The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to put on hold a new Illinois law that would ban high-power semiautomatic weapons like the one used in the mass killing of seven people at a 2022 parade in a Chicago suburb.

The district attorney prosecuting Donald Trump over efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia says she has a duty to file charges against anyone who violates the law and that it's a "silly notion" that the former president's case should be paused just because he is running for office.

A judge on Thursday released from jail a New Hampshire man accused of sending text messages threatening to kill a presidential candidate.

Eighteen Republicans are calling on the Veterans Affairs Department to discipline one of its attorneys for mocking Israelis.

The White House's annual Christmas video is giving critics a case of "blunder and joy."

The House on Thursday approved the National Defense Authorization Act, with a strong bipartisan majority backing the $886 billion bill and sending it to President Biden's desk.

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy thanked his constituents and lawmakers Thursday as he prepared to exit Congress midway through the term, saying he "loved every single day" despite the ignominious end to his speakership in October.

A spokeswoman for Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday rejected reports of a split between her and President Biden over the plight of civilians in Gaza amid Israel's onslaught.

An attorney for two former Georgia election workers suing Rudy Giuliani for defamation highlighted during the trial's closing on Thursday that the former New York City mayor has not stopped repeating the false conspiracy theory asserting the workers meddled in the 2020 presidential election.

Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” (1908) must rate as one of the bleakest short stories ever written, a kind of Winterreise gone wrong that wears its air of resolute determinism like a Red Sox sweatshirt. A tenderfoot, accompanied by a wolfish dog, is making his way along the Yukon Trail. It is 75 degrees below — too cold to be out, so cold that spittle freezes in the air before it reaches the ground — but the newcomer marches on regardless. And then, all too foreseeably, disaster strikes: Our man fails to notice the sinister, candy-textured surface of the ground beneath him, and, without warning, his feet plunge through the ice into an underground stream.