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The Biden administration announced new sanctions and other restrictions on Nicaragua Wednesday, aiming to curb migration to the U.S. southern border and penalize the country for alleged human rights abuses and its close ties to Russia.

Some of the actions against the country are being taken to address "significant concern about the government of Nicaragua and its continued repression of the people of Nicaragua and their exploitation of migrants," a senior administration official told reporters this morning.

U.S. officials accused the leaders of...

After a jury was chosen in the federal bribery trial of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, opening statements were poised to begin Wednesday afternoon as prosecutors seek to convince a jury that the longtime powerful Democrat was willing to sell his influence to benefit three businessmen in return for cash, gold bars and a luxury car.

The three-term New Jersey senator has insisted since his fall arrest that he is not guilty of charges that he used his influence to aid three New Jersey businessmen, including by providing favors to the governments of Egypt and...

There was no stopping an escaped bovine that was spotted in Pennsylvania. It was having a ball running down the streets while someone tried and failed to lasso it.

President Biden and former President Trump on Wednesday made their plans to officially debate, but the offer from the Biden team came with several strings attached.

Trump gave Biden an open invitation to debate anytime, anywhere, and Biden rose to the challenge, telling Trump to "make my day" in a heavily edited video on social media. Alongside Biden's announcement came a letter from his campaign to the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), and that letter revealed a few critical limits that Biden's team was placing on any debate between him and...

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says learning about the rates of elective late-term abortions convinced him to change his position on the issue.

Kennedy reflected on his evolving position regarding abortion on Tuesday during an interview with comedians Shane Gillis and Matt McCusker after the duo praised him for his willingness to change his platform based on new information.

"There's no way you can change my mind by calling me names or criticizing me or by marginalizing or vilifying me," Kennedy told the comedians. "But...

Democrat turned independent presidential candidate

The New Jersey Senate has canceled a hearing on a bill that would define antisemitism in the state due to alleged "safety and security concerns."

The hearing, which was originally scheduled for 10 a.m. Thursday, was marked "canceled" on the state legislature's website. No additional details as to why it was canceled were provided online.

"The NJ Senate cited safety and security concerns as the reason for cancelling the committee hearing that would have voted on codifying the IHRA definition of antisemitism in the state of New Jersey," Jason M...

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is reminding some visa holders that there are options for staying in the country after getting laid off or fired.

"When H-1B or other noncitizen workers are laid off, they may not be aware of their options and may wrongly assume that they have no choice but to leave the country within 60 days," USCIS said on X Tuesday, along with a link to the guidance.

The guidelines, which were updated last month, offer several options to individuals on work visas who have lost their jobs "either voluntarily...

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A Democratic congressman who spent millions of his own money on a failed Senate bid is being mocked as a "loser" and "pathetic" after getting trounced by his closest rival.

Rep. David Trone, D-Md., a wealthy co-founder of Total Wine & More, lost his state's Democratic Senate primary to Prince George's County Executive

There will be no live audience at June's Atlanta event, which will mark the pair's first on-stage clash in four years.

Lawyers for the illusionist say the allegations are "false and scurrilous".

Ousman Sonko is convicted of crimes against humanity, including killing and torture, committed in The Gambia.

Hundreds of police officers are deployed in the search for Mohamed Amra and the men who freed him.

The Biden administration will issue visa restrictions against 250 people and sanctions against three organizations that support the Nicaraguan government, whose authoritarian leader officials say has profited off people trying to reach the United States.

Senior administration officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity on Wednesday to preview the plans, said that the Nicaraguan government, led by President Daniel Ortega, had created a system to profit from large numbers of migrants by charging them visa fees upon arrival in the country’s...