A federal judge sentenced two members of the Oath Keepers militia to less than four years in prison for seditious conspiracy on Friday, placing a brake on the government’s effort to impose lengthy terms on group members for roles in the Capitol attack.
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Steve Garvey, a perennial baseball All-Star in the 1970s and 1980s, said on Friday that he was weighing a run for the United States Senate in California as a Republican.
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The White House will renew its effort to draw China into discussions about entering arms control talks, President Biden’s national security adviser said on Friday.
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The bipartisan deal to avert a government default this week, which featured modest budget cuts, showed how difficult it could be for lawmakers to agree anytime soon on a major breakthrough to demonstrably reduce the nation’s debt load.
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The Republican National Committee laid out its criteria for candidates to qualify for the first Republican presidential primary debate, establishing a key fund-raising threshold and requiring candidates to pledge to support the eventual party nominee.
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President Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged on Friday that “it is impossible” for Ukraine to become a NATO member until the war with Russia ends. He added that the country would still seek written security guarantees from its allies in the meantime.
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Breaking News: Donald Trump’s lawyers told the Justice Department they were unable to find a sensitive document that he was recorded discussing, where he described military options for confronting Iran, two years ago.
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Ajay Banga, who takes over as head of the World Bank today, urged staff in a memo to develop a “new playbook” for a global organization whose relevance has come into question.
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President Biden will address the nation on Friday evening after congressional passage of legislation that narrowly averts economic calamity
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The Justice Department has declined to pursue charges against former Vice President Mike Pence in connection with his retention of classified documents at his home in Indiana
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At a stop in New Hampshire, Gov. Ron DeSantis mentioned tax relief for Florida families. He mentioned defunding diversity programs. He mentioned his fight with Disney. What he did not mention was Florida’s six-week abortion ban.
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A federal judge in Florida disqualified himself from a court case brought by Disney against Gov. Ron DeSantis, but not before blasting the governor’s legal team for engaging in “rank judge shopping.”
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Despite a long history of drag entertainment in the military, the Defense Department said on Thursday that it would not host drag shows at U.S. military installations after Republican politicians complained about events scheduled to celebrate Pride Month.
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China is investing deeply in open-source intelligence from the Pentagon, think tanks and private companies to learn more about the capabilities of the U.S. military in the Pacific and beyond, according to a new report.
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As candidates like Tim Scott and Nikki Haley bolster their biographies with stories of discrimination, they have often denied the existence of systemic racism in America while describing situations that sound just like it.
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News Analysis: Speaker Kevin McCarthy defied expectations in passing a debt limit deal, but some on the hard right made it clear his win could come at a cost, , our chief Washington correspondent, writes.
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is requiring all new cars and trucks to have automatic braking systems that reduce the likelihood of collisions after traffic fatalities and pedestrian deaths soared in recent years, topping 40,000 a year.
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The United States announced new sanctions on Thursday on two Sudanese military factions and on companies linked to both sides, which have been fueling a war that has killed hundreds of people in Africa’s third-largest nation.
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Federal prosecutors are scrutinizing at least 10 political nonprofit groups — including five recently profiled in The New York Times — seeking to determine if the groups defrauded donors, according to two recent subpoenas.
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The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that federal labor law did not protect a union from potential liability for damage that arose during a strike, and that a state court should resolve questions of liability.
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Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas on Wednesday named John Scott, a longtime ally and a former Texas secretary of state, to serve as an interim replacement for the suspended attorney general, Ken Paxton, while Mr. Paxton faces trial in the State Senate.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida came to Iowa for his first trip as a presidential candidate and made plain that he was done being Donald Trump’s punching bag.
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President Biden made a forceful case for global alliances, telling graduates at the Air Force Academy that rebuilding partnerships with like-minded nations has been the key to asserting American power abroad against adversaries like Russia and China.
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As New York City's mayor, Eric Adams has made an art form of telling stories about himself that are nearly impossible to verify, adding fresh details to often-told anecdotes.
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Despite a long history of drag entertainment in the military, the Defense Department said on Thursday that it would not host drag shows at U.S. military installations after Republican politicians complained about events scheduled to celebrate Pride Month.
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Allina Health System, a nonprofit which runs more than 100 hospitals and clinics in Minnesota and Wisconsin and brings in $4 billion a year in revenue, is withholding care from patients, including children, who have unpaid medical bills.
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Airbnb sued New York City on Thursday to undo stringent new restrictions that limit short-term rentals. A new law, passed by the city in 2021, sought to prevent illegal short-term rentals by requiring hosts to register with the city.
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Debate on a bipartisan bill to suspend the debt limit and impose spending caps moved on Thursday to the Senate, where leaders of both parties were racing to shut down efforts to derail it.
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Members of a NASA task force that studies unidentified anomalous phenomena, or U.A.P.s, said that they were pushing the government to collect better data to try to find answers for unexplained events that have captured the public’s imagination.
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A crucial question for the bipartisan debt-limit deal is deceptively complicated: How much would it actually reduce federal spending? The answer depends on whether you are considering the entire deal or just what is technically in the bill.
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NEW: To Hunter Biden’s father, the Supreme Court decision last June that expanded Second Amendment rights is a travesty for gun control.
But to Hunter Biden’s lawyers, it has been an opening.
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China is investing deeply in open-source intelligence from the Pentagon, think tanks and private companies to learn more about the capabilities of the U.S. military in the Pacific and beyond, according to a new report.
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As candidates like Tim Scott and Nikki Haley bolster their biographies with stories of discrimination, they have often denied the existence of systemic racism in America while describing situations that sound just like it.
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News Analysis: Speaker Kevin McCarthy defied expectations in passing a debt limit deal, but some on the hard right made it clear his win could come at a cost, , our chief Washington correspondent, writes.
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🚨 New pod! This week on the show
--Marjorie Dannenfelser, of the Susan B. Anthony List, on how anti abortion activists see this GOP primary and her recent meeting w/ Trump
--Alexis McGill Johnson, head of Planned Parenthood, on the path back after Dobbs
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is requiring all new cars and trucks to have automatic braking systems that reduce the likelihood of collisions after traffic fatalities and pedestrian deaths soared in recent years, topping 40,000 a year.
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The House passed a bill in a bipartisan vote to avert a default on the nation’s debt and set spending limits. It heads to the Senate next.
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Researchers interviewed 470 Obama administration veterans, critics, activists and others who were in the thick of major events back then, including former President Barack Obama and the first lady, Michelle Obama, for a new oral history.
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The special counsel investigating Donald Trump’s efforts to cling to power subpoenaed Trump White House staff over the firing of a cybersecurity official who contradicted baseless election fraud claims, according to two people briefed on the matter.
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Taiwan’s de facto ambassador to the United States said Tuesday that Ukraine’s success in defending itself against Russia’s invasion, with the help of the United States and other nations, is important for deterring China from trying to invade Taiwan.
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