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Donald Trump has named at least three nominees who are credited by name in Project 2025, a product of the conservative Heritage Foundation: Tom Homan, Trump’s pick for “border czar”; John Ratcliffe, Trump’s planned nominee for CIA director; and Brendan Carr, his selection to head the Federal Communications Commission.

Susan Smith, the South Carolina woman whose lies about killing her two sons sharply divided a small town, was denied parole Wednesday morning.

The Texas General Land Office is offering President-elect Donald Trump its recently acquired 1,400-acre ranch on the state’s border with Mexico “for the construction of deportation facilities and staging areas” to deport illegal immigrants starting next year. 

Michael Sullivan spent more than 26 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit. On Tuesday, a Suffolk County jury awarded him $13 million for his lost time and suffering.

WASHINGTON – President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday tapped Linda McMahon, a former professional wrestling executive who ran the Small Business Administration for much of his first term, to lead the Education Department, an agency he has routinely singled out for elimination in his upcoming term.

WASHINGTON — Deanne Criswell, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, denied allegations Tuesday that it took her agency around three days to respond to Hurricane Helene in North Carolina. Criswell testified before two congressional committees Tuesday about the federal response to hurricanes Helene and Milton, saying that FEMA workers already were on the ground before the ...

When members of the Oath Keepers, an anti-government extremist group, met online to discuss plans to stop the counting of electoral votes sealing Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential victory on Jan. 6, 2021, Georgia resident Brian Ulrich signaled he was ready for anything. “I will be the guy running around with the budget,” he wrote in an encrypted chat, referring to an assault weapon. His tone ...

For the first time in 22 years, New York City is under a drought warning – the last step before a disaster declaration could impose mandatory water restrictions.

President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday selected Mehmet Oz, the well-known TV physician and former Republican Senate candidate, to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the federal agency responsible for providing health insurance to more than 160 million Americans.

Texas education officials on Tuesday voted to support an optional elementary school curriculum that would include lessons based on the Bible, which opponents say unfairly promotes Christian beliefs in public schools.

Sabrina Carpenter may have been the catalyst for getting a Brooklyn priest demoted.

Top House Democratic leaders who assumed their roles two years ago will continue in their positions in the new Congress after most ran unopposed in leadership elections held Tuesday.

President-elect Donald Trump is expected to select investment banker Howard Lutnick as his next commerce secretary, according to three people familiar with the decision.

A new lawsuit filed against Cobb County Sheriff Craig Owens claims he silenced his critics on social media in the weeks before his reelection, when it was revealed he had called deputies to a Burger King restaurant because staff botched his order of a Whopper with no mayonnaise.

A beloved Mexican gray wolf, who was known among conservationists as a symbol of hope for the endangered species, was found dead under mysterious circumstances in Arizona. Several agencies have pledged up to $103,500 in reward money for information that “leads to successful prosecution” of those responsible for killing the wolf, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said in a Nov. 15 news ...

President Joe Biden asked Congress for $100 billion on Monday to respond to natural disasters and other emergencies, likely the president’s final domestic spending request as he prepares to leave the White House with some crucial priorities unfinished.

President Joe Biden has joined a bipartisan list of leaders condemning Saturday’s march of masked people waving flags with swastikas in Columbus, Ohio, in the most recent prominent white nationalist demonstration in the United States.