President Trump directed federal law enforcement agencies to increase their presence in Washington DC last week.

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Currently the awards are only eligible to college campuses in Washington, D.C.; Maryland; and Virginia, but the ASJB hopes to ...

A court said only Congress could limit public spending disclosures, giving the administration until August 15 to restore a database.

NPR's Leila Fadel asks historian George Derek Musgrove about the relationship between the federal government and the nation's capital over the use of law enforcement.

The system for compensating people injured by vaccines needs significant reform. But the health secretary could alter it in ...

Louisiana's fight with New York over abortion pills could go before the U.S. Supreme Court and may help define the legal ...

Astronaut James "Jim" Lovell was preceded in death by his wife Marilyn Lovell. Theirs was an enduring love match that lasted ...

Twenty-three years ago, Black activists led a relentless effort to make slavery the focal point of an exhibit on a ...

A growing number of social media influencers are promoting going without sunscreen, citing distrust of chemical ingredients ...

Will the FBI help the Republican Party force through a partisan redistricting plan in Texas, or not? The answer to that ...

On the 80th anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, President Truman deserves credit for the first use of the ...