Sitting alongside Afghanistan's President in the Oval Office last week, President Joe Biden didn't try to sugarcoat the situation: Things were not looking great for his guest's country.
The last US troops are expected to leave Bagram Air Base on Friday, a senior defense official tells CNN.
Attorney General Merrick Garland has ordered a temporarily halt to federal executions as Justice Department senior officials review the policies and procedures for the controversial punishment.
New York prosecutors charged the Trump Organization, the Trump Payroll Corporation and Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg in connection with an alleged tax scheme stretching back to 2005, in an extraordinary legal development against the former President's namesake company. Weisselberg, the Trump organization and the Trump Payroll Corporation have all pleaded not guilty. Trump himself
All term long the Supreme Court has been the target of political players as members of Congress called for a "legislative solution," the Biden administration launched a commission to study court reform and progressive groups claimed that court packing measures were necessary to "save" the Supreme Court.
California voters will decide whether to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom in an election on September 14, the state lieutenant governor said Thursday.
After the Supreme Court issued its final two opinions of this term on Thursday, all eyes turned to Justice Stephen Breyer, the court's senior liberal who is facing intense calls to retire so Democrats can install a replacement this summer.
House Republicans don't want to touch the select committee on January 6 with a 10-foot pole.
The Republican primary for Ohio's open Senate seat is about to get even more crowded with the expected entry Thursday of best-selling author J.D. Vance -- setting up a messy fight for the GOP nomination in a state that voted for Donald Trump twice.
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