Defense Secretary Jim Mattis resigned Thursday after clashing with President Donald Trump over the abrupt withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria ....

People seeking asylum at the U.S. border with Mexico will no longer be released in the United States and will instead be forced to wait in Mexico....

Fears of a recession have been mounting with the U.S. stock market appearing to be headed for its worst December since 1931....

President Donald Trump’s demand for border wall funds hurled the federal government closer to a shutdown as House Republicans approved a package Thursday with his $5.7 billion request that is almost certain to be rejected by the Senate.....

This was the year when reporters ... began loosening the usual boundaries governing journalism

Syracuse police obtained a search warrant from a judge to compel doctors to perform an invasive rectal probe of a man they suspected of hiding drugs, even after an x-ray showed nothing....

A user of Amazon’s (AMZN.O) Alexa voice assistant in Germany got access to more than a thousand recordings from another user because of “a human error” by the company....

North Korea bluntly states it won't unilaterally give up its nuclear weapons unless the United States removes its nuclear threat first...

Trump hails passage of criminal justice bill....

For years, Facebook gave some of the world’s largest technology companies more intrusive access to users’ personal data than it has disclosed....

Congressional leaders are moving closer to a stopgap funding bill that would save Christmas, but push off final decisions on fiscal 2019 spending until early February....

Penny Marshall, the nasally, good-natured Bronx native who starred on the ABC ratings sensation Laverne & Shirley before shattering records as a top-grossing female director in Hollywood, has died....

The fight over President Donald Trump’s $5 billion wall funds deepened Monday, threatening a partial government shutdown in a standoff that has become increasingly common in Washington....