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Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Capital Concerts(WASHINGTON) -- Retired Gen. Colin Powell, the first African American to serve as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and later as the first Black secre...

WMTW-TV(PORTLAND, Maine) -- Hundreds of people in Portland, Maine, turned up Thursday to watch an unprecedented event unfold in local election history: The winner of an open city council seat was chos...

Robert Cicchetti/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- The Justice Department announced Thursday it has sued the State of Texas over its restrictive voting law that went into effect in September. The complaint argues...

Michael Zarrilli/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance has convened a new special grand jury to hear evidence in the investigation of former President Donald Trump and his epo...

Ivan Cholakov/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- The Navy has fired the top three leaders who were aboard the attack submarine USS Connecticut when it struck an uncharted sea mountain in the Pacific Ocean in early...

Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- As House Democrats scramble to move forward with President Joe Biden's landmark infrastructure and social spending legislation, Speak...

Marilyn Nieves/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- A researcher who worked with Christopher Steele in assembling Steele's controversial dossier that contained explosive and unproven claims about former President Do...

uschools/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- With the nation's top public health officials as their audience, Senate Republicans on Thursday aired complaints about a new wide-reaching vaccine mandate for large busi...

anyaberkut/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- The Biden administration is ordering federal agencies to fix hundreds of vulnerabilities in software and hardware that hackers have been known to exploit, according to...

Drew Angerer/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden on Wednesday denied reports that his administration was planning to pay migrant family members separated by the Trump administration up to ...