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The fate of a U.S. Senate seat in Texas likely rests on a May 26 GOP runoff between four-term Republican incumbent John Cornyn and the state's ultra-conservative attorney general, Ken Paxton.

U.S. military forces launched joint operations with Ecuador this week to dismantle international narcotics trafficking networks that have been designated as terrorist organizations.

The Iran war's disruption of Middle East oil and gas supplies and soaring prices are strengthening Russia's ability to profit from its energy exports, a pillar of the Kremlin's budget and a key to paying for its own war in Ukraine.

China's military is expanding its submarine warfare forces with multiple new submarines and drone weapons that threaten America's undersea advantage, senior Navy officers disclosed this week.

The head of the IRS largely declined to answer questions about recent unlawful disclosures of taxpayer data when he was questioned by lawmakers at a congressional hearing on Wednesday, saying they happened before his tenure began.

Early voting on Virginia's congressional redistricting referendum will begin Friday after a judge dismissed a lawsuit that sought to delay the vote over the proposed map's constitutionality.

Customs and Border Protection Baltimore Field Office agents recently recovered cars stolen from the District's Southeast area that were going to be sent to West Africa.

The U.S. and Israeli code names for the campaign in Iran -- Epic Fury and Roaring Lion -- constitute the first truly combined military operations waged by both countries.

One of the world's largest online forums used to buy and sell stolen data and cybercrime tools was dismantled, the Justice Department announced.

Tiny microorganisms tucked inside space rocks could survive being hurled between planets -- including to Earth -- according to a new study from Johns Hopkins University, raising fresh questions about how life may have first begun on our world.