Former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith is set to testify publicly next week about his investigations into President Donald Trump that resulted in two indictments.

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Thousands of New York City nurses were back on the picket lines as they walked out for a second day from their jobs at some of the city’s leading hospitals.

Days of demonstrations against immigration agents and a new lawsuit have left Minnesota tense.

The Supreme Court seems likely to uphold state laws barring transgender girls and women from playing on school athletic teams.

Nathan Chasing Horse's trial is underway in Las Vegas and beginning with jury selection.

Prosecutors say a Virginia man, having an affair with his family’s Brazilian au pair, used an elaborate scheme to lure an unsuspecting man to the house as part of a plan to kill his wife.

A teacher who survived the 2022 shooting inside a Robb Elementary school classroom in Uvalde, Texas, told a jury the attack began with a “black shadow” with a gun walking inside.

The FBI says in a court document that it has found no surveillance or other video of a Border Patrol agent shooting and wounding two people in a pickup truck during an immigration enforcement operation in Portland, Oregon, last week.

A new video reveals the moments before a federal immigration officer shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis.

The state of Minnesota and the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul are suing the federal government to stop an enforcement surge by Immigration and Customs Enforcement following the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE officer.

Officials say over 100,000 residents in the Texas border city of El Paso were left with little to no water after a main break over the weekend, and it was expected to take till mid-week for operations to return to normal.

New polling from Gallup shows that Americans are increasingly identifying as political independents and rejecting the labels of the two major political parties.

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore nearly $12 million in funding to the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Thousands of nurses at several major New York City hospitals have gone on strike.

For thousands of Venezuelans living in the U.S., the days since the Trump administration ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro have brought a mixture of joy and trepidation.

An autistic Barbie is joining Mattel's line of fashion dolls that's intended to celebrate diversity.

Five years after video of George Floyd's killing on a Minneapolis street, video of another law enforcement action in the northern city is central to another American debate.

Becky Pepper-Jackson is a 15-year-old in West Virginia who knows the upcoming sports season could be her last.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s ragtag revolutionary saga “One Battle After Another” and Chloe Zhao's Shakespeare drama “Hamnet” took top honors at Sunday’s 83rd Golden Globes, where the up-for-sale Warner Bros.

Bob Weir, guitarist, singer and founding member of the Grateful Dead, has died at 78.

Michael McKee was charged in connection with the murders of his ex-wife and her husband, according to court and county records.

President Donald Trump says he wants a one-year, 10% cap on credit card interest rates.

Members of Congress are considering the possible consequences for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and even Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem after an ICE officer shot Renee Good to death in Minnesota.