Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press

A White House advisory board is calling for major changes in how the FBI uses a controversial foreign surveillance tool.

Retired Maj. David Grusch says the longstanding program retrieves and reverse-engineers unidentified flying objects.

Two years out of college, Cassidy Hutchinson was in the room where the president’s top aides debated how they could overturn his election loss.

Investigators did not find extraterrestrial links in reviewing 144 sightings of aircraft or other devices apparently flying at mysterious speeds or trajectories. But they drew few other conclusions and instead highlighted the need for better data collection.

The report, mandated as part of a pandemic relief package signed last year by then-President Trump, emerges as what was once seen as a fringe conspiracy theory becomes more mainstream.

The car struck two officers at a barricade and the driver then emerged wielding a knife before he was shot, officials said.

President Biden faces growing criticism for the apparent secrecy at the border, including from fellow Democrats.

As GOP members of Congress argued that President Joe Biden had wrongly rolled back immigration policies enacted by former President Donald Trump, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas pointed to another Trump policy that was widely reviled: the separation of immigrant families under a “zero tolerance” policy on border crossings.

Congressional leaders paid tribute to slain U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick in the building he died defending, promising his family and his fellow officers that they will never forget his sacrifice.

U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton issued a temporary restraining order sought by Texas, saying the Biden administration had failed “to provide any concrete, reasonable justification for a 100-day pause on deportations.”

The lawsuit was brought by conservative Texas activists who have railed against expanded voting access in Harris County, where a record 1.4 million early votes have already been cast.

Hospitalizations due to COVID-19 in the state have more than doubled in the last two weeks, and Texas is reporting, on average, more than four times as many cases each day as it was a month ago.

Francisco Erwin Galicia lives in the border city of Edinburg, Texas, and was traveling north with a group of friends when they were stopped at a Border Patrol inland checkpoint.

Sent off with a 21-gun salute, George H.W. Bush left his beloved Texas for the final time Monday, headed to Washington as the nation paid tribute to the 41st president for a lifetime of public service.

The Boy Scouts of America will accept openly gay youths starting on New Year's Day, a historic change that has prompted the BSA to ponder a host of potential complications — ranging from policies on tentmates and showers to whether Scouts can march in gay pride parades.