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A ranch used as a training camp by a Mexican drug cartel was littered with burned bodies and discarded possessions. The discovery has sparked calls for justice.

The dismantling of the department has been unofficially in progress for weeks, but Trump's impact on education already has been substantial in California.

What should the American people believe -- Trump's denials that he's defying court orders or the evidence that can be seen and heard?

Mexico's transfer of 29 cartel figures — including Rafael Caro Quintero and accused Zeta members — has led to jockeying by attorneys willing to defend them.

An article highlighting baseball and civil rights hero Jackie Robinson's U.S. Army career was back on the Department of Defense website after being removed in a DEI purge.

A cease-fire between Hamas and Israel allowed many Gaza residents to return to their devastated homeland. But now many are fleeing once more.

The U.S. has played an important role in Taiwan-China relations for decades. Trump's 'America First' ideology could subvert efforts to preserve a tenuous peace in the region.

U.S. support for Taiwan has ebbed and flowed throughout the decades. Here's what's at stake as Trump rewrites the rules of diplomacy.

Democrats do not want to repeat the mistakes of last week, when they split over the GOP's stopgap measure to avoid a federal government shutdown.

Stations that need to fill time are now using the broadcasting services of Russia and China. This is a fiasco for U.S. global standing.

Arms are a global business, so it's little surprise that at the International Defense Exhibition and Conference, discerning quartermasters had a world buffet of weaponry before them, be it Brazilian ballistic munitions, Indian patrol boats or the latest in AI-enabled drones from the U.S.

A new strain of bird flu — H7N9 — is detected in at a poultry farm; scientists learn that past human flu exposure may provide some immunity to H5N1.

'I am authorizing my Administration to immediately begin producing Energy with BEAUTIFUL, CLEAN COAL,' Trump wrote in a post on social media on Monday.

President Trump released 80,000 unredacted pages on the assassination of John F. Kennedy more than 60 years ago.

President Trump is escalating his attacks on the federal judiciary by calling for the impeachment of a judge who has tried to block his deportations.

The U.S. government's move to put South Korea -- a non-nuclear ally--in the same company as countries like China or North Korea has unsettled politicians in Seoul

President Trump told the assembled prosecutors of the Department of Justice on Friday that negative coverage of him is illegal. Spoiler alert: It's not.

Sen. Adam B. Schiff rebuffed President Trump's claims disputing President Biden's pardons for the Jan. 6 committee that Schiff sat on, saying its members would not be silenced by Trump's threats.

Boxing is set to be in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics as IOC president Thomas Bach says the executive board he chairs approved including the sport, which will be run by World Boxing.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum faces a delicate balancing act, placating U.S. President Trump while showing Mexicans that she is defending her nation's sovereignty.

The California Republican Party made slight gains in California, attracting more new voters than the Democrats, but can that continue after Trump

George Orwell would have loved the concept: A Department of Government Efficiency that is anything but efficient.

The fancifully named Department of Government Efficiency is grounded in a fundamental misapprehension of how the federal government works. The recklessness and destruction is not a bug but a feature.