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As Congress returns to Washington this fall after a monthlong August recess, they will have to find a way to work with Democrats or around them as a government shutdown looms.

As Powerball ticket sales climbed this week, game officials raised the estimated Saturday night jackpot to $1 billion from $950 million, before taxes.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s request for asylum in the United States is a prudent legal strategy, experts say, because it gives his lawyers better options for fighting the Trump administration’s efforts to deport him.

Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia say they are concerned he can’t get a fair trial in his human smuggling case because Trump administration officials keep attacking him.

In his announcement, Teixeira pledged to work with President Donald Trump to secure the border and end “radical woke indoctrination.”

Amid what has been billed the nation’s largest round-up of undocumented immigrants, attorneys, advocates, social workers and therapists working with the immigrant community say unsuspecting immigrants are becoming victims of deception and predatory behavior.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who has become the face of President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration agenda, wants to seek asylum in the United States, his lawyers told a federal judge Wednesday.

U.S. regulators approved updated COVID-19 shots Wednesday but limited their use for many Americans — and removed one of the two vaccines available for young children.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Wednesday that his department is taking management of Union Station, the main transportation hub in Washington, away from Amtrak.

A federal judge threw out the Trump administration’s lawsuit against Maryland’s entire federal bench over an order by the chief judge that stopped the immediate deportation of migrants challenging their removals.

Southwest Airlines will soon require travelers who don’t fit within the armrests of their seat to pay for an extra one in advance, part of a string of recent changes the carrier is making.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is currently holding Kilmar Abrego Garcia in a Virginia detention center, as the case of the Salvadoran native reaches yet another crescendo.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials took a stoic Kilmar Abrego Garcia into custody Monday morning and are preparing to remove him to Uganda.

Some National Guard units patrolling the nation’s capital at the direction of President Donald Trump have started carrying firearms.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen met virtually with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, the day before the Maryland father is set to check in with ICE.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered National Guard troops to start carrying firearms while patrolling the streets of Washington for President Donald Trump’s law enforcement crackdown, the Pentagon said Friday.

Weather officials placed Anne Arundel County under a coastal flood warning until 10 a.m. Sunday, suggesting 2-2.5 feet of flooding is possible. In Annapolis, sandbags are being provided as officials warn residents to take precautions.

Turcotte won the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes twice each from 1965-73 before his riding career ended when he fell off a horse and suffered injuries that made him paraplegic.

The FBI is searching the Maryland home and Washington office of John Bolton, who served in President Donald Trump’s first administration as national security adviser.

A U.S. magistrate judge is expected to order the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from a Tennessee jail Friday while he awaits trial on federal human smuggling charges.