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Donald Trump is making the most of his day off from court this week.

With the judge in the former president's first criminal trial using Wednesdays to handle other business from other cases he's handling, Trump is heading to two crucial states that may decide the winner of his 2024 rematch with President Biden.

Trump is making campaign stops in Wisconsin and Michigan, two crucial battlegrounds he narrowly captured in his 2016 presidential election victory but where he fell short four years later as he lost his re-election bid.

It's the former...

FIRST ON FOX: The House Energy & Commerce Committee is summoning the head of NPR before Congress to answer accusations the outlet has a left-wing bias despite receiving federal funds.

"The Committee has concerns about the direction in which NPR may be headed under past and present leadership. As a taxpayer funded, public radio organization, NPR should focus on fair and objective news reporting that both considers and reflects the views of the larger U.S. population and not just a niche audience," Committee Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash...

EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak is expected to publicly testify on Wednesday before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.

According to congressional lawmakers, EcoHealth – a U.S.-based nonprofit whose mission is to prevent pandemics – used taxpayer dollars "to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)" in China.

COVID ORIGINS: ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE PRESIDENT TO TESTIFY PUBLICLY BEFORE CONGRESS NEXT MONTH

Committee Chair Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, is set to lead the hearing, but House...

Donald Trump’s hush money trial was back in action yesterday, and there was news right out of the box.

Judge Juan Merchan, to absolutely no one’s surprise, ruled that Trump had violated his gag order – and fined him $9,000.

Now that’s just pocket change for him, but the larger point is that Merchan ruled against the former president on nine of the 10 accusations, a thousand bucks a pop. The order barred him from attacking witnesses, but Trump has repeatedly said it’s unfair and unconstitutional to keep him, as a presidential nominee, from speaking...

Dozens have been arrested during a night-time operation at the Ivy League school in New York City.

The BBC witnesses a standoff in the South China Sea between the Philippine and Chinese coast guards.

Military personnel have been selling weapons to arms traders, says President Gustavo Petro.

The new law came into effect on Wednesday, ending Florida's place as a hub for the procedure in the US south.

A lawyer testified about a deal to pay for Ms Daniels' silence about allegedly having sex with Mr Trump.

Changes to China's State Secrets Law requires internet firms to monitor information shared by users.

The pier and causeway will cost $320m and should be operational by early May, US says.

An agreement between anti-war protesters and Northwestern University has largely ended demonstrations on the suburban Chicago campus

Democratic state Sen. Timothy Kennedy on Tuesday won a special election for the New York congressional seat vacated by Democrat Brian Higgins.

Kennedy easily beat Republican Gary Dickson for the upstate New York seat, helped by a 2-to-1 Democratic registration advantage in the district, which includes Buffalo, Niagara Falls and several suburbs.

Kennedy has been in the state Senate since 2011. Describing Washington as "chaotic and dysfunctional," he said he said that in Congress, he'd focus on reproductive rights, immigration and stronger gun laws...

Ahmed Alhashimi's daughter Sara died as the family tried to cross the Channel in a small boat.

The first CBS News battleground tracker poll of 2024 found Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan in a statistical tie between President Biden and former President Trump if people voted today.