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Clark Corbin and Heath Druzin traveled to some of the most remote spots in the Lower 48 to report on wolves in Idaho and ...

America's three-time Tour de France winner will receive the Congressional Gold Medal, an honor on par with the Presidential ...

President Donald Trump and his advisers promised a lightning round of global trade negotiations with dozens of countries back ...

Senate Republicans are staring down a mid-July deadline to approve a batch of funding cuts pursued by President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), even as some in the GOP express ...

New York City tells people who they have to be if they want to be anybody while Chicago allows everyone to be who they want ...

Climate change is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly, even as the federal government is running away from the policies that might begin to protect the nation.

On July 7, President Donald Trump said that the United States must send more weapons to Ukraine. "We are going to send some more weapons. They [the Ukrainians] have to be able to defend themselves.

The federal funding, which was expected on July 1, impacts thousands of students who are learning English, attend ...

There are three men's international soccer tournaments in the U.S. this summer and the World Cup in 2026. What impact will ...

Tickets to the FIFA Club World Cup have been sold in 121 countries. How many of those soccer fans will turn into MLS supporters?

As Wall Street traders continued to share the accusation that “Trump Always Chickens Out,” the president falsely insisted ...