The Senate, on Tuesday, voted in favor of sweeping criminal justice reform aimed at lowering the number of people in America's prisons and reducing recidivism ...
The Senate passed the most substantial changes in a generation to federal prison and sentencing laws. The House will follow, and President Trump is expected ...
WASHINGTON — The Senate passed a huge criminal law reform bill on Tuesday night, seizing on bipartisan support for the broadest set of changes to federal ...
The Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a sweeping overhaul of the criminal justice system, after a remarkable political shift from Republicans who ...
President Trump on Tuesday took to Twitter in defense of his desired border wall along the U.S.-Mexico boundary, describing it as an aesthetically-pleasing ...
It seems the country is headed for a government shutdown, but it's not due to any kind of real national or international crisis. Rather, it's over a Trump temper ...
'Twas the week before Christmas, and all through the House, not a creature was stirring — even though a chunk of the federal government is set to shut down at ...
As Congress tries to push through a budget to keep the government open, some members are concerned that the gravest threat facing the country, one that ...
A speech pathologist who served as a contract employee in Texas is suing the school district she once worked for, arguing that a state law forcing her to sign a ...
Appointment of two Democrats in Las Vegas means 51% of 63 state legislative seats are now filled by women. Associated Press. Tue 18 Dec 2018 19.24 EST.
Nevada is set to make history, with the first legislature in U.S. history to have a majority of female lawmakers. The Clark County Board of Commissioners made ...
Nevada will become the first state to have a legislature where women hold the majority of seats in February after two women were appointed on Tuesday to ...
Nevada has become the first US state to have a female majority in its legislature. The appointments of Rochelle Nguyen and Beatrice Angela Duran to the State ...
The Trump administration has released a report on school safety from a commission created in the wake of the high school shooting in Parkland, Florida.
The report from the Federal Commission on School Safety will back away from a focus on racial disparities in discipline to emphasize security, including arming ...
Democrats in Congress plan to fight Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' proposed rules for how schools handle allegations of sexual assault. But for now, the ...
A federal judge delayed sentencing once again for former national security adviser Michael Flynn on Tuesday, pushing off the case after a dramatic hearing.
One could well understand if President Trump's fired National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was a tad confused Tuesday at his sentencing hearing on his guilty ...
The agreement by the Donald J. Trump Foundation follows a court decision that allowed a lawsuit brought by the New York attorney general to move forward.
The loss of the Trump Foundation is a blow to us all. Too few people accept the premise that the best way to help those in need is by giving rich people more ...
With the number of migrant children in U.S. custody nearing 15,000, the Trump administration said Tuesday it will rollback its requirement that everyone in a ...
The Trump administration is loosening some of the vetting requirements for sponsors of migrant children, potentially clearing the way for thousands of children to ...
The U.S. is relaxing the requirements to place unaccompanied migrant children in the custody of sponsors, dropping background checks for every member in a ...
The Trump administration is reversing a controversial policy that required extensive background checks of all adults living with sponsors of migrant children, in a ...
Washington (CNN) On the afternoon of September 5, President Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office debating whether to throw his support behind the most ...
CNN host Van Jones praises Jared Kushner, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), and President Trump for getting a bipartisan criminal justice reform bill to a vote in ...
Penny Marshall's legacy will live on forever in Hollywood. Tributes from her celebrity friends began pouring in on social media following the news of her death on ...
Penny Marshall, who rose to fame on TV's Laverne & Shirley and enjoyed an unexpected second act as the bankable Hollywood director of Big and A League of ...
Penny Marshall had been making minor inroads in Hollywood for several years before the iconic Laverne and Shirley characters debuted as Richie and Fonzie's ...
Batter up, hear that call — the time has come, for one and all, to yell about how “A League of Their Own,” directed by Penny Marshall, is the best sports movie of ...
Penny Marshall — best known as TV's "Laverne & Shirley" and director of "A League of their Own" — is being remembered for her charming and hilarious ...
A newly obtained document shows President Donald Trump signed a letter of intent to move forward with negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Russia, despite ...
Rudy Giuliani said a letter of intent signed by President Donald Trump to move forward with negotiations on building a Trump Tower in Russia is “bulls--t.”
As the metaphorical noose tightens around Donald Trump's corporeal neck, he is turning to his ever more inevitable legal defense: “I can't have broken the law ...
The Fox News host Tucker Carlson has lost advertisers after saying on the air last week that allowing certain immigrants into the United States “makes our own ...
The Fox News host is facing backlash after suggesting that immigrants make our country "poorer and dirtier and more divided" on "Tucker Carlson Tonight."
New York (CNN) More than a dozen companies have announced they will either pull or suspend their advertising from Tucker Carlson's Fox News show over ...
The National Weather *Service* reports that a tornado touched down south of Port Orchard in Kitsap County Tuesday afternoon, sometime shortly before 2 p.m..
Chicago police Officer Eduardo Marmolejo, 36, a married father of three daughters, was struck by a South Shore train Monday night while investigating a call of ...
