U.S. aid workers around the world scrambled Wednesday to pack up households or pull children from school after the Trump administration ordered employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development off the job and out of the field, all but shutting down the organization’s six-decade mission.

Salvage crews have recovered an engine and large pieces of fuselage and are working to retrieve a wing from wreckage of last week’s midair collision near Washington’s Reagan National Airport.

President Joe Biden has voiced his opposition to Nippon Steel buying U.S. Steel, but the federal government appears to be in no hurry to block the deal.

Top Biden administration officials have discussed the future of artificial intelligence with a group of executives from OpenAI, Nvidia, Microsoft and other companies.

A former Maryland resident has been sentenced to more than one year behind bars for making thousands of threatening and harassing telephone calls to dozens of congressional offices across the country.

The State Department has greenlighted an emergency $138 million in foreign military sales for Ukraine to provide critical support and repairs for Kyiv's Hawk missile systems.

Real and fake news will collide again at this year’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear appeals from two doctors who were convicted of illegally distributing pain medication after writing thousands of prescriptions in short periods.

The Supreme Court is telling a lower court to take another look at a case in which the lower court upheld a New York regulation requiring health insurance plans to cover abortions.

The Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal over whether the public should have access to opinions of the secretive court that reviews bulk email collection, warrantless internet searches and other government surveillance programs.

More than 400 people have been charged with federal crimes in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, but prison time may be another story for many of them.

A man accused of taking part in the riot at the Capitol earlier this year is in custody in Orlando, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

For the second time this week, a man accused of participating in the riot at the Capitol earlier this year has been arrested in Central Florida.

In American political speech — and particularly in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial and the discussions around it — words matter. Fight for your rights, fight for your children, join the fight against breast cancer: Do those always involve fists? Finally, the question of fight or “fight” points, too, to the status of Trump himself — his position as president. Does a president saying “fight” in that situation remove the quote marks like a street brawler tossing aside his jacket? Much of the time, when we fight, we “fight.” On Jan. 6, 2021, outside and inside the U.S. Capitol, some Americans decided to actually fight.

FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, supporters of President Donald Trump stand outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The FBI has arrested a North Florida man on two federal charges stemming from the Jan. 6 invasion of the U.S. Capitol. In one, he turned the camera to show his face while at the Capitol and detailed what he had done. His arrest marks a handful of people from Florida who have been arrested in the two weeks since hundreds of pro-Trump supporters rushed the Capitol building with lawmakers inside certifying Joe Biden’s presidential win. Local arrests include Sanford firefighter Andrew Williams who was pictured inside the Capitol building during the large-scale riot, according to the FBI, and a Marion County man who was arrested twice.

With the Washington Monument in the background, people attend a rally in support of President Donald Trump on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. The announcement comes after thousands of supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol last week as legislators were meeting to vote to certify Biden’s electoral win. The State Department is investigating what appears to be a “prank” after its website suggested President Donald Trump’s term would end Monday evening. It comes days after thousands of supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol to try to stop the congressional certification of Biden’s victory. The National Park Service is shutting down public access to the Washington Monument until Jan. 24, citing threats surrounding Joe Biden’s inauguration.

EDS NOTE: OBSCENITY - With the U.S Capitol in the back ground demonstrators march on Pennsylvania Avenue during the Women's March in Washington, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020. She talked about the power of women to end Trump’s presidency. “His presidency began with women marching and now it’s going to end with woman voting. “Vote for your daughter's future,” read one message in the sea of signs carried by demonstrators. “People need to get out and vote,” Palmer told those at the event.

Followers of Franklin Graham march from the Lincoln Memorial to Capitol Hill, during the Prayer March at the National Mall, in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)