The defense has rested at the Trump Organization’s criminal tax fraud trial after a contentious day in court, putting the case involving former President Donald Trump’s real estate empire on track for deliberations next week

The mother of one of 19 children killed in the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, has filed a federal lawsuit against police, the school district and the maker of the gun used in the massacre

A federal jury has weighed seditious conspiracy charges against Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and four associates for a second day without reaching a verdict in a high-stakes trial stemming from the U.S. Capitol attack

The Biden administration says Russia has abruptly postponed the scheduled resumption of arms control talks this week

Early in-person voting for the nation's last U.S. Senate seat is underway statewide in Georgia

Republican officials in a rural Arizona county are refusing to certify the 2022 election ahead of the Monday deadline despite no evidence anything was wrong with the vote count

The Supreme Court seems ready to side with a onetime top aide to ex-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and others convicted of corruption related to an upstate economic development project dubbed the Buffalo Billion

The former warden of an abuse-plagued federal women’s prison known as the “rape club” went on trial Monday

The White House says first lady Jill Biden has drawn inspiration from the nation's founding documents to decorate for the holidays

President Joe Biden is strengthening U.S. policy aimed at stemming sexual violence in war conflict zones

When John Fetterman goes to Washington in January as one of the Senate’s new members, he’ll bring along an irreverent style from Pennsylvania

Democrats celebrating a successful effort to keep control of the U.S. Senate this year will soon confront a 2024 campaign that could prove more challenging

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy is in the fight of his political life as he seeks enough GOP backing to become the next speaker of the House

The White House says singer Jon Batiste has been chosen to perform at Thursday's state dinner that will highlight long-standing ties between the United States and France and honor President Emmanuel Macron

The extended Senate campaign in Georgia between Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock and his Republican challenger, football legend Herschel Walker, has grown increasingly bitter ahead as their Dec. 6 runoff nears