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A new public safety battle is brewing in America that centers on AI-powered cameras discreetly installed on thousands of street corners, parks, parking lots, neighborhoods and drones buzzing overhead.

Fireworks, Founding-era festivities and patriotic performances headline an Independence Day weekend packed with ways to celebrate America's 250th anniversary in and around the nation's capital.

Trump Accounts, the government-funded investment vehicle for children born during President Trump's second term, will launch on Saturday, July Fourth, as the administration links the nation's 250th anniversary to financial independence.

A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that 19 intelligence community employees fired because they were doing diversity, equity and inclusion jobs must be given a chance to apply for other posts.

German prosecutors on Wednesday charged a former Ukrainian army officer with being part of a military operation in 2022 that sabotaged the Nord Stream pipelines shipping natural gas from Russia to Western Europe.

Rep. Thomas H. Kean Jr., who returned to Capitol Hill this week after a four-month absence due to depression, has introduced a bill to strengthen enforcement of federal mental health parity laws.

The DC-Metro region is baking. With the thermometer expected to top 100degF across Washington, Northern Virginia, and the Maryland suburbs this week, "beating the heat" has gone from a nice-to-have to a daily survival project. The good news: you don ...

Hannah Dugan, the former Wisconsin judge convicted of trying to thwart ICE's attempt to arrest an illegal immigrant in her courtroom, begged for mercy this week, saying she shouldn't serve any jail time because she has suffered enough.

Americans created airplanes, computer chips, the internet and automobile assembly lines over 250 years of industry -- but they've also invented unheralded gems such as refrigerators, barcodes, washing machines and Doppler radar.

The U.S. added 57,000 jobs in June, the government said Thursday in a report showing slower hiring growth on the cusp of summer compared to red-hot reports earlier in 2026.