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The legal jeopardy former President Donald Trump faces in two federal criminal investigations took on a new tenor Friday with the appointment of a special counsel at the Justice Department.

On Sunday, America will experience a moment unique in its history -- when a sitting president turns 80.

Twitter employees who are relying on the company for work visas have been left in limbo, finding themselves at the whims of its new billionaire owner, knowing if they quit, they may have to leave the United States.

Officials from the United States and Russia will meet in Egypt from November 29 to December 6 to discuss a key nuclear arms control agreement.

The Biden administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to allow its controversial student loan debt relief program to go into effect while legal challenges play out across the country.

A judge in Georgia on Friday ruled to allow early voting on November 26 in the state's US Senate runoff election.

Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed Justice Department prosecutor Jack Smith as special counsel to oversee investigations into former President Donald Trump.

The investigations will move "expeditiously," special counsel Jack Smith said

Democrat Adam Frisch announced Friday that he had called GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert and conceded the race for Colorado's 3rd Congressional District.

Earlier this week, CNN projected that Republicans will win the House majority. Shortly afterward, they made it very clear what their priority will be: Investigating President Biden and his administration on a variety of fronts.

The top House Republican poised to investigate the Biden family said Thursday he's not planning to subpoena President Joe Biden despite being prepared to issue one to his son, Hunter.

Michigan police have closed the case of a missing voting machine and believe the device was accidentally donated to a thrift store before it wound up for sale online -- though questions remain about who donated the device in the first place.

The cost of college is not skyrocketing — at least for now, when factoring in the average amount of grant aid students receive.

Marathon sessions are now the norm, and the justices don't seem happy about it. They also won't stop talking.

The historic seditious conspiracy trial of five alleged Oath Keepers -- a closely watched test of how the Justice Department is prosecuting US Capitol rioters -- is nearing an end with closing arguments scheduled to begin Friday.

Government prosecutors and defense attorneys on Thursday announced they have finished presenting evidence in the Oath Keepers seditious conspiracy trial, wrapping up a seven-week effort to argue whether five alleged members of far-right militia plotted to stop Joe Biden from assuming the presidency.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced in a moving speech in the House chamber that she would retreat to the back benches of Congress. Her decision not to seek a Democratic leadership position sets off a wholesale changing of the guard -- Democrats' first in decades.

Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock launched an ad on Thursday that, at first, might confuse you.

Los Angeles Mayor-elect Karen Bass promised to solve the city's homelessness crisis in her first address after winning election as the first woman to lead the nation's second-largest city.

The Justice Department indicated in a court filing Thursday that it plans to ask the Supreme Court to reinstate the Biden administration's student debt relief program.