(Headline USA) Actor Jussie Smollett was scheduled to return to court on Thursday for sentencing on his conviction of lying to police about a race hoax that he orchestrated himself.
Smollett, who is expected to continue to deny his role in the staged attack in January 2019, faces up to...
(Headline USA) Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has given the smaller nation’s embassy in Washington an unexpected role: recruitment center for Americans who want to join the fight.
Diplomats working out of the embassy, in a townhouse in the Georgetown section of the city, are fielding thousands of offers from volunteers...
(Headline USA) The focus of a trial in Michigan has quickly turned to the question of whether the FBI tricked and cajoled four defendants into agreeing to a plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
During the initial round of opening statements to jurors, lawyers on Wednesday tiptoed around whether agents...
(Headline USA) In a desperate bid to find a quick fix to his self-inflicted energy fiasco, President Joe Biden has been courting brutal dictators in places like Iran and Venezuela, flouting the advice of senior lawmakers even within his own party.
In doing so, Biden may have created yet another...
(Headline USA) U.S. authorities have broadly expanded the use of a smartphone app during the coronavirus pandemic to ensure that illegal immigrants released from detention will attend deportation hearings, a requirement that open-border activists claim violates their privacy and makes them feel they're not free.
More than 125,000 people---many of...
(Headline USA) A man who tried to slither past U.S. border agents in California had 52 lizards and snakes hidden in his clothing, authorities said Tuesday.
The man was driving a truck when he arrived at the San Ysidro border crossing with Mexico on Feb. 25 and was pulled out...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden has a solution for high inflation that seems counterintuitive: Bring factory jobs back to the U.S. and force them to pay more while coming up with creative ways to reduce overhead.
This challenges a decades-long argument that employers moved jobs abroad to lower their costs...
(Headline USA) Rising gas prices pose a fresh election year challenge for President Joe Biden, already badly slumping in the polls and facing multiple problems of his own making.
He's balancing concerns about costs at the pump in the U.S. against calls from both parties to step up penalties on...
(Headline USA) RINO Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, had words of praise for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson after meeting with her for more than an hour and a half at the Capitol on Tuesday, raising Democrats' hopes that she could be a GOP vote in favor of her...
(Headline USA) Congressional leaders reached a bipartisan deal early Wednesday providing $13.6 billion to help Ukraine and European allies plus billions more to battle the pandemic as part of a $1.5 trillion omnibus spending measure to finance federal agencies for the rest of this year.
Though a tiny fraction of...
(Headline USA) Normally, Vice President Kamala Harris has to at least open her mouth before a diplomatic mission turns into an international debacle.
But her trip to Warsaw to thank Poland for taking in hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s invasion was expected to bomb before she even left...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order on cryptocurrency this week that will mark the first step toward regulating how digital currency is traded.
The move comes as administration officials have raised concerns in recent weeks about Russia’s use of cryptocurrency to evade the impact...