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There are plenty of reasons for that feeling of economic doom that's going around:

Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper says in his new book that then-President Donald Trump asked him in 2020 about launching missiles into Mexico to "destroy the drug labs" and kill cartels, The New York Times reported Thursday.

Law enforcement officials in Washington, DC, are bracing for potential security risks posed by reactions to the leaked draft Supreme Court majority opinion that would strike down Roe v. Wade.

The Department of Justice is quietly unraveling a complex web of shell companies and middlemen used by Russian oligarchs, and President Vladimir Putin himself, as it accelerates efforts to seize assets belonging to the Kremlin's most wealthy and influential players, the Justice official charged with leading the team hunting the assets told CNN on Thursday.

Most White Houses wait for their midterm election shellacking or thumping to shake up their message and strategy shop.

A survey in late April found 318 solar projects in the US had already been delayed or canceled due to the probe.

The chief justice of the United States is only as powerful as the individual who wears the title and his times.

Karine Jean-Pierre will become the new White House press secretary when Jen Psaki departs her role next week, President Joe Biden announced in a statement Thursday, becoming the first Black and out LGBTQ person to hold the position.

Top aides to President Joe Biden say that the publishing of a draft majority opinion on abortion rights from Justice Samuel Alito has made their jobs easier: Even if the final decision ends up backtracking from the full overturning of Roe v. Wade, there's no hiding the Supreme Court's intent.

First lady Jill Biden departs Thursday evening on a trip to Romania and Slovakia, where she will spend time with several Ukrainian families displaced by the Russian invasion, according to a release from the East Wing.

Connecticut Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont on Thursday signed into law a bill designed to protect people who provide an abortion or receive support to obtain the procedure in Connecticut and are then sued in another state.

The chief justice said he hopes "one bad apple" would not change "people's perception" of the nation's highest court

US military and intelligence agencies assess that North Korea could be ready to resume underground nuclear testing this month, according to three US officials.

Six months out from the midterm elections, the bets the two parties are making about what will swing the outcome have become clearer in recent days -- and they couldn't be more different.

When Ukraine successfully targeted Russia's prized warship last month with anti-ship cruise missiles, it had some help from the United States.

Rudy Giuliani's appearance before the January 6 committee, set for Friday, has been canceled, his attorney told CNN.

Rep. Paul Gosar boasts he's been "relentless" in seeking to restore fiscal responsibility and "common sense" when it comes to the "bloated" federal government.

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Thursday that the Justice Department is opening a new office aimed at addressing the department's environmental justice efforts.

The parents of a sailor who died by suicide while on board the USS George Washington -- one of the seven crew members who have died in the past year, including four by suicide -- on Wednesday blasted the Navy's response to the crisis as "ridiculous."

This is the weirdness of the 2022 midterm elections: J.R. Majewski, an Ohio Republican who painted massive Donald Trump murals on his lawn, will face off in November against Marcy Kaptur, a Democrat who could become the longest-serving woman in Capitol Hill history.