Nation/World

WASHINGTON, D.C. – It may have been the most momentous fortnight in modern U.S. political history.

The Justice Department has agreed to settle claims by former senior FBI special agent Peter P. Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page, who had filed lawsuits accusing the government of violating their privacy rights by leaking their politically charged text messages criticizing Donald Trump.

Advisers to former President Donald Trump said they would not commit to another debate, one they had already agreed to participate in, now that the Democrats have changed candidates from President Joe Biden to Vice President Kamala Harris.

Queen Elizabeth II vacationed there, as did her parents before her. Hollywood's royalty were regular visitors, too. The mountains of Jasper, Alberta, have stood in for peaks in other movies. Now, tens of thousands of acres of the park and its mountain town of Jasper are either burning in an inferno or have been reduced to rubble and ash.

A hiker from Arizona fell hundreds of feet to his death Wednesday while traversing a mountain ridge in southwestern Colorado, about 20 miles southwest of Telluride, according to sheriff’s officials.

NASA officials said on Friday that they expected congestion at the International Space Station in the coming month, following a couple of weeks in which it seemed that the agency's ability to transport astronauts to and from orbit was stuck in a holding pattern.

A Nebraska teenager has been accused of forcing a train to derail so he could record the incident and share it on YouTube, according to court records.

An enormous wildfire in Northern California has destroyed buildings, left at least two people injured and prompted evacuation orders for thousands of people as it raged in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. As of early Friday, the fire had burned more than 164,000 acres, making it the state's largest fire this year.

Tim Paul was making an early-morning work stop near his home in Park County, Wyo., and he had his dog Jade with him. When Paul opened his car door, Jade unexpectedly bolted out - fast and far into the wilderness. She got spooked by loud machinery and trucks driving by.

Former Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, who is awaiting retrial on rape charges in New York, has been hospitalized again.

Earth’s lands lost much of their ability to absorb the carbon dioxide humans pumped into the air last year, according to a new study that is causing concern among climate scientists that a crucial damper on climate change underwent an unprecedented deterioration.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived Friday for a Florida meeting with former president Donald Trump at a time of political tension between their two countries and personal tension between two men who were once close allies.

While Donald Trump’s agenda and a massive think tank document clearly indicate his second-term strategy for federal workers, nothing captures those plans as succinctly as a statement made by his running mate.

Jaelyn Richter, a 27-year-old therapist in the Minneapolis suburbs, was painting her basement with her husband on Sunday when she realized she had the perfect song for a TikTok video about Kamala Harris.

A longtime senior leader of the Sinaloa cartel, Ismael Zambada Garcia, or “El Mayo,” and a son of famed drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman were taken into custody Thursday by U.S. authorities in Texas, according to senior Mexican and U.S. officials.

The FBI is examining metal fragments found near the stage at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, to determine whether a would-be assassin's bullet -- or potential debris -- grazed former President Donald Trump's head, bloodying his right ear, according to the FBI and a federal law enforcement official.

Justice Elena Kagan said Thursday that she would support the creation of a committee of judges to examine potential violations of the Supreme Court’s new ethics code, speaking out on a contentious subject as President Biden and others are increasingly calling for reform at the high court.

Ancient life on Mars? Maybe, could be, might be. But this is going to require a much closer look.