Actions in recent weeks by the Department of Justice's voting section may seem focused on the technical machinery of how elections are run but signal deeper changes when combined with the departures of career attorneys and decisions to drop various voting rights cases.
Cities were preparing Saturday for major demonstrations and protests across the U.S., as officials urge calm, National Guard troops mobilize and Trump attends a military parade in Washington.
The Coast Guard suspended the search for the wreckage of a small Arizona-bound plane that crashed into the ocean shortly after taking off from San Diego.
Arizona's governor and the GOP-controlled Legislature are at odds over regulating groundwater pumping in the state's rural areas — and time is running out.
Two staff members of the Israeli embassy were shot and killed Wednesday evening in the nation's capital, and the suspect yelled “free, free Palestine” after he was arrested, police said.
U.S. negotiators said Sunday that “substantial progress” was made after two days of negotiations with a Chinese delegation on ways to ease a trade war.
India and Pakistan on Saturday agreed to a ceasefire following U.S.-led talks to end the most serious military confrontation between the nuclear-armed rivals in decades.
Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru, was elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.
Immigration rights advocates say the Trump administration's plan to require those illegally in the U.S. to register with the government is causing fear.
