Andy Burnham will have to find significant money to close a defense funding gap, either through deeper spending cuts or higher taxes, when he takes over as British prime minister in a handover expected this month.

A North Carolina man has been charged with kidnapping and murdering a U.S. Postal Service mail carrier who was attacked while delivering mail, authorities said, leaving behind two young daughters who had already lost their father in a crash just months earlier, NBC News reported on Wednesday.

House Speaker Mike Johnson and several Republican leaders are asking President Donald Trump to allow Jones Act waivers to expire in ​mid-August as currently scheduled, rather than extending them further, according to ⁠a letter seen by Reuters.

A federal judge has ordered the War Department to temporarily halt a requirement that journalists be accompanied by an official escort, another legal setback for the Trump administration's efforts to tighten media access at the Pentagon.

The U.S. ambassador to NATO warned Wednesday that some European countries were not doing enough to fulfil a defense spending pledge, ahead of a summit in Ankara with President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that his acting spy chief ‌has wide permission to declassify records, including potentially those tied to the 2020 election, even though his close ally is only at the intelligence helm for a short time.

The U.S. Treasury Department Wednesday permanently renewed tax incentives in Qualified Opportunity Zones.These Opportunity Zones allow states to nominate distressed communities for tax-advantaged private investment under President Donald Trump's Working Families Tax...

Lawmakers overwhelmingly approved a proposal to disclose the names of House members who paid sexual misconduct settlements using taxpayer funds.

President Donald Trump is keeping full-scale strike options against Iran on the table but has decided, for now, to stick with diplomatic talks, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.

All three kidnapping-related messages that have surfaced in news media reports about the disappearance of "Today" show co-host Savannah Guthrie's elderly mother have been deemed by federal investigators to be fake communications.

Family members of five people killed in Venezuela have filed a federal lawsuit against former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, accusing him of authorizing the killings, The New York Times reported Tuesday.

Reps. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., and Jamie Raskin, D-Md., yelled at each other in a House hearing on immigration policy Tuesday.

Democrats' pride in the U.S. military has fallen dramatically since President Donald Trump's first term, with fewer than half now saying the armed forces are a major source of national pride, according to a new AP-NORC poll released ahead of America's 250th anniversary.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced federal disaster assistance for nine states in a series of Truth Social posts highlighting the administration's latest disaster declaration approvals.

House Republican leaders abruptly canceled votes on major legislation Tuesday and sent lawmakers home early for a nearly two-week recess after a group of Republicans blocked action on the House floor.

The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to remove a proposed noncitizen voting measure from the Nov. 3 ballot, sending it back to committee for additional study after council members said key questions remain unresolved.

A federal judge on Tuesday struck down a Trump administration overhaul to a public service forgiveness program for student loans, ruling in favor of advocates who said the program risked becoming a tool for political retribution.

The United States added 441,078 new millionaires in 2025 – more than 1,200 a day and nearly half of all new millionaires worldwide – marking the fastest expansion of seven-figure wealth on record, according to the UBS Global Wealth Report 2026.

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the Republican Party will hold its first midterm convention, a two-day event in Dallas that he said will celebrate his administration's accomplishments and energize supporters ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

North Carolina ended sanctuary city policies and required stricter cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement after House Republicans overrode a veto by Democrat Gov. Josh Stein.