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Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) demanded that Chairman Jim Jordan's (R-OH) House Judiciary Committee hearing be ended, calling it "beyond stupidity."

Donald Trump's legal problems are starving state Republican parties of much-needed campaign cash.

A new exhibition opens this week tracing a century of British royal portrait photography, from the official coronation image of King Charles III to an intimate portrait of his late aunt Princess Margaret.

Porto Alegre, the Brazilian metropolis left submerged after torrential rains, had been lulled into a "false sense" of security by a vast but aging system of flood defenses, an urban drainage engineer told AFP.

Manhattan Criminal Court — Former President Donald Trump's attorney Todd Blanche heard crickets in the courtroom when he took a jab at members of Congress in front of members of Congress.

Physicists consider black holes one of the most mysterious objects that exist. Ironically, they’re also considered one of the simplest. For years, physicists like me have been looking to prove that black holes are more complex than they seem. And a newly approved European space mission called LISA will help us with this hunt.

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is among the latest batch of Republican lawmakers who made a pilgrimage to New York City to sit in on former President Donald Trump's criminal trial in Manhattan.

As House Republicans move to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt for refusing to hand over the audio tapes of Special Counsel Robert Hur's interviews with President Joe Biden, the White House Counsel has notified two House committee chairmen President Biden is invoking executive privilege on those tapes.

Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner has signed a lease for a building project at the site of the former Yugoslav army headquarters in Belgrade that was bombed in US-led NATO strikes in 1999.

Fox News host Bill Hemmer questioned the narrative about Donald Trump's hush money trial that Robert Costello, Michael Cohen's former lawyer, has been peddling in support of the former president.

House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerry Nadler (D-NY) called out Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) for trying to appease the "MAGA political base" by spending $20 million on hearings to investigate the Biden administration.

Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Matt Gaetz (R-FL) were among those in the audience to support Donald Trump on Thursday — and the Colorado Republican was reportedly staring daggers at the former president's critics.

Manhattan Criminal Court — Laughter erupted Thursday during former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial when his attorney made a plea to the judge — and received a swift and stern "No."

Fox Business Network host Maria Bartiromo was thrown for a loop by a Republican claiming he could show her proof that president Joe Biden used some type of stimulant to boost his performance during the State of the Union address.

As former President Donald Trump's one-time attorney and fixer Michael Cohen testifies as the star witness at the former president's Manhattan criminal trial, Republicans have gathered at the courthouse to support him — and in so doing, have highlighted a key point of Cohen's testimony, writer Amanda Marcotte argued for Salon.

Former President Donald Trump's turncoat attorney Michael Cohen has been a star witness in the Manhattan criminal hush money case, but he still has one more day of cross-examination to get through — and there are many ways he could tank.

Donald Trump issued a brief but rambling post blaming President Joe Biden for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. being shut out of the presidential debates — but then indicated the long-shot challenger had no place onstage.

Former President Donald Trump's attorney Michael Cohen managed to hold his own on the first day of cross-examination, with defense counsel frustrated by their inability to get him to crack — but the real test is coming today, former Trump administration communications official Alyssa Farah Griffin told CNN's Sara Sidner on Thursday.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas still hasn't revealed whether he repaid a six-figure loan from a wealthy friend to purchase a recreational vehicle decades ago.

Oil companies would save an estimated $110 billion in tax breaks if they accepted the "deal" allegedly offered by Donald Trump last month at a fundraising dinner at Mar-a-Lago.

Marjorie Taylor Greene got swift rebuke after linking the shooting of Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico to a pandemic-based conspiracy theory.

Drug overdose deaths in the United States declined last year for the first time since 2018, provisional data released Wednesday showed, suggesting tentative progress in combating the opioid epidemic even as experts cautioned against premature celebration.

POLK COUNTY, Ga. — Northwest Georgia is such a deep red part of the country that sometimes Democrats don’t even bother taking a shot at the congressional seat in the state’s 14th Congressional District.

It's crunch time for Donald Trump's defense team as they take another stab Thursday at Michael Cohen, the key witness in the criminal trial in which the former president is accused of fraudulently covering up his affair with a porn star to influence his first presidential bid.