During his first days in office, President-elect Joe Biden plans to unveil a legislative proposal that would include a path to citizenship for 11 million immigrants in the U.S. illegally, according to activists in communication with his transition team.

Prosecutors allege rioters planned to "capture and assassinate" lawmakers in Jan. 6 insurrection at U.S. Capitol.

Jeremy Ridgeway, a former Blackwater guard, pleaded guilty to the massacre in 2007 in Nissor Square in Baghdad. He testified against the other guards. He accepted responsibility. But he didn't get a pardon.

Mexico's president accuses the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration of fabricating drug allegations against ex-defense chief Salvador Cienfuegos.

Many teachers, grocers and even some hospital employees are wary of the COVID-19 vaccine and don't want it. The question of mandatory vaccine requirements by employers is complicated.

Why so many military veterans and former and current police officers support — and take part in — far-right groups and protests, including the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

Activists see a double standard in social media companies' response to the Capitol attack and their tolerance for violent rhetoric abroad.

Critics say decision contradicts Mexican President Lopez Obrador's stated crusade against corruption, impunity

Filings in criminal cases around the storming of the U.S. Capitol show those charged were not just fringe radicals but also people with otherwise respectable public reputations, raising alarm over the extent of the radicalization that led to the attack.

Doubts surrounding a homegrown vaccine are among the challenges facing India's effort to vaccinate 300 million people in six months.

Law enforcement officers ring state capitol buildings nationwide, bracing for protesters and attempted repeats of the storming of the U.S. Capitol last week.

The U.S. military and law enforcement are taking unprecedented measures to lock down the nation's capital to prevent violence tied to Trump's impeachment and President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration.

Documenting worldwide rights violations, Human Rights Watch says the U.S. must work to regain credibility.

In a U.S. Capitol surrounded by troops, GOP lawmakers refuse to hold President Trump accountable for mob violence.

Under heavy guard with Joe Biden's inauguration a week away, the House voted Wednesday to impeach President Trump for a second time.

Charles E. Schumer will take over as Senate majority leader, but don't expect Mitch McConnell to roll over and play dead.

Some of those who stormed the U.S. Capitol — including those arrested — insist they were there reporting as citizen journalists.

More than 20,000 villagers were taken by bus to centralized quarantine as China seeks to stem a new coronavirus outbreak in Hebei province.

The Los Angeles Times asked parents, guardians and teachers how they're explaining the U.S. Capitol riot to children. Here are some of the responses.

Trump speaks publicly for the first time since his supporters' assault on the Capitol, as the House prepares to impeach him a second time.

Days after Wolf and the White House said he was staying, the Trump aide who several federal courts have said was illegally appointed to Homeland Security said he's stepping down.

The coronavirus strain from the U.K. is now in at least nine U.S. states. Given its ability to spread, scientists expect that number to rise soon.

Michael Atkinson, the top internal watchdog for the U.S. intelligence community, played a key role in events leading to the impeachment of President Trump. He talks about his history-making role in the drama for the first time.

Aid groups fear the designation will worsen the suffering of millions of Yemenis by impeding the flow of humanitarian assistance.

William Burns, chosen by Biden to head the CIA, built a 33-year career at the State Department under both Republican and Democratic presidents.

Arnold Schwarzenegger likened the U.S. Capitol siege to Nazi attacks in Europe in a video in which he called President Trump "the worst president ever."

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday evening that the House will bring articles of impeachment against Trump for his incitement of the Capitol riot last week.

British scientists have bolstered their case that the new coronavirus variant spreads more easily than its predecessors. It could be worse in the U.S., they warn.

Before being banned, Donald Trump used his Twitter account to attack California. Those missives were more frequent during the impeachment hearings.

Trump's bid to hold on to power through intimidation and insurrection dramatically raises the odds of the first-ever prosecution of an ex-president.

U.S. prosecutors have filed motions claiming Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez helped move cocaine and said he wanted to "shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos."

Probably not. But that doesn't mean legislators should do nothing.

In the wake of an attack on the U.S. Capitol, Congress seeks answers from a secretive Capitol Police agency.

