August 4, 2023, 8:33pm Nation & World
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned that troop readiness and retention are at risk as the Army’s chief stepped down Friday, leaving the military’s two ground combat forces without Senate-confirmed leaders for the first time in history. Read story
August 4, 2023, 1:57pm Latest News
President Joe Biden has his zingers (“This is not your father’s Republican Party”). He’s got patriotism (“This is the United States of America, dammit”). He’s got a geometry-based explanation on how to grow the economy (“from the middle out and the bottom up”). Read story
August 4, 2023, 7:54am Nation & World
Ten days into a coup in Niger, life has become more challenging for U.S. forces at a counterterrorism base in a region of West Africa known as the world’s epicenter of terrorism. Read story
August 4, 2023, 7:23am Latest News
It was a routine part of a federal court hearing: The defendant was told not to discuss the case with any witnesses without lawyers present. Read story
August 3, 2023, 2:29pm Latest News
Donald Trump pleaded not guilty Thursday to trying to overturn the results of his 2020 election loss, answering for the first time to federal charges that accuse him of orchestrating a brazen and ultimately unsuccessful attempt to block the peaceful transfer of presidential power. Read story
August 3, 2023, 12:37pm Politics
Focusing on the Bidens rather than Donald Trump's federal court appearance, House Republicans released a transcript Thursday of their interview with Hunter Biden’s former business associate detailing overseas financial dealings by the president’s son. Read story
August 3, 2023, 8:06am Politics
When Senate Leader Mitch McConnell rose to announce his vote to acquit Donald Trump of impeachment charges in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the Republican assured the public the former president would have his day in court. Read story
August 2, 2023, 1:51pm Politics
Authorities issued a shelter-in-place order and searched Senate office buildings near the U.S. Capitol Wednesday afternoon amid reports of an active shooter. Read story
August 2, 2023, 8:19am Latest News
The role that fake slates of electors played in Donald Trump’s desperate effort to cling to power after his defeat in the 2020 election is at the center of a four-count indictment released against the former president Tuesday. Read story
August 2, 2023, 8:14am Latest News
The indictment against former President Donald Trump for crimes related to his efforts to overturn his loss in the 2020 election largely followed a course charted last year by the House select panel that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Read story