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Moments before a convicted Jan. 6 rioter was sentenced Thursday, he sought a full pardon. He claimed President-elect Donald Trump’s victory vindicated his actions.

On Thursday, Judge J. Campbell Barker ruled in favor of the Republican-led effort to dismantle the Biden administration's program

San Francisco Mayor London Breed conceded the mayoral race to Daniel Lurie Thursday afternoon with a social media post that congratulated her competitor.

The mayor also thanked the city and its residents for "the opportunity to serve the City that raised me" in the post on X just after 4:30 p.m. Thursday.

There had been rumblings that Breed might concede the race earlier Thursday having come in behind Lurie in the last vote count released Wednesday morning.

"Today, I called Daniel Lurie and congratulated him on his victory in this election,"...

Roman ruins in Lebanon lie just a short distance from sites that have been hit by Israeli air strikes.

More than 10,000 residents have been ordered to evacuate since the blaze began on Wednesday.

Hurricane Rafael brought strong winds, causing a shutdown of the country's electricity system for the second time in just weeks.

Officials in rural South Carolina say the female rhesus monkeys escaped into the wild after their pen was left open.

The justice department is said to be looking at closing prosecutions brought by special counsel Jack Smith.

The US central bank cuts interest rates, as its chairman vows to stay on the job.

Laura Gillen was projected to win a tight race on Long Island, according to NBC News, one of the hotly contested New York congressional districts that could determine the balance of power in the House of Representatives.

In a rematch from 2022, the Republican incumbent Anthony D'Esposito had been trying to hold onto a congressional district right outside New York City that President Joe Biden won by 15 percentage points in 2020. D'Esposito defeated Gillen in 2022 by about 10,000 votes.

Nearly 48 hours after polls closed in the state, NBC News...

Chaos ensued at the Spirit Airlines counter inside LaGuardia Airport in New York after a raccoon came crashing through a ceiling panel.

A highway worker is lucky to be alive after a crash on Interstate 81 in New York state.

A federal judge on Thursday struck down a Biden administration program that would allow unauthorized immigrants married to American citizens to get legal status and a streamlined path to U.S. citizenship, declaring the policy illegal.

U.S. District Court Judge J. Campbell Barker, an appointee of President-elect Donald Trump, found the program violates U.S. immigration law, agreeing with a lawsuit filed by Texas and more than a dozen other Republican-led states.

The ruling is a major defeat for the outgoing Biden administration, which argued the...

For Americans celebrating the results of the presidential election, or those who were left discouraged, it's too soon for big thoughts like how to bridge the political divide in the U.S. But that is not the case for one man in particular. Jim Axelrod has more.

Washington — President Biden still has no plans to pardon his son, Hunter Biden, in the final months of his presidency, the White House press secretary reiterated on Thursday.

"We've been asked that question multiple times and our answer stands — which is no," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at Thursday's press briefing.

The president said in June that he would not pardon or commute a potential prison sentence for his son, who was convicted of three separate felony charges related to his purchase of a revolver in 2018 when...