Former magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll took the stand Wednesday in her battery and defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump, testifying in chilling detail about the alleged sexual assault by the former president in a New York City department store.
The sprawling military base on Cape Cod where Airman Jack Teixeira allegedly stole classified intelligence is home to a 24/7 intelligence operation that is theoretically a highly secure government facility but one where nobody noticed top secret military papers slip out the door.
A Senate committee voted along party lines on Wednesday to move forward with President Joe Biden's pick to lead the Department of Labor, marking a key milestone in the nomination process amid high-level efforts by the White House to secure Julie Su's confirmation.
House Republicans are using the debt ceiling standoff to advocate for one of their longstanding goals -- requiring more low-income Americans to work in order to receive government benefits, particularly food stamps and Medicaid.
President Joe Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol announced a key new agreement at the White House on Wednesday that aims to deter North Korean aggression, including a new US commitment to deploy a nuclear-armed submarine in South Korea for the first time since the early 1980s.
The House voted Wednesday to pass a bill raising the nation's debt ceiling, after days of wrangling Republican lawmakers to unify behind the package, which would bolster House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's position at the negotiating table with the White House.
Prosecutors with the Manhattan district attorney's office have asked the judge overseeing Donald Trump's criminal case to impose a protective order restricting the former president's ability to publicize information about the investigation.
A Democratic senator introduced what appears to be first-of-its-kind legislation aimed at so-called "judge-shopping," a tactic used by litigants from all sides of the political spectrum to secure sweeping court orders blocking national policies by steering cases to judges perceived to be sympathetic to their causes.
E. Jean Carroll and two other women will testify in the battery and defamation trial against former President Donald Trump to show Trump's pattern of alleged violent behavior, Carroll's attorney told jurors during opening statements on Tuesday.
Montana Sen. Steve Daines, who heads the Senate Republican campaign committee, said reaction has been "positive" to his unexpected endorsement Monday of Donald Trump to be president and he described the move as something that will help Republican candidates win in next year's elections.
The ISIS-K leader who planned the deadly 2021 suicide bombing at the Kabul international airport's Abbey Gate was killed by the Taliban, according to the National Security Council.
Chief Justice John Roberts has notified Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin that he won't testify at an upcoming hearing on Supreme Court ethics, instead releasing a new statement signed by all nine justices that is meant to provide "clarity" to the public about the high court's ethics practices.
Vice President Kamala Harris will make the case for President Joe Biden's reelection bid Tuesday at a political rally on reproductive freedom, a Harris adviser told CNN, saying that "finishing the job" for 2024 is about fighting to protect abortion access among other rights facing nationwide restrictions.
A nearly $2 million sale of property co-owned by Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch to a prominent law firm executive in 2017 is raising new questions about the lax ethics reporting requirements for Supreme Court justices.
House Republican leaders are still struggling to get to 218 votes on their package to raise the national debt limit -- and are uncertain when they will be able to hold the vote, according to multiple GOP sources.
