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The mammoth year-end federal funding measure congressional leaders agreed on does far more than just keep the government running. It is stuffed with all manner of policy and other changes.

The annual defense bill directing $895 billion toward the Pentagon and other military programs would deny transgender health coverage to minors. It now heads to President Biden's desk.

"This is what his nightmares are all about," said a lawyer for a now-confessed war criminal who spent years at Guantánamo Bay.

The company and its Chinese parent invoked the First Amendment in urging the justices to step in before a Jan. 19 deadline to sell or be shut down.

Lawmakers agreed the report would come out after the House has completed legislative business for the year and once they have left Washington to return to their districts.

State Democracy Defenders Fund, founded by a former ethics official from the Obama Administration, asked 16 federal agencies if they had heard from Elon Musk's budget-cutting group.

Dr. Mark Hyman, a "functional medicine" proponent and longtime friend of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is finding powerful allies in his bid to treat disease with blood tests and supplements.

Statements by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Elon Musk tap into a dispute over whether lifestyle changes or drugs are a better way to treat obesity.

President-elect Donald J. Trump's proposals on tariffs, immigration, taxes and deregulation may have far-reaching and contradictory effects, adding uncertainty to forecasts.

The prisoners were airlifted from Guantánamo Bay in a secret operation nearly a year after they admitted to serving as foot soldiers for the accused Indonesian terrorist leader Hambali.