The widely photographed tourist attraction was charred when the vandals lit a Christmas tree on fire in front of the monument around 3:30 a.m. Saturday. ...

The Idaho sheriff who threatened a church youth group with a gun and assaulted one of its leaders has been ordered to surrender his firearms to state police but will remain on the job. ...

Dr. Anthony Fauci predicted on Wednesday that the highly contagious COVID-19 Omicron variant will peak in the US by the end of January. ...

President Joe Biden said he would run for re-election if he was “in good health” and he believed “fate” would help bring him a second term. ...

The US Supreme Court is set to hear two challenges against the White House's nationwide COVID-19 vaccine employment mandates next month. ...

Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell said the GOP would “certainly welcome” West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin “if he was so inclined” to flip parties. ...

The final 12 missionaries who remained captive in Haiti executed a daring escape plan to free themselves from their captors after they were “nudged” by God. ...

Fifty US citizens and legal residents — including more than a dozen kids — arrived at JFK Saturday morning after being rescued from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan by Project Dynamo. ...

“Your honor, I’m really really ashamed of what I did,” Robert Palmer, 54, told US District Judge Tanya Chutkan through sobs on Friday when he was given a 63-month sentence for attacking cops during the riot. ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul said she’ll make no-questions-asked mail voting a top priority in 2022 – even though voters rejected that proposal just last mont ...