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The Trump administration gave Iranian officials in Washington extraordinary access to Iranian asylum seekers being held in immigration detention in the months before the countries went to war, providing sensitive details about...

Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked the annual defense policy bill, registering their discontent about President Trump’s handling of the war in Iran just days after the administration formally notified Congress that U.S....

The Rev. Ed King, a minister from Mississippi who was one of the few white people to play a leading role standing with Black leaders during the bloody civil rights struggle in...

Now that Graham Platner has formally withdrawn from the Maine Senate race, the state’s Democratic Party is scrambling to nominate an alternative candidate to run against Senator Susan Collins, the Republican incumbent.Mr....

Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont urged Graham Platner on Tuesday to withdraw from the Maine Senate race, becoming the most prominent early supporter of the Democratic nominee to push for his departure...

Graham Platner, the Democratic Senate nominee from Maine, said he was taking time to “reflect” on his political path forward after a report that a woman had accused him of sexual assault,...

It has been six weeks since Kelsey Pfendler, a Grand Canyon river-rafting guide, launched her 21-foot rowboat off the craggy shores of Central California into the Pacific Ocean.Late on Friday night —...

It’s official: The heat dome has defeated George Washington.In Philadelphia, where the high on Saturday is 99, a plan to pitch a replica of Washington’s field tent on the grass in front...

President Trump’s $2.2 billion in personal earnings during his presidency has been met largely with silence from his MAGA base, which has been increasingly willing to revolt against policies they view as...

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is surrounded by fencing. So is Lafayette Park, just north of the White House. The Great American State Fair, on the National Mall, is encased by so...