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Former Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn on Wednesday launched a second bid for Congress, announcing he would run to succeed retiring former House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer in Maryland.

MINNEAPOLIS — A federal lawyer expressed frustration over the U.S. government’s failure to comply with court orders amid an overload of immigration cases swamping the U.S. attorney’s office in Minnesota since the deployment of 3,000 federal agents to the state. U.S. District Judge Jerry Blackwell ordered attorneys for the U.S. government to appear before him on Tuesday in St. Paul federal ...

Ryan Wesley Routh, the man convicted of trying to kill Donald Trump as the Republican nominee for president was playing golf at his club in West Palm Beach, was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday.

Gov. Gavin Newsom, barred from running for reelection, still took heat Tuesday during the first debate in California’s 2026 race for governor.

A ransom note connected to the suspected abduction of Savannah Guthrie’s mother Nancy Guthrie demanded millions in cryptocurrency and was shown to the “Today” show co-host by federal authorities.

U.S. Sen. Cory Booker has raised more than $30 million for his reelection campaign, outdoing the vast majority of candidates running for either chamber of Congress in 2026.

Dog the Bounty Hunter’s stepson, Gregory Zecca, who mistakenly shot and killed his 13-year-old son some six months ago, has been arrested, authorities announced.

White House border czar Tom Homan said Wednesday that effective immediately the federal government is withdrawing 700 federal law enforcement personnel from Minnesota.

 At least 21 people were reported killed and more than 30 others injured by Israeli fire in Gaza on Wednesday after renewed fighting in the coastal territory, the Hamas-controlled health authority said.

Iran has asked the U.S. to move diplomatic talks originally planned for Turkey to Oman and to limit the agenda to the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, according to people familiar with the matter.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia’s resumption of attacks on the country’s energy infrastructure with the biggest assault this year will have consequences for Kyiv’s negotiating team in this week’s peace talks.

NEW YORK — The Jeffrey Epstein files will remain online after victims of the disgraced financier on Tuesday said the Justice Department had committed to “expeditiously” scrubbing their identities from a tranche of case files released to the public, creating what one woman called a “careless and dangerous” situation. Lawyers for the women had alerted judges in Manhattan to “an unfolding ...

NASA’s test run of its Artemis II countdown ran into problems Monday at Kennedy Space Center, scrapping any chance of the moonbound mission launching this month. Instead, the agency is targeting March as the earliest possible date for Artemis II, which will be the first crewed mission on the Orion spacecraft and the first time humans will fly around the moon in more than half a century. “With ...

WASHINGTON — One of the brothers of Renee Good, the 37-year-old mother of three who was shot and killed by an immigration agent in Minneapolis, told congressional Democrats on Tuesday that he needed their help. Luke Ganger said their family had taken some consolation in the thought that his sister's death might spark a change. "It has not," he said. That is why Ganger and people who had been ...

The Department of Defense warned Scouting America, formerly the Boy Scouts of America, that it risks losing U.S. military support if it does not implement changes that align with the Trump administration. In a statement posted to social media late Monday, Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said the Irving, Texas-based organization must initiate “common-sense, core value reforms” to continue ...

TEL AVIV, Israel - By the time the Israeli start-up Kela opened its doors in 2024, its employees had already been serving as reservists on Israel’s battlefields.

A Massachusetts man set fire to his home while using a torch to melt ice on his roof, a risky snow-removal technique that has led to several accidents during winter conditions.

A wedding gown from a failed marriage sits in a cardboard box at a mall in Vancouver, British Columbia. Nearby, there’s a can of spilled paint, rejection letters and a poster of a missing cat.