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China is providing Russia with significant quantities of components to build cruise missiles and drones as well as optical parts for tanks and armored vehicles, allowing Moscow to ramp up defense production in its war against Ukraine, senior U.S. officials said.

Four of South Dakota's federally recognized Native American tribes have barred the state's governor, Kristi Noem -- a Republican whose name has been floated as a potential running mate for former President Donald Trump -- from their reservations. The latest blocked Noem on Thursday.

Iran launched a massive attack of more than 200 missiles and drones toward Israel late Saturday, a stunning assault that put the Israeli military on high alert and threatened to unleash more violence in an already turbulent region.

Former President Donald Trump said he’ll have no issue taking the stand in his upcoming criminal trial centered on an illicit hush money payoff to porn star Stormy Daniels.

Authorities in Pittsburgh reopened a bridge that had been closed as a precaution after 26 barges broke loose on the Ohio River late Friday, drifting miles downstream and damaging a marina.

President Biden has a story he wants to tell voters about the economy, one of consistent job growth over the course of his presidency and of a pandemic recovery that has led the world. Inflation keeps getting in the way.

A former United States ambassador was sentenced Friday to 15 years of imprisonment after pleading guilty to charges that he served for decades as a secret agent for Cuba’s spy agency.

In the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, federal prosecutors had to decide what charges to bring against hundreds of participants in the pro-Donald Trump mob that disrupted the certification of a presidential election for the first time in U.S. history.

An Israeli teenager whose disappearance had led to riots by Israeli settlers in the West Bank was found dead Saturday, Israeli authorities said, threatening to further inflame tensions in the Israeli-occupied territory.

Missouri lawmakers say water has almost always been plentiful in their state, giving no reason to think twice about a concept known as riparian rights - the idea that, if you own the land, you have broad freedoms to use its water. But that could change under a bill advancing quickly in the state's legislature.

When Maria Cantwell first ran for the U.S. Senate, she championed what was then an unconventional political cause: internet privacy. Twenty-four years later, Cantwell (D-Wash.) has finally unveiled a bipartisan agreement aimed at achieving that vision. But the path ahead remains murky.

A knife-wielding assailant killed six people and injured several others at a mall in a Sydney suburb on Saturday and was fatally shot by a police officer, Australian authorities said.

Donald Trump defended embattled House Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday, saying he stands with the Louisiana Republican as one of the former president’s loyal allies in Congress targets Johnson for removal.

Across the country, fractures are emerging among conservative and centrist Republican women, as they confront an unrelenting drumbeat of new abortion bans and court rulings.

In a major turnaround, the House on Friday passed a two-year reauthorization of an expiring warrantless surveillance law that had stalled this week amid GOP resistance stoked by former President Donald Trump.

A new transitional ruling council was finalized in Haiti on Friday to try to bring political stability to a country wracked by escalating gang violence and a worsening humanitarian crisis.