General Politics

Senator JD Vance of Ohio, who since becoming former President Donald J. Trump’s running mate in July has been criticized on several occasions for comments demeaning women, found himself again embroiled in controversy this week when he used a viral clip of a beauty pageant contestant’s meltdown to attack Vice President Kamala Harris.

On Thursday, Mr. Vance shared a video clip from the 2007 Miss Teen USA competition in which Caite Upton, who was representing South Carolina, gave a mangled answer to a question about why many Americans could not locate...

Harris said the cemetery is "not a place for politics" in her first remarks on the incident.

Dr Mark Chavez is among five people charged over the Friends star's death in Los Angeles last year.

Iran president says investment needed to achieve 8% annual economic growth.

A police officer in French Guiana lifted a sloth to safety, potentially moving it out of the way of a fast-paced cycling race.

Vice President Kamala Harris condemned former President Donald Trump and his campaign for disrespecting a "sacred ground, all for the sake of a political stunt."

In a post on X, the Democrat Party nominee said Arlington National Cemetery is a "place where we come together to honor American heroes" and it is "not a place for politics."

These are Harris' first comments since it was reported that an altercation between a female cemetery official and a Trump campaign staffer on Monday. Trump took part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the...

Some areas may face storm surges and potential travel disruptions.

Vice President Kamala Harris excoriated former President Donald J. Trump on Saturday for his visit on Monday to Arlington National Cemetery, where his campaign’s filming of him in a heavily restricted area caused a confrontation between one of his political aides and a cemetery official.

In her first public comments on the situation, Ms. Harris said that Mr. Trump had desecrated a solemn place that should be free of politics when he appeared there for a wreath-laying ceremony for 13 service members who were killed in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan...

The drive comes after the first confirmed case of the disease in 25 years was discovered in Gaza.

Trains and flights are cancelled as one of the strongest typhoons in decades drenches cities in its path.

Over the last three decades, West Virginia’s voter participation has been well below the national average. In 2020, the coal-rich state had the second-lowest citizen voting rate in the country, after Arkansas, according to the U.S. Census.

Several researchers studying community engagement in West Virginia said its narrow job market and the influence of the coal, oil and gas industries on its economy may be contributing to the low numbers.

“We bleed our young talent away from the state,” said Samuel Workman, director of the Institute for Policy...

A small plane crashed into a residential neighborhood in Fairview, Oregon, near Troutdale Airport in Oregon around 10:30 a.m.

Seven people are dead and 37 others were injured after ran off the road and was overturned in Mississippi.

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Civilians trickle out of Jenin refugee camp, sealed off for almost four days by an Israeli operation.