The Senate will return to Capitol Hill today as the shutdown hits the two-week mark with no indication there has been any progress made toward ending the stalemate. Follow here for live news updates.

Maggie Cleary — the senior Justice Department prosecutor who briefly led the powerful US attorney’s office in the Eastern ...

Douglas Jackson, a service-disabled veteran, is one of more than 4,000 federal workers laid off as part of the Trump administration’s latest RIFs.

Cuban dissident José Daniel Ferrer has arrived in the United States after being freed from prison in Cuba, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday.

The government shutdown is on track to extend into a third week. Congress remains deadlocked on a funding plan, and the Senate isn’t scheduled to hold any votes until Tuesday.

• Shutdown-related firings begin: More than 4,000 federal employees have been given layoff notices as the shutdown is ongoing, the Trump administration revealed in a court filing. President Donald ...

In one way, it’s a rather frightening precedent for a president to so clearly and directly force the prosecutions of his ...

Suspected Chinese government-backed hackers have breached computer systems of US law firm Williams & Connolly, which has ...

In many ways, Janet Mills is the ideal Democratic recruit to take on Republican Sen. Susan Collins, a fifth-term moderate with a track record of beating well-funded challengers. Mills is a two-term ...

Suspected Chinese government operatives asked ChatGPT to help write proposal for a tool to conduct large-scale surveillance ...

We’re seeing politicians target civil society, undermine freedom of the press, weaponize the justice system. And no one is being spared. Even countries that thought they were immune from wholesale ...

Over the next 24 hours, the world has witnessed extraordinary scenes of hostages being released from Gaza and reunited with ...