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Some of the most contentious moments in this week's Supreme Court confirmation hearings came during questions from Republican senators believed to be harboring ambitions to run for president.

The White House is examining ways to pay for construction of a border wall that not require a vote of Congress. Budget veterans believe there is a way to do it.

Phosphogypsum, a byproduct in the fertilizer industry, contains uranium and radium — and as the EPA notes, it also forms radon, "a cancer-causing, radioactive gas."

Prosecutors release court documents in suspect Payton Gendron's first appearance in federal court on hate crime charges.

A new study shows that America's Christian majority has been shrinking for years, and if recent trends continue, Christians could make up less than half the U.S. population within a few decades.

The Colorado election officials accidentally mailed postcards about voting registration to non-citizens who were not eligible to vote. On Twitter, stories about the mistake have turned conspiratorial.

The novel follows a white working-class girl from age 7 through her late teens, navigating a world tightly circumscribed by class and culture.

It's not clear whether the former president will have a mug shot taken when he appears in a Manhattan court on Tuesday. And even if he does, a state mug shot law may prevent the public from seeing it.

Search and recovery teams say the work to identify human remains in Lahaina is grueling and complicated by the fact that the fire burned so hot, even just making a positive ID is difficult.

The Rapid Action Batallion fights crime and terrorism in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Human rights activists say 340 deaths attributed to the RAB are extra-judicial killings. But crime is down and ordinary citizens seem less concerned about a lack of due process.