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Austin Peay State University in Tennessee will reinstate and pay a $500,000 settlement to a professor it had fired over a social media post he made after conservative activist Charlie Kirk's assassination.

Oil company executives are scheduled to meet with President Trump at the White House on Friday to discuss plans for stabilizing and boosting Venezuela's oil production after the ouster of strongman Nicholas Maduro.

The Trump administration is creating a new assistant attorney general position to investigate alleged fraud across states such as the level of fraud seen in Minnesota's social services.

From Africa's Gulf of Guinea to America's Caribbean Sea, 2025 was a growth year for pirates. Globally, maritime crime is at its highest levels since COVID-19.

Vice President J.D. Vance on Thursday offered a scathing assessment of the media's coverage of the fatal shooting in Minneapolis by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement Officer, accusing outlets of outright lying about the incident.

Pope Leo XIV convened the world's cardinals in Rome for his first consistory, where they advised him to prioritize making the church more missionary and responsive to lay Catholics while he separately announced plans to devote his weekly teachings to ...

The Senate narrowly advanced a war powers resolution Thursday to block President Trump from further military action in Venezuela, triggering a furious response from the commander in chief.

Maryland Democratic Rep. Steny H. Hoyer announced his retirement Thursday, preparing to leave the House after 44 years as the current longest-serving Democrat in the lower chamber.

Hundreds of sailors manned the rails on a wet, blustery day in mid-December as the USS Nimitz steamed into Puget Sound and returned to its home port at Naval Base Kitsap, about 20 miles west of Seattle.

Iran's leadership is facing an existential challenge this month, experts said Wednesday, as widespread protests expanded this week across most of Iran's provinces, spurred on by a severe economic downturn in recent months.