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The Powerball jackpot swelled to an estimated $1.55 billion for Monday night's drawing after weeks with no grand prize winner.

The House GOP held a two-hour meeting, with many members urging the selection of a speaker as soon as possible. However, they emerged saying the conference is divided over the way forward.

Esther Solomon, the editor-in-chief of Haaretz, Israel's oldest daily newspaper, was trying to observe the Jewish Sabbath on Saturday in Tel Aviv when her daughter, a member of the Israeli Air Force, brought some alarming news to her attention: Israel was under serious attack from Hamas.

The Biden administration and congressional Democrats are weighing tying legislation for additional military support for Israel with military assistance for Ukraine, setting up a showdown with congressional Republicans opposed to helping Ukraine amid the tumult in the speaker-less chamber.

The US government is not yet willing to draw a direct line between Iran and the shocking sneak attacks by Hamas militants on Israel outside the Gaza Strip, but President Joe Biden's domestic political rivals are convinced.

Former Texas Rep. Will Hurd announced Monday that he is ending his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024 and is endorsing former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley.

Eleven US citizens have died in the conflict in Israel, President Joe Biden said Monday, and an unknown number remain missing.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that the Israeli military would attack Hamas with a force "like never before," as the militant group threatened to kill civilian hostages if airstrikes target Gaza without warning.

House Republicans remain badly divided over their two choices for speaker in the aftermath of the ouster of Kevin McCarthy from the speakership -- and are bracing for the possibility that neither House Majority Leader Steve Scalise nor House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan can get the 217 votes needed to be elected speaker.

Charles "Chuck" Feeney, a retail entrepreneur and investor who amassed a multibillion-dollar fortune and then gave it all away, has died. He was 92.

Hackers aligned with Vietnam tried to use social media platforms X and Facebook to install spyware on the phones of dozens of high-profile targets, including US lawmakers, United Nations officials and CNN journalists, Amnesty International said Monday.

Members of the Writers Guild of America union ratified a new contract with Hollywood and television studios, the WGA said in a statement released Monday.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill Saturday that would have explicitly banned caste discrimination in the state.

Environmental lawyer and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Monday his independent candidacy for president, officially ending his effort to defeat President Joe Biden in the Democratic primary in favor of a long-shot general election bid.

A retired university dean was found shot in the head on a hiking trail near the Vermont State University Castleton Campus where she'd worked, and authorities are searching for clues to help lead them to whoever killed the beloved educator.

Multiple airlines have canceled flights in and out of Tel Aviv, home to Israel's largest international airport, after Israel formally declared war on Hamas.

An ExxonMobil executive who heads up the business unit that's involved in a potential $60 billion mega-merger with Pioneer Natural Resources was arrested last week in Texas for allegedly committing sexual assault.

October 10, 2023

Cities across the US are ramping up security around houses of worship after the devastating attacks on Israel by Gaza militants that started Saturday.

Business leaders across the United States have expressed outrage and solidarity with Israel after the deadly surprise attack by Hamas.