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Presidents and their partisans often argue about who deserves credit or blame for U.S. economic performance. But much of the country's strength transcends presidencies.

President-elect Donald Trump casts himself as a strongman fixer of major problems, but has begun to walk back certain campaign promises.

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson made her Broadway debut over the weekend with a one-night-only role in the musical '& Juliet.'

The U.S. is one of more than 30 countries with unrestricted birthright citizenship. Trump said in a recent interview that he plans to revoke the right.

'These people need to go to prison,' Trump's FBI pick has said of Biden, Harris, Obama and others, echoing Trump's long-expressed desire to prosecute foes.

Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong on his plans to shake up the newspaper and build for the future.

Over 100 manufacturing and business groups are asking for a rollback of Biden administration regulations on pollution, worker safety and consumer protections.

Pelosi thanked the staff at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center and the hospital in Luxembourg, where she was also treated, for their excellent care and kindness.'

The 26-year-old former data engineer's political ideology, steeped in a hodgepodge of online Silicon Valley tech philosophy and heterodox ideas, defies neat left-right categorization.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol had refused to resign. But a dozen lawmakers from his own party turned against him in an impeachment vote over his declaration of martial law.

Samir Ousman Sheikh allegedly ordered inmates to a wing of a Syrian prison where they were then tortured with a device known as the 'flying carpet.'

The couple were traveling through the Mexican state of Michoacán when they were shot to death on a rural road.

Supreme Court will consider whether oil industry may sue to challenge California's plan to require 'zero emissions' for new vehicles by 2035.

The conservative U.S. Supreme Court, which has repeatedly ruled for religious claims that limit duties set by government, may free Catholic charities from paying the taxes.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was injured while on a congressional trip to Luxembourg to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge.

For two decades, the 836-pound Bahia Emerald has wreaked havoc on the lives of smugglers, schemers and dreamers. Now, it is heading home to Brazil.

The fall of the dictator is good news for Syrians, for their neighbors and for the U.S. But that doesn't necessarily mean the governing rebels are anyone's allies.

Federal prosecutors said Thursday that Durk Devontay Banks — the Grammy winner known as Lil Durk — may be linked to a second murder in Chicago and accused him of putting out bounties for other killings, including one for a family member of a witness.

For the good of the FBI and the nation, Christopher Wray should have forced Donald Trump to fire him.

Loved ones are now searching for the estimated 150,000 people who were detained and disappeared in Bashar Assad's Syrian government gulags.

As part of the plea deal with Justice Department special counsel David Weiss, California resident Alexander Smirnov will admit he fabricated the story that became central to the Republican impeachment inquiry in Congress.