Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s net worth is approaching $250 million in a surging stock market, and pressure also is growing for the California Democrat and others in Congress to ban lawmakers ...

President Obama said the shooting death of a black teen by a white police officer last month in Ferguson, Missouri, exposed the racial divide in the American justice system that “stains the ...

China fired a warning shot at President Biden when a Chinese-American bank supplied Senate Republicans with records showing millions of dollars flowing from Chinese companies to Mr. Biden’s son ...

A British army veteran has now been convicted for silently praying outside an abortion clinic, in what experts are calling “a legal turning point of immense proportions” for free speech and ...

Key congressional leaders have floated the idea of trimming the number of generals and admirals in the armed forces. They say the ratio of high-ranking officers to enlisted personnel has ballooned ...

Within 40 years, given current demographic trends, the white population in France and the rest of old Europe will recede, creating a Muslim majority, a French researcher says.

An elite U.S. Army study center has devised a plan for enforcing a major Israeli-Palestinian peace accord that would require about 20,000 well-armed troops stationed throughout Israel and a newly ...

There are about 175 Americans still in Afghanistan, and some of them are being held captive by the Taliban, Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Congress on Thursday.

At the core of the District’s bloodiest year this century is what local leaders have bemoaned for months: minor disputes that rapidly escalate into fatal encounters.