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President Trump has signed a bill guaranteeing back pay for federal workers who have been furloughed or forced to work without pay during the partial government shutdown, the White House announced Wednesday.
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 President Donald Trump has signed legislation guaranteeing back pay to federal workers furloughed because of the partial government shutdown.
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 With the partial U.S. government shutdown now in its 26th day, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday urged President Donald Trump to reschedule his State of the Union address - a move that could deny him the opportunity to use the pageantry of the speech to attack Democrats in their own chamber over the impasse.
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 Theresa May called on Britain's political parties to "put self-interest aside" and work together on a compromise Brexit deal, hours after her government survived a no-confidence vote Wednesday night.
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The inspector general for the General Services Administration says the agency improperly ignored the U.S. Constitution's emoluments provision outlawing foreign gifts when it approved President Trump's management of his Washington hotel soon after his 2016 election.
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The interim president of Michigan State University resigned Wednesday amid criticism of remarks he made last week about victims of sexual abuse by ex-sports doctor Larry Nassar.
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 The government shutdown has caused for an outpouring of generosity throughout the country and chef Jose Andres has joined in by opening a kitchen and cafe to serve free meals to furloughed federal workers in Washington, D.C. (Jan. 16)
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The obituary for a Kentucky woman who passed away in November reportedly claimed that her death "was hastened" by her concern over the Trump administration.
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A Georgia man has been arrested and charged for allegedly plotting to attack the White House, federal prosecutors announced.
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 John Bogle, whose family's struggles during the Great Depression led him to pioneer low-cost investing and to found Vanguard Group, now the world's biggest mutual fund firm, died on Wednesday at the age of 89, Vanguard said.
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A Georgia man has been arrested and charged for allegedly plotting to destroy the White House and other government buildings in Washington, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported on Wednesday.
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 John Bogle, who created the first index fund in 1975 and founded The Vanguard Group, died Wednesday at the age of 89.
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A Chicago police commander on Wednesday single-handedly caught an alleged bank robber suspected of holding up three banks on the Near North Side in recent days.
Daniel O'Shea, commander of the 18th District - Near North, was patrolling in a police vehicle when he saw a man riding in a taxi who...
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 The General Services Administration didn't review the Constitution before leasing the Trump International Hotel to the president, a watchdog found.
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The Secret Service and Department of Homeland Security said they can handle security at President Trump's State of the Union address — which House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants Trump to postpone. Both federal agencies have been largely shuttered as the partial government shutdown enters its record-breaking 26th day. But Homeland Security Chief Kirstjen Nielsen wrote...
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Tad Cummins, a former Tennessee teacher accused of running off with a 15-year-old student to California, prompting a coast to coast search, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, officials said.
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 The paper, dated May 1, 2019, featured the splashy headline "UNPRESIDENTED: ENDING CRISIS, TRUMP HASTILY DEPARTS WHITE HOUSE."
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Michigan State University's interim president John Engler will resign following renewed criticism of how he handled fallout over the sex abuse scandal involving sports doctor Larry Nassar, the Detroit Free Press reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed officials. Nassar, who was a team doctor for USA Gymnastics, was sentenced to up to 300 years in prison in two different...
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A former Tennessee teacher who pleaded guilty to federal charges after he left the state with a teenaged student in 2017 — sparking a nationwide manhunt — has been sentenced.
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Frances Irene Finley Williams felt the same way about dress codes at funerals as she felt about politics: strongly. So when she died just before Thanksgiving at the age of 87, her family thought they would make politics a part of her obituary too. It was only natural, said her daughter, Cathy Duff. Williams and […]
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Chicago's government watchdog recommended that a high-ranking Chicago police official face possible firing for directing officers under his supervision for nearly a year to drive his child from school to his Far West Side police station in a squad car and babysit the kid on the city's dime.
But...
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Senator Kirsten Gillibrand began Day 1 as an exploratory presidential candidate by taking questions on Al Franken, guns and Wall Street.
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Michigan State University's interim president John Engler will resign following renewed criticism of how he handled fallout over the sex abuse scandal involving sports doctor Larry Nassar, the Detroit Free Press reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed officials.
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 British Prime Minister Theresa May's government has survived a no-confidence vote in parliament. (Jan. 16)
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Air Force veteran and triple amputee Brian Kolfage, 37, who started the GoFundMe page in December to raise money for President Trump's border wall, said Wednesday that donors have given $7 million to his new idea: privately building the wall, according to reports.
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Michigan State University's interim president John Engler will resign, following renewed criticism of how he handled fallout surrounding the sex abuse scandal involving sports doctor Larry Nassar, the Detroit Free Press reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed officials.
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 Clearly, Trump must enjoy having a big chunk of our government closed. Besides a border wall fight, what else is he getting out of this mess? A lot.
