Former NFL football star O.J. Simpson enters for his parole hearing at the Lovelock Correctional Center in Lovelock, Nev., on Thursday. Simpson was granted parole by the panel and could…
House mum on whether move discussed with Putin
‘I am ready to clarify the situation’ Veselnitskaya says
11:45 a.m. President Donald Trump kicked off his voter fraud commission’s first meeting Wednesday by criticizing states that failed to comply with the commission’s requests to turn over voter information.…
President calls story ‘fake news’
Proposal makes deep cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and food stamps
A man cools off at a water fountain on June 21 in Liberty Park in Salt Lake City. American meteorologists calculate that the first half of 2017 has been the…
Question now is whether to shut down pipeline until analysis is complete
The team of six teenage girls was twice rejected for U.S. visas before President Donald Trump intervened at the last minute. They arrived in Washington from their hometown of Herat,…
Debris is strewn about on July 14 after a sinkhole damaged two homes in Land O’ Lakes, Fla. Heavy equipment will be brought in Wednesday to the neighborhood in Pasco…
Justine Damond, of Sydney, Australia, was fatally shot by police on Saturday in Minneapolis,. Authorities say that officers were responding to a 911 call about a possible assault when the…
Texas Speaker of the House Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, talks with fellow lawmakers on the House floor on April 19 at the Texas Capitol in Austin. Straus has for months…
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. listens on Capitol Hill July 11 in Washington, during the committee’s confirmation hearing for Navy Secretary nominee Richard Spencer. Surgeons in…
Republican Sen. Cory Gardner has shown little, if any, indication of how he’ll vote on a new health care bill.Associated Press file The Colorado Republican, a rising star who defeated…
This photo on July 4, distributed by the North Korean government shows what was said to be the launch of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile in North Korea. When Kim…
“The fire just blew up and went flying right out the windows,” the 71-year-old Hastings said of the first moments of the high-rise blaze that killed at least three people…
Liu’s supporters said the move was intended by the authoritarian government to permanently erase any traces of China’s best-known political prisoner, who died Thursday at age 61. The sea burial…
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech during a ceremony marking the July 15, 2016, failed coup attempt anniversary, in Ankara, Turkey, on Friday. Turkey commemorates the first anniversary…
A leopard cub nurses from a lioness known as Nosikitok in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area.Courtesy of Panthera The images show a lioness lounging on a flat, dry spot in the…
Demonstrators hold posters reading “There is no place for juvenile justice in Russia” and “I want all children be happy” during a rally in Moscow to support the ban on…
Scientists say that tardigrades can survive almost anything that’s thrown at them.Courtesy of AMNH To a group of theoretical physicists, tardigrades were the perfect specimens to test life’s tenacity. “Life…
and sick could suffer the most
Regulators approved emergency rules that would speed up licensing for pot distributors, a sticking point that launched a legal battle and threatened the flow of supplies after dozens of retailers…
seniors will see just a 2.2% raise
