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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Monday fired at least one suspected ballistic missile into the sea in its fourth weapons launch this month, officials in South Korea and Japan said, with the apparent goal of demonstrating its military might ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers say they hope to be able to open all schools for girls across the country after late March, their spokesman told The Associated Press on Saturday, offering the first timeline for address...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Friday named a career CIA official to coordinate the intelligence community's response to election threats from Russia, China and other adversaries. Jeffrey Wichman was named election threats executi...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats on Thursday defeated a bill by Texas Republican Ted Cruz that would have slammed sanctions on businesses involved in a Russian natural gas pipeline to Germany, denouncing it as a GOP political gesture that would ha...

WASHINGTON (AP) — There was a closed-door huddle by an embattled President Joe Biden with his own party's senators, apparently for naught. An eyebrow-raising speech on the Senate floor by a recalcitrant Democrat. And a defiant news conference by...

WASHINGTON (TND) — Emails between Dr. Anthony Fauci and former National Institutes of Health director Dr. Francis Collins became a fiery issue during a hearing on Capitol Hill. "This proposal from three fringe epidemiologists who met with the Se...

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is refusing a request by the House panel investigating the U. S. Capitol insurrection to submit to an interview and turn over records pertaining to the deadly riot. The panel is seeking first-ha...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats are trying to force a public showdown over their sweeping elections legislation, aiming to launch debate on a key party priority even though there's no assurance the bill will come to a vote. Majority Leader Ch...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell blasted President Joe Biden's Tuesday speech in Atlanta endorsing Democrats' election reforms, expressing displeasure with the president's abandonment of "rational persuasion for pure demagoguery. ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House panel investigating the U. S. Capitol insurrection requested an interview and records from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday, shifting their investigation to a top ally of former President Donald Trump in ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (WPEC) — Democratic candidate Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick will bolster a slim majority in the U. S. House after winning a special election Tuesday night to fill the seat of late Rep. Alcee Hastings. Cherfilus-McCormick defeated ...

MOSCOW (AP) — The president of Kazakhstan announced Tuesday that a Russia-led security alliance will start pulling out its troops from the Central Asian nation in two days after completing its mission. The mostly Russian troops were deployed to Kaza...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House panel investigating the U. S. Capitol insurrection issued subpoenas on Tuesday to two Republican strategists and a Trump administration official regarding their involvement in the planning and preparation of one of the ra...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U. S. government's top infectious disease expert, angrily accused a senator Tuesday of making false accusations that are leading to threats against him -- all to raise political cash. Republican Sen. Rand...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has announced $308 million in additional humanitarian assistance for Afghanistan, offering new aid to the country as it edges toward a humanitarian crisis since the Taliban takeover nearly five months ago. White Hou...

MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin said Tuesday it saw...

WASHINGTON (TND) — The Internal Revenue Service is issuing a warning to Americans: expect a delay in your tax refunds this year. The IRS will begin accepting returns on Jan. 24 and the deadline is April 18, but the agency is dealing with a perfect s...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says North Korea has fired unidentified projectile into sea....

WASHINGTON (TND) — Colorado Rep. Ed Perlmutter is the latest Democrat in the House of Representatives to announce he will not run for reelection in 2022. This brings the total number of current House Democrats not seeking reelection to 26. House Rep...

KABUL, Afghanistan (TND) — A baby boy who had been missing for almost half a year after being separated from his parents during the chaotic evacuation of Afghanistan has been reportedly reunited with his family. Sohail Ahmadi was only 2-months-old w...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian diplomats are meeting this week with officials from the United States and its NATO allies for security negotiations in three European cities. Russian and U. S. negotiators launched the talks in Geneva on Monday. They will be fo...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, one of former President Donald Trump's closest allies in Congress, on Sunday rejected a request for an interview by the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. In a combati...

GENEVA (AP) — A top Russian diplomat predicted...

SIOUX FALLS, S. D. (AP) — U. S. Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, the second-ranking Republican leader in the Senate, announced Saturday he is seeking reelection to a fourth term in 2022. Thune, who turned 61 on Friday, has mulled retiring from the S...

WASHINGTON (TND) — Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller shared his frustration on YouTube following the botched Afghanistan withdrawal. "I'm not saying we've got to be in Afghanistan forever, but I am saying did any of you throw your rank on ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — On a somber day of remembrance at the U. S. Capitol, it was the most unlikely of receiving lines: Democrats lining the floor of the House, waiting for their chance to greet Dick Cheney. Yet there he stood, the former Republican vic...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior Army three-star general with extensive experience in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars has been nominated to become the top U. S. commander for the Middle East. President Joe Biden has nominated Army Lt. Gen. Erik Kurilla to h...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea claimed Thursday to have conducted the second successful test flight of a hypersonic missile, days after leader Kim Jong Un vowed to bolster his military forces despite pandemic-related difficulties. Wednesday&#...

