Federal prisons across the United States have been placed under temporary lockdown ahead of President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration.

Navalny knew there was a chance he would be arrested once back in Russia.

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. has navigated a half-century in American politics by relentlessly positioning himself at the core of the Democratic Party. Wherever that power center shifted, there Biden has been, whether as the young...

Stepped-up security measures were intended to safeguard seats of government from the type of violence that occurred at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

"I'm not going to lose my son at the end of 2020 and lose my country and my Republic in 2021," said Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin

Russia's leading Kremlin critic, Alexey Navalny, was detained by police in Moscow on Sunday, moments after his return to the country and five months after he was poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok.