The just-returned House passed a bill Wednesday to end the nation's longest government shutdown, sending the measure to President Trump for his signature after a historic...

After Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released three emails from Jeffrey Epstein's estate mentioning President Trump on Wednesday, Republicans released a massive...

Federal agencies began offering guidance Wednesday to furloughed employees about returning to work, hours before the House voted on a deal to end the government shutdown. The...

Italian prosecutors are investigating claims that wealthy tourists traveled to Sarajevo in the 1990s to pay for the chance to shoot at civilians during the Bosnian war. The complaint...

The White House warned Wednesday that key economic data for October that's been delayed, including the monthly jobs report and consumer price index, probably won't be...

US Catholic bishops voted Wednesday to make official a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender patients at Catholic hospitals. The step formalizes a yearslong process for...

A grand jury on Wednesday indicted former Louisiana House Speaker Clay Schexnayder on felony theft and malfeasance in office charges involving a rare artifact that had gone missing...

Oscar-winning actors Michael Caine and Matthew McConaughey have made deals with voice-cloning company ElevenLabs that will allow its artificial intelligence technology to replicate...

A December interest rate cut that traders had viewed as a near-certainty no longer appears guaranteed. Federal Reserve officials are locked in a heated debate over whether to...

The names of all 14 victims killed in the crash of a UPS flight were released on Wednesday, just over a week after the cargo plane went down near Louisville's airport. The...

Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva was sworn in as the newest member of Congress on Wednesday, more than seven weeks after she won a special election in Arizona to fill the House...

A federal judge signaled Wednesday that he will release hundreds of immigrants arrested as part of "Operation Midway Blitz" in the Chicago area, citing concerns the...

US stocks drifted around their records in a mixed day of trading Wednesday. The S&P 500 rose 4.31 points, or 0.1%, to 6,850.92 and neared its all-time high set a couple...

Your festive Christmas environment is set to cost you more this year, assuming you don't have everything you need in your attic. NBC News reports that tariffs are expected...

Solar storms brought colorful auroras to unexpected places on Tuesday night, and there could be more to come. Space weather forecasters confirmed that storms reached severe levels,...

Canada is a long way from Europe, but that isn't stopping it from trying to crack the Eurovision lineup. A surprise note in the nation's recent federal budget revealed...

Ken Burns' new documentary, The American Revolution , is poised to reshape how viewers see the nation's founding conflict, writes George Will in a column for the Washington...

'Tis the season ... to hold your horses. The AP reports military families who live in a community of homes near Florida's Tyndall Air Force Base and put up Christmas...

When Jim Sanborn was commissioned to create a sculpture at CIA headquarters, he wanted to do something that spoke to its world of spies and secret codes. The result was a 10-foot-tall,...

An Italian woman who claimed a statue of the Virgin Mary wept tears of blood is heading to trial for fraud. Prosecutors allege Gisella Cardia and her husband, Gianni Cardia,...