A federal grand jury has charged a Customs and Border Protection officer with using excessive force in two separate incidents at a border crossing in El Paso, Texas.
Days before the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome H. Powell took heat from lawmakers in both parties worried about the central bank's possible plan to raise capital requirements for banks.
Illinois will become one of three states to require employers to offer paid time off for any reason after Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a law on Monday that will take effect next year.
Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny learned Monday from his lawyer that a film detailing his poisoning and political activism won the Oscar for best documentary feature.
The Biden administration is allowing thousands of Ukrainians who fled their homeland when Russia invaded a year ago to stay in the United States longer, the administration said Monday. The decision provides relief to Ukrainians whose one-year authorization to remain in the U.S. was set to expire soon.
Growing concerns over the threat China poses to Pacific stability loomed large as President Joe Biden joined Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday.
Monday marks the third anniversary of the beginning of the COVID pandemic in the United States. On March 13, 2020, the Trump administration declared a nationwide emergency and issued a travel ban to those traveling to the country from the Schengen area of Europe. It was a time of great chaos and confusion, and I was trapped in the Balkans.
The Biden administration has unveiled the details of its fiscal 2024 defense budget request to Congress. Officials are proclaiming big boosts to long-range weapons purchases, an undoubted priority in facing China's likely looming invasion of Taiwan.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) has finally acknowledged that some of her authoritarian COVID orders were ridiculous. Unfortunately for her, everyone else knew this three years ago, when she first put those orders in place.