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The University of Michigan is halting activities including athletic practices, training sessions and games after the state's health department detected a new strain of COVID-19 thought to have originated in the U.K....

Thousands of National Guard troops will remain in Washington, D.C....

A U.S. aircraft carrier group entered the South China Sea on Sunday with the stated intent to promote "freedom of the seas," according to the U.S....

Senators from both parties dueled over the legality of impeaching a former president on the Sunday political talk show circuit this week, indicating that resistance within the GOP caucus will complicate efforts to reach the 67-...

Without it, our societies are more vulnerable to a cyber-fast nuclear accident or incident....

Newly sworn-in Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has reportedly requested reports on military sexual assault prevention programs from senior leadership and ordered a review of them...

Award-winning director Bryan Fogel told Hill.TV that his documentary about the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi was shunned by all major global distributors....

Use Wall Street to promote human rights in China by stopping Beijing from raising money in U.S. capital markets....

President Biden's agenda in his first days in office and the Senate impeachment trial of former President Trump dominated the political interview shows Sunday morning....

A senior Democratic senator indicated Sunday that he believed his party should consider scrapping the Senate's filibuster rule if Republicans prove unwilling to compromise on legislation pursued by the Biden administration....

The new administration may run into a judicial brick wall....

Former White House coronavirus coordinator Deborah Birx said in an interview aired Sunday that there were "definitely" people within the White House who believed the virus to be a hoax....

A Republican senator indicated Sunday that he didn't believe it was constitutional for the Senate to pursue a conviction of former President Trump on an article of impeachment charging him with inciting an insurrection....

Dr. Vivek Murthy, President Biden's nominee for surgeon general, said on Sunday that achieving herd immunity was an "ambitious goal," while stressing that vaccine distribution should be the main focus....

Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious diseases expert, said recent data reported by the British government suggest a new, more virulent strain of the coronavirus is also more deadly, but said U.S....

The Space Launch Systems has proven how rocket science is hard, especially when the original design was mandated by Congress....

Former President Trump's exit from office marks a new period for QAnon, and a new opportunity for those interested in stifling it....

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Political uprisings and violence fueled the flames that forged the nation....

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) on Sunday defended the Senate impeachment trial of former President Trump, saying it is constitutional and dismissing arguments of her Republican colleagues....

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said Sunday that he would vote to dismiss the article of impeachment against former President Trump at the earliest opportunity, calling the upcoming Senate trial detrimental to national unity....

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President Biden's Health and Human Services nominee Xavier Becerra said Sunday that the country was experiencing an uncontrolled spread of the virus....

In the history of cancel culture, it's hard to find a case where, after an inappropriate firing, an employer had the courage to admit that it had acted rashly and rehire the victim....

A police officer in Washington state has been temporarily placed on leave after his patrol vehicle plowed through a crowd of pedestrians late Saturday, The Tacoma News-Tribu...

Deborah Birx said in a new interview that she "always considered" resigning from the White House coronavirus task force while President Trump was in office....

Russian police detained thousands of people who turned out to protest in support of Alexei Navalny, the opposition leader arrested last weekend upon his return to Moscow....

Joe Biden will spend the second week of his presidency in much the same way he spent his first: signing a slew of executive actions intended to roll back certain Trump administration policies while implementing his own....

The high court will decide whether a work requirement promotes the objectives of the Medicaid program....

Former President Trump reportedly pressed the Department of Justice (DOJ) to take his bid to overturn the results of the presidential election all the way to the Supreme Court, but the effort hit a dead end after opposition from the agency's leade...

President Biden addressed concerns by government watchdog groups in the first days of his presidency by issuing an ethics pledge for administration officials that builds on an Obama-era policy for White House staffe...

President Biden is facing tough choices on trade policy after four years of rising tensions, steep tariffs and isolationism from former President Trump....

President Biden is seeking to push forward on multiple fronts right away, even as he grapples with the coronavirus pandemic....

Federal and local authorities are investigating vandalism and an explosion that occurred overnight Saturday at a Los Angeles County church that had recently been the subject of controversy over its language against...

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The Arizona Republican Party, in an anticipated move Saturday, approved resolutions censuring Gov. Doug Ducey (R), former GOP Sen. Jeff Flake and Cindy McCain, the widow of the late Arizona Sen....

All indoor portions of the National Mall, including the Washington Monument, are closed due to COVID-19 precautions as of Saturday, the National...

President Biden has begun to draft officials to lead his primary environmental agencies, turning to former Obama-era appointees, nonprofit leaders and longtime congressional aides to enact his climate vision....

Thirty-three children were recovered in an anti-trafficking operation in Los Angeles dubbed "Operation Lost Angels"...

Brazil began distributing close to 2 million doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine on Saturday, Brazilian health officials announced....

President Biden on Saturday committed to strengthening the United States' relationship to the United Kingdom and its other NATO allies in a phone call with U.K....

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A Texas man faces federal charges for his suspected involvement in the violent Jan. 6 pro-Trump riot at the Capitol, as well as for online death threats allegedly made against Rep....

The Republican Party of Kentucky's State Central Committee voted on Saturday to reject a resolution that called for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to condemn th...

In the frenzied days after Democrats won control of Congress and the presidency, and rioters invaded the Capitol,...

Justice Department and FBI officials are reportedly discussing whether or not everyone who stormed the Capitol on Jan....

Washington, D.C., residents covered the meals of six National Guardsmen who were eating at St. Anselm restaurant on Friday....

As the more than 70 arrests and indictments made so far in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021 incident clearly demonstrate, we don't need a "PATRIOT Act 2.0" in response to the #CapitolRiot....