The attack on the U.S. Capitol has spurred global concerns about the future of democracy and what lies ahead as alliances are being challenged.

Current and former top security officials and Trump supporters say yes — but have different answers on how to prevent further damage to national security in the next 11 days and beyond.

Miya Ponsetto, the "SoHo Karen" who faces four felony charges connected to an alleged assault, insisted on wearing a "Daddy" cap for Gayle King interview.

Twitter "permanently suspended" President Trump's account Friday afternoon, two days after his rhetoric and social media posts were blamed for sparking a violent siege of the U.S. Capitol that left five people dead.

Kathleen Belew, author and historian of the white power movement, discusses the connections between Wednesday's Capitol riots and "The Turner Diaries."

The extremist groups behind Wednesday's pro-Trump mob violence plan to take the fight to state capitols, but are also hobbled by divisions. One rioter, Josiah Colt, expressed regret.

The stunning breach in U.S. Capitol security left many of the nation's leaders fearing for their lives. But by Thursday, much of their shock had been supplanted by anger — with lawmakers demanding resignations from the Capitol's top security officials.

The New Zealand pilot has attracted scorn across Taiwan while at the same time exposing flaws in its lax rules surrounding flight crews.

A Capitol Police officer died Thursday evening. A homicide investigation is underway into the violent confrontation he had with the mob that invaded the U.S. Capitol.

Race double standard seen by many observers as rioters storm U.S. Capitol

At least two congressional laptops were missing after a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol on Wednesday, and other electronics may also have created vulnerabilities.

The president and his enablers sent a mob of domestic terrorists to take over the Capitol building. It was a day of infamy and epiphany — a terrible, horrible Hollywood reveal.

Simon & Schuster canceled "The Tyranny of Big Tech" over the Missouri Republican's efforts to overturn election; Hawley threatens to sue.

Sheehan, among the "Boys of Saigon" group of young Vietnam War correspondents, worked on the Pentagon Papers, which revealed U.S. deception on involvement in Vietnam.

The Homeland Security Department, charged with protecting against threats, is thrown into more turmoil amid urgent questions over lapses after mob attack.

We're tracking who has quit the Trump administration after the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.

The nation's largest flight attendants union calls on airlines to ban D.C. riot participants from taking airline flights out of the Washington area.

Some have called for the 25th Amendment to be used for removing President Trump, but experts warn it is too complex and untested to be effective now.

Trump's anger and frustration in the final weeks of his term are hastening the erosion of his power and the ability to command the fealty he craves.

With a 50-50 Senate split, Harris will be the tiebreaking vote. But her advisors would rather she spend more time at the White House than Capitol Hill.

Capitol workers clean up and remove damaged furniture following the riot by President Trump's supporters at the Capitol.

Congress' certification of President-elect Joe Biden's win came at the end of a joint session disrupted by a pro-Trump mob's assault on the Capitol.

Some armed right-wing groups are calling the attack on the Capitol a new American revolution

Tweets and time stamps offer a timeline of the events that led to a pro-Trump mob storming the Capitol building hours after the president spoke at a rally nearby.

Talk of removing President Trump by the constitutional mechanism comes less than two weeks before his term expires, after a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol.

In foreign capitals, the violence was seen as an ugly coda to a presidency that bludgeoned democratic norms and embraced autocrats.

Disbelief, despair as pro-Trump mob overruns Capitol: 'Not what our country is about'

I was working at the Capitol when the Trump D.C. riots hit.

After months of election-fraud lies and years of bellicose rhetoric, Trump gets blame from both parties for his supporters' violent bid to subvert the election result.

Latin America watches as Pro-Trump mob breaches the U.S. Capitol

Severe allergic reactions to Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine were rare in the first 10 days of its rollout, with 21 cases among nearly 1.9 doses, the CDC reported.

President Trump supporters clash with law enforcement outside the Capitol after Trump tells them, 'We will never give up.'

Trump supporters gather in the U.S. capital to protest the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden's electoral college victory over President Trump.

