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The defense team in the Capitol riot trial of the Oath Keepers leader is relying on an unusual strategy with Donald Trump at the center.

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Hanging out with Richard Nixon's daughter.

Ken Starr, a former federal appellate judge and a prominent attorney whose criminal investigation of Bill Clinton led to the president’s impeachment, died Tuesday at age 76, his family says.

The question of whether the Biden administration can require federal employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19 has been argued in an appeals court in New Orleans for a second time.

She went horseback riding with Ronald Reagan.

Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama have unveiled their official White House portraits in an event filled with nostalgia and humor.

It’s been more than a decade since President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, welcomed back George W.

The Soviet Union seemed an immovable superpower in perpetual antagonism to the United States Before Mikhail Gorbachev came along.

Recently retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has become the honorary co-chairman of a nonpartisan group devoted to education about the Constitution.

President Joe Biden has arrived in South Carolina to begin what's expected to be at least a seven-day vacation with members of his family.

Mo Ostin, a self-effacing giant of the music business who with rare integrity presided over Warner Bros.

Seven months after being fired by CNN, Chris Cuomo is reemerging into the public eye.

The assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has revealed long-suspected, little-talked-of links between him and the Unification Church.

A court ruling is back in effect that blocks President Joe Biden from requiring federal employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

When Joe Biden was running for president, he wasn't shy about calling out dictators and authoritarian leaders.

President Joe Biden’s administration has scrapped former President Donald Trump’s red, white and blue design for the new generation of presidential aircraft after an Air Force review suggested it would raise costs and delay the delivery of the new jets.

A federal appeals court is being asked to reconsider its decision allowing the Biden administration to require that federal employees get vaccinated against COVID-19.

Justice Clarence Thomas says that the Supreme Court has been changed by the shocking leak of a draft opinion earlier this month.

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As bad as the environment seems with climate change and other pollution, scientists say humanity has also done a pretty good job of cleaning up past messes.

The Russian warship now known as the Moskva began its life as the Slava, or “glory” in 1979 at the height of the Cold War in what was the Soviet republic of Ukraine.

The first-ever publication of 1950 census records promises to solve some family mysteries for amateur genealogists and family historians.

President Joe Biden is again dipping into the nation’s petroleum stockpile to try to corral rising energy prices.

Congressional leaders are hailing Republican Rep. Don Young as a colorful but pragmatic lawmaker who got things done for his constituents.

Justice Clarence Thomas participated in arguments at the Supreme Court via telephone on Monday following a hospital stay of nearly a week.

Justice Clarence Thomas was discharged from the hospital Friday after a stay of nearly a week, the Supreme Court said.

The Supreme Court is declining to say whether 73-year-old Justice Clarence Thomas remains in the hospital.

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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has prompted some of America’s most prominent evangelical leaders to raise a provocative question.

President Joe Biden knows better than anyone the unexpected turns a Supreme Court nomination can take after it lands on Capitol Hill.

The 2022 midterm election season opens Tuesday in Texas.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s implied threat to turn the Ukraine crisis into a nuclear war presents President Joe Biden and U.S. allies with choices rarely contemplated in the atomic age.

If President Joe Biden’s search for a nominee to the Supreme Court could be summed up by a Help Wanted ad it might read: “Seeking a well-respected liberal jurist.

A bipartisan group of two dozen former South Carolina federal prosecutors are offering their “wholehearted support” for Judge Michelle Childs’ nomination to an appellate court.

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As America’s first second gentleman, Doug Emhoff has visited 31 states to promote Biden administration policies and the coronavirus vaccine.

When the leaders of the Soviet Union’s three Slavic republics met at a secluded hunting lodge near the Polish border on Dec. 8, 1991, they delivered a death blow to the USSR.

Americans are remembering Bob Dole, a man who defied the odds in war, only to fall short of his ultimate goal in politics.

U.S. leaders and military veterans are mourning the loss of former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, a World War II veteran and former Republican presidential candidate who served in Congress for 36 years.

Bob Dole's political career began in 1950 with election to the Kansas Legislature.

Supreme Court justices considering a major abortion case Wednesday will hear from just three lawyers: one representing the state of Mississippi, another representing Mississippi’s only abortion clinic and the last representing the Biden administration.

U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert has joined the crowded field of Republicans mounting primary challenges against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

President Joe Biden has pardoned two turkeys at the White House, an annual holiday tradition.

In 1972, Big Bird lined up on `Sesame Street' to receive a measles vaccine as part of a campaign to get more youngsters inoculated against the disease.

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Jill Biden is speaking candidly about the challenges of her job as first lady.

A child of working-class Jamaican immigrants in the Bronx, Colin Powell rose from neighborhood store clerk to warehouse floor-mopper to the highest echelons of the U.S. government.

A Kentucky man pardoned by President Donald Trump after his conviction in a 2012 bribery plot has been charged again with campaign-related crimes, this time involving a 2016 illegal campaign contribution scheme.