General Politics

Representative Brittany Pettersen was elected to serve the people of Colorado’s third Congressional District and she has gone the extra mile to do so — literally. She flew from Colorado to Washington, D.C. with her 4-week-old infant in order to vote on a critical budget bill on Feb. 25.

“Congress makes no accommodations for new parents," she wrote on her website on Jan. 27, "so while I’m recovering and taking care of my newborn at this critical time, it’s incredibly unfair that my constituents will not have a voice in Congress until I am physically...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Roberts on Wednesday paused a federal judge’s order that required the Trump administration to pay around $2 billion in foreign aid funds to contractors by midnight.

The ruling comes after the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court for an emergency order to block the release of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) funding, which the federal judge had required by midnight. Officials had said they would not be able to comply with the judge’s order.

The Trump administration said U.S. District Judge...

A horse that fell through the ice of an upstate New York pond was saved by rescuers who pulled together to free the animal from the frigid water.

The U.S. will begin removing transgender troops from the military within 30 days unless they obtain a waiver on a case-by-case basis, the Pentagon said in a Wednesday memo.

The memo became public as part of a court filing in a case challenging President Trump's late January executive order that was aimed at barring military service by transgender personnel.

"Service members who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria will be processed for separation from military service," the memo read.

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Attorney General Pam Bondi made an explosive revelation on Wednesday when she told Jesse Watters on "Jesse Watters Primetime" that some information about Jeffrey Epstein would be released by the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday.

She told Watters there are over 250 alleged victims, and her office needs to ensure all of their identities are protected.

"What you’re going to see, hopefully tomorrow, is a lot of flight logs, a lot of names, a lot of information," Bondi said when asked about the type of information that will be released Thursday...

Israel is due to release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in return as part of an exchange.

Rising stars of African journalism are encouraged to apply for the award, which is now in its 10th year.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams pulled out of a candidates forum Wednesday featuring many of his opponents in the Democratic primary, saying his lawyer had advised him to stay away from such events until a judge decides whether to dismiss the public corruption indictment still pending against him.

“Let's allow the court to do this process,” Adams told reporters as he left another event in the city, adding that there was plenty of time left in the mayoral campaign for other debates and public forums.

The mayor also offered a second justification for...

Republican lawmakers pressing the Department of Justice (DOJ) for the release of classified documents and records related to Jeffrey Epstein and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, among other federal secrets, received a response, though it fell a bit flat.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order last month calling on agencies to create plans to release and distribute top-secret documents, including those pertaining to the assassinations of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., is...

Stephen Craig Campbell -- who has been living in New Mexico under an assumed identity, according to the FBI -- is in custody after a dramatic arrest last week.

A decommissioned jumbo jet that Burning Man revelers partied in during the 2017 festival is getting a new life off the Las Vegas Strip

Washington — The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to intervene in a dispute involving an estimated $2 billion in foreign assistance funds from the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris asked the high court to put on hold an order from a federal district judge that required the Trump administration to pay all invoices and funding requests to the State Department and USAID contractors for work finished before Feb. 13. The judge, U.S. District Judge Amir Ali...

Atlanta, Georgia — Inside El Progreso Supermarket in Atlanta, Georgia, the price of a gallon of milk can at times be what brings in or drives customers away.

Luz Hernandez opened her first grocery store in 2014, one of four she owns across the Atlanta metropolitan area. She says high food prices are the No. 1 problem her customers are currently dealing with.

"They used to come in to buy food…with $100," Hernandez said. "Now it's $300."

At El Progreso, essentials like milk and cheese are staples for her mainly Latinos customers. The products...

In a wide-ranging interview, the former Baywatch actress also explained why she no longer wears makeup.

The Taliban say 90,000 CCTV cameras in Kabul will reduce crime but there are fears for human rights.