WASHINGTON (TND) — This year's congressional redistricting process has resulted in a less-biased map in favor of the Republican Party than in years past, according to a new report published earlier this week. So far, in the states that have comp...

ATLANTA (AP) — Senators, Georgia politicians, family members and friends held one last meeting of what Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called the "Johnny Isakson fan club" on Thursday, remembering the Georgia Republican's friendsh...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Thursday it has successfully launched a hypersonic missile as part of efforts to modernize its strategic weapons systems, days after leader Kim Jong Un vowed to bolster his military forces despite pandemic-...

SAN ANTONIO - The search for a missing 3-year-old girl continues on the city's Northwest Side on Wednesday morning. Teams are focusing on the area around Babcock and Huebner Road in the search for little Lina Khil, who went missing over two weeks ago....

WASHINGTON (AP) — The suspect was covered from head to toe, skulking through the dark streets of the nation's capital before methodically placing two explosives outside the offices of the Republican and Democratic national committees. Only 17 ho...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired a suspected missile into its eastern waters on Wednesday, the South Korean and Japanese militaries said, the first such launch in about two months amid long-dormant international diplomacy on the North'...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — With control of Congress in play, Republican Larry Elder announced Tuesday he is forming a political committee to raise funds for House and Senate contests and will bypass a possible rematch with California Democratic Gov. Gavin N...

Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of Justice, seeking records on the federal response to contentious school board meetings that were taking place around the country last yea...

LAREDO, Texas - The Federal Bureau of Investigation San Antonio Division, Laredo Resident Agency Office, is looking for any information on two missing Laredo men who were last seen on December 17, 2021. Caption: SBG San Antonio. Lee Roy Gonzalez Jr. , 18,...

SAN ANTONIO -The February storm in 2021 left dozens of Texans dead and millions without power. In response to the winter storm Uri, the IRS has granted several forms of tax relief for Texans that were affected, according to an announcement by the IRS. ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghanistan's former president said he had no choice but to abruptly leave Kabul as the Taliban closed in and denied an agreement was in the works for a peaceful takeover, disputing the accounts of former Afghan and U. S. offici...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran on Thursday announced it launched a satellite carrier rocket bearing three devices into space, though it's unclear whether any of the objects entered orbit around the Earth. The state TV report, as well as others by Iran...

MOSCOW (AP) — A court in Moscow on Wednesday granted a request to shut down another prominent human rights organization amid a sweeping crackdown on Russian rights groups, independent media and opposition supporters....

HONG KONG (AP) — For Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement, 2021 has been a year in which the city's authorities and the central government in Beijing stamped out nearly everything it had stood for. Activists have fled abroad or been locked up ...

U. S. and Nevada leaders are mourning former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who died Tuesday at 82. Landra Reid says her husband died peacefully after a four-year battle with pancreatic cancer. Reid, a Democrat, led the Senate under under two presiden...

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police were raiding the office of an online news outlet on Wednesday after arresting six people for conspiracy to publish a seditious publication. More than 200 officers were taking part in the search, police said. They ha...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Harry Reid, the former Senate majority leader and Nevada's longest-serving member of Congress, has died. He was 82. Reid died Tuesday, "peacefully" and surrounded by friends "following a courageous, four-year battle ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's highest court on Tuesday shut down one of the country's oldest and most prominent human rights organizations, the latest move in a relentless crackdown on rights activists, independent media and opposition supporters. ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea opened a key political conference Monday to review past projects and discuss new policies amid the pandemic and a diplomatic deadlock with the United States. The official Korean Central News Agency said Tuesday ...

WASHINGTON (TND) — Billions of dollars in equipment was left behind in Afghanistan following the U. S. withdrawal earlier this year, and now finding its way into the hands of the Taliban. Auditors at watchdog group Open the Books found $2. 9 billion...

SAN ANTONIO - The reward for findingLina Sardar Khil has increased to a current total of $150,000. Crime Stoppers is offering $50,000 for any information leading to the arrest of the suspect involved with Lina Khil's disappearance. The Islamic Center ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As Russia was working to subvert U. S. elections and sow discord among Americans, Congress directed the creation of an intelligence center to lead efforts to stop interference by foreign adversaries. But two years later, that cente...