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Police said the suspect "used a clear police shield to pin MPD Officer Daniel Hodges in a door jam."

The alleged stun gun-carrying Capitol Hill rioter photographed with his boot up on Nancy Pelosi's desk has been ordered to remain in jail and brought immediately to Washington, DC, so his case can proceed, according to a...

A reported former US Marine from upstate New York fired up a “victory” cigar after breaking into the US Capitol last week — and was part of a gun-toting group that discussed returning there on Inauguration Day, fed...

Back in March, researchers decided to routinely record the genetic sequences of the virus they found, giving them a powerful tool for tracking mutations.

G.O.P. leadership would like to blunt President Trump's influence over the party. Mr. Trump and his allies want to punish those who have crossed him. A series of clashes looms.

Click to expand Image People work amidst massive piles of cotton in China's Xinjiang province. The United Kingdom and Canada made coordinated announcements this week to help prevent British and Canadian businesses from b...

A woman is in custody after allegedly stealing a mail truck in Brooklyn and slamming it into at least ten parked cars Friday night. The postal panic begin on Fulton Street and Patchen Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant just af...

Uganda's longtime leader Yoweri Museveni has been re-elected for a sixth term amid allegations of fraud and lack of transparency around the vote count.

The United States government on Friday night executed Dustin Higgs — the 13th federal death row inmate to be executed since the Justice Department resumed federal capital punishment in July 2019 after a 17-year gap —...

The San Francisco Police Department discovered chemicals to make explosives near an RV park Friday night.

A major winter storm brought heavy snow and blizzard conditions at times to parts of the Midwest on Friday.

It is nonetheless far from certain that the party's new leader will succeed her as Germany's chancellor when she steps down this fall.

An ideological jumble of far-right extremists and hate groups flourished under President Trump and claimed new energy after the attack on the Capitol. Now they are debating their next moves.

Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.

A network of far-right agitators across the country spent weeks organizing and raising money for a mass action to overturn President Trump's election loss.

"There is no advanced industrial democracy in the world more politically divided, or politically dysfunctional, than the United States today."

CBS News senior White House and political correspondent Ed O'Keefe joins "CBS This Morning: Saturday" to break down Biden's economy and vaccine plan, as well as how President Trump's impeachment trial could impact Biden'...

As U.S. authorities debate whether to keep schools open, a consensus is emerging in Europe that children are a considerable factor in the spread of Covid-19--and more countries are shutting schools for the first time sin...

On December 31, 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO) is alerted to a cluster of pneumonia cases "of unknown cause" in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.

The family of late football player Jordan McNair reached agreement with the university on a settlement nearly three years after McNair's death.       

Federal authorities are piecing together a chilling picture of the January 6 insurrection that reveals major security and intelligence failures, underscores profound fissures in American society and hints at the politica...

In his final days in office before a new administration takes over, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy changed a regulation to sidestep court rulings requiring the medical examination.