Editor's note: President Biden commuted the sentences of 37 people on federal death row to life in prison. President Biden is readying to leave the White House with little fanfare. Democrats are eager to turn the page on a poor year in which they lost again to President-elect Trump, who has swallowed up much of...

A Taliban government official said the airstrikes Pakistan launched on Afghanistan Tuesday killed 46 people, including women and children, according to The Associated Press.  Hamdullah Fitrat, the deputy spokesperson for the Afghan government, said the strikes hit four locations in the district of Barmal. Pakistani security officials told the AP their mission was to kill...

A body was found in a wheel well of a United Airlines flight upon landing Tuesday in Maui, Hawaii, according to the airline.  “Upon arrival at Kahului airport in Maui on Tuesday, a body was found in the wheel well of one of the main landing gears on a United aircraft,” the airline told The...

Political instability in Germany and France, combined with the return of Donald Trump in 2025, threatens to undermine the EU's ability to shape responses to the Ukraine war and other geopolitical and economic challenges.

A pro-life activist who is in prison for blocking an entrance to a D.C. abortion clinic said he is hopeful about being pardoned next month once incoming President Donald Trump takes office.

The US-based Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project reported that the military under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed launched a drone strike into the crowded market, killing 43 people and marking the deadliest drone strike since the Abiy government stepped up its fighting this summer in the Amhara region.

When measured as a share of their income, undocumented immigrants paid an average effective state and local tax rate of 8.9 percent.

Outgoing Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) said she is open to mounting another run for office in the future. In the meantime, the two-term lawmaker will organize and work on the same issues she focused on long before she stepped foot on Capitol Hill.  “The possibilities are endless. All I know right now is that I...

The coming policy clash that no one sees coming is where the burgeoning sports gambling world will undoubtedly cross paths with the Homeland Security world. 

President-elect Trump’s choice for special envoy to Ukraine and Russia, retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, slammed the Russian military missile and drone attack on Christmas Day and said the U.S. is “more resolved than ever to bring peace to the region.” “Christmas should be a time of peace, yet Ukraine was brutally attacked on Christmas...