Rebecca Santana, Associated Press

The review faulted the Secret Service for poor communications that day and failing to secure the building where the gunman took his shots.

Senate Republicans are blocking for a second time a bill to clamp down the number of migrants allowed to claim asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border.

A federal judge has blocked a rule that allows authorities to deny asylum to many migrants who arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border without first applying online or seeking protection in a country they passed through.

The decision provides relief to Ukrainians whose one-year authorization to remain in the U.S. was set to expire soon.

A coalition of conservative-leaning states is making a last-ditch effort to keep in place a Trump-era public health rule that allows many asylum seekers to be turned away at the southern U.S. border.

The storm has left a trail of damage and more than 2.6 million homes and businesses without power in Atlanta and beyond.

Zeta is was the 27th named storm of a historically busy Atlantic hurricane season — with over a month left before it ends.

Tropical Storm Zeta, the 27th named storm of a very busy Atlantic hurricane season, headed for a Wednesday evening landfall near New Orleans.

Residents in south Louisiana braced to relive a nightmare Friday as rain bands from an approaching Hurricane Delta began soaking the same area that was badly battered by a deadly Hurricane Laura six weeks ago.

Thousands of residents and tourists in Mexico’s Yucatan were hunkering down in government shelters after Hurricane Delta passed through.

More than half a million people were ordered to evacuate the Gulf Coast on Tuesday as Laura strengthened into a hurricane.

The two-storm combination could bring a history-making onslaught of wind and coastal flooding from Texas to Alabama, forecasters said.

Three days after a 6-year-old autistic boy was killed and his father wounded after marshals opened fire on their vehicle in a Louisiana town, authorities have arrested two of the four officers involved in the shooting. ,

BP and five Gulf states announced a record $18.7 billion record settlement Thursday that resolves years of legal fighting over the environmental and economic damage done by the energy giant's oil spill in 2010.

Veterans of the Iraq War have been watching in frustration as Republican presidential contenders distance themselves from the decision their party enthusiastically supported to invade that country.