President Donald Trump said on Monday a two-year deal had been reached with congressional leaders to raise the Treasury Department’s borrowing authority and to set budget spending caps. Trump said on Twitter: “I am pleased to announce
A variety of packaged food sold at Target and The Fresh Market were recalled over possible listeria contamination. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), listeria is an organism that can cause serious infection
A female suicide bomber struck outside a hospital in Pakistan on Sunday, just as the wounded were being brought in from an earlier shooting against police. The assault was claimed by the Pakistani Taliban, killing a total
Hundreds of people gathered in Lawton, Oklahoma, on Saturday to protest the Trump administration’s plan to use Fort Sill, which was a Japanese American internment camp in World War II, to detain undocumented migrant children. Native Americans
Federal prosecutors have told a judge in New York that they have concluded their investigation into campaign finance crimes committed by President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen. U.S. District Judge William H. Pauley III made the
A federal judge in New York ruled on Thursday that financier Jeffrey Epstein will remain in jail during his prosecution on sex trafficking charges, this after his request to be released on bail was denied. Epstein, 66,
Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been sentenced to life behind bars in a U.S. prison. A federal judge in Brooklyn handed down the sentence Wednesday, five months after Guzman’s conviction in an epic drug-trafficking
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has blocked a bipartisan bill that would ensure a victims’ compensation fund for the Sept. 11 attacks never runs out of money. Sen. Paul questioned the bill’s 70-year time frame and notes that
Authorities announced on Tuesday that a former tenant of the founder of an African American history museum in Louisiana was charged with her murder. Baton Rouge police announced that Ronn Jermaine Bell, 38, was arrested for allegedly
The Planned Parenthood organization announced on Tuesday that it has removed its president, Dr. Leana Wen, less than one year after appointing her. The organization said in a statement, “we thank Dr. Leana Wen for her service
