This article was published in partnership with the Houston Chronicle. HOUSTON — More than a year after Texas child welfare authorities improperly took Melissa and Dillion Bright’s children and temporarily placed them in foster care,…

Laura Cooper, the top Pentagon official overseeing U.S. policy regarding Ukraine, told House impeachment investigators last month that President Donald Trump directed the relevant agencies to freeze aid to Ukraine over the summer, according to…

Last week, President Donald J. Trump complained that he would be getting “no lawyer” and “no due process” during the House impeachment hearings, set to begin Wednesday. The irony of course is that if Trump…

An Arctic blast is forecast to bring widespread record-setting temperatures to parts of the United States this week. The coldest surge of Arctic air so far this season will impact much of the central and…

LONDON — Turkey said on Monday that it has begun the repatriation of captured foreign Islamic State militants, including one American who has already been returned to the U.S. State-run Anadolu news agency quoted a…

A federal judge on Monday dismissed President Donald Trump's lawsuit to prevent the House Ways and Means Committee from utilizing a recently passed New York law providing the panel an avenue to pursue his state…

A key backer of the group that trained Syria's White Helmets emergency response group has died in Turkey, the organization confirmed Monday. White Helmets tweeted that they have learned “with shock and sadness” about the…

A teenager who survived a brutal ambush that killed nine people in Mexico last week and walked 14 miles to get help for his siblings says his mother desperately tried to protect her kids before…