At bribery trial, ex-US official casts Sen. Bob Menendez as a villain in Egyptian meat controversy
At a bribery trial, a former top U.S. agricultural official has cast Sen. Bob Menendez as a villain who tried to stop him from disrupting an unusual sudden monopoly that developed five years ago over the certification of meat exported to Egypt.
New Jersey attorney general blames shore town for having too few police on boardwalk during melee
New Jerseyโs attorney general is blaming a Jersey Shore town for not having enough police officers patrolling its boardwalk over the Memorial Day weekend, when the force was overwhelmed and the city temporarily closed the walkway.
Air National Guard unit that was suspended after classified documents leak will restart mission
The Air National Guard intelligence unit involved in the massive classified documents leak by an airman last year has been recertified and will start doing its mission again after months of investigations, improvements and inspections.
Vermont becomes 1st state to enact law requiring oil companies pay for damage from climate change
Vermont has become the first state to enact a law requiring fossil fuel companies to pay a share of the damage caused by climate change after the state suffered catastrophic summer flooding and damage from other extreme weather.
The Latest | Following Trump's conviction in hush money case, he is set to hold news conference
A day after a New York jury found Donald Trump guilty of 34 felony charges, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee will address the conviction and likely attempt to cast his campaign in a new light.
Emotions expected to run high during sentencing of woman in case of missing mom Jennifer Dulos
Family and friends of Jennifer Dulos are expected to offer emotional testimony as her late husband's former girlfriend is sentenced in Connecticut after being convicted of helping to plan and cover up her killing.
Federal rule on Title IX is a ruse to require trans sports participation, GOP states say
A new federal regulation protecting the rights of transgender students has prompted lawsuits from Republican states that say it would require them to allow transgender athletes to compete on school teams.
Bruhat Soma rides an unbeaten streak to the Scripps National Spelling Bee title, winning tiebreaker
Bruhat Soma was unbeatable before he arrived at the Scripps National Spelling Bee, and neither the dictionary, nor his competitors, nor a lightning-round tiebreaker challenged him on the way to victory.
TELL US: Will the Trump guilty verdict change your vote for president in the upcoming election?
The jury in former President Donald Trumpโs New York hush money trial has resumed deliberations after asking to rehear potentially crucial testimony about the alleged scheme at the heart of the history-making case.
Jury has reached a verdict in Donald Trumpโs hush money trial in New York
The jury in former President Donald Trumpโs New York hush money trial has resumed deliberations after asking to rehear potentially crucial testimony about the alleged scheme at the heart of the history-making case.
Biden is said to be finalizing plans for migrant limits as part of a US-Mexico border clampdown
The White House is finalizing plans for a U.S.-Mexico border clampdown that would shut off asylum requests and automatically deny entrance to migrants once the number of people encountered by American border officials exceeded a new daily threshold.
Ohio House pairs fix assuring President Biden is on fall ballot with foreign nationals giving ban
A temporary fix allowing President Joe Biden to appear on this fallโs ballot has cleared the Ohio House, along with a ban on foreign nationals contributing to state ballot campaigns that representatives said was demanded in exchange by the Ohio Senate.
The Latest | Jury in Trump's criminal trial to rehear key witness testimony as deliberations resume
Jury deliberations in Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial are set to enter a second day as jurors navigate the weighty task of evaluating the former president's guilt and innocence alongside the facts of the case.
Jurors in Trump's hush money trial zero in on testimony of key witnesses as deliberations resume
The jury in Donald Trumpโs hush money trial is to resume deliberations after asking to rehear potentially crucial testimony about the alleged hush money scheme at the heart of the history-making case.
Massachusetts fugitive dubbed the 'bad breath rapist' captured in California after 16 years at large
Authorities say a fugitive dubbed the โbad breath rapistโ has been arrested in the San Francisco Bay Area more than 16 years after he fled following a conviction for sexually assaulting a coworker in Massachusetts.
Less than 2% of philanthropic giving goes to women and girls. Can Melinda French Gates change that?
For years, less than 2% of philanthropic giving in the U.S. has gone to benefit women and girls, but that could change in part thanks to new resources that Melinda French Gates has pledged in recent weeks.
Researchers find a tiny organism has the power to reduce a persistent greenhouse gas in farm fields
Thanks to heavy use of nitrogen fertilizer, tiny organisms that flourish in farm fields emit nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas that can warm the planet more than carbon dioxide and stay in the atmosphere for over a century.
Jury in Trump's hush money case to begin deliberations after hearing instructions from judge
Jurors in Donald Trumpโs hush money trial are expected to begin deliberations after receiving instructions from the judge on the law and the factors they may consider as they strive to reach a verdict in the first criminal case against a former American president.
Two ex-FBI officials who traded anti-Trump texts close to settlement over alleged privacy violations
Two former FBI officials have reached a tentative settlement with the Justice Department to resolve claims that their privacy was violated when the department leaked to the news media text messages they had sent one another that disparaged former President Donald Trump.
Inflation pressures lingering from pandemic are keeping Fed rate cuts on pause
Hopes for interest rate cuts this year by the Federal Reserve are steadily fading, with a stream of recent remarks by Fed officials underscoring their intention to keep borrowing costs high as long as needed to curb persistently elevated inflation.
Cohen's credibility, campaigning at court and other takeaways from Trump trial's closing arguments
Lawyers in Donald Trumpโs hush money trial have sparred over evidence and witnesses as they made their closing arguments to jurors who will decide whether the Republican will be the first former American president convicted of a crime.
Defense lawyers in Tyre Nichols case want jury to hear evidence about items found in his car
A federal judge is considering whether the eventual jury at the trial of four former Memphis police officers charged in the beating death of Tyre Nichols should hear evidence that Nichols had a hallucinogenic drug and stolen credit cards in his car that night.