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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

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