A transgender military helicopter pilot sued a conservative social media influencer for alleged defamation on Wednesday, two months after she was falsely blamed for a deadly midair collision over the Potomac River in Washington.  Jo Ellis, a pilot in the Virginia National Guard, filed the defamation suit against Matt Wallace, a cryptocurrency investor and influencer on the...

President Trump has quietly replaced acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Kash Patel with Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, but the reasons for the administrative shuffle remain unclear.

The weak La Niña that's been with us since winter has officially faded, the Climate Prediction Center said Thursday.

Multiple lawmakers said Thursday their airplane was bumped by another plane while waiting on the runway at Reagan Washington National Airport. Rep. Nick LaLota (R-N.Y.) posted online that the wing of his airplane was struck by a second plane while they waited on the runway and that "everyone is ok." “Serving in Congress has come...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that House Democrats will soon launch investigations into potential wrongdoing in the wake of President Trump’s surprise decision a day earlier to pause his reciprocal tariffs — a move that immediately caused stocks to soar. Jeffries said the Democrats will also be examining whether any House GOP...

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) said early Thursday that "chaos" and "confusion" were still high one day after President Trump implemented a 90-day pause on his administration's "reciprocal" tariffs. “I look at what happened yesterday, and yes, there was euphoria that he made some change. But in the cold reality of today, chaos is still up,...

The conservative playbook has long distorted Medicaid's finances to justify deep and dangerous structural cuts.

Before we point fingers across the Atlantic, perhaps we should look a little closer to home, at how the U.S. has neglected its own island territories.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio credited Nayib Bukele's leadership as the U.S. travel advisory for El Salvador was upgraded to the safest designation.

Veterans at the Minnesota State Capitol called Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., a "coward" and criticized him for sympathizing with China.