The Department of Homeland Security has scrapped the rule that limited how immigration officers weigh public-benefit use in green-card decisions — and wider discretion returns Sept. 18.

Before a big meet, swimmers strip off nearly every hair on their bodies — a ritual with real drag-reduction science behind it and a surprisingly recent history.

When trade wars escalate, the retaliation list is never random — it's aimed at specific industries and the politicians who represent them.

Congress made your mailbox federal territory in 1934, and the law criminalizing unstamped flyers is now central to the fight over privatizing the Postal Service. Here's what 18 U.S.C. 1725 actually says.

As Iran and Oman close in on a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the real story is why Washington and Tehran still can't talk to each other directly, and why Muscat always ends up in the room.

Three days before MLB's Aug. 3 deadline, Mike Trout and Willson Contreras each shut down trade talk in the same week, one leaning on 10-and-5 rights, the other on a negotiated no-trade clause.

The federal government's new Repayment Assistance Plan went live July 1. Here's what the payment formulas actually mean for three different borrowers' monthly budgets.

North Korea and the United States have never recognized each other's governments, not for a single day since 1948. A Swedish embassy and a UN channel in New York are still the only lines either side keeps open.

A mid-June ceasefire between Washington and Tehran is buckling as both sides trade strikes over the Strait of Hormuz.

Washington hit four Iranian targets hours after an IRGC drone damaged a Singapore-flagged ship, straining the 60-day truce meant to reopen Hormuz.

A U.S. Treasury licence lets Iran sell oil through August 21, the firmest step yet from the Switzerland talks, even as Washington and Tehran clash over nuclear inspections.

Mediators Qatar and Pakistan say the Bürgenstock talks produced working groups and a Lebanon deconfliction cell, even after Iran's walkout over a Trump threat.

A first round meant to steady a fragile ceasefire broke up within hours after Trump warned he would strike Iran again over Lebanon and the Strait of Hormuz.

U.S. Central Command intercepted multiple Iranian attack drones targeting commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz early Friday, even as Pakistani and U.S. officials said the two countries were within days of finalizing a peace agreement to end the Middle East war.