An FBI agent was carjacked near Capitol Hill on Wednesday afternoon as the number of armed carjackings has surged over the past year in the nation’s capital. The FBI confirmed to The Hill that one of its employees was carjacked on Wednesday, adding that the FBI Washington Field office and D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department's (MPD) Carjacking Task...

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Tech billionaire Elon Musk told the companies pulling advertisements from X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, to "go f--- yourself" following the companies' decision to nix ads from the platform after Musk appeared to endorse an antisemitic remark earlier this week. Asked Wednesday in an interview at The New York Times Dealbook Summit if...

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger died at his home in Connecticut, according to a statement released on Wednesday by Kissinger Associates.

The DuPont Co. and two spin-off firms will pay Ohio $110 million in a settlement over the use of PFAS chemicals at a facility in nearby West Virginia.

A judge is set to review a settlement between Maine officials and the state's ACLU chapter in a lawsuit over the availability of public defenders.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday met with Border Patrol agents falsely accused of whipping migrants in 2021 – but there was no apology.

The annual Reagan National Defense Survey found that confidence in the U.S. presidency has hit its lowest point ever under President Joe Biden.

During the Apollo missions, scientists discovered rare earth elements in its lunar samples. China and the U.S. are now exploring space mining on the moon's surface.