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Senator Patty Murray, a former chair of the Senate health committee, is forming a group of experts to examine how to insulate the C.D.C. from political interference.

Trump announced this week that he and his PAC, MAGA Inc., would pay for the ads moving forward following bipartisan criticism.

Some of the students furious over the handling of an alleged fraternity house gang rape at Cornell University are directing their ire at the school’s president.

The university said it was putting its fraternity chapters on “activities suspension” while it investigated allegations that included assault, drug use and hazing.

It's one of the clearest pictures yet of how deeply Trump's immigration enforcement apparatus has become involved in elections.

It's one of the clearest pictures yet of how deeply Trump's immigration enforcement apparatus has become involved in elections.

ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”

When US doctor Patrick LaRochelle realized in May that he'd been exposed to Ebola in a mining town in Democratic Republic of Congo, he expected to be rushed home for treatment.

Attribution research is increasingly cited in lawsuits seeking climate damages, which hinge on a case now before the US high court.

The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.

Trump’s latest demand that Republicans vote – even by mail – comes as polls show Democrats’ odds of taking both the House and Senate are improving.

After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.

President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...

President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...

Accusations that Cornell University students assaulted a woman while she was impaired have renewed calls to amend the law.

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Senator Ron Wyden is accusing the Justice Department and the FBI of withholding a key record from the Epstein files, demanding in a letter obtained exclusively

California and six other states filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Wednesday, accusing it of withholding federal funds approved ​by Congress, including about $810 million the White House moved ‌to cancel before the fiscal year ended.

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US yields hit two-decade highs for a seventh straight session on Thursday before a drop in oil prices steadied a bond market reeling ​from its worst quarter this century, as investors brace for higher ‌interest rates.

Three Liberian-flagged oil tankers were struck by unknown projectiles when ​transiting the Strait of Hormuz on ‌Tuesday, shipping intelligence service Marisks said.

The top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee is demanding a pair of government watchdog agencies investigate President Donald Trump’s use of taxpayer money to fund an ad campaign promoting his presidency ahead of the midterm elections.

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Ken Paxton, one of the party’s top Senate candidates and a Trump loyalist, said that “everybody’s numbers dropped” after the event, according to audio obtained by The Times.

South Africa's foreign affairs ministry called in US Ambassador Leo Brent Bozell III on Tuesday for a third time over what it described ​as "undiplomatic conduct," a senior government official told Reuters, but did not ‌elaborate on what the conduct was.

The Right Livelihood Award has been given to two women and two women-led organizations to recognize work against authoritarianism, violence and AI-related harms.

It is the second time the Tubassi family has suffered at the hands of Jewish settlers in just over a month. On Aug. 28, masked settlers attacked and injured them and an NBC News crew that was interviewing them.

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The new RNC program appears to mark an escalation from typical poll watching activities.

Official statements said bilateral relations were discussed. But the question of who bears responsibility for failing to prevent the Oct. 7 attack is a major election issue in Israel.