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The Trump administration is asking a federal judge to let it reconsider a major federal permit granted for a large offshore wind farm, making it the fourth project the Republican leadership has targeted in recent months.

New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez filed a civil suit Wednesday in federal court against the attorney and the accountant of late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Voter turnout is soaring compared with the last midterm election in many of the states that are expected to decide control of the U.S. Senate, according to an Associated Press analysis of early voting two weeks before Election Day.

The younger sister of Stephen Hubbard, the American freed Wednesday after spending more than four years in a Russian prison, said she spoke with her brother by phone and described him as being in disbelief.

Manuel Otto, the German creator of the Stick Run video game, committed suicide live on the streaming platform Twitch on Tuesday.

Commentator Stephen A. Smith refused to apologize for attending a dinner at the White House hosted by President Trump on Thursday.

A Dundalk man pleaded guilty Tuesday to defacing headstones in a Jewish cemetery with swastikas and other antisemitic symbols.

Hollywood celebrities such as Barbra Streisand, documentarian Ken Burns and science personality Bill Nye are the latest figures to back the Democratic Party in its final push before midterm elections.

California prison authorities have released convicted rapist and cosmetics heir Andrew Luster, igniting strong opposition from local leaders after he served roughly 20 years of his original 124-year sentence.

The home page of the lower house of the Dutch parliament was among scores of government websites throughout Europe taken offline as a precautionary measure following the discovery of vulnerabilities in PHP, the programming language used to build ...