Even the ringleaders of the drive to block Joe Biden's electoral votes from being counted know their proposals are doomed to fail.

Hard-won access to family planning has diminished during the pandemic, with a resulting surge in births expected to strain healthcare resources.

Georgia Senate runoff.

More than 50 opposition and pro-democracy figures in Hong Kong have been arrested in the latest sign of Beijing's intolerance of political dissent.

Despite months to prepare, the COVID-19 vaccine distribution effort appears to be buckling under the weight of bureaucracy.

Israel's socialized and highly digitized healthcare system has aided rapid COVID-19 vaccine rollout. But Palestinians will have to wait.

Democrat Raphael Warnock claims win in Georgia; Kelly Loeffler does not concede. Jon Ossoff leads David Perdue, but the race is too close to call.

The policy reverses previous assurances that the data would be limited to coronavirus contact-tracing, sparking renewed concerns about privacy.

Mexico's undersecretary of health, Dr. Hugo López-Gatell, has urged people to "stay home" so many times it was remixed into a reggaetón song. Now he's under fire for taking a beach vacation — and being photographed without a mask.

The French are among the most reluctant people in the world to get a COVID-19 shot because of distrust of the government and past health scandals.

The Los Angeles City Council could make L.A. the first U.S. city to endorse a global treaty to phase out the development of fossil fuels.

President Trump was recorded pressuring the top Georgia election official, Brad Raffensperger, to alter votes and throw him the election. Raffensperger refused.

A bleak new threshhold of 350,000 deaths is reached. Despite Trump's claims, Fauci says the toll 'not fake.'

Trump will remain newsworthy as long as he is an important force in his party. His popularity with Republicans means he'll continue to hold sway.

Democrats have a slim majority in the House, and control of the Senate isn't set. What can actually get done?

A 2008 train crash in Chatsworth killed 25 people and broke a long congressional stalemate on a nationwide rail safety project known as "positive train control." Twelve years later, that system is finally in place.

The Senate delivers a rare, emphatic and final rebuke by Republican lawmakers who have mostly demonstrated unwavering fealty to President Trump.

After years of fretting and negotiating, Britain and the European Union finally seal their divorce after more than four decades of rocky marriage.

With the damper of pandemic restrictions, this New Year's Eve is being celebrated like no other before it in most of the world.

Americans's interest in a COVID-19 vaccine is waning, with only 56% of adults saying they would get it if it were available. That's down from 74% in April.

Georgia residents are inundated with ads about the four Senate candidates in Tuesday's runoff election, which will decide which party controls the U.S. Senate.

Health experts hope to nudge people of color to the front of the COVID-19 vaccine line without explicitly saying race, ethnicity influence priority.

When 2020 began, the Democratic nomination was wide open, Trump's impeachment trial was about to begin, and it seemed certain that politics would dominate the year's news.

With scientists warning that singing can spread the coronavirus, choirs have fallen silent. Singing over Zoom falls flat, but one inventive baritone has found a way to let many harmonize together.

"Of all the thousands of songs — why this one?" singer Petula Clark wonders after her '1964 hit, "Downtown," was played in the Nashville bombing on Christmas.

Prince Harry and Meghan preview their Archewell podcast with a special edition reflecting on 2020, featuring Stacey Abrams, Elton John, Tyler Perry and son Archie.

What Trump did right in Afghanistan, Biden can do better — bring home the troops.

The family of Wanchalearm Satsaksit, the latest Thai democracy activist to disappear from exile, is waging a lonely search for justice.

From George Washington to Gerald Ford, America has benefited from a steady hand amid political chaos.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo often acted more as a partisan campaigner than as America's top diplomat, but Trump's defeat shakes up his plans.

Joe Biden's victory in Georgia surprised many, but the shift has been years in the making. Georgia has had the largest growth of Black voters of any state.

Israel is back in election mode for the fourth time in two years, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu facing major challenges to staying in power.

After confounding Congress by holding off on a COVID relief bill, Trump signs.

Enhanced unemployment benefits expire Sunday, and the federal government shuts down Tuesday, unless Trump signs a massive spending bill Congress has approved.