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Former U.S. attorney Harry Litman explains the rigorous process federal prosecutors must go through to get their hands on an attorney's documents.        

The federal government is on track to have a $1 trillion deficit in 2020 - and to continue running yawning deficits for years to come, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicted Monday. It's a report that shou...

A possible strike on Syria and a high-risk North Korea summit are already on his agenda

One source says Trump is now "understandably less trusting" of Mueller's team.

In the wake of the FBI raid on his personal attorney Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump is mad as hell. And he may just be willing to take a step considered to be a political nuclear bomb in Washington: Fire special c...

The Ukrainian made the payment in exchange for Trump making a 20-minute video appearance.

President Donald Trump has howled in all caps for nearly a year as the Justice Department has delved deeper and deeper into his orbit. Special counsel Robert Mueller indicted his former campaign chairman. Then he secured...

PLEASANT HILL, Iowa -- As she learned the basics of applying direct pressure, packing a wound with gauze and tying a tourniquet, sixth-grade math and social studies teacher Kari Stafford shook her head at the thought tha...

Donny Youngblood has been sheriff of Kern County since he was elected in 2006.

Mayor Michael McPartland said he and a pal witnessed a police officer and businessman rescue the children.

"There's no way the facts can shake out where he didn't violate some statute"

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. -- An ice cream truck driver told police in Virginia that a boy pointed a gun at him and robbed him. The Daily Press reports that the 30-year-old Portsmouth man told police that he was approached by a g...

When Aly Jiwani began to consider taking the next step with his anagram-loving girlfriend, Paula Acuña, he had a vision for the perfect puzzle proposal. "One of our earliest memories is to use our Chicago Tribune app on...

The two aid workers have been killed in separate attacks over the weekend in civil war-torn South Sudan, the United Nations said Tuesday. A statement says armed men shot at …

Mexico's top electoral court has ordered that a fifth candidate be added to the ballot for the July 1 presidential election. Jaime "El Bronco" Rodriguez, an independent candidate often seen …

New National Security Adviser John Bolton continued to remold President Trump's national security team Tuesday, as Trump acceptedthe resignation of homeland security aide Tom Bossert. NSC spokesman Michael Anton left ear...

White House says the president will stay to monitor growing tension in Syria.

Officials say the tractor-trailer was traveling on an exit ramp when it fell onto I-95 in Bensalem, Pennsylvania.

An autistic 8-year-old is facing battery charges for slugging his teacher in the face when she yanked away his iPad, according to a report. The second grader at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School in Rio Rancho, New...

Police have requested a travel ban on an American diplomat involved in a vehicle crash that killed one Pakistani man and injured another over the weekend in the capital Islamabad. …

US allies have rallied behind President Donald Trump's warning that Syria would pay a "big price" if it is found to have carried out a chemical attack on the rebel-held town of Douma.

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