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The biggest drop is projected in the murder rate, which the report estimates will decline by 5.6 percent.

House Republicans unveiled a spending bill early Thursday morning that would push a deadline to fund the government back, from midnight on Friday to Jan. 19.

A federal judge declared a mistrial Wednesday in the case against rancher Cliven Bundy, his two sons and another self-styled militiaman.

Congressional Republicans delivered on their first major legislative accomplishment of the Trump era on Wednesday, when the House voted 224-201 to pass the tax package.

Republicans in Congress approved a sweeping and controversial $1.5 trillion tax overhaul, with the Senate voting early Wednesday along straight party lines to move the measure

The average household would get a tax cut of $1,610 in 2018, a bump of about 2.2 percent in that average household's income, according to a report released Monday.

An Amtrak train hurtled off an overpass Monday near Tacoma and spilled some of its cars onto the highway below, killing at least 6 people, authorities said.

People traveling through Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport struggled to get home Sunday after a power outage there forced hundreds of flight cancellations.

Here, we consider a few ways the White House or its allies could disrupt the special counsel probe.

In a news release Sunday evening, the utility said the "the issue may have involved a fire which caused extensive damage in a Georgia Power underground electrical facility."

There were 23 executions this year, the center says. Over the past 25 years, only last year's total, 20, was lower.

Congressional Republicans released a final draft of their tax bill Friday.

A judge upgraded the second-degree murder charge against James Fields Jr. at a preliminary hearing on Thursday.

Rubio wants to increase the portion of the basic $2,000-per-child tax credit that would go to low-income families.

In making his closing argument for tax legislation expected to get a vote in Congress next week, President Trump announced that the changes would take effect early next year.