to buyers in the United States and Ghana in West Africa

The Gates Foundation confirmed Wednesday that it is reviewing its ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

A man who stole a purse from then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem while she dined at a restaurant under the protection of Secret Service agents has been sentenced to three years in prison for a string of thefts in the nations capital

Wildfires burning across the southeastern U.S. are picking up steam

The Supreme Court is clearing the way for a veteran wounded by a suicide bomb in Afghanistan to sue the government contractor for whom the attacker was working when he built the explosive

Officials say a work vehicle hit a commuter train in downtown Washington, injuring 11 people

Authorities have found the body of one of the six missing crew members from a cargo ship that overturned near the Northern Mariana Islands during a typhoon

President Donald Trumps court fight over the $400 million White House East Wing ballroom casts some light on an underground bunker at the site

Southern Poverty Law Center indicted on federal fraud charges related to past use of paid informants in extremist groups

The Navy is reviewing the design and costs of its Ford-class aircraft carrier, one of its most high-tech and expensive warships

A U.S. appeals court says Texas can require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms

A man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in Oregon for the death of his then-girlfriend in a 1980s cold case that was recently reopened

Authorities say a man charged in a string of shootings near Atlanta that left three people dead has died in jail

A teenager charged with killing his stepsister on a Carnival Cruise ship has filed a not-guilty plea and waived his appearance at a hearing in Miami federal court

Man who set a neighbor on fire after she found him burglarizing her home is executed in Florida

The owner of the gun that was used by a gunman to kill eight children in Louisiana on Sunday says the firearm was stolen from his truck, according to court documents

President Donald Trump's threat of military intervention in Cuba is raising hopes of regime change among Cuban Americans

Two U.S. officials killed in a vehicle crash as they returned from destroying a clandestine drug lab in northern Mexico over the weekend were working for the CIA

The winning numbers in Tuesday evenings drawing of the Mega Millions game were: 01-36-43-56-58, Mega Ball: 7, Megaplier:

Shares are mixed in Asia and oil prices are little changed as markets watch for the latest developments in the war with Iran

Six leading candidates for California governor will meet in a televised debate all of them eager for a breakout moment in a chaotic race that has no clear leader

The Trump business behind Truth Social is replacing a former congressman and big supporter of the U.S. president as leader of the social media platform after a stock collapse in the past year

Ohio State University says its recently resigned president violated school policy by attempting to help a woman with whom he had a close personal relationship get a job at the school, help with her podcast and other access to school resources

Three Georgia State Patrol troopers have been fired after an investigation found they sought payouts from the insurance companies of drivers involved in chases, claiming personal injuries

A judge has thrown out the first-degree murder conviction of a man found guilty in the death of his girlfriends 4-month-old daughter in Denver nearly 30 years ago because of new evidence in the case

A federal appeals court says a Bangladeshi immigrant is rightly serving a life prison sentence for a fizzled 2017 subway bombing attack beneath New York City's Times Square even though it tossed out the top charge against him

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the U.S. military will no longer mandate the flu vaccine for American troops

U.S. military officials are calling for spending tens of billions of dollars in the next budget year on drones, air defense systems and fighter jets that have been a key part of fighting the Iran war

A college student from China has been charged with illegally taking photos of U.S. military planes in Nebraska during a multistate road trip

A high school history teacher in Pennsylvania who helps students look inward to find their strengths and outward to find community has been named the 2026 National Teacher of the Year