In an effort to prevent another riot like the one on Jan. 6, 2021, the Homeland Security secretary has designated the congressional count and certification of the presidential election as a national special security event overseen by the Secret Service.
Firefighters battling three major wildfires in the mountains east of Los Angeles took advantage of cooler weather Wednesday as they slowly gained the upper hand but not before dozens of homes were destroyed and thousands of people were forced to evacuate.
The Biden administration is sending Egypt its full $1.3 billion allocation of military aid, setting aside conditions placed by Congress on some of the money over human rights concerns and citing Cairo’s role as a mediator in the Israel-Hamas war.
Emily Carlin’s hands gripped her red Jeep’s steering wheel as she struggled to navigate the maze of barricades that had sprung up overnight around the Capitol. The then-congressional press secretary was trying to get back to work, but strict security measures in the week following Jan. 6, 2021, made her return seem futile.
Thousands of Americans died freeing the Netherlands. On Thursday its citizens, including hundreds of schoolchildren, lined streets and festival grounds for commemorative activities.
Tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman teamed up with SpaceX to test the company’s brand new spacesuits on his chartered flight.
Those targeted Thursday by the Treasury Department include the head of the country’s high court, leaders of state security forces and prosecutors.
Dr. Jean Kaseya said 107 new deaths and 3,160 new cases had been recorded in the past week, just a week after a continental response plan was launched by Africa CDC and the World Health Organization.
The student accused of killing four people in a Georgia high school shooting rode the school bus that morning with a semiautomatic assault rifle concealed in his backpack, investigators confirmed Thursday.
Western and Arab officials have visited Beirut over the past year to try to reduce tensions along the Lebanon-Israel border.
While WFP has designated points of entry to bring aid to the hungry, the onset of the rainy season means trucks have difficulty reaching the Zamzam camp, home to more than 400,000 displaced people.
More than half of Mexico’s state legislatures voted in favor of a judicial overhaul that has already been approved by the nation’s congress, allowing President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to sign the controversial bill into law.
After eight years in the making, master sculptor Sabin Howard’s “A Soldier’s Journey,” will be unveiled with the First Illumination ceremony on Friday. It is the final piece to complete the National World War I Memorial in Washington.
Members of Congress have added just over $38 billion for 1,499 military research and procurement programs in fiscal 2025 that the president didn’t seek, according to a previously unpublicized database analyzed by CQ Roll Call.
Former Michigan governors and officials from both parties are joining a project aimed at boosting confidence in results ahead of the 2024 presidential election. Leaders from both sides say they will strengthen trust in elections through ads, media outreach and local engagement.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said Thursday he will not allow the Justice Department “to be used as a political weapon,” as he denounced “conspiracy theories and “dangerous falsehoods” targeting federal law enforcement.
A radical, quasi-state actor most Americans had never heard of, the Houthis of Yemen, have mounted the gravest challenge to freedom of the seas in decades — and arguably beaten a weary superpower along the way.
He was pardoned in December 2023 from his convictions for corruption and responsibility for the murder of 25 people. His daughter said in July that he was planning to run for Peru’s presidency for the fourth time in 2026.
The attorneys’ arrests were seen as a way to ramp up pressure on Navalny, the Kremlin’s fiercest foe. His lawyers were accused of using their status to pass information from him to his team.