One by one, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser and her allies tackled objections from the bill’s chief opponents to carve out a last ...

The bald eagle, a symbol of the power and strength of the United States for more than 240 years, earned an overdue honor on ...

Activists have called for Biden to commute the sentence of many or all federal death row inmates for some time. More than 130 ...

Some Republican allies of House Speaker Mike Johnson are urging President-elect Donald Trump to publicly reaffirm support for ...

After long being an unofficial symbol, the white head, yellow beak bald eagle became the official U.S. bird on Christmas Eve.

In the wake of Democrats’ electoral defeat last month, some of the party’s Christian leaders are calling for a ...

American and Nato forces left behind military equipment worth over $7.2bn when they fled Afghanistan – much of which now lies ...

The news that Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas, has been living in a retirement facility and experiencing a “very rapid” decline set ...

Whooping cough has been surging in the United States for months and the latest data from the US Centers for Disease Control ...

The NYPD is still working to identify the woman who was set on fire while she slept on the New York City Subway last weekend.

For Christians, Christmas is a holiday about ending the horrors of war, illness, isolation and the infinite ways we are cruel ...

These are today's mortgage and refinance rates. Mortgage rates are likely to remain elevated in the near term, and they may ...