Border Patrol agents in Texas encounter every day an average of more than 2,100 migrants crossing the border. People hide in homes and bushes.

That prime perch underlines Cheney’s power as the senior Republican lawmaker on the committee that will investigate the events of Jan. 6 when thousands of supporters of former President Trump rampaged through the Capitol.

A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now infected more than 194 million people worldwide and killed over 4.1 million of them.

Tom Barrack, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump and chairman of the Trump 2016 Inaugural Committee, pleaded not guilty through his attorney on Monday to illegal foreign lobbying charges unveiled by the Justice Department last week.

The Biden administration will take aim at a Trump-era rule that critics argued would allow dangerous substances including arsenic and mercury to leach into waterways from coal-fired power plants. The EPA said in a notice published Monday on its website...