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Embattled House Speaker Mike Johnson is trying to stop a revolt among his fellow Republicans while winning support for his plan to provide military funding to Ukraine ahead of a possible vote Saturday. The chair of the Senate Commerce Committee has also thrown her support behind a bill that could lead to a U.S. ban of TikTok. Scott MacFarlane has the latest.

President Biden held a campaign event with 15 members of the Kennedy family Thursday, as they threw their support behind Mr. Biden instead of their own relative, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. His family's public endorsement of Mr. Biden signals how seriously Democrats are taking his run. Nikole Killion has details.

A full jury of seven men and five women have been seated for former President Donald Trump's Manhattan trial, in which he is accused of falsifying business records to hide an alleged affair ahead of the 2016 election. Robert Costa has more.

The federal judge overseeing former President Donald J. Trump’s classified documents case on Thursday denied initial attempts by Mr. Trump’s two co-defendants to have the charges against them dismissed.

The ruling by the judge, Aileen M. Cannon, was the first time she had rejected dismissal motions by the two men, Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, both of whom work for Mr. Trump at Mar-a-Lago, his private club and residence in Florida.

Prosecutors in the office of the special counsel, Jack Smith, say that Mr. Nauta, one of Mr. Trump’s closest...

The winning images from this year's Sony World Photography Awards.

Some inbound flights to the world's second busiest airport resume, but many passengers remain stranded.

Thousands of Chinese companies are making synthetic opioids and shipping them around the world.

Sell or be banned - TikTok's US operations, by some estimates, could fetch up to $100bn.

Twelve jurors have been seated in the historic criminal trial of former president Donald Trump.

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The leader of Iraq will travel to Michigan on Thursday following a sit-down with President Joe Biden to meet with the state's large Iraqi community and update them on escalating tensions in the Middle East following Iran’s weekend aerial assault on Israel.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani's trip to both Washington and Michigan to discuss U.S.-Iraq relations had been planned well before Saturday's drone and missile launches from Iran-backed groups. The visit has been thrust into the spotlight as tensions in the...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Two-term Republican U.S. Rep. Jake LaTurner is not running for reelection this year in his GOP-leaning eastern Kansas district so that he can spend more time with his four young children, he announced Thursday.

LaTurner is among nearly two dozen Republicans in the U.S. House who are not running again or seeking another office.

KANSAS MAN TELLS JURY GOD THREATENED REP. LATURNER THROUGH HIM

"The unrepeatable season of life we are in, where our kids are still young and at home, is something I want to be more present for," LaTurner...

A new Kentucky law aimed at curbing youth vaping is being challenged in court.

The Kentucky Vaping Retailers Association, the Kentucky Hemp Association and four vape retailers filed a lawsuit last week in Franklin Circuit Court challenging the constitutionality of the bill, news outlets reported. It would require that any vape products sold have approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or have a "safe harbor certification."

KENTUCKY GOVERNOR VETOES SWEEPING CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL, SAYS IT WOULD HIKE INCARCERATION COSTS

The administration...

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Twelve New Yorkers have been selected to decide Trump's guilt or innocence in hush money charges from Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's prosecution.

The third day of jury selection (the court is not in session on Wednesdays) started with seven seated...

A new Biden campaign ad focused on the economy and infrastructure included a subtle claim about the president's mental fitness, calling him "sharp as a knife."

The Thursday ad, titled "Sharp," centered on Pennsylvania steelworker Jojo Burgess, who spent most of the 30-second video praising Biden over his handling of the economy and infrastructure, but briefly appeared to reference the president's mental acuity by using the same descriptor repeated by the administration and Democrats to defend his cognitive ability earlier this year.

"I've been a...

Kennedy family members will join Biden Thursday at events in Philadelphia to give him their endorsement.