Politics

Old-fashioned, slow, infrequent and often non-existent, trains have long been the poor relation of cars and planes in the United States.  President Joe Biden's administration is hoping to change that...

Hunter Biden was indicted late Thursday on multiple counts of tax evasion, the second time this year President Joe Biden's troubled son has been charged by a special counsel investigating...

Lawmakers launched an investigation Thursday into anti-Semitism at three of the top US universities after their leaders quibbled over whether student protests calling for the genocide of Jews amounted to...

A Democratic congressman was censured by the House of Representatives on Thursday after deliberately setting off a fire alarm at the US Capitol complex that forced the evacuation of an office...

Former US president Donald Trump was back in court on Thursday for his New York civil trial on fraud allegations, once again condemning the process as unfair. Trump, the frontrunner...

Republican presidential hopefuls sought to halt surging Nikki Haley's momentum in an acrimonious fourth primary debate Wednesday, as they made their pitches to be considered the most viable alternative to...

US presidential hopefuls locked horns Wednesday for the fourth debate in the 2024 Republican primary, with the race narrowing to a head-to-head battle to be the main alternative to runaway...

The president of Harvard University on Wednesday faced criticism and calls for her resignation over her comments at a Capitol Hill hearing on campus anti-Semitism. The deadly conflict between Israel...

Republican senators blocked a White House request for $106 billion in emergency aid primarily for Ukraine and Israel Wednesday as conservatives balked at the exclusion of immigration reforms they had demanded...

Large US banks railed against new proposed capital requirements at a congressional hearing on Wednesday, joining Senate Republicans in casting the measures as crimping loans to everyday Americans. "This rule...