President Joe Biden met Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping for the last time as U.S. president on Saturday, with the leaders’ goal of lowering tensions amid fresh conflicts over cyber crime, trade, Taiwan and Russia. President-elect Donald Trump has selected Chris Wright, a campaign donor and fossil fuel executive, to serve as energy secretary […]

The U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division announced that conditions in Georgias Fulton County Jail violate the Constitution.

The U.S. continues to uphold sanctions on several countries including Iran, Venezuela, and Russia. While the Biden administration eased sanctions on Venezuelan energy at the beginning of the year, and Iran has been able to increasingly circumvent sanctions, there was no clear path to bringing the sanctions to a total stop. Now, with the election of Donald Trump as President for a second non-consec...

Business-as-usual is driving America bankrupt, so we need change," Musk said.

Alberta’s premier agrees with Ontario’s Doug Ford’s pitch to explore kicking Mexico out of the trade agreement. Danielle Smith says that with Mexico out of the picture, a bilateral agreement with the U.S. could avoid tariffs (especially now that Trump is back). Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she agrees with Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s suggestion […]The...

Health officials in California confirmed Saturday they have identified the first known case of a more severe form of mpox known as clade I in the United States but said the risk to the public remains low.

BERKELEY, Calif. >> Berkeley, California, long associated with the counterculture of the 1960s, has a reputation for erring on the side of compassion when it comes to the enforcement of drug use and homelessness. The city is such a liberal outlier that Vice President Kamala Harris downplayed her origins there as she tried to appeal to moderate American voters this year.

U.S. health officials confirmed on Saturday the first case of a more severe strain of mpox that infected an individual who recently traveled to Africa. California health authorities identified the first known case of clade I mpox in the U.S. through laboratory testing. The person was treated in San Mateo County, according to the California...

Davy Crocketts buckskin vest on display at The Alamo is of special interest to visitors because it's something he wore. But no one really knows if the garment was actually Crockett's. But that hasn't stopped them from promoting it.

Many people feel that America's political campaigns have become vapid PR hustles with little connection to the real-life concerns of workaday people. Luckily, Adam Swart says he has the fix for such voter malaise: Just add a more professional level of vapidity to t...

The Appalachian Trail, love and American vistas are among the themes honored on U.S. postage stamps to be released next year, the U.S. Postal Service confirmed in a sneak peak.

Debuting at DOC NYC ahead of its eventual PBS 'American Masters' release, the documentary traces the biography, work and influence of the underground comics legend.

Virtually from the start of Israel's war with Hamas last fall, U.S. officials have been pressing Israel to lay out a plan for a "day after" in the Gaza Strip.

A bizarre attack on the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence in Washington DC earlier this year was like "an emotional buzzsaw," according to America's archivist.