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Graham Platner, the presumptive Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine, moved to quell mounting Democratic anxieties about his candidacy on Friday, telling supporters in a defiant speech that his past behavior was...

A Virginia man convicted of murdering his wife and another man in an elaborate scheme involving a fetish website and an au pair was sentenced on Friday to life in prison without...

A federal planning commission on Thursday advanced President Trump’s plan to build a 250-foot arch in Washington, even after receiving overwhelming public opposition to the project.The National Capital Planning Commission, which is...

Defying Republican leaders, the House voted on Wednesday to take up a bill to impose sweeping new sanctions on Russia and provide additional aid to Ukraine, after a bloc of G.O.P. defectors...

As the Trump administration escalates its efforts to obtain the medical records of transgender adolescents from many of the nation’s major children’s hospitals, patients and their parents are asking federal courts to...

Five Americans who had been quarantining at a medical facility in Omaha for possible hantavirus exposure returned to their home states on Monday, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.They...

In late April, a lawyer for the Justice Department told a federal judge that her colleagues had been in the midst of negotiations with a Rhode Island hospital about turning over gender-transition...

new video loaded: Could Talarico’s Religious Approach Win Texas?James Talarico, the Democrat running for U.S. Senate in Texas, has connected his political positions to his Christian faith. Our religion reporter Ruth Graham...

People in the western Colorado city of Grand Junction would like their hometown to be known for its desert hiking trails and sunny golf courses, red-rock canyons and river rafting.But these days,...

“So —” “I’m going to the University of Oregon.” “Colorado School of Mines.” “Syracuse University.” “C.S.U.—L.A.” “I wanted to be like a medical student. I realize now that I want to become...