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Top lawmakers on Tuesday presented police officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with Congressional Gold Medals — the highest honor that Congress can bestow — nearly two years after the attack. For many officers honored, the Rotunda…

Ahead of the midterm elections, Republicans have blamed the Biden administration for the fastest inflation in four decades, arguing that the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan has been one of the major drivers. In September, inflation climbed 8.2 percent compared…

A Navy investigation found that the already tough selection course for Navy SEALs had become dangerous with lax oversight and medical care as course instructors pushed SEAL candidates to their physical limits, leaving some injured and hospitalized, and leading some…

The derailment of a Norfolk Southern freight train earlier this year in East Palestine, Ohio, sent toxic chemicals into the surrounding community and brought national attention to the potential risks of transporting hazardous materials. Since then, legislators and industry leaders…

Inflation is on the way down: New data released Wednesday showed that prices rose 8.5 percent from a year ago, but that’s an improvement from June, when prices climbed 9.1 percent. The monthly inflation rate was also flat, meaning that…

FORT WORTH, Texas — Dr. Jennifer and Chad Brackeen and their four kids are a blended family in a fight to stay together. But in the process, they could upend more than 40 years of federal law on the sovereignty…

The Republican Party’s national chair said Wednesday that the best response for conservatives angered by the FBI raid of Donald Trump’s Florida residence this week was to “win back” Congress and force “transparency” from law enforcement. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate was…

The TAKE with Rick Klein The hopes and expectations of countless Democrats and no small number of Republicans rest with the judgment of a man in a position of considerable but not unlimited power over the fate of former President…

Photos showing the home in the heart of Kabul where al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in a CIA drone strike earlier this week show very little structural damage and U.S. officials say no one else was injured. To make…

One of the biggest impediments to President Joe Biden’s ability to govern is a small crew of Republican-appointed federal trial judges, all of whom sit in Texas. In August of 2021, for example, a Trump-appointed judge named Matthew Kacsmaryk ordered…