Even if the jet from Qatar were free, this arrangement would still be a legal and ethical mess. But the free plane also wouldn’t be free.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says the state is staring down an $12 billion budget deficit. The Democratic governor shared the number Wednesday as he laid out his nearly $322 billion state spending plan for the upcoming fiscal year.

U.S. President Donald Trump is on a Gulf tour that is adding to Israel's worries about its strongest ally: the U.S. has negotiated the release of an American hostage with Hamas, and a ceasefire with the Houthis, without involving Israel.

The Department of Government Efficiency is probably not going to send you a dividend.

Mexican news reports suggest the U.S. recently orchestrated the secret, cross-border move of at least 17 relatives of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán to California.

Wealthy Americans and business investors are among the big winners in House Republicans’ draft tax legislation while targets of President Donald Trump’s ire such as immigrants and elite universities were hammered.

"Shame has its value!" writes the Oscar-winning actress.

Congress is pushing a “Constitutional carry” law that puts all of us at risk.

A rare 10.3-carat blue diamond sold for $21.5 million after fierce bidding—but some experts say global uncertainty dimmed the auction’s full potential.

A California judge resentenced Erik and Lyle Menendez, clearing the way for the siblings to be on parole after serving decades in prison for the 1989 shotgun murder of their parents. NBC News' Laura Jarrett talks about what this could mean for the brothers…

Mexico’s government has confirmed reports that 17 family members of the son of a former cartel leader crossed into the United States.

President Donald Trump suggested there may be "something wrong" with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., after the top Democrat threatened to block the president's DOJ appointees.

Rep. Shri Thanedar's move forces the House to act on his seven articles of impeachment by the end of the week.

And what to know before you buy some.

The E.P.A. said it would maintain limits on the two most common “forever chemicals” in tap water. Rules for four others will be rolled back.

Two young brothers armed with a loaded gun were in a standoff with deputies. Drone footage shows a 9-year-old boy and his 7-year-old brother fighting over the loaded weapon. While this was happening, the deputies were calling out orders to the boys.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent Mother's Day taking his grandchildren for a swim in a sewage-contaminated Washington, DC, waterway.

AI obsolescence is “coming for basically everyone in due time,” says one engineer who went from earning $150k to being locked out of the workforce for over a year.

President Cyril Ramaphosa called the white South Africans “cowardly” for leaving for the United States.