A Wisconsin judge ruled Friday that the state’s top elections official is legally holding her position and that the commission that appoints her is under no obligation to name a new leader, handing yet another defeat to Republicans who have tried to oust her. The bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission deadlocked […]

Widespread floods in the Republic of Congo have pushed hundreds of thousands of people to be in urgent need of assistance, said the United Nations Friday. Unusually heavy rainfall has caused nine of the countries 12 departments to be affected with floods damaging health facilities and schools and submerging farmland, […]

A fourth person has died nearly two weeks after a driver crashed an SUV packed with gas cans near a crowd of New Year’s concertgoers in western New York, but authorities said Friday they may never know the motive for what they call an intentional attack. Rochester police revealed Friday […]

The Washington Post slapped the Biden White House with three “Pinocchios” over claims it had made about GOP lawmakers bearing some responsibility over the migrant crisis at the border, chalking it up as “spin.” On Friday, the Post’s chief fact-checker Glenn Kessler took White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and […]

A jailed member of the Proud Boys extremist group was sentenced on Friday to more than four years in prison for his role in a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol three years ago, court records show. William Chrestman, a U.S. Army veteran from Olathe, Kansas, brandished an axe handle […]

A U.S. Navy officer previously jailed in Japan over a car crash that killed two Japanese citizens was released from American custody on Friday. Lt. Ridge Alkonis was released one month after returning to the United States to be placed in a federal prison. He was ordered released by the […]

President Biden received a hostile welcome from swing state voters in Pennsylvania during a visit to several small businesses to tout his Bidenomics economic plan. “Go home, Joe!” one onlooker yelled as the Pennsylvania-raised president walked into a bike shop in Emmaus, Pennsylvania. “You’re a loser!” another yelled. “Loser!” During […]

The prospect — albeit still dim — that Georgia could fully expand Medicaid has prompted Democrats and patient advocates to turn up the pressure on Republicans in the state legislature to act. But political experts, advocates and policy analysts say GOP lawmakers face significant headwinds to approving a plan they […]

“Parasite” director Bong Joon-ho called for an investigation into actor Lee Sun-kyun’s death during a press conference on Friday. Lee was discovered deceased in his car on Dec. 27, according to authorities. South Korean media largely reported he died by suicide. The Oscar-winning actor had been intensely investigated by South […]

ABC host Jimmy Kimmel speculated about the sexual prowess of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday in his latest broadside at the GOP presidential candidate. Kimmel was riffing on a report that a Florida county had pulled the dictionary from library shelves because it could contain sexual content in violation […]