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Democrats on Monday blocked a Republican-written bill aimed at barring transgender women and girls from school sports teams designated for female students, thwarting consideration in the Senate of the G.O.P.’s latest move...

President Trump’s executive order making English the official language of the United States reached into history to argue its case, noting that the country’s founding documents were written in English.But it turns...

Mexico’s president offered a warning last month in response to news that the Trump administration planned to designate drug cartels as terrorist groups.“If they declare these criminal groups as terrorists, then we’ll...

A 3.9-magnitude earthquake caused mild shaking in and near the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles late Sunday, the United States Geological Survey said.The quake struck after 10 p.m. local time, and its...

Mexico braced for the worst when President Trump threatened steep tariffs on its exports. But as a deadline looms, Mexico’s leaders hope they have found a formula for staving off tariffs by...

A fire near Myrtle Beach, S.C., doubled in size overnight as more than 170 fires burned in the Carolinas on Sunday, prompting evacuations near the coast and in the mountains.The largest fire...

Thousands of people gathered on Saturday at national parks from California to Maine to protest the Trump administration’s firing of at least 1,000 National Park Service employees last month.A group called Resistance...

Dr. Francis S. Collins, a renowned geneticist who ran the National Institutes of Health for 12 years, announced Saturday that he has retired from the institutes and the federal government, issuing a...

President Trump signed an order designating English as the official language of the United States, the White House said on Saturday.The executive order rescinds a Clinton-era mandate that required agencies and recipients...

The Pentagon is sending about 3,000 additional troops to the southwestern border, rushing to comply with President Trump’s order to increase the military’s role in stemming the flow of migrants into the...