The Chicago Police Department mourned Tuesday, a day after two rookie officers were fatally struck by a train while chasing a suspect on the South Side.
The oversight body reviewing complaints lodged against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh said Tuesday that the allegations against the former federal ...
A panel of federal judges dismissed ethics complaints against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh Tuesday because they were filed under a federal law that ...
The judges acknowledged that the complaints are "serious" but noted there is no existing authority for lower court judges to hold Supreme Court justices ...
The judicial council reviewing dozens of misconduct claims against Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh has dismissed the complaints that coincided with ...
On the day of former national security adviser Michael Flynn's sentencing for lying to the FBI, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders made a last-ditch ...
Only an audacious and arrogant man accuses others of lying when he is guilty of the same. James Comey, the fired Director of the FBI, stood in front of the ...
On Monday, former FBI director James Comey finally lost his patience with House Republicans, who had hauled him in for closed-door testimony in a partisan ...
(Reuters) - A special counsel investigation into possible collusion between Russia and the 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump has already secured ...
Michael Cohen did an awful job trying to develop a Trump-branded tower in Moscow during the 2016 campaign and should be blamed for any inconsistencies in ...
The breadth of investigations is so sweeping that they may hang over the president and his entourage long after Robert Mueller's probe is finished. By.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani spent his Sunday "defending" Donald Trump and "advocating" for the President's innocence as it relates to the ...
The Trump administration has banned the use of bump stocks, devices that let rifles fire like machine guns, after promising to do so earlier this year. The final ...
The Department of Justice on Tuesday made official new regulations to make bump stocks illegal. The move makes sense, even though it isn't likely to make a ...
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Tuesday issued a new rule banning bump stocks, the attachments that enable semiautomatic rifles to fire in ...
The ruling offers the intriguing detail that the entity fighting the Mueller subpoena is a foreign-owned company, not a specific individual, as many had speculated.
A secret court case apparently about a grand jury subpoena from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation gained a little more clarity Tuesday night after a ...
A secretive battle over a grand jury subpoena in a case believed to be tied to Special Counsel Robert Mueller moved closer to resolution with a ruling in favor of ...
An unnamed corporation owned by a foreign government cannot avoid a grand jury subpoena, according to a court decision on Tuesday. The D.C. Circuit Court ...
A mysterious, unidentified state-owned corporation must comply with a subpoena in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe, a federal appellate court ...
Though options are limited for now, they exist. For starters, parents should recognize that they are confronting an addiction to nicotine, which is hard to break.
The US Surgeon General on Tuesday called for "aggressive" action against e-cigarette use, which he said has exploded to epidemic proportions among youth ...
(18 Dec 2018) High surf warnings are posted on many California beaches as waves reaching up to 40 feet pound the West Coast. KGO-TV reports that the ...
A series of storm systems, driven by persistent low pressure near Alaska, is churning waters to dangerous levels along the West Coast of the United States.
Rep. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) lost her Senate race in November, but Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey announced on Dec. 18 that he appointed her to fill John ...
At first glance, Arizona GOP Gov. Doug Ducey's decision to appoint recently failed senatorial candidate Martha McSally to outgoing Sen. John Kyl's seat feels ...
As ré sum é s go, it's hard to fathom a better fit to fill John McCain's Senate seat than the nation's first female Air Force pilot to fly in combat — Rep.
Rep. Joaquín Castro urged CBP Commissioner Kevin McAleenan to step down after the death of a 7-year-old migrant girl in police custody. He and other ...
The head of Customs and Border Protection, Kevin McAleenan, should lose his job after failing to immediately disclose the death of a migrant child in Border ...
Migrants are showing up in groups of 100 or more at remote parts of the U.S.-Mexico border that aren't equipped to handle the influx, U.S. Customs and Border ...
After touring the two border facilities where Jakelin Caal was detained before she died, the congressional delegation called for better medical facilities and ...
Former FBI Director James Comey defended the FBI's interview of Michael Flynn that later prompted the former national security adviser's guilty plea, sparring ...
Former FBI Director James Comey in his final interview with House Republicans this week defended the bureau's contacts with former national security adviser ...
Michael Flynn's lawyer won't say that the Federal Bureau of Investigation entrapped him, but that hasn't stopped a lot of other people from saying it did.
House Republicans on Tuesday released a transcript of their explosive closed-door session a day earlier with fired FBI Director James Comey, who'd defiantly ...
Washington (CNN) Top congressional Republicans were quick to argue that a federal court ruling that the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional won't affect the ...
A federal district judge in Texas struck down the Affordable Care Act as unconstitutional Friday. The lawsuit was brought by Republican officials from 20...
For the third time, a federal court has delivered a ruling that, if upheld, would leave the Affordable Care Act in tatters. But the opinion Friday night by Judge Reed ...
It has been over two months since the midterm elections in which Democrats picked up 40 Congressional seats (and potentially another in North Carolina), ...
Weather officials in California warned potential beachgoers to stay far away from the ocean until at least Thursday due to a spate of massive waves they said ...
