President Joe Biden on Friday signed a short-term spending measure that keeps one set of federal agencies operating through March 8 and another set through March 22 - officially staving off a partial government shutdown that would have started on Saturday.

Wildfires may have destroyed as many as 500 structures in the Texas Panhandle, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott said Friday, describing how the largest blaze in state history scorched everything in its path, leaving ashes in its wake.

A federal judge is upholding provisions of new Arizona laws that would require counties to verify the status of registered voters who haven't provided proof of U.S. citizenship and cross-check voter registration information with various government databases.

Arizona lawmakers recently rejected a state proposal that would commission a statute of the late Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Conor to sit in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol, according to multiple reports. “We cannot allow the distinguished members of this body to have to suffer walking by such an undistinguished jurist when they...

Former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan vowed Friday that his new company will cover the former President Trump's legal woes differently than the media has thus far. “We will stop with this charade that this is a legal story,” Hasan said Friday evening in an interview on NewsNation’s "Cuomo." “Like you and I both worked in...

Former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan touted his new media company Friday evening, saying one benefit to going solo is that "I'm my own boss." “I can't say I've ever been a fan of having bosses.. one of the appeals of doing this, is that now I'm my own boss, which is a scary thought, I...

The FBI is looking into debris possibly tied to a balloon that fishermen located off the coast of Alaska Friday. Reports began circulating Friday night about the debris, which CNN reported some officials believe could be from a surveillance balloon. The commercial fishing vessel will bring the debris to shore at some point this weekend...

Deaths linked to excessive drinking surged during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The study in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report found that the average annual number of deaths from “excessive alcohol use” rose by around 30 percent from 2016-2017 to 2020-2021. In the...