Members of Congress now know that the U.S. military fired upon two people clinging to the wreckage of a boat allegedly carrying drugs — and they want answers.

The Trump administration has built up a fleet of warships near Venezuela as American forces keep blowing up small boats accused of smuggling narcotics for drug cartels.

A former DEA agent and an associate have been charged with conspiring to launder millions of dollars and obtain weapons for a Mexican drug cartel.

The Social Security Administration plans to cut foot traffic to its field offices by 50% next year.

Florida’s Republican-dominated congressional delegation is urging the Trump administration to drop a plan that would allow new oil drilling off the state’s coast.

Massachusetts’ highest court heard oral arguments Friday in the state’s lawsuit arguing that Meta designed features on Facebook and Instagram to make them addictive to young users.

A Harvard visiting law professor from Brazil who told police he was shooting at rats when he fired a pellet gun near a synagogue on Yom Kippur has left the United States after his visa was revoked.

A prosecutor says the man accused of planting pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national parties in Washington on the eve of the U.S. Capitol attack told investigators he was “disappointed” in the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.

A federal judge has given the Justice Department permission to release transcripts of a grand jury investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of underage girls in Florida.

President Donald Trump has finally met with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum.

FIFA gives its new peace prize to President Donald Trump.

A federal vaccine advisory committee has voted to end a longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born.

The Trump administration will start sending more water to California farmers in the state's crop-rich Central Valley.

Democratic Governor Tim Walz has denounced former President Donald Trump for his comments about Minnesota’s Somali community.

On a jagged coastline in Central California, brown pelicans take flight to feed on a vast school of fish just offshore.

Trump administration officials overseeing the latest immigration crackdown are aiming to arrest 5,000 immigrants in New Orleans and across Louisiana.

The Trump administration has instructed U.S. embassies and consulates around the world to prioritize visa applications from foreigners wishing to visit the United States to either invest in America or attend the 2026 World Cup, 2028 Olympics and other major sporting events.

A California animal welfare activist who took four chickens from a major Perdue Farms poultry plant has been sentenced to 90 days in jail.

From the election of Zohran Mamdani to the intrigue surrounding the jewel heist at the Louvre, keeping up with this year’s news also left some Americans struggling with pronunciations.

A new survey of Affordable Care Act health insurance enrollees finds that many are already struggling with the high cost of health care.

Minutes after police approached Luigi Mangione in a Pennsylvania McDonald’s, he told an officer he didn’t want to talk.

Even for a president who has long made clear he’s no fan of Somalia, the latest round of contempt from Donald Trump was a shock in the country’s largest Somali community in Minnesota.

A University of Oklahoma instructor has been placed on leave after a student complained about receiving a failing grade on a paper.

A dozen prior leaders of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have issued a scathing denunciation of an FDA memo to staff that made sweeping claims casting doubt on vaccine safety.