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One rejected juror who spoke to the BBC outside court acknowledged the challenge of remaining impartial.

Heavy rains are battering Gulf states, causing flash flooding across the region.

The life of the French first lady will be turned into a six-part TV drama series.

Princess Amalia studied in Madrid for more than a year but has since returned, sources say.

A new software update stops the Palestinian flag emoji appearing when iPhone users type "Jerusalem".

A Democrat-controlled city announced $45 million in funding for programs to help deal with the skyrocketing number of

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey vowed to keep fighting to keep biological males out of girls' sports after a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday to overturn a state transgender sports ban because it "violated the Equal Protection Clause and Title IX."

The 2-1 ruling Tuesday from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocks a West Virginia law, signed in 2021, that bans transgender girls from playing on girls’ sports teams. The court said the law cannot lawfully be applied to a middle-school aged trans girl who has been taking...

The Supreme Court's conservative majority expressed concern Tuesday over the federal government's use of an obstruction law to prosecute a Jan. 6 Capitol riot defendant, which could have major implications for President Trump's separate election interference case.

Joseph Fischer, a onetime police patrolman, is one of about 350 people charged by the Justice Department with "obstruction of an official proceeding" in connection with the disruption of Congress’ certification of then-former Vice President Joe Biden's 2020 presidential election victory...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The United States said Tuesday it has filed a labor complaint after Mexico refused to act on alleged union-busting by a Mexican company.

The U.S. Trade Representatives Office said it has filed a request for a dispute settlement panel under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement, known as the USMCA.

The trade pact established rapid-resolution mechanisms to guarantee unions the right to organize in Mexico. For decades, wages in Mexico have been held very low because unions were not allowed to organize freely.

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The House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning a pro-Palestinian activist chant as antisemitic on Tuesday – but 43 Democrats and one Republican voted against it.

A House GOP-led resolution introduced by Rep. Anthony D'Esposito, R-N.Y., to formally criticize the use of the phrase "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" passed in a 377 to 44 vote.

As has been the case with most issues surrounding Israel, the measure split the Democratic Party, with progressives bucking their more traditional colleagues in their criticism of...

Sen. Robert Menendez may blame his wife if he takes the stand during his trial, possibly claiming she was the one getting the money and hiding the truth from him, according to court filings.

The Democrat's line of defense was filed in secret with a federal judge in January. The document were made public on Tuesday after the news media fought to make the documents public.

In those documents, Menendez's legal team wrote that if the senior senator from New Jersey were to take the stand, his story would clear him of the allegations he accepted any...

The Biden administration is expected to deny permission for a mining company to build a 211-mile industrial road through fragile Alaskan wilderness, handing a victory to environmentalists in an election year when the president wants to underscore his credentials as a climate leader and conservationist.

The Interior Department intends to announce as early as this week that there should be “no action” on the federal land where the road known as the Ambler Access Project would be built, according to two people familiar with the decision who asked not...

Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday encountered stiff resistance from Republicans as he embarked on a complicated and politically perilous strategy to push legislation through the House to send aid to Israel and Ukraine — all while beating back a threat to his own job.

Mr. Johnson, who has agonized for months over whether and how to advance aid to Ukraine that many in his party bitterly oppose, has settled on a multipart plan that will require everything to go right for him this week to prevail.

It aims to bring together a complicated mix of bipartisan...

President Biden delivered a flurry of attacks on former President Donald J. Trump during a Tuesday speech in Pennsylvania about taxes and economic policy, painting his Republican rival as a puppet of plutocrats who had ignored the working class.

Visiting his hometown, Scranton, in a top battleground state that he has visited more often than any other, Mr. Biden laid out his vision for a fairer tax code, including raising rates on the wealthy and corporations and using the money to expand the economy and help working families.

But in a speech that...

The threat against U.S. elections by Russia and other foreign powers is far greater today than it was in 2020, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said on Tuesday.

Senator Mark Warner, the Virginia Democrat who leads the committee, said the danger had grown for multiple reasons: Adversarial countries have become more adept at spreading disinformation, Americans are more vulnerable to propaganda, communication between the government and social media companies has become more difficult and artificial intelligence is giving foreign powers...