A mother whose son was killed by a Border Patrol agent firing across the boundary into Mexico cannot sue the agent, the Supreme Court decided Tuesday, ruling that to do so would give private citizens the power to shape foreign policy.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the U.S. should prepare for the spread of the coronavirus even as President Trump downplayed the domestic risk Tuesday, sparking suspicion on Capitol Hill and sending Wall Street into a tailspin for a second day.
Leading Chinese technology companies have sold equipment to state governments in the U.S. that can be used by Beijing to obtain sensitive information, according to a security analysis made public Monday.
The Pentagon on Monday rolled out a sweeping set of ethical guidelines to govern the use of artificial intelligence on the battlefield, marking a major step forward in the military’s campaign to establish firm controls over 21st-century technology and ensure that humans retain control over machines.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper is privately assuring nervous lawmakers that no African troop drawdown is in the works after getting significant pushback on Capitol Hill.
Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian leader who was the autocratic face of stability in the Middle East for nearly 30 years before being forced from power in an Arab Spring uprising, died on Tuesday, state-run TV announced. He was 91.
The "public charge" rule takes effect, giving U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services the authority to refuse green cards -- the key step on the path to citizenship -- to people who have used a wide range of nonemergency welfare programs.
President Trump told cheering throngs in India on Monday that the U.S. wants to forge even stronger economic and military ties with the world's biggest democracy, a message that was aimed partly at peeling some of the 4 million Indian Americans in the U.S. away from the Democratic Party.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is not a free-speech champion but an ordinary criminal whose publication of secret documents put many people at risk of torture and death, a lawyer for the U.S. government said Monday as Assange's extradition hearing opened in a London court.
Disagreement over the Trump administration's demand that Seoul pay more for the upkeep of nearly 30,000 U.S. troops in South Korea threatens to undermine otherwise positive discussions that are expected Monday, when Defense Secretary Mark Esper hosts his South Korean counterpart at the Pentagon.
Israel struck multiple targets near the Syrian capital late Sunday, killing two members of a Palestinian militant faction and triggering anti-aircraft fire from the country's air defenses that shook Damascus. It was the latest attack by Israel on the war-ravaged country.
A military repair depot in central Pennsylvania has announced plans to lay off or reassign hundreds of contract employees due to an anticipated decrease in workload.
A 23-year-old man jumped out of the back of a moving ambulance and was struck by a car and killed on an interstate near San Diego, authorities said.
In 2021 Montana State Parks’ free lease of 337 acres at Hell Creek on Fort Peck Reservoir expires. Between now and then the state is planning to negotiate a new 20-year lease with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
The Trump administration's top national security adviser warned Sunday that hopes for a major peace deal with the Taliban will likely collapse if the militant group carries out any attacks during a fragile "reduction of violence" pact now underway in Afghanistan.
An Ohio city is looking to the state for money to demolish an abandoned hospital that's become a dangerous eyesore.
Top Trump administration officials on Sunday pushed back on the notion that Russia is trying to interfere in the 2020 election to help President Trump after a recent briefing on Capitol Hill where lawmakers were reportedly told exactly that.
The U.S. government and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will face off Monday in a high-security London courthouse, a decade after WikiLeaks infuriated American officials by publishing a trove of classified military documents.
National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien said it wouldn't be a surprise if Russia wanted to boost Sen. Bernard Sanders' presidential campaign, pointing out that Mr. Sanders honeymooned in the old Soviet Union.
Serbia has received a sophisticated anti-aircraft system from Russia, despite possible U.S. sanctions against the Balkan state, which is formally seeking European Union membership.
The Israel military said early Monday that it struck Palestinian militants targets in Gaza and Syria in response to rockets fired toward southern Israel on Sunday evening, hours after Israel said it killed a Palestinian militant who tried to place a bomb along the Israel-Gaza barrier fence.
The Committee to Protect Journalists, a non-profit dedicated to promoting press freedom, came out Friday against efforts by the U.S. to extradite WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange.
The highway that links the Syrian capital with the northern city of Aleppo is open for public use for the first time in nearly eight years after government forces recently captured parts of it that had been held by insurgents, the transportation minister said Saturday.
A midshipman who was found dead in a dorm at the U.S. Naval Academy was a member of the senior class who played on the school's football team, authorities said Saturday.
Hundreds of supporters of Julian Assange marched through London on Saturday to pressure the U.K. government into refusing to extradite the WikiLeaks founder to the United States to face spying charges.
