The U.S. Justice Department has two programs that measure the nation’s crime: the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting and the National Crime Victimization Survey. Together, they offer a clearer overall ...

Trump said the US is the ‘only country’ that uses mail-in voting. That’s wrong. A report from a Swedish organization that advocates for democracy globally found that 34 countries or territories allow ...

While running for office in 2016, Trump praised Putin and said Putin praised him. When they met in Helsinki, Finland, in 2018, Trump appeared to take Putin at his word when he falsely said he didn’t ...

Congress caps new H-1B visas at 85,000 per fiscal year, including 20,000 for noncitizens who earned advanced degrees. The government approved 400,000 H-1B applications, including renewals, in 2024, ...

After declaring a public safety emergency Aug. 11 in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump suggested that declaring a national emergency would let him bypass the law’s limits.

After a group of teenagers severely beat a prominent employee of President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency in an attempted carjacking in Washington, D.C., Trump threatened a federal ...

The Democrats called for former U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta, who served as labor secretary during Trump’s first term, to testify about Epstein’s plea deal. They asked the Justice Department to ...

President Donald Trump said he is deploying 800 National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., and taking control of the Metropolitan Police Department.

President Donald Trump said Washington, D.C.’s homicide rate is higher than "the worst places on Earth." At an Aug. 11 press conference announcing a federal government takeover ...

They cited conflicts between Cambodia and Thailand, Israel and Iran, and India and Pakistan, although India disputes Trump’s involvement.  But "the others strike me as major exaggerations or very ...

The official U.S. government website erased sections of the U.S. Constitution without amending it. On Aug. 6, the Library of Congress’ annotated website of the U.S. Constitution was missing sections ...

The agency’s downward revision of 818,000 jobs was part of a standard, annual data-refinement process. It happened Aug. 21, 2024, spoiling Democrats’ mood one day before then-Vice President Kamala ...