Seven people were shot in an early morning shooting in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, leaving two killed and another five wounded, police said. The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) said its officers responded at the intersection of 7th and P Streets, Northwest, to reports of a shooting just past 3 a.m. on Sunday morning. They found two men...

President Biden on Sunday touted what he called the “strong” friendship between the U.S. and Ireland while marking St. Patrick’s Day at the White House alongside Taoiseach Leo Varadkar.  “We celebrate the bonds of our friendship today connecting millions of Irish Americans and American people. We celebrate the friendship between the two nations — one...

Lawyer and investor Nicole Shanahan is among the possible contenders to be independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate, his campaign suggested over the weekend.  In a lengthy post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, Kennedy’s campaign director and daughter-in-law, Amaryllis Fox, responded to the swirling rumors that Kennedy tapped Shanahan as his running...

A bipartisan deal to fund swaths of the government and avert a shutdown later this week is hitting a snag as negotiations over the annual Homeland Security Department (DHS) spending bill sputter. The package initially planned for release Sunday would have included five full-year funding bills covering the departments of Defense, Labor, Health and Human...