The Senate is scheduled to vote Tuesday on confirmation of Betsy DeVos as education secretary, with the outcome expected to be the narrowest approval of a Cabinet nominee in the nation’s history.
A demonstrator holds a sign to protest against President Donald Trump’s executive order banning refugees and immigrants from seven primarily Muslim countries during a rally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 4, 2017.
Last week, senior Trump aide Kellyanne Conway came under fire for referencing a Bowling Green “massacre” or “attack” — an incident that never happened — to defend the president’s controversial executive order temporarily halting immigration and …
President Trump had harsh words for one of his most fervent opponents during the pre-Super Bowl interview with Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly that aired Sunday.
(CNN) Andrew Puzder, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Labor Department, employed an undocumented immigrant for years, the business magnate said in a statement Monday.
A space capsule-like item on the side of an Arizona interstate caught the attention of drivers Monday who may have thought astronauts touched down in the desert.
Jesse Hall and the columns on the campus of the University of Missouri-Columbia, pictured on July 28, 2010. Photo by Erik M. Lunsford, elunsford@post-dispatch.
Bidding for a Cheeto shaped like a gorilla killed last year at a Cincinnati zoo reached nearly $100,000 online Monday afternoon. User valuestampsinc listed a Flamin’ Hot Cheeto for sale on eBay that resembled an orangey, powdery version of Harambe, the …
STANFORD, Calif. – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg lamented partisanship in Congress during a talk at Stanford University on Monday and said she hoped it would return to an era when “it was working for the good of the country and not …
Nearly 450 former Environmental Protection Agency employees Monday urged Congress to reject President Trump’s nominee to run the agency, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, even as current employees in Chicago sent the same message during a …
As a regular on the night shift, Lisle police Officer Jim Dexter is used to seeing the occasional shooting star or lunar eclipse, though mostly he’s a witness to what he called “the odd behavior of animals and humans.
Two men wearing body armor and carrying firearms and cameras were arrested Sunday at a Michigan police headquarters in a confrontation livestreamed on the internet.
TWIN FALLS, Idaho – An Idaho judge has ordered a 19-year-old man not to have sex with anyone before he marries as part of his sentencing for statutory rape of a 14-year-old girl.
A bill aimed at modernizing the United States’s aging law covering law enforcement access to emails and other stored files passed the House Monday night.
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UC Berkeley is looking into allegations that a staff member was involved in an altercation during protests last week over a scheduled appearance by right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, campus officials said Monday.
People lost it when former president George H.W. Bush took the field to flip the coin before the Super Bowl. In the former first couple’s first public appearance since both were recently hospitalized for health issues, Bush and his wife Barbara got a …
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