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A federal appeals court has restricted access to one of the most common means of abortion in the U.S. by blocking mailing of prescriptions of mifepristone.

J. Craig Venter, who mapped the first draft of the human genome, died in San Diego after being hospitalized for side effects from a recent cancer treatment.

After weeks of delay, the House of Representatives voted Thursday to fund much of the Department of Homeland Security, but not its immigration enforcement operations, and sent the bipartisan package to President Donald Trump to sign, ending the longest agency shutdown in history.

Salomon Serrano Esquivel was well aware of the immigration crackdown under President Donald Trump and often thought he might be next. But he never could have predicted what happened.

The Supreme Court has weakened a key tool of the Voting Rights Act that has helped combat racial discrimination in voting for over 50 years.

Isaiah Kirby, a 21-year-old Owings Mills native studying zoology at Michigan State University, was fatally shot by East Lansing Police Department officers.

King Charles III will embrace some of Washington’s most formal ceremonial trappings on Tuesday as he tries to emphasize a bond between the United Kingdom and the United States.

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The man who authorities say tried to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner with guns and knives was charged Monday with the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump as federal authorities suggested an attack that disrupted one of Washington’s glitziest events had been planned for at least several weeks.

The man accused of shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner sent writings to his family, which includes a sister in Maryland, minutes before the shooting.

President Donald Trump was uninjured and other top leaders of the United States were evacuated from an annual dinner of White House correspondents on Saturday night after a shooting incident outside the ballroom.

Airlines worldwide have begun canceling flights as the war in the Middle East strains jet fuel supplies and pushes up prices — but the disruption doesn’t end there.

HBO Max, “Harry Potter,” “Top Gun,” CBS and CNN may all be placed under the control of the upstart Paramount Skydance soon. That’s because shareholders of Warner Bros. Discovery approved an $81 billion sale of the company on Thursday.

The Pentagon announced Wednesday that the Navy’s top civilian official, Secretary of the Navy John Phelan, is leaving his job.

President Donald Trump’s acting attorney general signed an order reclassifying state-licensed medical marijuana, shifting licensed medical marijuana from Schedule I to the less strictly regulated Schedule III.

The Senate took the first steps in a new effort to reopen the Department of Homeland Security early Thursday, voting to adopt a budget plan that would fund ICE and Border Patrol over Democratic objections and sending it to the House.

U.S. Rep. David Scott, a Georgia Democrat who was seeking his 13th term in Congress despite challenges from within his party, has died. He was 80.

Despite the ceasefire extension, President Donald Trump also seemed to dig in, saying the U.S. would continue to blockade Iranian ports.

Virginia voters approved a mid-decade redistricting plan Tuesday that could boost Democrats’ chances of winning four additional U.S. House seats in November’s midterm elections that will decide control of the narrowly divided Congress.

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