The Senate overwhelmingly confirmed Christopher Wray to lead the FBI, replacing James Comey, who was abruptly fired by President Donald Trump amid the investigation into Russian meddling in last yearβs presidential election.
Business owners are worried they may not be able to survive a massive power outage.
Sam Shepard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Oscar-nominated actor and celebrated author whose plays chronicled the explosive fault lines of family and masculinity in the American West, has died. He was 73.
Japanβs Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says he and President Donald Trump have spoken by phone and agreed to take further action against North Korea following its latest missile launch.
Security remained heightened in airports around Australia with more intense screening of luggage after law enforcement officials thwarted what a police chief described on Monday as a βcredible attempt to attack an aircraft.β
Russian President Vladimir Putin has demanded the United States cut its embassy and consulate staff in Russia by 755 people, underlining his displeasure with U.S. sanctions and heightening tensions between Washington and Moscow.
President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened once more to end required payments to insurance companies unless lawmakers repeal and replace the Obama-era health care law.
Jim Hudsonβs wife came home one day and found him sitting on a couch, clutching a golf ball, with tears streaming down his face.
President Donald Trump says Gen. John F. Kelly is his new White House chief of staff.
North Korea test-fired on Friday its second intercontinental ballistic missile, which flew longer and higher than its first ICBM launched earlier this month, officials said.
A dreamy summer vacation turned into a messy, sweaty nightmare for 10,000 tourists on the Outer Banks when the power went off and air conditioners stopped humming, and officials ordered visitors to leave Friday because the outage could last days or perhaps weeks.
Trumpeting his administrationβs crackdown on illegal immigration and violent crime, President Donald Trump is traveling to Long Island to urge Congress to dedicate more funding to the fight.
President Donald Trumpβs new communications director exploded the smoldering tensions at the White House into a full-fledged conflagration Thursday, angrily daring Trumpβs chief of staff to deny heβs a βleakerβ and exposing West Wing backstabbing in language more suitable to a mobster movie than a seat of presidential stability.
Dealing a serious blow to President Donald Trumpβs agenda, the Senate early Friday rejected a measure to repeal parts of former President Barack Obamaβs health care law after a night of high suspense in the U.S. Capitol.
The Senate has approved a new package of stiff financial sanctions against Russia, Iran and North Korea.
Battered by repeated failures to repeal or replace βObamacare,β Senate GOP leaders retreated to a narrow approach Thursday that would undo just a few of the most unpopular elements of Barack Obamaβs law.
The House passed a $788 billion spending bill Thursday that combines a $1.6 billion down payment for President Donald Trumpβs controversial border wall with Mexico with a whopping budget increase for the Pentagon.
Ford Motor Co. is recalling nearly 117,000 vehicles because the bolts in the seat, seat belt or seat belt buckle may fracture.
They couldnβt pass a repeal of βObamacare,β or find the votes for a White House-backed replacement. So now Senate Republicans are lowering their sights and trying to unite behind a so-called βskinny repealβ that would merely undo just a few of the most unpopular elements of Barack Obamaβs law.
President Donald Trumpβs decision to ban transgender service in the armed forces drove a wedge through military veterans in Congress, with one camp standing squarely behind the commander in chief and the other decrying his order as an ugly attack on dedicated troops.
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