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6:16 PM on Thursday, July 23

Justice Elena Kagan says the Supreme Court may be deeply conservative but it is not simply a rubber stamp for President Donald Trump

5:59 PM on Thursday, July 23

The Trump administration is seeking to rename Manhattan’s Penn Station as part of a planned $8 billion redesign of the country’s busiest transit hub

4:59 PM on Thursday, July 23

As President Donald Trump continues to push for stricter proof of citizenship laws ahead of the midterm elections, social media users are falsely alleging that an old clip shows former President Barack Obama telling people in the U.S. illegally to vote in the 2016 election

4:39 PM on Thursday, July 23

4:17 PM on Thursday, July 23

Two people have died in flash floods caused by torrential rains in West Virginia this week

4:15 PM on Thursday, July 23

Brent oil shot to its highest price since May after increased fighting in the Middle East threatened to slow the global flow of crude

4:10 PM on Thursday, July 23

The Education Department will no longer consider school policies that disproportionately harm one group of students as discriminatory unless the discrimination is intentional, rescinding a decades-long standard for civil rights enforcement

3:34 PM on Thursday, July 23

Three voters supported by the Wisconsin Democratic Party have filed a lawsuit against the state elections commission, seeking a ruling that would allow for voters who have already returned their absentee ballots to void those and request a new one

2:56 PM on Thursday, July 23

The Senate health committee has delayed a vote planned for Thursday on whether to advance the nomination of Dr. Erica Schwartz to lead the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

2:47 PM on Thursday, July 23

Senate Democrats want a watchdog at the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the recent departure of a high-ranking IRS attorney who clashed with President Donald Trump's White House after the attorney raised concerns about influence over taxpayer audits

2:29 PM on Thursday, July 23

Congressional Democrats are squaring off with President Donald Trump's administration over one of the most potent political issues in the country ahead of this year’s midterm elections: Social Security

2:20 PM on Thursday, July 23

Consumers already feeling pinched since the Iran war started may feel more pain after oil prices pushed past $100 a barrel

2:05 PM on Thursday, July 23

More than two dozen states have sued the Trump administration after it required them to comply with election and immigration conditions to get billions of dollars in federal funding for disasters

1:10 PM on Thursday, July 23

A nun who was taken into immigration custody last month in Texas is speaking out for the first time about her arrest while walking to Mass

12:42 PM on Thursday, July 23

U.S. health officials are investigating a new outbreak involving the diarrhea-causing parasite cyclospora

8:13 AM on Thursday, July 23

President Donald Trump appeared to add a condition to the newly signed agreement with Saudi Arabia for a civilian nuclear program, saying the deal would require the kingdom to normalize its relations with Israel through the Abraham Accords

7:47 AM on Thursday, July 23

A key Republican lawmaker says he believes that special counsel Jack Smith may have lied to Congress while testifying about his investigation of President Donald Trump and that the Justice Department should consider prosecuting him

6:23 AM on Thursday, July 23

It is the kind of development once seen only in science fiction: An artificial intelligence system, trained to probe for digital vulnerabilities, breaks free of human control and acts on its own to hack another company

1:25 AM on Thursday, July 23

Brent oil shot to its highest price since May after increased fighting in the Middle East threatened to slow the global flow of crude

12:03 AM on Thursday, July 23

In just a week, the dismissal of a Ukrainian defense minister set in motion a transformation of the country’s armed forces that replaced the old guard with a new generation of leadership