The Supreme Court early Tuesday ruled that the first federal executions in 17 years can be carried out. The justices ruled 5-4 hours after a U.S. District Judge preliminary blocked four inmates from being executed.…

WASHINGTON — The U.S. government has awarded coronavirus relief loans to several subsidiaries of Chinese companies, including one linked to the Chinese military that drew scrutiny from Congress, according to data released by the Treasury…

A New York judge on Monday dismissed a legal challenge to the publication of Mary Trump's tell-all book about her family — one day before its scheduled release. In a 20-page ruling, Dutchess County Supreme…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's standing has taken a beating. And less than four months before the election, Republican candidates are walking on thinning tightrope trying to survive. In a normal presidency, they'd be racing…

WASHINGTON — Leaders from four of the largest private prison companies running immigration detention centers pledged to members of Congress Monday that their employees are all required to wear face masks and will stay home…

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the deadly pandemic sweeping through his state could help decide whether President Donald Trump gives his acceptance speech next month at the Republican convention to a packed crowd — or…

There's a reason presidents usually wait to issue controversial pardons or prison sentence commutations until the waning weeks, days or even hours of their terms. Outgoing presidents anticipate that much of the coming political blowback…

Polish President Andrzej Duda, a conservative with the ruling Law and Justice party who ran on an anti-LGBTQ platform, narrowly won a second, five-year term in a bitterly fought weekend election, defeating the liberal Warsaw…