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Prime Minister Theresa May won a confidence vote in the British parliament on Wednesday before inviting other party leaders for immediate talks to try to break the impasse on a Brexit divorce agreement.
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Citigroup released a candid equal pay report showing that the median pay for female employees is nearly one-third less than it is for men.
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U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand blasted away at President Donald Trump during her first campaign stop, accusing the incumbent of choosing "to tear this country part" at an upstate diner Wednesday morning. "We have to take on President Trump and what he is doing," Gillibrand told supporters outside of a greasy spoon in the Hudson Valley....
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 An intensive care doctor ordered "significantly excessive and potentially fatal" doses of pain medicine for at least 27 near-death patients in the past few years after families asked that lifesaving measures be stopped, an Ohio hospital system announced.
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Officers went to the hospital about 4:40 p.m. for a call of possible child abuse at Rush Copley Medical Center, according to Aurora police.
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Who is Kirsten Gillibrand? 5 things to know about the New York senator and 2020 candidate Fox NewsSen. Kirsten Gillibrand is running for president in 2020. The New York Democrat announced her White House bid on Jan. 15 during an episode of Stephen ...
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An intensive care doctor ordered "significantly excessive and potentially fatal" doses of pain medicine for at least 27 near-death patients in the past few years after families asked that lifesaving measures be stopped, an Ohio hospital system announced.
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John Bogle simplified investing for the masses by introducing the first index mutual fund for individual investors in 1976.
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President Trump's EPA nominee Andrew Wheeler said climate change is not the greatest crisis, calling it a "huge issue that has to be addressed globally." CNN's Chris Cillizza reports.
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 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Days of rain and snow across California have snarled rush-hour commutes and triggered deadly wrecks on slick roads even before the most intense storm hits Wednesday, with wildfire-ravished communities bracing for dangerous mudslides and mountain residents facing a "potentially life-threatening" blizzard.
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Netflix has been on a spending spree for talent and content, so it should come as no surprise that the streamer announced on Tuesday that it is raising its monthly fees by $1 to $2, depending on the subscription plan.
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 Mudslides and flooding closed roads in California as heavy rains and snow were forecast.
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Major world stock indexes rose on Wednesday, with the S&P 500 supported by sharply higher U.S. bank shares after strong earnings, while the pound was up after British Prime Minister Theresa May's government won a confidence vote in parliament.
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Andrew Wheeler, the nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency and its current acting administrator, said he considers climate change an "eight or nine" on a one-to-10 scale of concern but that it is not the greatest crisis.
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Federal agency ‘improperly' ignored constitutional concerns before allowing Trump to keep lease to his hotel, internal watchdog says The Washington PostThe General Services Administration "ignored" concerns that President Trump's lease on a government-owned building — the one that houses his Trump ...
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Mudslides and flooding closed roads in California as heavy rains and snow were forecast deep into the week.
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Second Lady Karen Pence is taking heat for taking a part-time teaching job at a Virginia school that does not permit gay men and lesbians to be teachers.
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Jayme Closs should get $50G reward offered because ‘she got herself out,' 911 caller's husband says Fox NewsAs authorities decide what to do with the $50000 reward initially offered for information in Jayme Closs' disappearance, the husband of the woman who called ...
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Karen Pence Is Teaching at Christian School That Bars L.G.B.T. Students and Teachers The New York TimesKaren Pence Is Working At A School That Bans LGBTQ Employees And Kids HuffPostKaren Pence to teach at school that bans gay students, parents, employees POLITICOKaren Pence Has Just Taken a Job at a School That Bans LGBT Pupils NewsweekKaren Pence Will Teach At Anti-LGBTQ School HuffPostView full coverage on Google News
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City Girls and Cardi B Give Us the Ass-Clapping Video Anthem We Never Knew We Wanted The RootWatch Cardi B and City Girls' New "Twerk" Video PitchforkCardi B Hosts The Ultimate Booty Shaking Competition In New ‘Twerk' Music Video With City Girls Hollywood LifeCardi B & City Girls Drop Off Ass-Laden Twerk Video HotNewHipHopCardi B Teams Up With City Girls for NSFW ''Twerk'' Music Video E! NEWSView full coverage on Google News
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After the death of US troops in a gruesome explosion in northern Syria, Washington faces an uncomfortable question: Accelerate America's withdrawal from the country, do nothing, or stay longer and fight?
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Let's build President Donald Trump's ludicrous border wall.
Let's give our tantrum-throwing adult president the money he wants and end the government shutdown before it does more harm to the roughly 800,000 federal workers now missing paychecks. They are pawns in this mess, by no choice of their...
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"Areva, I hate to break it to you, but you should've been better prepped. I'm black."
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 A Republican Montana state senator and Republican delegates from West Virginia plan to introduce measures to allocate state funds to help build President Donald Trump's proposed wall along the southern US border.
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 David Steven Bell was also charged with assault against two 13-year-old girls, according to arrest warrants obtained Monday.
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