House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul says he was briefly detained by police at an airport near Washington, D.

Federal authorities say an investigation into Chinese government hacking efforts has revealed a “broad and significant” cyberespionage campaign mounted by Beijing.

Special counsel Jack Smith has asked a court to pause prosecutors’ appeal seeking to revive the classified documents case against President-elect Donald Trump in light of the Republican’s presidential victory.

Several U.S. Catholic bishops on Wednesday encouraged the church to boldly share Vatican teachings on a range of hot-button issues, including the condemnation of abortion, euthanasia, surrogacy and gender-affirming surgery.

Choosing billionaire Elon Musk to be what President-elect Donald Trump calls “our cost cutter” for the U.S. government, is not the first time an American president has empowered a business tycoon to look for ways to dramatically cut federal regulations.

Federal prosecutors say some evidence that a judge had excluded from the bribery trial of former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez was inadvertently put on a computer given to jurors, but they say it should not affect the Democrat's conviction.

The Republican-led Ohio Senate has approved a bill banning transgender students from using bathrooms that fit their gender identities.

Tenants searching for an apartment in New York City have long been forced to pay thousands of dollars to real estate brokers.

A federal inspector general has exonerated two U.S. Park Police officers who fatally shot a Virginia man after a highway chase seven years ago.

More than two decades after spotting a mysterious, gelatinous, bioluminescent creature swimming in the deep sea, California researchers this week announced that it was a new species of sea slug.

Law enforcement reports show the homes of Kansas City Chiefs’ quarterback Patrick Mahomes and tight end Travis Kelce were broken into last month.

Black and Latino families who were displaced from a Southern California neighborhood in the 1960s have reached a tentative settlement agreement with the city of Palm Springs.

Democratic governors and attorneys general are set to reprise their roles in battling President-elect Trump's policies.

After reports of merger talks breaking down, Spirit Airlines in now filing for bankruptcy protection.

Neighbors of a factory in Louisville, Kentucky, where two workers were killed in an explosion say they complained for years about odors coming from the plant.

Transgender youth in the United States have been flooding crisis hotlines since the election of Donald Trump, who made anti-transgender themes central to his campaign.

A New York judge says he'll make a decision as early as next week on the future of Donald Trump's hush money case.

Officials are blaming illegal firearms for an increase or a record number of killings in a growing number of Caribbean islands this year.

At least 11 employees have been taken to hospitals after an explosion at a Louisville, Kentucky, plant caused a partial collapse of the building and blew out windows in nearby homes and businesses.

A pregnant woman has filed a lawsuit seeking the right to an abortion in Kentucky.

Donald Trump has long criticized America's spy agencies, accusing them of trying to undermine his first administration and campaign to retake the White House.

A newly unsealed federal complaint says a man accused of having a machine gun at Tuskegee University admitted to firing his weapon during a weekend shooting, but denied shooting at anyone.

Control of the U.S. House rests on just over a dozen races where winners have not yet been determined.

The Northeast is keeping a wary eye on dozens of fires that killed at least one person and continue to burn amid very dry weather.