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Roy Moore to announce whether he'll run for US Senate again

Alabama Republican Roy Moore will announce Thursday whether he will make another run for U.S. Senate after failing to win the ...

Supreme Court upholds cross on public land in Maryland

A World War I memorial in the shape of a 40-foot-tall cross can continue to stand on public land in Maryland, the Supreme ...

High court says sex offender law didn't violate Constitution

The Supreme Court says Congress didn't do anything improper when it gave the attorney general the ability to decide how to ...

Hope Hicks

Hicks rebuffs questions on Trump White House in interview

Former top White House adviser Hope Hicks refused to answer questions related to her time in the White House in a daylong ...

Family says Dallas courthouse shooter wanted to die

The family of a 22-year-old man who opened fire on a Dallas courthouse, striking no one before federal agents fatally shot ...

Hope Hicks

The Latest: House intel panel to interview Russia-born exec

The Latest on congressional investigations and special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia report (all times local): 6:40 p.m.

Ex-Senate aide sentenced to 4 years in prison for data leak

A former congressional staffer was sentenced to four years in prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to illegally posting ...

New German justice minister as outgoing moves to EU politics

Chancellor Angela Merkel's government has appointed a new justice minister, to succeed Katarina Barley who is moving on to ...

Hope Hicks

With Hope Hicks interview, Dems breach Trump's inner circle

The House Judiciary Committee will interview former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks behind closed doors ...

Panel hears case on conditions for young migrants on border

A U.S. government lawyer on Tuesday said a longstanding settlement agreement requiring sanitary conditions for detained ...

Photographer recounts facing Dallas gunman

Waiting outside a federal courthouse, photographer Tom Fox took in Dallas' 8 a.m. bustle. People dressed for work got out of ...

Canada reapproves contentious Pacific coast pipeline

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has once again approved the contentious Trans Mountain pipeline expansion that would ...

Michael Avenatti

Attorney Michael Avenatti faces November trial in New York

California attorney Michael Avenatti learned Tuesday that he faces a November trial date on charges he tried to extort ...

Activists allege racism in treatment of St. Louis prosecutor

Some black activists in St. Louis say there's an unfair racial component to criticism of St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim ...

Collins casts 7,000th straight vote as reelection race looms

Republican Sen. Susan Collins on Tuesday took her 7,000th consecutive vote as a member of the U.S. Senate, extending a streak ...

Masked gunman killed in shootout at Dallas courthouse

An Army veteran wearing a mask and carrying more than 150 rounds of ammunition for his high-powered rifle was shot dead ...

'Greening of America' author Charles Reich dead at 91

Charles Reich, the author and Ivy League academic whose "The Greening of America" blessed the counterculture of the 1960s and ...

Mark Herring

High court lets Virginia voting go ahead under redrawn map

Virginians will elect members of the House of Delegates this year using a map seen as favorable to Democrats as a result of ...

Supreme Court upholds rule allowing state, federal charges

The Supreme Court is upholding a constitutional rule that allows state and federal governments to prosecute someone for the ...

Millionaire gets 9 years for deadly fire above tunnels

A wealthy stock trader was sentenced Monday to nine years in prison for his conviction in the fiery death of a man who was ...