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A man pardoned by President Donald Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack was arrested Saturday in New York for making a “credible death threat” against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., authorities said. Christopher Moynihan, 34, of Clinton, New York, was charged with a felony count …

Demolition of the White House East Wing began Monday as President Donald Trump moves ahead with a $200 million, 90,000-square-foot ballroom project funded by private donors. CNN footage showed an excavator tearing down portions of the East Wing, with video and close-up images revealing sections of the roof removed and …

North Carolina’s Republican-led legislature on Monday took formal steps to redraw the state’s congressional district map, openly declaring their intent to secure another GOP seat in the U.S. House under President Donald Trump’s push to preserve his party’s majority next year. The state Senate approved the new map along party …

A federal appeals court ruled Monday that the Trump administration can deploy National Guard troops in Oregon over the state’s objections, pausing a lower court’s order that had barred the move and siding with the White House’s broad claims of presidential authority. In a 2-1 decision, a panel of the …

Lindsey Halligan, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, has fired two senior prosecutors who opposed her push to bring charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James, according to sources familiar with the matter who spoke to ABC News. Elizabeth Yusi, the chief criminal prosecutor in the …

The Federal Aviation Administration said late Sunday that air traffic control staffing shortages were delaying flights at several major U.S. airports, including Dallas, Chicago, Atlanta and Newark, as the government shutdown entered its 19th day. By early Monday, the FAA said most staffing issues had been resolved, though a “staffing …

In the days before the Trump administration deported hundreds of Venezuelan immigrants to a notorious Salvadoran prison, Secretary of State Marco Rubio privately promised El Salvador’s president that the United States would hand over nine imprisoned MS-13 leaders — even though several were confidential informants working with U.S. law enforcement. …

The fragile ceasefire in Gaza faced its first major challenge Sunday after Israel accused Hamas of violating the truceand launched a wave of air and artillery strikes, killing dozens of people across the territory. An Israeli security official told CBS News that the transfer of humanitarian aid into Gaza has been …

President Donald Trump said Saturday that the two survivors of a U.S. military strike on a suspected drug-carrying submersible in the Caribbean will be returned to Ecuador and Colombia, their home countries, for detention and prosecution. The announcement came two days after the military destroyed the vessel — the sixth …

Tens of thousands of protesters marched and rallied in cities across the United States on Saturday for “No Kings” demonstrations denouncing what organizers called a slide toward authoritarianism under President Donald Trump. Crowds packed into New York City’s Times Square, filled Boston Common and Chicago’s Grant Park, and marched through …

The Trump administration on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to immediately allow the deployment of National Guard troops in Illinois, arguing that federal agents conducting immigration enforcement face threats and assaults in the Chicago area. The emergency request follows multiple rulings by lower courts — including the 7th U.S. …

Federal prosecutors have charged voting technology firm Smartmatic with money laundering and other crimes, alleging that company executives paid more than $1 million in bribes to election officials in the Philippines to secure contracts and payments for the country’s 2016 presidential election. The superseding indictment, filed Thursday in federal court …

More than 7,200 federal employees filed new jobless claims last week as the Trump administration’s layoffs began taking effect during the ongoing government shutdown, according to new Labor Department data. The department’s Unemployment Compensation for Federal Employees (UCFE) program reported 7,224 initial claims for the week ending Oct. 11, a …

The U.S. military carried out a strike Thursday on a boat in international waters in the Caribbean suspected of belonging to a Venezuelan drug cartel, according to a U.S. official — marking the fifth such operation under President Donald Trump and the first to leave survivors. Previous strikes targeting suspected …

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet in Budapest to discuss ending Russia’s war in Ukraine, following what he described as a “lengthy” and “very good” phone call with the Russian leader. Mr. Trump did not specify when the meeting would take place, …