Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and other officials were found dead on Monday after their helicopter crashed in a foggy region, state media reported. State television did not provide an immediate cause for the crash, which spurred an hours-long search for the officials' bodies. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei announced First Vice...
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday issued arrest warrants for the Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar and Ismail Haniyeh along with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his defense minister as the court's prosecutor said he found evidence of war crimes committed in the ongoing war between the militant group and the state of Israel....
Fed up with humiliation and mistreatment, Cuban soldiers of the 428th regiment, based in Donetsk, carried out an operation to kill their own regiment's commander.
Six months out from Election Day, some vulnerable Democrats are looking at President Biden’s poll numbers with concern. Some Senate Democrats are distancing themselves from Biden’s ailing brand after polls show him trailing former President Trump in several battleground states, The Hill’s Alexander Bolton reports. It’s injecting fresh alarm as they scramble to keep their...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is tee-ing up a second attempt at passing the bipartisan border bill — after Republicans blocked it earlier this year — a move that comes as the situation at the southern border remains top of mind for voters ahead of the November elections. Schumer announced on Sunday that the Senate...
Democratic primaries for U.S. House seats in Oregon's 3rd and 5th Congressional Districts could reveal whether the party’s voters favor progressive or establishment factions.
A federal judge has temporarily blocked some enforcement of a new Biden administration rule that would force more gun sellers to run background checks.
Congress is setting the stage for another partisan government-funding fight, as conservatives look to chip away at a previous “side deal” struck between Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and the White House aimed at boosting nondefense dollars. Democrats have been sharply criticizing a recent announcement by House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) previewing cuts the party...