Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas, talks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 10. Senate GOP leaders plan to vote as soon as this month on…
A person arrives at a staging center setup by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office after a deadly shooting Monday in Orlando, Fla. A man who was fired from a Florida…
Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen made no demands of Qatar as their decision plunged the international travel hub into chaos and ignited the biggest diplomatic…
Declaring the current system “stuck painfully in the past,” Trump called for separating air traffic control operations from the Federal Aviation Administration, an approach that U.S. airlines have long championed.…
A pro-President Donald Trump free speech rally drew several hundred to a plaza near City Hall more than a week after two Portland men were fatally stabbed trying to stop…
Minnesota to open meetings about disputed project
Although the attackers were also dead, authorities raced to determine whether they had accomplices, and Prime Minister Theresa May warned that the country faced a new threat from copycat attacks.…
Comey, ousted last month amid the FBI investigation into possible Trump campaign ties to Russia, is set to testify Thursday before the Senate intelligence committee. The public hearing is expected…
Police said at least one person had been killed. Witnesses described a trail of serious injuries on the bridge and in the adjacent Borough Market. The attacks set off scenes…
The dive bombers McClusky led that day in the Battle of Midway helped to gut the Imperial Japanese Navy and turned the tide of the war in the Pacific in…
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with heads of major foreign companies at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Friday.Sergei Savostyanov/TASS News Agency Pool Photo via…
UN Secretary General António Guterres arrives in Mogadishu to get a firsthand look at the hunger crisis in Somalia.Kevin Sieff/Washington Post Five months later, the results of that appeal are…
Tillersondu1-i-syn Having quietly lobbied Trump to stay in the pact, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was a few blocks away at the State Department, where America’s diplomats were bracing for…
Massachusetts State Police K-9 Drako presses his nose against a car door jam as he finds a hidden stash of drugs during a training session in Revere, Mass. During drug…
Workers manufacture thermal protection systems for NASA at Bally Ribbon Mills in Bally, Pa. U.S. employers pulled back on hiring in May 2017 by adding only 138,000 jobs. Hiring was…
President says accord hurt American businesses
Environment Minister Catherine McKenna is pictured after delivering a policy announcement in Toronto on Wednesday. McKenna says the Canadian government remains committed to the Paris Accord amid concerns that the…
Hunter Baker drives his boat down a flooded East Black Creek Road to his home following heavy rains in Florence, S.C. Meteorologists are now as good with their five-day forecasts…
Corporate lawyer Antonio Battaglia is introducing “Trump” brand toilet paper, marketed under the slogans “Softness without borders” and “This is the wall that, yes, we will pay for.” Mexico’s Institute…
President Donald Trump speaks during a Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday in Arlington, Va. The president is nearing a final decision on whether to withdraw from…
A judge imposed the maximum prison time on Tony Moreno, 23, who was convicted by a jury in February of murder and risk of injury to a minor. “The utter…
President Donald Trump claps as he arrives in the Rose Garden of the White House followed by Vice President Mike Pence after the House pushed through a health care bill.…
Michael Cohen criticizes leak to press
American groups say report proves police bias against them
Even if successful, the $244 million test will not confirm that the U.S. is capable of defending itself against an intercontinental-range missile fired by North Korea. Pyongyang also is understood…
Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., ranking member on the Senate Agriculture Committee, joined Democratic senators from rural states in criticizing President Donald Trump’s proposed budget, saying it would have “significant negative…
The main residence of the White House in Washington and the West Wing, right, as seen, Wednesday from the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington.…
Demonstrators wearing red T-shirts reading “Lucha,” or “Fight,” quietly filled hundreds of gallery seats as proceedings began. After about 40 minutes, they began to cheer, drowning out the lawmakers below.…
