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Until recently, Forrest Smith was the sole employee at the National Park Service responsible for cleaning up dozens of abandoned oil and gas wells at national parks across the country.

For Tacoma’s Umi Wagoner, “fashion is home.”

The Republican chairman of the House oversight committee on Friday asked Alex Acosta, the former U.S. attorney who signed off on disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s controversial 2007 plea deal, if he wanted to clarify his recent testimony to the panel. Representative James Comer’s request follows a report by Bloomberg News that cited emails from Epstein’s private Yahoo account to show that ...

NEW YORK – In a dimly lit classroom across the street from LaGuardia Airport, eight students at Vaughn College embarked recently on a new venture to help address the staffing crisis among air traffic controllers.

WASHINGTON — The top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee are publicly pressuring the Pentagon to provide its legal rationale for the military strikes against alleged drug trafficking boats. Committee Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and ranking member Jack Reed, D-R.I., on Friday released two letters they previously sent Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth requesting the ...

WASHINGTON - A new White House rule issued Friday restricts the ability of credentialed journalists to freely access the offices of press secretary Karoline Leavitt and other top communications officials in the West Wing, near the Oval Office.

More than 300 piles of cremated human remains were discovered in a desert just outside of Las Vegas, sparking a mystery for which authorities so far have few answers. A local stumbled upon the site of the remains in July outside Searchlight, Nevada, a rural community about an hour south of Vegas, KLAS reported. By August, officials with the Bureau of Land Management confirmed the cremated ...

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Saturday said he has asked the Defense Department to prepare for possible “fast” military action in Nigeria if the West African nation fails to crack down on the killing of Christians.

Want to check out White House's official state china in the China Room? Or admire the collection of silver-gilt tableware in the Vermeil Room? You're out of luck even though the public tours are slated to resume soon.

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Buckeye State’s top politicians approved a new congressional map with bipartisan support on Oct. 31 − a compromise that avoids worst-case scenarios for both Ohio Republicans and Democrats.

CHICAGO – Detainees held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Illinois have filed a lawsuit saying the conditions they were held in were “filthy,” “cruel” and aimed at “coercing” them to leave the country.