A coalition of 25 U.S. states led by Texas and Utah filed a lawsuit seeking to strike down a Biden administration rule allowing retirement plans to consider environmental, social and…

A North Carolina man who engaged in an hours-long standoff with police over a bomb threat near the U.S. Capitol in August 2021 pleaded guilty on Friday, according to reports.…

Speaking at the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ winter meeting, President Joe Biden botched a statistic on the number of people receiving unemployment benefits, misidentifying them simply as the number of…

DANA POINT, Calif. (AP) — Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel won her bid Friday to lead the GOP for two more years, prevailing in an election that highlighted fierce…

President Joe Biden on Friday picked his former COVID-19 policy coordinator, Jeff Zients, to be the next White House chief of staff, citing his expertise in health care and the…

U.S. authorities on Thursday charged five former police officers with murder over the fatal beating of a Black man in Memphis, Tennessee, as the southern city braced for possible civil…

The U.S. health regulator has withdrawn emergency-use authorization for AstraZeneca's (AZN.L) COVID-19 antibody cocktail Evusheld as the treatment is not expected to neutralize the currently dominant XBB.1.5 subvariant of Omicron. The Food…

A new CNN poll finds just 27% of adults say they think Republican leaders in the House have had the right priorities so far, while 73% say they haven't paid…

SciCheck Digest The warming trend in global temperature continued in 2022, which was the sixth-warmest year on record, according to a recent report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association.…

U.S. President Joe Biden touted the country's economic progress during a speech Thursday in Springfield, Va. "Just this morning, we got some very good news about the American economy," Biden told an audience…

The numbers: Initial jobless claims rose by 6,000 to 186,000 in the week ended Jan. 21, the U.S. Labor Department said Thursday. Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had estimated…

CongressRelease of the data follows a week of backlash from Republican lawmakers over record-high migration levels reported in DecemberImmigrant families from Venezuela arrive in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, after being expelled…

U.S. Representative Adam Schiff, a Democrat who led the impeachment case against former President Donald Trump and served on a committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the…

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump at a New York City event last June. Photo: Monica Schipper/Getty Images for Netflix Civil rights attorney Ben Crump joined Florida students on Wednesday in…

There is no evidence climate activist Greta Thunberg tweeted a photo of herself smoking with a caption that reads, "stop sending this. it's not me [sic].” Social media posts appear…

Former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao addressed the racist attacks that former President Trump has launched against her in recent months, writing in a statement that his remarks say “a whole lot more about him…

The United States plans to test a spacecraft engine powered by nuclear fission by 2027 as part of a long-term NASA effort to demonstrate more efficient methods of propelling astronauts…

A maker of abortion pills and a doctor have filed lawsuits challenging state restrictions on the medication, in the first lawsuits of their kind since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned…

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer outlined an agenda Wednesday that will prioritize enacting stricter gun laws, repealing outdated laws that restrict abortion and who one can marry…

Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) said on Wednesday it will restore former U.S. President Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks, following a two-year suspension after the deadly Capitol Hill…