The US State Department on Monday ordered the departure of non-emergency US government employees and family members from its Shanghai consulate due to China's strict Covid-19 mitigation measures.
While consumer prices are rising faster than they have in more than 40 years, health care inflation has remained rather muted. Health care operates differently -- payment rates are typically set in advance and last a year.
A Russian military-linked hacking group has attempted to infiltrate Ukrainian power substations and deploy malicious code capable of cutting electricity, Ukrainian government officials and private investigators said Tuesday.
New York Democratic Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin resigned Tuesday, the state's governor said, after being arrested and indicted on charges in connection with his alleged participation in a scheme to obtain campaign contributions in exchange for securing a state grant.
US and international law enforcement agencies have seized control of a popular website where hackers have advertised data stolen from American consumers and corporations -- the latest in a long-running effort to crack down on forums where cybercriminals congregate.
The Consumer Price Index -- a measure of inflation in the economy -- hit a four-decade high in March, a brutal reminder for Democrats of the political headwinds facing them as they seek to keep their majorities in the House and Senate this fall.
A fresh tide of extreme populism -- feeding on economic strain, hostility to immigrants and cultural warfare -- is challenging key democracies from the inside at the same time Russia escalates the most brutal assault on the liberal Western order in decades.
President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced new steps his administration is taking to address rising gasoline prices across the country, including emergency measures to expand biofuel sales, countering rising energy prices amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Oklahoma Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt on Tuesday signed a bill into law that makes performing an abortion illegal in the state, with an exception only in the case of a medical emergency.
The class of public high school seniors who receive their diplomas this June will be the first one ever in which kids of color make up a majority of the graduates, according to federal projections. By the second half of this decade, the federal government projects, those non-White young people will soar to about 55% of the nation's public high school graduates, meaning they will likely constitute the majority of kids completing 12th grade through the foreseeable future.
Republican legislative leaders in Florida have given up trying to draw new congressional boundaries that can win Gov. Ron DeSantis' signature and, in an unprecedented move, announced Monday that they intend to essentially cede this constitutional power to the executive branch.
The United States believes Russian President Vladimir Putin may be willing to take more aggressive action against the US, including dialing up his attempts to interfere with American elections in response to its support for Ukraine, according to four sources familiar with recent US intelligence assessments.
President Joe Biden on Monday announced he was nominating former federal prosecutor Steve Dettelbach to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, thrusting the former US attorney into what will likely be a tough confirmation fight.
"It is preposterous," Gregory Smith said of the allegations against Ali, his client. "They have been making a mountain out of a molehill, and it is time for it to end."
Pennsylvania voters won't choose their Senate nominees for more than a month but already almost $80 million has been spent on television by candidates and their aligned super PACs in the race.
A jury in Washington, DC, on Monday found an ex-Virginia police officer guilty on all six charges he faced for his actions around the US Capitol attack on January 6, 2021.
The Justice Department reiterated its arguments Monday for why it is seeking to block a subpoena for former President Donald Trump's testimony that is being sought by a top ex-FBI agent who sued over his 2018 termination.
The prosecutor general of Ukraine said Monday that her office is investigating 5,800 cases of Russian war crimes, with "more and more" proceedings every day.
A CNN exclusive on Friday directly ties the former President's son, Donald Trump Jr., to a concerted effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election even as votes were still being counted.
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