Election fraud is exceedingly rare, but President Trump has fixated on rooting it out this year, claiming without evidence that tens of thousands of noncitizens are registered to vote.

The United States seems increasingly bogged down in Iran after six months of conflict, despite President Trump’s declarations of military dominance.

Many members of Congress in the most competitive re-election races are skipping the chance to share a pep rally stage with President Trump.

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The homey Southern comic is a red-state phenomenon with blue-state celebrity, big tours, a Netflix series and Judd Apatow’s adoration. How did she get here?

Darkened by soot from vehicles and factories, the region’s glaciers are absorbing more heat and melting at dangerous rates.

Thousands of sailors and Marines serve on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, which came into the spotlight because of a tough deployment in the war in Iran.

For the first time in a year, the U.S.-Mexico border partly reopened to cattle imports following a screwworm infestation across the region. The battle against the flesh-eating fly has only just begun deep in Mexico.