The Trump administration moved to begin laying off federal workers Friday while the government was shuttered, fulfilling threats from President Donald Trump to take advantage of the closure to shave ...

Mills, a two-term governor, will join an already crowded field of Democratic candidates hoping to challenge the Republican who has held the seat for nearly three decades. Maine Gov. Janet Mills, a two ...

LIMA, Peru — Peruvians woke up to their seventh president in less than a decade Friday, as 38-year-old José Jerí took the reins of the shaken nation after Congress ousted widely loathed President Dina ...

Maine’s two-term Democratic Gov. Janet Mills will run for the U.S. Senate seat held by veteran Republican Sen. Susan Collins next year PORTLAND, Maine — Maine’s two-term Democratic Gov. Janet Mills ...

President Donald Trump said he is unhappy about China’s “hostile” move to limit access to rare minerals used in manufacturing.

The White House budget office says that mass firings of federal workers have started in an attempt to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers as the government shutdown continues ...

MIT’s president said she “cannot support” a White House proposal that asks MIT and eight other universities to adopt President Donald Trump’s political agenda in exchange for favorable access to ...

Peru’s Congress voted early Friday to remove deeply unpopular President Dina Boluarte from office amid worsening crime and allegations of personal corruption, the latest turn in the country’s ...

Widespread rainfall totals of greater than 2 inches are on tap from the Southeast shores to much of southern New England, with upwards of 3 to 6 inches in some locations, the heaviest probably near ...

Or was it the people around Kamala Harris — the Democratic campaign operatives — who had failed? “Yeah, I’m starting to lean toward that,” Ngonda said Thursday, standing at the front of the line ...

McEWEN, Tenn. — An explosion at a Tennessee military munitions plant left multiple people dead and missing on Friday, authorities said, as secondary blasts forced rescuers to keep their distance from ...