About 20 states have laws that can make it difficult to prosecute sexual assault cases if accusers voluntarily drank or took drugs.

The botched lethal injection of Christa Pike led to the halting of all scheduled executions in the state.

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Former congressman David Rivera (R-Florida) maintained that, despite a $50 million lobbying contract from Venezuela’s government, he advocated for the removal of President Nicolás Maduro.

The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2 percent while wages continued to lag behind inflation in the government’s final jobs report before the Nov. 3 midterm election.

With the arrival of the long-awaited rules, Democratic governors are under more pressure to say whether they will opt in.

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A man who spent decades on Utah's death row has been released after prosecutors said newly analyzed DNA evidence doesn't link him to a 1985 killing.

The new question, included on a draft version of the primary tax form, comes as part of an anti-immigrant turn at an agency that long prioritized tax administration.

The Protect College Sports Act was approved by a vote of 77-22. The bill now heads to the House, which is divided over how Congress should intervene in college athletics.

Massachusetts Judge William Sullivan granted a request from prosecutors and Clancy’s attorneys to postpone the decision.

Jack Smith returned to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to defend his derailed efforts to prosecute President Donald Trump, telling lawmakers he would not “be silenced by continued threats of prosecution” from...

An affidavit unsealed Tuesday said the officer who shot Wilber Garcés Pérez was not wearing a body camera and another officer turned his camera off.

The high court will later hear arguments and make a final ruling on the controversial policy of sending migrants to countries where they are not citizens.

A Russian jet-powered drone hit Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences, the source of almost all of the country’s major scientific discoveries.

Satellite imagery shows what was once farmland and desert taken over by warehouselike structures.

The taxpayer-funded campaign borrows the president's political rhetoric as the White House defends the spots as “public service” announcements.

The White House announced plans to cancel funding for refugee services and other domestic programs. Lawmakers say it infringes on their spending authority.

OpenAI said that its artificial intelligence agents inappropriately accessed sites for the Commerce Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The White House’s decision puts the state of the rotational TV pool, which resumed on Friday, in jeopardy once more.

President Donald Trump wants to let states use a federal database that includes voters’ personal information to check for noncitizens on voter rolls.

An investigation found that Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell sexually harassed a woman and violated state ethics rules. He denied allegations of misconduct, and Gov. Mikie Sherrill said Caldwell had stepped dow...

A police detective says Tasia Fortune was apparently killed in a drug dispute before her body was hung in a tree in a “staged” lynching behind an abandoned home in the Mississippi capital this summer.

While the president remains a climate-change denier, the war with Iran has triggered an unforeseen benefit in the fight against global warming.

President Donald Trump's administration has asked the Supreme Court to allow continued quick deportations of immigrants to third countries where they have no ties.

A judge ordered the White House to temporarily restore journalists’ credentials. After hours of being shut out, some from the three banned outlets were let back in.

Masoud Pezeshkian began his brief address by saying that he had planned to deliver different remarks before hearing President Donald Trump’s speech Tuesday.

Police in Mississippi have arrested a second man in the death of a Black woman found hanging from a tree and have issued an arrest warrant for a third suspect.

State investigators are pursuing potential evidence of manslaughter and negligent homicide in the disaster that killed 28, search warrants show.

Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting a woman in New York in 2006.

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The change will make it harder for many families and attorneys to determine where an immigrant is being held after being taken into ICE custody.

In his first major interview about his tell-all memoir, Tyler Hassen describes the culture clash surrounding DOGE’s mission and the backlash that followed.

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The president’s post about the 250-foot arch planned near Arlington National Cemetery comes as veterans groups, historic preservationists and others attempt to stop the project.

Trump’s decisions as president on one of the most consequential policy debates of his administration could affect the value of his personal investments.

University of Texas students rebuked the racist attack on South Asians by Republican Bo French.

Agreements with Pfizer and Eli Lilly include tariff protections, overseas pricing inducements and broad confidentiality clauses.

The attorney general’s campaign politicking for Republicans adds to the degradation of post-Watergate values at the Justice Department.

The president has a history of feuding with news organizations and has at times tried to ban them and their journalists.

The cuts come as the center’s main building remains closed amid a legal battle over President Donald Trump’s transformation of the national cultural institution.

The agreement, which Danish officials said is not final, stops far short of Trump's often-stated goal of taking possession of the territory.

Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.

Local officials, preservationists and historians are pushing to scale back Trump's planned arch, advocating the slender columns originally envisioned by architects and lawmakers a century ago.

A new study found that some girls born to mothers who took acetaminophen during pregnancy developed reproductive organ changes that could affect fertility later in life. It’s a finding the study autho...

President Donald Trump had touted Lance Schroyer's experience with local immigration enforcement when he tapped him for the post in June.