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A powerful winter storm barreled through the northeastern United States on Saturday, bringing heavy snowfall, freezing rain and wind gusts and creating treacherous travel conditions.Nearly 20 million people from the northeastern United...

A transgender woman was disqualified from a race for the Ohio House of Representatives after she did not include her previous name in election materials, raising the prospect that transgender candidates would...

Rarely in American politics has a leading presidential candidate made such grave accusations about a rival: warning that he is willing to violate the Constitution. Claiming that he is eager to persecute...

Accusations of plagiarism appear to be the newest weapon in the raging battle over the leadership and direction of elite universities.For weeks, Bill Ackman, the billionaire hedge fund manager, has campaigned on...

The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether former President Donald J. Trump is ineligible for Colorado’s Republican primary ballot because he had engaged in insurrection in his efforts to overturn...

Former President Donald J. Trump will return to Iowa on Friday for the first time this year, and will hold four campaign rallies in two days there as he looks to cement...

As the yearslong process to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill continues, Americans can now buy coins bearing her portrait.The U.S. Mint announced on Wednesday that three new commemorative Tubman coins...

John Anthony Castro, a 40-year-old Texan, long-shot Republican presidential candidate and the most prolific challenger of Donald J. Trump’s eligibility to be president, has gone to court in at least 27 states...

The police in Perry, Iowa, are investigating a shooting at a high school, according to the Dallas County Sheriff.Emergency responders arrived at Perry High School, about 40 miles northwest of Des Moines,...

House Republicans threatened on Wednesday to starve the entire federal government of funding if President Biden and Democrats fail to institute a crackdown at the U.S.-Mexico border to choke off the flow...