Authorities at a Pentagon mail screening facility found two envelopes suspected of containing ricin, a poison made from castor beans, and turned them over to the FBI for further analysis, officials said Tuesday.
Amazon, which has faced political and economic pressure to raise pay for thousands of employees, is boosting its minimum wage for all U.S. workers to $15 per hour starting next month and said it will push for an increase in the federally mandated minimum wage, which now stands at $7.25 per hour.
Indonesia's disaster agency says the death toll from an earthquake and tsunami disaster on a central island is now 1,234.
Surfer Maya Gabeira of Brazil is an official world record holder for riding the LARGEST wave ever surfed by a woman.
The White House has given the FBI clearance to interview anyone it wants to by Friday in its investigation of sexual misconduct allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
A flock of doves fluttered skyward at sunrise in Las Vegas on Monday, each bird bearing a leg band with the name of one of the 58 people slain in the deadliest mass shooting in nationβs modern history one year ago.
President Donald Trump hailed his revamped North American trade agreement with Canada and Mexico as a breakthrough for U.S. workers on Monday, vowing to sign it by late November.
Marty Balin, a patron of the 1960s βSan Francisco Soundβ both as founder and lead singer of the Jefferson Airplane and co-owner of the club where the Airplane and other Bay Area bands performed, has died. He was 76.
Respected Chinese artist Yuan Xikun, whose 48-inch bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln was gifted to former President Barack Obama by the leader of China, unveiled two sculptures of the late Billy Graham in a ceremony Friday alongside Graham's son Franklin.
President Donald Trump is directing the FBI to launch a supplemental investigation into his Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh at the request of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Judiciary Committee votes to send Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination to full Senate.
Senate Republicans are plowing forward with a committee vote Friday on Brett Kavanaugh's nomination before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Glued to high-stakes testimony on his Supreme Court nominee, President Donald Trump and his allies were shaken by Christine Blasey Fordβs emotional appearance on Capitol Hill Thursday, but heartened by Judge Brett Kavanaughβs forceful pushback against the woman who accused him of sexual misconduct.
In an extraordinary and highly emotional day of Senate testimony, California psychology professor Christine Blasey Ford quietly recounted her β100 percentβ certainty Thursday that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers.
It was a steady demand of Democrats at Thursdayβs Senate hearing on sexual assault claims against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh: that an FBI background investigation into Kavanaugh should be reopened.
Emotionally battling to rescue his Supreme Court nomination, Brett Kavanaugh on Thursday denied allegations that heβd sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford when both were high school students and told Congress the accusations and biting criticism by Democrats had βtotally and permanently destroyedβ his family and reputation.
Christine Blasey Ford declared Thursday that Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her as he and a friend shared βuproarious laughterβ in a locked room at a 1980s high school gathering, recounting her allegations to Congress and a riveted nation in a drama that threatens to derail Kavanaughβs Supreme Court nomination.
The U.S. economy grew at a robust annual rate of 4.2 percent in the second quarter, the best performance in nearly four years, though economists believe growth has slowed in the current quarter partly because of a drag from trade.
Following years of reformulating at McDonald's, most of the burgers it serves in the U.S. are now preservative-free.
President Donald Trump continues meeting with other world leaders at the United Nations.
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