Two deaths have been identified as part of a cyclosporiasis outbreak affecting Michigan, the state's health department said on Monday.

Several prominent Long Island Democrats are leaving Gov. Kathy Hochul off the endorsement pages of their campaign websites, raising questions about whether candidates in one of New York's most competitive regions are distancing themselves...

Acting ICE Director David Venturella says he has sold his Geo Group stock and recused himself from matters involving the private prison company's detention contracts after Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., raised questions about potential conflicts of interest tied to his former employer.

The son of Maine's Democrat U.S. Senate nominee reportedly earned more than $180,000 lobbying the state Legislature while his father served as president of the state Senate.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino is expected to hold private talks Monday with Secretary of State Marco Rubio as he faces mounting calls to resign following the collapse of a controversial private equity deal, the New York Post reported.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris is fueling fresh speculation about a possible 2028 White House run while raising her political profile and keeping her future plans closely guarded.

U.S. stock index futures rose Monday as signs of de-escalating tensions in the Middle East dragged down crude prices, while investors prepared for another week packed with earnings and economic data.

A giant American flag hanging on the wall of a warehouse in New Hampshire hints at the national importance of the elements bound inside the mining waste stored in 1-ton bags.

Russia reportedly has resorted to using violence or threats of arrest to recruit fighting-age men into military service, underscoring mounting manpower problems as Moscow struggles to sustain its war in Ukraine.

Russian planes dropped eight powerful glide bombs in a span of 90 minutes on residential districts of the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, killing one person and wounding dozens of others, regional chief Ivan Fedorov said Monday. Russia has used glide bombs to smash...

Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams said he remained optimistic that inflation pressures are on track to ease gradually, but if they don't the U.S. central bank will not hesitate to respond with rate hikes to ensure price pressures return to target.

Maryland lawmakers will kick off a special session Monday to consider a first step in a partisan redistricting initiative that could help Democrats pick up an additional U.S. House seat by 2028.

The administration of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has renewed a contract worth up to $1.86 billion that allows hotels across the city's five boroughs to provide emergency shelter for homeless individuals and families through 2029...

Former Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas, the first Republican woman to chair the powerful House Appropriations Committee and the first Republican woman elected to Congress from Texas, has died at age 83...

The California Democratic Party voted Sunday to endorse a November ballot measure imposing a one-time tax on billionaires' wealth, breaking with Gov. Gavin Newsom and several of the state's most influential labor unions...

Veteran Democrat strategist James Carville said Sunday he would leave the Democratic Party if left-wing Twitch streamer Hasan Piker emerges as a major force within it, underscoring growing ideological tensions between establishment Democrats...

Key senators unveiled a short-term spending bill on Sunday that would keep federal agencies funded past the midterm elections and into early December as they look to avoid a government shutdown during the middle of campaign season.

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill's office will investigate former White House COVID-19 adviser Anthony Fauci following a contentious Senate hearing in which he repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination...

The death toll from a mass rush of migrants from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta last week reached at least 72 on Sunday, as five more bodies were found along the North African coast, officials said.

What is very likely to be the last reelection bid of Brazil's President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva was confirmed on Sunday by his Workers' Party as the 80-year-old leader faces increasing pressure from foreign leaders ahead of October's elections.

About 5,000 homes have been evacuated and about 600 homes, businesses and other buildings have been destroyed by wildfires that remained uncontained Sunday in eastern Washington state, authorities said.

At least 14 people were killed in a suspected suicide bombing outside a police station in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, a rescue group and a regional police official said, as the country battles widening insurgencies.

A new Trafalgar Group tracking poll suggests South Carolina's Republican special election for the U.S. Senate is rapidly becoming a three-way battle, with Rep. Russell Fry emerging as a serious contender and raising new questions...

Rep. Marcy Kaptur was hospitalized Sunday after being injured in a hit-and-run crash while traveling to church, the Ohio Democrat's office announced on X. Kaptur's office said the 80-year-old congresswoman was a passenger in a vehicle...