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WASHINGTON — At least one of the Senate’s yet-to-be-unveiled fiscal 2026 appropriations bills could be released next week, even though lawmakers will be in their districts for the Thanksgiving recess. There is a good chance the Senate will post its version of the Energy-Water bill, one of the four the Senate has not yet released, House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole, R-Okla., said Friday. The ...

Amtrak’s ridership broke records this year after the national railroad introduced new routes across the US and upgraded several cars to expand capacity.

 Marjorie Taylor Greene made her support for releasing the Jeffrey Epstein sex abuse files known long before she became a member of Congress.

In a stunning and hasty reversal, the U.S. Coast Guard announced late Thursday that swastikas and nooses are prohibited hate symbols - erasing an attempt to soften their definition after the plan elicited furious backlash.

The stepmother of Anna Kepner, the high school senior found dead on a Carnival cruise ship earlier this month, has invoked the Fifth Amendment in a custody battle as one of her minor children faces potential criminal charges in the Florida cheerleader’s death.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine is facing the risk of losing its key partner after the U.S. threatened to cut off support unless Kyiv agrees to a peace deal that favors Russia.

A sanctioned Russian oil tanker made a U-turn on the way to Venezuela after a US warship intersected its route near the country’s coast, according to Bloomberg tanker tracking, raising questions about whether Washington could step in to curtail Moscow’s energy aid to Caracas.

Fall is the time of year when bears really begin to think with their stomachs. Some will double their weight to prepare for wintertime hibernation, often scavenging for calories for up to 20 hours per day. This feeding frenzy, called hyperphagia, drives them farther from their usual range and into neighborhood dumpsters in search of easy meals.

WASHINGTON – After months of trading insults, President Donald Trump and incoming New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani smiled at each other, swapped compliments and pledged to collaborate on tackling crime and affordability in the nation’s biggest city at an unexpectedly friendly meeting at the White House on Friday.

BELEM, Brazil – Brazil, host of the COP30 conference, urged countries to unite for a deal to strengthen international climate efforts on Friday, as the summit drifted past its scheduled end with nations deadlocked over whether the accord should set the world on a clearer path away from fossil fuels.

The long government shutdown had left a secret screening in limbo. But Monday on Capitol Hill, a handful of House members filed into a committee room to watch a new documentary featuring nearly three dozen government officials and others discussing what they can disclose about unidentified aerial phenomena, long known as UFOs.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has altered its website on autism and vaccines, removing unequivocal statements that immunizations don’t cause the neurodevelopmental disorder and replacing them with inaccurate and misleading information about the links between the shots and autism.

Dick Cheney, the former vice president and a consummate Washington insider across four decades, was remembered at his funeral Thursday as a shrewd and steady tactician whom three Republican presidents relied on to help lead the country through several wars and crises, including the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

CHICAGO - Federal prosecutors on Thursday moved to dismiss the indictment of a Chicago woman who was shot repeatedly by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer during an ongoing deportation blitz in the Chicago area this fall, court records show.

Federal investigators released a preliminary report on the deadly crash of a UPS cargo plane in Louisville, Kentucky, that killed 14 people earlier this month, revealing that hardware meant to hold one of the plane's engines in place showed signs of fatigue and "overstress failure."

Europe voiced alarm at U.S.-Russia proposals for ending the war in Ukraine and insisted that Kyiv and its allies must have a central role in shaping any peace deal.