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 A white Republican congressman said Tuesday that he isn't offended by President Donald Trump's racist attacks on four Democratic congresswomen of color because he's "a person of color."
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 The House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in criminal contempt over a dispute related to the Trump administration's efforts to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
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 Kevin Spacey will not face trial on a charge of groping a teen bus boy in 2016. Prosecutors dropped the case due to "unavailability" of the accuser to testify.
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Active duty troops on the southern border with Mexico began carrying out "welfare checks" on detained migrants earlier this month to help out overwhelmed Customs and Border Protection agents, two US defense officials have told CNN.
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The "We are Eric Garner" rally was held on the five-year anniversary of Garner's death.
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One of the most iconic tales of baseball lore includes Hall of Fame slugger Babe Ruth allegedly calling his shot before hitting a home run during Game 3 of the 1932 World Series against the Chicago Cubs.
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The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to hold US Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt over the White House's failed push to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. By a vote of 230 to 198, the Democrat-controlled chamber rapped Barr and Ross for failing to surrender subpoenaed documents...
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The Democratic-led House of Representatives once again rejected articles of impeachment against President Trump on Wednesday. The House voted to table Rep. Al Green's article of impeachment 332 to 95, the third time his effort has gone down in defeat. Green made his latest impeachment attempt Tuesday evening after the House voted to condemn Trump's...
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• White GOP congressman says he isn't offended by racist Trump tweets because 'I'm a person of color'
• Opinion: Trump stokes fear, hides his insecurity
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The criminal charges filed against the leading human rights organisation Lawyers Collective smack of political intimidation of those who speak truth to power.
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 A new policy to deny asylum to anyone who shows up on the Mexican border after traveling through another country threatens to exacerbate overcrowding at severely strained U.S. immigration detention centers and makeshift holding areas. Photos and video of Vice President Mike Pence's visit Friday to McAllen, Texas, showing men crammed behind chain-link fences offered the latest glimpse into squalid conditions at Customs and Border Protection facilities. The Border Patrol housed 900 people in an area with capacity for 125 in El Paso, Texas, according to a Department of Homeland Security's internal watchdog report on an unannounced visit in May. Inspectors saw detainees standing on toilets to gain breathing space.
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 Federal prosecutors have told a judge in New York they have concluded their investigation into campaign finance crimes committed by President Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen. The closure of the case is the strongest suggestion yet that federal prosecutors have decided not to bring criminal charges against anyone besides Cohen in the scheme to use hush-money payments to protect Trump's reputation during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., resumed calls Wednesday for Congress to use money and other assets seized from convicted Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to pay for improved border security after a federal judge sentenced Guzman to life in prison.
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Desperate immigrants seeking asylum to escape persecution in their home countries are now largely barred from legally entering the U.S. from Mexico, under a new Trump administration rule that went into effect Tuesday.
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 A federal judge said prosecutors concluded their investigations of possible campaign finance violations involving Michael Cohen.
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Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday defended his "Medicare for All" bill against escalating attacks from critics like former Vice President Joe Biden, while also challenging the Democratic primary field to reject donations from private health insurance and pharmaceutical interests.
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 Several hundred people took to the streets of New York on Wednesday to protest a decision by the U.S. Department of Justice not to bring federal charges against a policeman accused in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man in 2014.
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 Hundreds of youth organizers will march through Foley Square in New York City, calling for NYPD officers involved in Eric Garner's death to be fired.
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Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden and rival Bernie Sanders are waging a public battle this week over universal healthcare, staking out competing turf on an issue that has become the most divisive in the party's primary campaign.
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 The late Supreme Court associate justice left his mark on American life through decades of majority opinions and minority dissents.
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 Italian and U.S. police have launched a coordinated crackdown on a Sicilian Mafia family that was seeking to rebuild its power base after years of exile in the United States, Italian investigators said on Wednesday. More than 200 police, including officers from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), arrested 18 people in Sicily as part of their investigation into the Inzerillo clan in the island's capital Palermo and the allied New York-based Gambino family. A 19th suspect is being sought in the United States.
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Crowds of demonstrators are flooding the streets near Puerto Rico's Capitol, demanding the immediate resignation of Gov. Ricardo Rosselló.
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 Netflix Inc said on Wednesday it lost U.S. streaming customers for the first time in eight years and missed targets for new subscribers overseas, an announcement that jarred investors ahead of looming competition.
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 The Latest on the U.S. Justice Department's decision not to prosecute the officer involved in Eric Garner's death. Several hundred people marched in lower Manhattan to mark the five year anniversary of Eric Garner's death. The marchers on Wednesday chanted and held signs saying "I Can't Breathe," a reference to Garner's dying words, as they marched past federal courthouses.
