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The conservative majority has been largely receptive to the administration’s claims of executive power.

As students arrive on campus for fall classes, several universities have locked down their campuses after reports of mass shootings that turned out to be false.

The Senate seat in the Sioux City area had been held by a Republican. It would be the second time this year that Iowa Democrats had flipped a legislative district.

Lawyers for Ms. Cook promised to take legal action one day after the president moved to fire her over allegations of mortgage fraud.

For months, the former special counsel has remained silent as the president and his advisers have publicly attacked him.

George Herman Ruth, a Tennessee man with the same full name as the Yankees slugger, used the names of retired and dead players to commit fraud, prosecutors said.

A bipartisan pair of members of Congress made the first official U.S. visit there since the fall of the Assad government, arguing that it was time to permanently lift American …

As a fight over the future of elite higher education consumes university leaders and politicians, most college students live in a very different world with very different challenges.

More than 2,200 troops were deployed in Washington as of Sunday, a Guard spokesman said.