Former presidential adviser and longtime Republican operative Roger Stone admitted in federal court papers filed Monday that he has spread false information ...
President Donald Trump will order the Pentagon to create a unified combatant command for space, a step forward in the administration's plan to establish a ...
President Donald Trump ordered the creation of "Space Command" on Tuesday, a move the administration is labeling a precursor to creating a US Space Force.
President Trump on Tuesday signed a memorandum that officially established the United States' interstellar armed forces. The news was announced by Vice ...
Donald Trump has officially ordered the creation of Space Command at the Pentagon - the first step on the way to a US Space Force - an organisation that could ...
WASHINGTON—President Trump directed the creation of a new U.S. Space Command, making good on his calls to elevate the importance of security in space, ...
Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., tweeted that a mainstream news story claiming she's challenging Rep. Hakeem Jeffries is “gossip.”
Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is reportedly working to take down fellow New York Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the newly elected House ...
The holidays can be a stressful time, even for some of America's most powerful. For Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), it's been especially tough.
**Want FOX News Halftime Report in your inbox every day? Sign up here.** On the roster: White House sounding less proud about shutdown - It's McSally after ...
A Democratic New York state senator apologized Tuesday for a tweet suggesting that a Republican legislative staffer kill herself -- before referring to her as "a ...
New York State Sen. Kevin Parker (D-Brooklyn) found himself in hot water on Tuesday for telling a Twitter user to “kill” herself after she called him out for ...
Kevin Parker, a New York state senator, apologized Tuesday for sending a tweet to a legislative staffer urging her to kill herself.
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Mr. Hassan said he talked to his wife every day to update her on their son’s deteriorating health. “It was a nightmare,” he said.Council on American-Islamic Relations, Sacramento Valley
The mother of a child on life support in California was granted a visa waiver to enter the United States after her application was stalled because she is from ...
The US State Department granted a Yemeni mother, whose 2-year-old son is on life support in an Oakland hospital, a waiver Tuesday to travel to the United ...
A Yemeni woman has been granted permission by the U.S. to enter the country to see her 2-year-old son who is dying in a California hospital, her backers said ...
A Yemeni mother who wanted to visit America and give her dying two-year-old a “kiss before he goes” has been granted a visa to enter the country. Ali Hassan ...
A judge on Tuesday refused to shorten the jail term on Tuesday for former St. Paul's School student, Owen Labrie, who was convicted of sexually assaulting a ...
Jakelin Amei Rosmery Caal Maquin spent her seventh birthday on a trip she was overjoyed to take — traveling with her father from their impoverished farm in ...
(Reuters) - U.S. Border Patrol agents who detained a 7-year-old Guatemalan migrant girl who later died in federal custody will not speak with U.S. lawmakers ...
The father of a 7-year-old Guatemalan girl is demanding answers about how she came to die in US custody less than 48 hours after Border Patrol agents ...
Instead of using the death of a 7-year-old girl from Guatemala as a political weapons, Congress and the media need to find out why it wasn't disclosed within the ...
Like most issues in politics, immigration is considered a binary one. While Republicans stress the need for an increase in border security and discuss funding a ...
Michael Critchfield, a transgender teenager from West Virginia, claims Assistant Principal Lee Livengood confronted him in the school bathroom and told him he ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A West Virginia high school's assistant principal should be disciplined after questioning a transgender male student over his choice of ...
Michael Critchfield, pictured right, said Liberty High School teacher Lee Livengood, pictured left, came into the boys' bathroom and asked if any students were in ...
Senate Republicans are drafting a stopgap spending bill to extend the funding deadline for approximately 25% of the federal government until February 8, ...
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill looking to avert a partial government shutdown starting Saturday are warming to the possibility of passing a short-term, stopgap ...
House Democrats' first bill of the year — a sweeping anti-corruption and pro-Democracy reform bill known as House Resolution 1 — is getting a companion bill ...
Now that the final results of the midterm elections are in, with a diverse class of incoming lawmakers preparing to take their seats, some observers are calling ...
A Missouri infant was saved Monday after her father attempted to drown her in a pond because he was having “bad thoughts,” then left her in the frigid water as ...
A 6-month-old baby girl was found floating alive in a Northwestern Missouri pond Monday just minutes after the father had allegedly confessed to authorities that ...
GREENWOOD, Mo. - Police say an infant is recovering after a man walked into a northwest Missouri police station and said he had drowned his 6-month-old ...
Because the 2016 election is forever on repeat in the minds all of the Washington establishment, we are once again forced to recall Russia's prolific Facebook ...
Even as the economy continues to boom, the number of homeless Americans crept higher in 2018 as higher rents push people out onto the streets, and cities ...
The number of homeless people in the United States increased slightly for the second year in a row, a concerning setback after seven years of progress and ...
The first major surprise of the 2020 campaign came on Monday when Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander (R) announced he would not run for a third term in two ...
Stories about the Russia investigation and the Kavanaugh hearings kept the word in the public consciousness throughout the year, the online dictionary noted.
