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As the government shutdown stretches on, military advocates are warning of long-lasting effects to National Guard troops and their readiness

The families of some of the 25 girls and two teenage counselors who died in catastrophic flooding in Texas on July 4 are suing Camp Mystic and its owners

A coalition of retired military nurses and others is pushing to award the Congressional Gold Medal to World War II nurses

The winning numbers in Monday evening’s drawing of the "Powerball" game were: 06-28-44-48-58, Powerball: 23

New Mexico has enacted legislation to support food assistance with state funding each week if SNAP federal food aid falters

The deal cut by some Senate Democrats to reopen government has refueled the party’s tussle over strategy and identity just days after sweeping election victories had raised hopes that the left’s disparate factions were pulling in the same direction hea…

The Trump administration is again asking the Supreme Court to keep full food aid payments on hold

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols has declined to chose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution, meaning the state will default to lethal injection

Authorities say 20 people were hospitalized, three with major injuries, after a bus carrying teens returning from a church camp overturned on a winding mountain road in Southern California

President Donald Trump hosted Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa at the White House, marking a significant shift in U.S.-Syria relations

U.S. government attorneys say they have cleared all the hurdles needed to send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia

Officials say a vehicle transporting passengers at a Washington, D.C.-area airport hit a dock at the building, sending 18 people to the hospital

The Idaho Attorney General’s Office has declined to file charges against a northern Idaho sheriff after investigating a turbulent legislative town hall meeting during which a woman was forcibly removed by security workers in plainclothes

Conservation groups are suing over a program that authorizes killing brown and black bears as a way to help grow the size of a southwest Alaska caribou herd

A Wisconsin man accused of trying to burn down a congressman's office earlier this year because he was upset over the federal TikTok ban has pleaded no contest to felony arson

A small plane bound for Jamaica on a hurricane relief mission crashed into a pond in a residential area of the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Coral Springs

State and local official say a flood inside an underground West Virginia coal mine has trapped a miner inside, and rescue crews have been pumping water out to get to him

The top Democratic senator on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says the Trump administration made a $7.5 million payment to the government of Equatorial Guinea amid an effort deport people to the West African country

A convicted drug dealer granted clemency by President Donald Trump has been sent back to federal prison for violating the terms of his release after being charged with several new crimes

U.S. President Donald Trump says that the United States government will boycott the Group of 20 summit this month in South Africa over his claims that a white minority group in that country is being violently persecuted