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The first week of Trump impeachment inquiry hearings is in the books.

The number of people apprehended by U.S. authorities, either attempting to cross the border illegally or presenting themselves at a port of entry, has declined.

According to the most recent federal data, as of June 2019 more than 210,000 borrowers were waiting to have their claims processed under a 1995 rule known as borrower defense.

When Obama signed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act in 2009, it gave government regulators an important new weapon in its battle against Big Tobacco.

Roger Stone, a veteran Republican political operative and longtime confidant of Donald Trump, was found guilty by a federal jury in Washington, D.C.

A new poll finds that regardless of political belief, many Americans say they have a hard time figuring out if information is true.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said deputies responded to Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, about 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles.

Public impeachment hearings begin Wednesday, and the first round of witnesses includes three career public servants.

The U.S. Supreme Court will decide if the Obama-era immigration decision — which affects 4,700 Pennsylvanians — was an executive overreach.

A regular drumbeat of mass shootings in the U.S. has ramped up pressure on education and law enforcement officials to do all they can to prevent the next attack.

The Supreme Court is taking up the Trump administration’s plan to end legal protections that shield 660,000 immigrants from deportation.

More than 200 years ago, in 1811, a group of enslaved people on a plantation on the outskirts of New Orleans rose up, armed themselves and began a march towards the city.

When Rhonda Gonzales was in college in the early '90s, the term "first-generation" wasn't part of her vocabulary. She was the first in her family to go to college.

The first attempt in the United States to use a gene editing tool called CRISPR against cancer seems safe in the three patients who have had it so far.

Public flagship universities are critical for low-income students because they help with upward mobility. But a new report finds they're often out of reach financially.