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A bombshell court motion filed Monday claims Atlanta-area District Attorney Fani Willis improperly hired an alleged romantic partner to prosecute former President Donald Trump and that the two financially benefited from their relationship.

The National Park Service withdrew a proposal Monday to take down a statue of William Penn at a Philadelphia historical site as part of a renovation that touched off a torrent of criticism over the legacy of the man who founded the province of Pennsylvania.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Michigan Democrat, was declared "Antisemite of the Year" in the pro-Jewish group StopAntisemitism's annual poll, beating out Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.

The White House announced Monday that President Joe Biden has renominated Julie Su to serve as labor secretary as her confirmation has languished in the Senate for more than 10 months.

The defendant who incited a courtroom melee last week when he leaped over the stand and attacked a Las Vegas judge was sentenced Monday for the crime he originally appeared for.

No sooner had Harvard President Claudine Gay resigned than the pressure shifted to Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth, but the cell biologist may be the exception that proves the rule.

The furor over the undisclosed illness and hospitalization of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin showed no signs of subsiding Monday as the White House announced plans for a "hot wash" review of the incident and it was revealed the Mr. Austin's second-in-command wasn't told initially why she was being put in temporary charge at the Pentagon.

New Hampshire's attorney general on Monday ordered national Democratic party leaders to stop calling the state's unsanctioned presidential primary "meaningless," saying doing so violates state law.

If the culture has indeed been changed by Ron Rivera and his 26-40-1 four-year record here, you couldn't prove it by his Commanders players as they were heading out the door.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Monday that he's done what he can on his own to solve the border crisis and now it's up to Congress to offer more support by approving President Biden's request for $14 billion in new money.

An explosion at a Texas hotel in Fort Worth on Monday littered downtown streets with large section of building and debris and injured 11, including one person who is in critical condition, authorities said.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise offers a "Committee Cliff Notes" advisory each week to highlight what Republican lawmakers are addressing on Capitol Hill at the moment. This week, he points to 19 assorted hearings, meetings and markups on the GOP schedule -- and here are just a few examples of those events.

President Biden has blamed former President Trump and his followers for the growing wave of political violence in the U.S., but analysts say the surge in threats and attacks is a bipartisan phenomenon.

Prominent Muslim journalist Mehdi Hasan has decided to quit MSNBC rather than accept a demotion that saw him lose a regular Sunday night program on the network.

Congressional Democrats are urging an appeals court to side with conservation groups in their lawsuit to overturn the Biden administration's approval of the massive Willow oil project in Alaska.

The Tennessee Titans have the seventh overall draft pick in April along with the second-most cap space to fix a roster that led the NFL in players used for a third straight season winning only six of its past 24 games.

Aaron Rodgers is focused on coming back strong next season for the New York Jets.

An alleged victim of the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein named former Presidents Trump and Clinton, billionaire Richard Branson and Prince Andrew in newly publicized court records, and claimed she had tapes of some of them having sex with Epstein's trafficking victims.

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has vowed to bring accountability to a school voucher program that's expected to top $900 million this year and update laws that allow for the nearly unfettered use of groundwater in rural areas of the drought-stricken state.

Indeed, as the old saying goes, the child is the father of the man, which explains why President Biden learned his modesty from his son Hunter.

While the chasm between the pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian camps is yawning and often considered irreconcilable, there is one central point most people agree on: Hamas' leadership in Gaza needs to come to an end.

Wander Franco, a shortstop for the Tampa Bay Rays, was released Monday from a jail in the Dominican Republic amid an ongoing investigation into allegations he had a relationship with a 14-year-old girl.

Police officers have an even larger role to play in America's salvation. This is where Donald Trump should crank his bully pulpit to full volume.