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The first U.S. diplomats to visit Syria since President Bashar Assad's ouster earlier this month have held talks with transitional officials in Damascus to press for an inclusive government and seek information on the whereabouts of missing American journalist Austin Tice

The Biden administration says it has decided not to pursue a $10 million reward it had offered for the capture of a Syrian rebel leader whose forces led the ouster of President Bashar Assad

Justice Kyra Harris Bolden is the first Black woman to be elected to the Michigan Supreme Court

A handful of prominent Democratic governors are quickly adjusting their approach to President-elect Donald Trump before he takes office in January

A group of Republican senators is demanding that the Biden administration revoke a science and technology agreement with China

The Pentagon is warning that Republicans’ decision to abandon a congressional spending plan will cost more than 2 million troops their paychecks over the holidays unless some agreement is reached before Friday’s deadline to prevent a government shutdown

A Chinese national has been charged with acting as an illegal agent for Beijing when serving as the campaign manager for an unnamed local California politician

A debate over the debt ceiling is at the center of a dispute over funding that is pushing the possibility of a federal government shutdown to the brink in Washington

The United States has more than doubled the number of its forces in Syria to fight the Islamic State group

Elon Musk’s role in taking down a bipartisan budget deal shows his ascendance as a political force