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An explosion outside Turkey's interior ministry in Ankara, was a "terrorist attack", a minister said.

Conservative hardliner Rep. Matt Gaetz will move to oust Rep. Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House, the hardliner said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“I do intend to file a motion to vacate against Speaker McCarthy this week,” Gaetz (R-Fla) said. “I think we need to rip off the band aid. I think we need to move on with new leadership that can be trustworthy.”

The Florida lawmaker has threatened to force a vote on booting McCarthy from leadership for weeks, promising to follow through if McCarthy worked with Democrats to avert a government shutdown. McCarthy did so on Saturday, after a group of hard–right Republicans led by Gaetz tanked McCarthy’s efforts to pass legislation that would prevent a government shutdown on Friday.

An 11th hour "Hail Mary" stop-gap spending bill passed the House on Saturday, averting a shutdown of the federal government due to infighting within the Republican Party. Correspondent Lee Cowan looks at how the crisis has been (perhaps only temporarily) avoided – with ramifications for Ukraine.

Zimbabwe's vice president says the death toll from a shaft collapse at a disused gold mine could rise to 13

Oprah Winfrey and Meghan Markle are reportedly among those being considered to replace late Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.

Winfrey's name is among those being floated for the role, according to Newsmax and The Desert Sun, but the successful TV host-turned-billionaire book publisher and entrepreneur indicated as recently as in May that she "is not considering the seat should it become vacant," according to the Los Angeles Times.

It was announced Friday that Feinstein died at age 90. All eyes have since turned to Democratic California Gov. Gavin...

A lot has surprised Robert Johnstone in the past few years — breaking numerous ribs during a physical therapy session meant to help his back pain, losing three inches of height from a vertebrae compression fracture and receiving a cancer diagnosis at age 38.

But the Department of Veterans Affairs denying his disability claim twice did not surprise Johnstone.

"I'm not overly pessimistic. I'm just kind of realistic about things," the 41-year-old Army veteran told Fox News. "The VA does not have the best of reputations at times."

Johnstone is among...

Sikh activists confronted the diplomat amid a row over the death of a separatist leader in Canada.

Former US President Jimmy Carter turned 99 on Sunday.

After days of stalemate, Congress passed a stopgap funding bill Saturday to keep the government open through mid-November, narrowly avoiding a shutdown that could have had devastating impacts.

The Supreme Court is scheduled to decide several key cases in its 2023-24 term, which starts Monday.

Nearly three dozen appeals are on the argument docket.

Several dozen more are expected to be added in coming months. The caseload is usually settled by February, with the term effectively ending in late June.

Other important appeals that may be added to the court's calendar cover such issues as abortion medication, social media regulation, affirmative action in secondary school education, 2020 election interference prosecutions and other 2024...

As Americans look ahead to the 2024 presidential election, the Supreme Court is reaching back to past constitutional conflicts, just in time to have major political implications for voters to consider.

This judicial déjà vu will include not only the court's hot-button caseload, but the nine members' own conduct and accountability.

"The Supreme Court is going to be tackling so many of the issues that have divided America on political grounds. They're not shying away from the controversial cases," said Thomas Dupree, a former top Justice Department...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom will be tasked with appointing a replacement for the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein which will mean the governor has handpicked all of the most powerful positions in the Golden State.

Sen. Feinstein died at the age of 90 on Friday meaning that Newsom will appoint someone to fill out the rest of her term after he appointed then Secretary of State Alex Padilla to replace Sen. Kamala Harris in 2021.

In addition to appointing California’s two senators, Newsom nominated Padilla’s replacement as secretary of state, Shirley Weber...

The Biden administration quietly issued a 59-page report outlining the current scope of federal energy-related subsidies revealed that the renewable energy sector enjoys significantly larger taxpayer backing than the fossil fuel industry.

The report — authored by the Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration (EIA) and published in August — represents the first of its kind since 2018. The EIA analyzed data from 2016 through 2022, and determined that, during that time period, the federal government doled out $183.3 billion in direct and...

Four other people were injured in the fire in south-eastern city of Murcia, authorities say.

A huge fire tears through two disused buildings in the French city, with flames and smoke rising high into the sky.