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For the first time, the Olympic flame is in Africa for an official IOC event. The Washington Times' Joseph Hammond spoke with Kandy Sarr of the Senegal Olympic Committee as the torch tours Senegal ahead of the Dakar Youth Olympics.

President Trump announced Thursday that he invoked the Cold War-era Defense Production Act to enable his administration to offer financial incentives for oil-related activities, including drilling, building pipelines and storing liquid fuels.

The Justice Department said Thursday it will ask a federal appeals court to get involved in its bid to discard as many as 20,000 ballots sent to suspected noncitizens on California's voter rolls.

Calley Means, a top adviser to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and a chief advocate for the Make America Healthy Again movement, resigned from his position with the Trump administration Thursday.

Yet more severe weather struck the Four Corners region Thursday, with flooding that swamped dozens of homes in Utah and led to evacuations of low-lying areas in Colorado, a day after tornadoes blew off roofs, knocked trees onto houses and downed ...

Tennessee execution team members failed multiple times to establish working IV lines in Christa Pike's arms before her attempted execution and warned that some of her veins may have ruptured, or "blown," before she was injected with the lethal drug,

A District of Columbia man is facing federal fentanyl distribution charges, accused of selling an ultimately fatal fake pill laced with fentanyl to a Virginia man.

The Miz will try to whiz his famous fastball by batters on baseball's biggest stage, opening a new-look World Series between teams guaranteed to produce a first-time champion.

A first-of-its-kind cancer vaccine is significantly reducing the chances that melanoma patients' tumors come back, according to results of a major study released Thursday by drugmakers Moderna and Merck.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez apologized on Thursday for Democrats distancing themselves from transgender issues, calling herself a "girl's girl."