A rare earthquake in Morocco killed at least 820 people late Friday night, shaking the country from the Atlas Mountains to Marrakech and damaging historic structures. The 6.8-magnitude quake is the strongest to hit the country in 120 years, and its strength toppled entire mountain villages and damaged the historic buildings of Marrakech’s old town. ...
Donald Trump’s campaign for a second term alongside his prosecution for seeking to block the transfer of power has raised questions over whether the former president can be barred from the ballot under a 14th Amendment provision targeting those involved in insurrections. A handful of Colorado residents have launched a suit to remove Trump from the ballot...
The Biden administration’s efforts to protect wildlife in the Arctic from oil and gas drilling is on a collision course with a Trump-era law requiring oil and gas leasing there. When President Biden was on the campaign trail he called for “permanently protecting” the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from drilling. And this past week, his administration canceled oil...
Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., is calling on the Biden administration to act and speak out against what experts say is a genocide unfolding against Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Republican lawmakers led by Rep. Jodey Arrington of Texas are questioning a move by the Interior Department to list two types of mussel found in the Rio Grande as endangered.
With conservative firebrand and GOP Sen. Ted Cruz up for re-election in 2024, the question remains whether Republicans will once again dash Democrats' hopes of turning Texas blue.
The Justice Department on Friday asked the Supreme Court to review a lower court ruling that limited access to the abortion pill mifepristone, calling that decision "unprecedented."
A cross-party delegation of Australian lawmakers will travel to Washington, D.C., to urge U.S. officials to drop the charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham issued an emergency order Sept. 8 suspending the right to carry firearms in public across Albuquerque and Bernalillo County for 30 days.