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The U.S. Justice Department is going on a hiring spree for immigration judges in hopes of easing an intractable case backlog.  In its budget proposal for the fiscal year 2024 that starts October 1, the department is seeking $1.46 billion…

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is set to announce Wednesday $1 billion in public and private financing for programs focused on economic empowerment of women as she wraps up a visit to Ghana.  The funding will support expanding access…

Vadym Horodnyi comes from a family of Ukrainian soldiers. His father died defending their hometown, Chernihiv, but Vadym remained determined to join the military. The 14-year-old ultimately got a chance to study in the United States and is…

The U.S. government will stop its use of commercial spyware tools that have been used to surveil human rights activists, journalists and dissidents around the world, under an executive order issued Monday by President Joe Biden. The order…

Police in the southern U.S. state of Tennessee said a shooter who killed three children and three adults at a Christian grade school Monday had carried out surveillance before the attack.   Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake…

Foreign terrorist groups, including some Islamic State and al-Qaida affiliates, may have the desire to launch major attacks on U.S. soil, but decades of counterterrorism work have made carrying out such an operation close to impossible at…

An ongoing effort by many within the Republican Party to reframe the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol as an act of patriotism reached a peak, of sorts, during former President Donald Trump’s first large-scale reelection campaign…

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris's visit to Tanzania this week comes as relations have greatly improved under President Samia Suluhu Hassan. While late President John Magufuli pursued China-backed megaprojects and cracked down on critics,…

Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday pledged more than $100 million in U.S. assistance to Ghana and stressed that U.S. interests in African nations extend beyond competing with China, on the first full day of her weeklong tour of the…

The U.S. Senate is taking steps toward the repeal of decades-old legislation granting U.S. presidents broad powers to conduct war in Iraq. The bipartisan effort comes as many U.S. senators say Congress must reassert its authority and…