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President Joe Biden signed into law on Wednesday a $95 billion war aid measure that includes aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan and that also has a provision that would force social media site TikTok to be sold or be banned in the U.S.

The announcement marks an end to the long, painful battle with Republicans in Congress over urgently needed assistance for Ukraine.

“We rose to the moment, we came together, and we got it done," Biden said at White House event to announce the signing. "Now we need to move fast, and we are.”

But significant damage...

In this war, it is a huge challenge to find out how people whose bodies were exhumed at Nasser hospital died.

Musician Toomaj Salehi had backed anti-government nationwide protests in 2022.

The proposal by Robert Fico's populist-nationalist government has raised fears for independent media.

Two newly-built encampments near the southern city are shown on satellite pictures.

Prospective migrants trying to reach the UK from France say smuggling operations are continuing after Tuesday's tragedy.

The contentious issue of abortion has returned to the Supreme Court, with the justices prepared on Wednesday to weigh a states' rights challenge over hospital emergency room access to the procedure.

In nearly two hours of oral arguments, the high court confronted whether state abortion restrictions are invalidated by a federal law.

It was unclear from the public session how the court might eventually decide. The votes of Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett may prove decisive. They asked tough questions of both sides.

Idaho officials say...

U.S. Rep. Donald Payne, Jr., a six-term Democratic congressman from New Jersey, has died from "heart problems," Fox News confirmed Wednesday.

Payne was 65 and had been suffering from health problems for years. His father, the late Rep. Donald Payne Sr., D-N,J., also died in office in 2012.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy's office said he and his wife are "deeply saddened by the tragic passing of our friend, and a steadfast champion for the people of New Jersey, Congressman Donald Payne, Jr." "With his signature bowtie, big heart, and tenacious spirit...

President Biden hit the campaign trail in Florida, where he touted the Republican-led state is "in play" for the 2024 election, eliciting criticism and mockery online.

"Florida – I think Florida is in play, nationally," Biden said Tuesday during a campaign event in Tampa at Hillsborough Community College.

The Biden campaign on Tuesday cited abortion laws in the state as evidence the president could win the state come November. A ban on abortion after six weeks of pregnancy is set to take effect on May 1. However, voters could rescind the ban if...

Former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley took a bite out of the GOP primary voter base in Pennsylvania — despite dropping out over a month ago.

Haley won just under 157,000 votes in the Pennsylvania Republican primary election on Tuesday, according to early reports.

That equates to approximately 17% support with 90% of votes already cast.

CRUCIAL SENATE SHOWDOWN IN KEY BATTLEGROUND STATE OFFICIALLY UNDERWAY AS CASEY, MCCORMICK WIN PRIMARIES

Former President Trump, the only Republican candidate left in the primary field, won the...

Fairfax County, Virginia, ignored a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer request for a Honduran national charged with sex crimes against a child in Virginia, ICE said Wednesday.

Immigration officials arrested the 30-year-old Honduran national at his residence in Bladensburg, Maryland, on April 15, after Fairfax County twice released him. The agency did not provide his identity in the release.

"This Honduran noncitizen stands accused of some very serious crimes and represented a threat to the children of the Washington, D.C...

Forest was very happy about his new toy!

The New Jersey Democrat suffered "a cardiac episode based on complications from his diabetes" earlier this month.

About 90,000 NATO troops have been training in Europe this spring for the Great Power war that most hope will never come: a clash between Russia and the West with potentially catastrophic consequences.

In Estonia, paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division out of Fort Liberty, N.C., jumped out of planes alongside soldiers from Colchester Garrison in Essex, Britain, for “forcible entry” operations. In Lithuania, German soldiers arrived as a brigade stationed outside Germany on a permanent basis for the first time since World War II.

And on the A4...

More than one-quarter of U.S. adults over age 50 say they expect to never retire and 70% are concerned about prices rising faster than their income