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Justice Clarence Thomas pressed congressional lawmakers for a higher salary early in his tenure on the Supreme Court, threatening to resign and inspiring a campaign by Republican backers to meet his demands,...

Minnesota on Tuesday announced the winning design for its new state flag after a competition that was prompted by criticism that its current flag was offensive to Native Americans.The new design consists...

There was no warning when a line of vans showed up outside the largest nursing home in St. Louis Friday afternoon, workers at the home said.Older residents, some with dementia, were whisked...

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, was remembered Tuesday at a funeral service that nodded to her role on the court as a consensus builder.“Gracious and wise,...

Hundreds of thousands of people were facing power outages on Tuesday that could take days to restore after a sweeping costal storm battered the Northeast with whipping winds and soaking downpours.Nearly 600,000...

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, lay in repose on Monday in the court building where she served for decades, often as the ideological center, making her...

A veteran political operative who played a mysterious role in the George Santos scandal now appears to be spearheading a newly formed super PAC that is supporting Ron DeSantis in Iowa.The new...

Workers this week were expected to being removing the towering Confederate Memorial from Arlington National Cemetery, displacing one of the country’s most prominent monuments to the Confederacy on public land.The removal of...

As long as the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade was the law of the land, conservatives complained that it had squelched the democratic process — that unelected men in black...

A federal jury in Washington ordered Rudolph W. Giuliani last week to pay $148 million in damages to two former Georgia election workers he defamed by spreading baseless claims that they tried...