Faulting the Trump administration for its failure to consider climate change late Tuesday, a federal judge temporarily blocked the auction of federal land in Wyoming for oil and gas drilling.
Read moreBy DANICA KIRKA and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Diamond tycoon Nirav Modi, whose jewels once adorned stars
Read moreWith a little over a month until trial, federal prosecutors leveled new child pornography and exploitation charges against the leader of a purported self-help group-turned-sex-slavery ring.
Read moreTreasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin suggested Thursday he will protect President Donald Trump’s privacy if he receives a request from House Democrats for Trump’s tax returns.
Read moreAmping pressure on the Department of Justice, the House passed a measure with near unanimity Thursday to compel the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
Read moreIn rare bipartisan fashion, Congress overwhelmingly approved four measures critical of Russia on Tuesday, less than 24 hours after President Vladimir Putin moved more troops into the long-annexed Ukrainian territory of Crimea.
Read moreAs the battle for 2020 takes shape, poll numbers released Tuesday show that President Donald Trump should not put too much stock in the increased support voiced by Republican voters.
Read moreCreating a multibillion-dollar cryptocurrency empire that billed itself as the “Bitcoin Killer,” a brother-and-sister team pumped their product in public and trashed their customers in private. Prosecutors arrested the brother on Wednesday and announced Friday that his sister remains at large.
Read moreUpholding an asset freeze imposed against Hamas, the European General Court rejected an argument Wednesday that the group’s attacks in Gaza are not terrorism but the actions of a legitimate political movement.
Read moreOutdated voting machines, the lack of a paper trail and the threat of foreign hacking inspired a dire warning Tuesday from the Brennan Center for Justice about ensuring the integrity of the 2020 presidential election.
Read moreTwo locks of hair belonging to widely revered Ethiopian Emperor Tewodros will be repatriated after a request from Addis Ababa, the National Army Museum in Britain announced Monday, as more African countries seek to reclaim heritage they say was taken decades, even centuries, ago.
Read moreAfter her July 4 arrest for scaling the Statue of Liberty to protest family separations at the U.S. border, activist Patricia Okoumou climbed France’s Eiffel Tower. A federal judge grounded Okoumou on Friday for her latest performance, which put the acrobatic activist atop a Texas detention center used to hold immigrant children.
Read morePaying homage to the rich history of Jamestown, Virginia, the D.C. Circuit blocked a utility project Friday that would erect power-line towers across the James River.
Read moreAn environmental disaster is unfolding in the Pacific after a large ship ran aground and began leaking oil next to a UNESCO World Heritage site in the Solomon Islands, Australian officials said Friday.
Read moreThe man who would be paramount leader of a country in upheaval is on the move. He heads to Paraguay on Friday after lobbying in Brazil for international pressure on the government back home and coordinating a failed attempt to deliver aid across the Colombian border to desperate Venezuelans.
Read moreThe spontaneous fire that began with a car’s electrical system should qualify as a “use” of the car for insurance purposes, a magistrate with Europe’s highest court determined Thursday.
Read moreThe California Planned Parenthood Education Fund sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for records on its plan to change Title X funding, which it says will have “grave consequences on public health” by limiting poor and minority women’s access to contraceptives.
Read moreIndian police say officials have recovered four bodies from the wreckage of an Indian Air Force chopper that crashed in Indian-controlled sector of Kashmir.
Read moreBill Baroni, the convicted ex-crony of former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, was resentenced Tuesday to 18 months in federal prison.
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