An increasing number of foreign actors, including nonstate actors, are seeking to influence U.S. elections; and Russia, China and Iran, while the most significant, are far from alone, U.S. officials told a Senate committee on Wednesday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit China on Thursday for talks with Xi Jinping that the Kremlin hopes will deepen a strategic partnership between the two most powerful geopolitical rivals of the United States.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio., has asked a high-ranking FBI official to testify behind closed doors regarding his alleged retaliation against whistleblowers, The Washington Times first reported.

U.S. Capitol Police said Wednesday a zip-close baggie containing a small amount of cocaine was found on the floor in a hallway of its Washington, D.C., headquarters.

The unveiling of a statue inside the U.S. Capitol's National Statuary Hall honoring the late Rev. William Franklin "Billy" Graham will air live on Newsmax Thursday.

Preakness favorite Muth is out of Saturday's race after spiking a fever, trainer Bob Baffert said Wednesday.

Former NFL star quarterback Tom Brady said that jokes made at his expense during a Netflix roast had a profound impact on his children, prompting him to reconsider participating in such events in the future.

The benchmark S&P 500 and the Nasdaq notched record closes Wednesday, with both advancing more than 1%, after a smaller-than-expected rise in consumer inflation bolstered hopes for interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve.

The Department of Health and Human Services announced it will suspend federal funding for a research organization, saying it misled government agencies on its taxpayer-funded research project, the Washington Examiner reported.

Congress gave final approval Wednesday to a $105 billion bill designed to increase the number of air traffic controllers, add more safety inspectors at aircraft factories, and require airlines to automatically pay refunds to travelers whose flights are canceled or...

The U.S. Coast Guard closed the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway on Wednesday to deal with an oil spill coming from a barge that broke loose in Texas and hit the Pelican Island Causeway Bridge linking Pelican Island to Galveston, causing a piece of the structure to fall.

A Republican-led House committee examining the select committee that investigated Jan. 6, 2021, sent a letter Wednesday requesting documents to the latter panel's key witness Cassidy Hutchinson.

U.S. Border crossings are slowing with help from Mexico, reports NBC News. More than 280,000 migrants have been stopped inside Mexico this year, compared with roughly 100,000 last year.

Only 28% of voters rate the national news media as doing a good or excellent job covering the most important issues, inflation and illegal immigration, while 46% give the media a poor rating.

The Navy will help defend the pier being built by the U.S. military to deliver aid to Palestinian civilians in Gaza, the Pentagon announced, according to Military.com.

The number of U.S. fatal overdoses fell last year, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data posted Wednesday. Agency officials noted the data is provisional and could change after more analysis, but that they still expect a drop when the final counts are...

South Dakota GOP Gov. Kristi Noem has now been banned from seven Native American tribes in her state.

Police identified a suspect wanted for an alleged assault on actor Steve Buscemi in Manhattan last week.

The United States needs to focus on reducing its fiscal deficit or it could become a "far more uncomfortable" problem in the future, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said in an interview with Sky News Wednesday.

Six migrants charged with attacking New York City police officers in January were offered plea deals on Tuesday, the New York Post reported. During a court appearance, it was also revealed that one of the migrants had been arrested again while out on bail.Six young adults...

New York Mayor Eric Adams say has a solution to the city's lifeguard shortage: Hire immigrants since "they are excellent swimmers."

Slovakia's populist Prime Minister Robert Fico was wounded in a shooting Wednesday afternoon and taken to hospital.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping will focus on questions of global and regional security in face-to-face talks this week, the state RIA news agency cited Duma Deputy Speaker Ivan Melnikov as saying Wednesday.

Ippei Mizuhara, who previously served as Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani's interpreter, pleaded not guilty to bank and tax fraud Tuesday, doing so as a formality with negotiations with federal prosecutors looming.

U.S. consumer prices increased less than expected in April, suggesting that inflation resumed its downward trend at the start of the second quarter in a boost to financial market expectations for a September interest rate cut.