The bitterly polarized U.S. Senate narrowly confirmed Brett Kavanaugh on Saturday to join the Supreme Court, delivering an election-season triumph to President Donald Trump that could swing the court rightward for a generation after a battle that rubbed raw the countryβs cultural, gender and political divides.
After weeks of shocking accusations, hardball politics and rowdy Capitol protests, a pair of wavering senators declared Friday they will back Brett Kavanaughβs Supreme Court confirmation, all but guaranteeing the deeply riven Senate will elevate the conservative jurist to the nationβs highest court on Saturday.
Michael βThe Situationβ Sorrentino, whose abs became famous on the hit reality show βJersey Shore,β was sentenced Friday to eight months in prison for cheating on his taxes.
Melania Trump briefly lost her footing when a baby elephant startled her with a sudden move, but the first lady was anything but out of step when children at an orphanage welcomed her to their home with African song and dance.
A 74-year-old who won a sharpshooting decoration in Vietnam ambushed police officers coming to his South Carolina home to question his adult son about a child sexual assault, killing one and wounding six others, the sheriff investigating the case said Friday.
A jury on Friday convicted white Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke of second-degree murder in the 2014 shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald.
An Arkansas man who killed himself during a 1999 police standoff at a Missouri motel was a serial killer and rapist who strangled a South Carolina woman in 1990 and gunned down a Missouri mother and daughter eight years later, authorities said Friday.
The last time the U.S. unemployment rate was roughly as low as the 3.7 percent it is now β December 1969 β the economy was overheating, inflation was spiking and a short recession soon followed.
The Senate has pushed Brett Kavanaughβs nomination to the Supreme Court past a key procedural hurdle.
A toddler in Utah was a little too helpful when he shredded more than $1,000 that his parents were saving.
Key Republican senators are undecided on Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination amid allegations of sexual misconduct against him as the Senate is poised to take a crucial vote Friday on whether to advance it.
An Arizona company has recalled more than 6.5 million pounds (2.9 kilograms) of beef that could be contaminated with salmonella.
Police say an 81-year-old attempted to buy an 8-year-old girl from her mother for $200,000 at a Florida Walmart.
A top Senate Republican said Thursday the confidential FBI report on charges that Brett Kavanaugh sexually abused women three decades ago βfound no hint of misconductβ by the Supreme Court nominee.
Nearly 90,000 pounds of Johnston County Hams product is being recalled due to possible Listeria contamination, according to the US Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspections Service.
Electronic devices across the United States sounded off Wednesday as the Federal Emergency Management Agency conducted its first-ever national wireless emergency alert test.
On Wednesday, October 3rd, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission, will conduct a nationwide Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and the Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA).
Security companies spent years pushing schools to buy more products β from βballistic attack-resistantβ doors to smoke cannons that spew haze from ceilings to confuse a shooter.
The Texas woman who inspired the 1958 Buddy Holly song βPeggy Sueβ has died at a Lubbock hospital.
A spokeswoman for Republican Sen. Ted Cruz says a package addressed to Cruzβs Houston campaign headquarters caused a lockdown, which was later lifted.
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