Because it is a U.S. presidential election year, Khamenei is calculating that he can buy more time for his pursuit of nuclear weapons and efforts to further destabilize the Mideast.

House Republicans on Wednesday took aim at border security and immigration under President Biden while the White House accused Republicans of opposing legislative efforts to improve security at the border with Mexico.  “Instead of taking responsibility and providing leadership, this administration has done nothing but attack elected officials who are trying to fix this catastrophe,”...

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) has given Senate Democrats a not-so-happy start to 2024 after a fresh round of accusations that he accepted lavish gifts in exchange for aiding a foreign government. The second superseding indictment — this one accusing him of receiving gifts linked to Qatar — is the latest legal trouble staring down the New Jersey...

Russia is resuming its winter strategy of pounding Ukraine into submission with missiles and drones — but Kyiv finds itself in a far more tenuous position this year as resources run low and more Western assistance is up in the air. Russia fired some 500 missiles and drones from Dec. 29 to Jan. 2, according...

The risk of a shutdown is growing as Senate and House conservatives threaten to defund the government unless President Biden and Senate Democrats agree to secure the southern border. The border fight already has hopelessly delayed a supplemental funding bill that includes aid to Ukraine and Israel. Now conservatives in both chambers are shifting their...

Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis are running out of time to catch former President Trump in the GOP primary. The next few weeks will be critical for both GOP presidential candidates, who each trail Trump by a wide margin in swing state and national polls. Haley, a former South Carolina governor and U.S. ambassador to...

United Nations experts are calling on Alabama to halt a planned execution using nitrogen gas, the first such execution in U.S. history.

Georgia State Sen. Mike Dugan, a Carrollton Republican, has entered the race for the open congressional seat in the state's 3rd Congressional District.

North Carolina's Board of Elections kept President Biden as the sole Democrat on the primary ballot in a vote blasted by his challengers.

A GOP Senate group filed a brief in support for President Trump in his dispute with the Colorado Supreme Court's decision to remove him from the ballot.