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Pete Hegseth has spent the week on Capitol Hill trying to reassure Republican senators that he is fit to lead President-elect Donald Trump’s Department of Defense in the wake of high-profile allegations about excessive drinking and sexual assault

A message left at the scene of an insurance executive’s fatal shooting echoes a phrase commonly used to describe insurer tactics to avoid paying claims

The House has shut down Democrats’ efforts to release the long-awaited ethics report into former Rep. Matt Gaetz

The Associated Press has learned that the federal Bureau of Prisons is permanently closing its “rape club” women’s prison in California and will idle six facilities in a sweeping realignment after years of abuse, decay and mismanagement

The father of the victim in the fatal New York City subway chokehold case has sued defendant Daniel Penny as a Manhattan jury continues deliberating

Digging crews are resuming work in the effort to locate a woman who authorities fear died after falling into a sinkhole above an abandoned Pennsylvania coal mine

Digging crews have resumed efforts to try to locate a woman who authorities fear died after falling into a sinkhole above an abandoned Pennsylvania coal mine

Associated Press Music Writer Maria Sherman has chosen 10 of the best songs of 2024

It’s DOGE time at the U.S. Capitol

It’s DOGE time at the U.S. Capitol