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A joint session of Congress is set to convene on Monday to certify President-elect Donald J. Trump’s victory in the 2024 election, once a largely ceremonial and uneventful ritual that was disrupted...

Months before the man behind the New Orleans terror attack plowed a truck into a New Year’s Day crowd, he rode through the area on a bicycle, recording videos of his target...

Five college students in Massachusetts are accused of luring a man to the Assumption University campus in a plot that the police said was inspired by the television show “To Catch a...

A Virginia woman was charged with child abuse on Thursday over her connection to mysterious injuries that appeared on a newborn in a neonatal intensive care unit in a hospital where she...

Days before Republicans take full control of Washington, the Democratic National Committee is mired in an intramural fight that is less about how the party found itself locked out of power than...

To residents of New Orleans, grieving goes beyond somber goodbyes. It involves celebrating the life we all lead together by dancing and playing music, to help usher those who have passed into...

With 16 days left in a political career that spanned a half-century, President Biden on Saturday conferred one of the nation’s highest honors on core members of the political, financial and celebrity...

Democrats had just absorbed a crushing defeat in the 1994 midterm elections when President Bill Clinton’s very liberal labor secretary, Robert Reich, ventured into hostile territory to issue a prophetic warning.Struggling workers...

A winter storm in Northern California spawned a tornado on Friday, setting off a warning for people to seek shelter urgently.The tornado was confirmed around 5:30 p.m. local time near Paynes Creek...

Just minutes after Speaker Mike Johnson could exhale, having put down a short-lived conservative revolt and won re-election to his post on Friday, hard-right lawmakers sent him a letter.It was not congratulatory.They...