Search and rescue crews evacuated about 60 people via helicopter on Thursday, after flash floods blanketed southern Utah’s Capitol Reef National Park.
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Nevada GOP Chairman Michael McDonald has been served with a federal grand jury subpoena for records of any communications with top advisers of former President Donald Trump.
The Supreme Court on Friday stripped away the nation’s constitutional protections for abortion that had stood for nearly a half-century.
An anguished and angry President Joe Biden is calling for new restrictions on firearms after a gunman massacred at least 19 children at a Texas elementary school.
An 18-year-old gunman opened fire Tuesday at a Texas elementary school, killing at least 19 children as he went from classroom to classroom, officials said.
When Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, it had hoped to overtake the country in a blitz lasting only days or a few weeks. Many Western analysts thought so, too.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin informed Ukraine’s president of a more than $300 million package of foreign military financing and a $165 million sale of ammunition.
At least a dozen states have proposed giving rebate checks of several hundred dollars directly to taxpayers, among them California, Kansas and Minnesota.
Cybersecurity expert warns that cyberattacks will cost lives if defenses aren’t bolstered.
President Joe Biden and Western allies pledged new sanctions and humanitarian aid on Thursday in response to Vladimir Putin’s assault on Ukraine.
President Joe Biden announced the U.S. would welcome up to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees — and provide an additional $1 billion in food, medicine, water and other supplies.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told lawmakers that Russian mechanized forces that entered from Belarus were about 20 miles from Kyiv, according to a person familiar with the call.
The Biden administration will significantly loosen federal mask-wearing guidelines to protect against COVID-19 transmission on Friday, according to two people familiar with the matter.
A cross-country truck convoy protesting pandemic-related mandates and emergency measures continued its journey east on Thursday.
The United States and its allies will block assets of four large Russian banks, impose export controls and sanction oligarchs.