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The US State Department on Monday imposed a visa sanction on a Syrian military official whom it says killed at least 41 unarmed civilians in a neighborhood of Damascus in April 2013.

Eight Republican senators are pressing Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines to provide them with the raw materials that informed the intelligence community's latest assessment on the origins of Covid-19, according to a letter they sent Haines on Monday.

The US has surpassed 100 mass shootings in 2023, a disturbing milestone that underscores the grave cost of inaction in Washington and state legislatures across the country.

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will have a street named after her where she was raised in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

Former Vice President Mike Pence has filed a motion asking a judge to block a federal grand jury subpoena for his testimony related to January 6 on the grounds that he is protected by the Constitution's Speech or Debate Clause, according to a source familiar with the filing.

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan has subpoenaed the former executive director for the Department of Homeland Security's Disinformation Governance Board, Nina Jankowicz, according to a copy of the document obtained by CNN.

The FBI is searching for a Florida woman who did not show up to court in Washington, DC, on Monday, when she was set to go to trial on federal charges related to the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot.

Paul Manafort has agreed to pay $3.15 million he owes to the US government over misrepresentations he made on his tax returns almost a decade ago, bringing to a close the former Trump campaign chairman's financial tangles in court.

The Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up an appeal brought by a Florida city that was sued by individuals who argued it had violated the Constitution when it held a prayer vigil in 2014 in response to a local shooting.

With the help of the FBI, German and Ukrainian police last week searched the properties of two suspected "core members" of a global cybercrime gang that has cost US victims tens of millions of dollars, European officials said Monday.

DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson on Monday wrote a letter to the Senate attempting to withdraw the district's criminal reform legislation from congressional review after it became clear the Senate intended to nix the legislation.

As president, Donald Trump made some of his most thoroughly dishonest speeches at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference.

Ex-President Donald Trump and his most serious potential rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, laid out with unprecedented clarity this weekend how their sharply contrasting personalities and approaches would define the 2024 race for the Republican nomination.

How to stop Donald Trump is the question lighting up Republican circles as some in the party grapple with what it might take to nominate someone other than former president in 2024.

The Texas legislature's special session ended with Republicans unable to pass a bill that would have greatly restricted abortions

President Obama mimics his predecessor in downplaying the significance of NSA leaker Edward Snowden.

A GOP House resolution says IRS official Lois Lerner waived her 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination at a prior hearing, and must return to testify.

NSA leaker Edward Snowden blasts the Obama administration for trying to block asylum bid, says he's "unbowed."

Edward Snowden's hopes of finding asylum from U.S. prosecution on spying charges appeared dim Tuesday as countries denied his request or said he must travel.

President Barack Obama's statement about the Egyptian military's seizure of power is as telling for what he doesn't say as for what he does: he doesn't mention the word "coup."