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WASHINGTON – A federal judge on Friday ordered that the man accused of planting pipe bombs in Washington the night before the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack should remain behind bars while his case moves forward.

Many of those injured in the deadly fire that engulfed a bar in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana during New Year celebrations are fighting for their lives, as officials started investigating the tragedy.

Venezuelans awoke Friday to mounting reports that a narrow stretch of coastline near its border with Colombia may have been the target of a U.S. military strike — a move that would mark a sharp escalation in Washington’s pressure campaign against the Nicolás Maduro regime. The suspected strike occurred in the western reaches of the Gulf of Venezuela, between Puerto López in Colombia’s La ...

A 6.5 magnitude earthquake shook the Mexican state of Guerrero in the southern part of the country on Friday, Jan. 2, according to the United States Geological Survey.

WASHINGTON – More than two years after a Dallas postal worker died from heat exposure on the job, letter carriers say the United States Postal Service has yet to take steps required to fully protect them when the temperature and humidity soar. The 2023 death of Eugene Gates Jr. prompted a federal citation and $15,625 fine against the Postal Service, along with renewed calls from union leaders ...

President Donald Trump pledged that the U.S. will come to the rescue of Iranian protesters if they are attacked by Islamic Republic authorities.

KYIV – President Volodymyr Zelenskyy named Ukraine’s military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov as his top adviser on Friday and proposed a drone and digitalization specialist as defense minister.

At least seven people have been killed in Iran as violence escalates amid a new wave of anti-government protests that continued for a fifth day on Thursday.

Day care operators say the Trump administration’s restrictions on federal child care funding unfairly punish them over a conservative activist’s fraud allegations against Minnesota centers that are undercut by state records and disputed by some of the owners.

The White House on Wednesday laid out a nine-week timeline to win approval for President Donald Trump’s proposed ballroom, even as one federal review panel said it has yet to receive formal building plans and basic details of the project remain unclear.

The Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., ended the first year of President Donald Trump's second term with a record of rulings that gave him much broader power to control the federal government.

California has delayed its cancellation of thousands of commercial driver's licenses held by migrants, setting it up for another showdown with Washington. The Department of Motor Vehicles announced on Tuesday that the 17,000 migrant truck drivers whose licenses had been revoked can now keep them for 60 more days, which could enable the drivers to retake tests and do whatever is necessary to ...

As he approached Le Constellation bar to celebrate the New Year in a snowy Swiss ski resort bright with Christmas lights, Dominic Dubois saw flames engulfing the building.

Trever Nehls stood in a hallway outside the House chamber on an early December evening, shaking hands, chatting with staffers and getting warm greetings from a number of GOP members. A passerby paused in front of him: “Are you the real one or …” “As long as you don’t say ‘impostor,’” he replied.

The officers are often masked, armed and do not identify themselves. At a Chili’s in the Key West airport, they arrested 11 people at a family reunion. On a canal near Fort Lauderdale, they picked up two men who’d gone fishing. In July, they detained a young man with a work permit and held him for three months. They stopped a construction worker in a small city near Orlando for jaywalking.

The Trump administration stepped up a pressure campaign against Venezuela’s oil exports by sanctioning companies based in Hong Kong and mainland China, along with related oil tankers it accused of evading restrictions.

California wildlife authorities are urging residents of a small Central California town to lock up their pets and secure livestock following a series of mountain lion attacks. Multiple animals have been killed in the Monterey County hamlet of Corral de Tierra, about 12 miles east of Monterey, officials said. Residents have claimed that family dogs, a miniature horse and goats have all been ...