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The Senate returns for the first time since the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. Five committees will question nominees to lead Defense, State, Homeland Security, Treasury and the top intelligence post.

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz is barnstorming across Iowa, where his appeal to evangelical voters is making him a threat to GOP front-runner Donald Trump in the first caucus state.

In a victory for survivors of domestic and gang violence, the Department of Justice on Wednesday vacated the controversial Trump-era decisions.

The gun-maker had appealed to the highest federal court after the Connecticut Supreme Court allowed the lawsuit over the 2012 school massacre in Newtown, Conn., to go forward in March.

Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs has waived extradition hearings and will soon be sent to Utah to face charges of rape as an accomplice. His capture had been a priority of state and federal officials trying to stem forced polygamous marriages involving underage girls.

Germany goes to the polls in an election dominated by talk of the rise of the far right. Also on voters' minds are the economy, immigration, and relations with Donald Trump.

The Alabama Crimson Tide moved up to number three in the Associated Press Top 25 following Saturday’s defeat of Middle Tennessee. However, the big news could be Colorado and Duke which surged into the ranking following upset victories over TCU and Clemson. Duke is now number twenty-one and Colorado number twenty-two.

Even though it's mid-May, milder weather has yet to make its way up the 6,288-foot peak in New Hampshire.

Karen Gibson and her two top assistants make up the first all-female leadership team since the office was established in 1789.

A poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health finds opioid abuse a top issue for rural Americans.