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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is happy a tenured West Point professor is resigning after saying he was "ashamed to be associated" with the U.S. Military Academy while the curriculum was overhauled following the election of President Trump.

Led by President Vladimir Putin in Red Square, Russians Friday celebrated the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe -- a war in which more than 24 million Soviets were killed.

David Steiner, a former CEO of the nation's largest waste management company who currently serves on the FedEx board of directors, is poised to take over control of the U.S. Postal Service, becoming the nation's 76th postmaster general.

A new study finds that illegal opioid and fentanyl use were higher under the Biden administration than previously reported.

A 14-year-old boy was arrested in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, this week, accused of leading cops on a high-speed chase.

A furious woman walking her dog passed a live TV interview spat on Ed Martin, the lawyer whose nomination for U.S. attorney in the District of Columbia was yanked by President Trump.

President Trump said he would be "OK" with a higher tax rate on the wealthy, but Republicans in Congress should probably scrap the idea as they work to pass his "big, beautiful bill."

Retired Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter, the ascetic bachelor and New Hampshire Republican who became a darling of liberals during his nearly 20 years on the bench, has died. He was 85.

Congressional Republicans, who finally have the power to reduce massive federal spending, are paralyzed over how to make cuts and could instead scale back their plan to slash taxes.

The government's civil liberties watchdog gave a relatively clean bill of health to the TSA's use of facial recognition technology to screen travelers, saying it's strikingly effective and is largely immune to abuse.