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The streaming giant said it had added 2.7 million subscribers for the three months ending in June, well short of the five million Wall Street investors were expecting.
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As Apollo 11 sped to the moon, the Earth turned behind it, and Mission Control in Houston would lose the ability to communicate directly with the spacecraft. NASA needed tracking stations — 14 in total, dotted around the planet — to keep in contact. As the signal to the United States was lost, it was...
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Puerto Ricans are protesting for a fifth day demanding the resignation of the governor. Wednesday's march is expected to be the biggest yet thanks to participation of the island's biggest stars.
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US removes Turkey from F-35 fighter jet programme BBC NewsTrump says US won't sell F-35 jets to Turkey, blames Obama for country's Russian missile system purchase Fox NewsU.S. removing Turkey from F-35 program after its Russian missile defense purchase ReutersU.S. booting Turkey from fighter program over Russian arms deal NBC NewsUS kicks Turkey out of F-35 fighter jet programme Aljazeera.comView full coverage on Google News
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The criminal charges filed against the leading human rights organisation Lawyers Collective smack of political intimidation of those who speak truth to power.
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Wednesday that he regrets trusting the U.S. Department of Justice after federal prosecutors declined to charge a city policeman who used a fatal chokehold on Eric Garner, an unarmed black man, five years ago.
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The United States said on Wednesday that it was removing Turkey from the F-35 fighter jet program, a move that had been long threatened and expected after Ankara began accepting delivery of an advanced Russian missile defense system last week.
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Cities have put spikes on ledges, installed bars on park benches and enacted tent prohibitions to keep homeless people from sleeping in public.
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The Pentagon said on Wednesday it would send an additional 1,000 Texas National Guard and 1,100 active duty troops to the border with Mexico, the latest deployment in support of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.
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 West Palm Beach, Florida officials are playing "Baby Shark" and "Raining Tacos," on loop overnight in an effort to ward homeless people away.
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"There's not one day that goes by I don't think about Eric Garner," said activist Nupol Kiazolu. "All we're doing is fighting for equity and another day to live."
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The U.S. House of Representatives voted Wednesday to table an impeachment resolution against President Donald Trump, effectively killing the measure for now but not burying the issue that has divided Democrats.
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Criminal sexual assault charges against Kevin Spacey dropped Raw StoryCharge against Kevin Spacey dropped after alleged victim pleads the 5th CNNProsecution Drops Groping Case Against Kevin Spacey In Nantucket CBS BostonProsecutors drop sexual assault charges against Kevin Spacey CBS NewsSex assault charge dropped against actor Kevin Spacey ABC NewsView full coverage on Google News
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The criminal charges filed against the leading human rights organisation Lawyers Collective smack of political intimidation of those who speak truth to power.
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The deadly Ebola outbreak in Congo is now an international health emergency, the World Health Organization announced on Wednesday after the virus spread this week to a city of two million people.
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 Seventy-seven percent of those who said Fox News was their most trusted news source said the "people who call others 'racist' usually do so in bad faith."
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Will Trump's attacks on congresswomen help him get reelected? CBS NewsHere's how AOC, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley & Rashida Tlaib became known as "The Squad" CBS This MorningGayle King discusses interviewing "the Squad" CBS NewsOcasio-Cortez "absolutely" willing to meet with Pelosi CBS This Morning"The Squad" interview: Gayle King's full conversation with AOC, Omar, Pressley & Tlaib CBS This MorningView full coverage on Google News
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House to vote today on impeachment resolution against Trump NBC NewsDem-led House formally condemns Trump remarks deemed 'racist,' after dramatic floor fight over Pelosi Fox NewsWhy Trump must acknowledge that he went too far this time New York Post Donald Trump is not America's first racist president, but hopefully he'll be our last USA TODAYOpinion: AOC and the Democrats gave Trump the fight he was looking for - Los Angeles Times Los Angeles TimesView full coverage on Google News
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Eloy Jimenez and Charlie Tilson tried tracking down leadoff batter Whit Merrifield's first-inning fly to left-center.
Tilson, the center fielder, made the catch. But he and Jimenez also collided. Jimenez went down in pain.
The left fielder left the game with a sore right elbow. It was the beginning...
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There will be no federal charges in the choking death of Eric Garner. The government says it doesn't have evidence to charge the officer involved in Garner's death five years ago on Staten Island.
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The New York police officer who put Eric Garner in a fatal chokehold during an attempted arrest in 2014, fueling the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, will not face federal criminal charges, the top federal prosecutor in Brooklyn said on Tuesday.
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