President Biden said the United States is committed to evacuating all Afghans who assisted the war effort — a potentially vast expansion of the administration's commitments on the airlift so far.
'Jeopardy!' host Mike Richards quits amid an uproar over his past comments, says moving forward would be a "distraction."
The man who claimed to have a bomb in a truck near the Library of Congress has surrendered to law enforcement, ending an hourslong standoff.
The Biden administration will move to require that nursing home staff are vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition for those facilities to continue receiving federal Medicare and Medicaid funding.
U.S. health officials Wednesday recommended all Americans get COVID-19 booster shots. The doses could begin the week of Sept. 20. Details here.
Taliban fire into air, attack protesters with batons to disperse crowd that replaced Taliban flag with Afghan national flag in Jalalabad. Get the latest.
U.S. military commanders at the Kabul airport are in contact with Taliban leaders as they coordinate the evacuation of American citizens and Afghan allies. Here's the latest.
President Joe Biden said Monday he stands "squarely behind" his decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan and that the government's collapse was quicker than anticipated.
America's national security adviser blames the Afghan military for Kabul's fall, says Biden 'stands by' his decision to withdraw troops. Keep updated here.
In a stunning rout, the Taliban seized nearly all of Afghanistan in just over a week, despite the hundreds of billions of dollars spent by the U.S. and NATO over nearly two decades to build up Afghan security forces.
A federal judge is refusing landlords' request to put the Biden administration's new eviction moratorium on hold, though she made clear she thinks it's illegal.
With security rapidly deteriorating in Afghanistan, the United States is sending additional troops into the country to help evacuate some personnel from the embassy in Kabul.
The Census Bureau on Thursday issued a detailed portrait of how the U.S. has changed over the past decade, releasing demographic data that will be used to redraw political maps.
A Texas state senator ended a 15-hour filibuster this morning in the Democrats' latest defiance over a GOP voting measure. Republicans passed the bill minutes later.
The CDC urged all pregnant women to get the COVID-19 vaccine as hospitals see disturbing numbers of unvaccinated mothers-to-be seriously ill with the virus.
Prices for U.S. consumers rose last month but at the slowest pace since February, a sign that Americans may gain some relief after four months of sharp increases.
Democrats pushed a $3.5 trillion framework for bolstering family services, health, and environment programs through the Senate early Wednesday.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday he would resign over a barrage of sexual harassment allegations in a fall from grace a year after he was widely hailed nationally for his detailed daily briefings and leadership during the darkest days of COVID-19.
The Senate has approved a $1 trillion infrastructure plan with a coalition of Democrats and Republicans joining to deliver a cornerstone of President Joe Biden’s agenda.
The Pentagon will require members of the U.S. military to get the COVID-19 vaccine by Sept. 15, or sooner if the vaccine receives final FDA approval or infection rates continue to rise.
