An appeals court in California blocked a controversial policy that has required more than 60000 asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for the duration of their ...
A federal appeals court on Friday slapped a temporary halt on the Remain-in-Mexico policy -- one of the most effective Trump administration policies in halting ...
A couple of notable events occurred during the month of February in California's three-year war with the Trump administration over White House efforts to ...
Despite their best attempts, pro-illegal alien extremists are failing to stop the Trump administration's efforts to restore law and order to the nation. On Wednesday ...
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders holds substantial leads in the two largest states to vote in next week's Super Tuesday lineup of primaries, according to new CNN ...
Washington (CNN) With Bernie Sanders looking more and more like the potential Democratic presidential nominee, the good people at the Center for Politics at ...
The acting White House chief of staff says US media is stoking a coronavirus panic because they hope it will take down President Donald Trump. "The reason ...
The coronavirus outbreak is demonstrating in life and death terms just how dangerous it is when an administration uses lies and misinformation to govern.
The two billionaires coexisted for years in New York City, trading pleasantries in public and keeping ill feelings private. With Michael Bloomberg set to face ...
NEW YORK — When Mike Bloomberg ran the city of New York, he ate hot dogs on the street, was a regular at Knicks games and rode the subway, as a relatable ...
COVID-19 could boost Bernie (“Medicare for all”) and maybe Bloomberg (the Purell Czar; but who wants him when it's over?), and poses a grave danger to ...
Mike Bloomberg says he's going to run for the Democratic presidential nomination until "the bitter end" — even if Bernie Sanders claims a plurality of delegates.
I know that Michael Bloomberg isn't on the primary ballot in South Carolina, but he was on the debate stage there. And he was using it to talk beyond the state to ...
The US health department sent workers to assist Americans evacuated from China because of the coronavirus outbreak without proper training or appropriate ...
Senior Oregon Senator Ron Wyden said the "general public" had been "put at risk" by the Department of Health and Human Services' handling of quarantined ...
... * Lena H. Sun and Yasmeen Abutaleb report that the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus is proceeding just as you'd expect: Officials at the ...
Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services sent more than a dozen workers to receive the first Americans evacuated from Wuhan, China, the ...
All Confederate flags, bumper stickers and similar items must be removed from Marine Corps bases, according to a new directive from the commandant. Marine ...
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that The Citadel removed the Confederate Naval Jack from its chapel. The flag is still in place at ...
The Marine Corps' top officer has ordered all Confederate-related paraphernalia to be removed from the *service's* installations. The military has struggled with ...
Several House Republicans walked out of a closed-door coronavirus briefing Friday with Trump health officials in protest after a senior Democrat blasted the ...
Washington (CNN) House lawmakers emerged from a briefing on coronavirus on Friday with Democrats saying that the country is not prepared to deal with the ...
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Just hours before the South Carolina primary, Pete Buttigieg is still introducing himself. Facing trouble breaking in with black voters, who ...
Pete Buttigieg's stint at McKinsey gets more attention, but the time he spent driving “real people” around in a van for Al Gore might speak more directly to his ...
In different circles at different points over the past year, it has been fashionable to hate Pete Buttigieg: He's too clearly full of himself. He's too far ahead of himself ...
Vice President Mike Pence told conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh he believes President Trump tapped him to lead the coronavirus task force because of ...
Vice President Mike Pence told Fox News' Sean Hannity in an exclusive interview Thursday that "the risk of the spread of coronavirus in the United States of ...
Michael D'Antonio writes that Mike Pence is so anti-science -- just look at his record on climate change and tobacco -- that it's hard to imagine a worse choice for ...
Tapping Vice President Mike Pence to oversee the U.S. federal government's response to the novel coronavirus COVID-19 is a massive blunder on the part of ...
Religious intolerance comes in many forms and manifests in degrees large and small, but the left's response to President Trump's appointment of Vice President ...
In a victory for President Trump, an appellate court ruled Friday that it wouldn't enforce a congressional subpoena to compel former White House Counsel Don ...
Seven months ago, Trump scrapped his plan to nominate Ratcliffe over concerns that he would not have the backing of Senate Republicans. It's unclear what ...
President Donald Trump said on Friday that he intends to nominate Rep. John Ratcliffe, a Republican from Texas, as his permanent director of national ...
President Trump on Friday said he is nominating Texas Rep. John Ratcliffe to serve as Director of National Intelligence (DNI), months after the Republican ...
The family of the employee who killed five co-workers at the Molson Coors complex in Milwaukee before taking his own life on Friday expressed "terrible ...
The man who police said opened fire at a Molson Coors plant this week in Milwaukee — killing five co-workers and himself — was a gun-obsessed electrician ...
A prolific lake-effect snow band is raging in Upstate New York, producing whiteout conditions, furious winds and mind-boggling snow accumulations in a ...
One of the fiercest lake-effect snow events of the season is unleashing blizzard conditions across parts of upstate New York, causing school closures and ...
More than 30 inches of snow have fallen in parts of upstate New York after a lake-effect snow band hammered portions of the Great Lakes and the northeast on ...
Hundreds of schools and businesses in Houston remained closed Friday as crews attempt to repair a water main that provides up to half of the city's water.
Residents in east Houston were being asked to conserve water Thursday after a massive water main break in the area of East Loop 610 around noontime ...
A water main break Thursday sent water flowing nearly two miles away, submerging some freeways, streets and even cars in east Houston, Harris County Sheriff ...
The mother of two missing children with ties to Arizona remains behind bars in Hawaii, but will soon be on her way back to Idaho, where she and the kids lived ...
Lori Vallow, the so-called “Doomsday” mom recently arrested in Hawaii following the monthlong disappearance of her two children, has agreed to return to ...
A former NFL player declared President Trump the “first black president” Thursday during a Black History Month round table discussion at the White House.
President Trump told black supporters at a White House Black History Month event that his approval rating with the African American community should be ...
Journalist Laura Bassett penned a sweeping indictment of MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews Friday, claiming that he routinely employed sexist language and even ...
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), the 2016 vice presidential nominee, is endorsing former vice president Joe Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination, hoping to ...
James Costos, a former HBO executive and major Democratic donor who served as ambassador to Spain during the Obama administration, is throwing in with ...
Ahead of the South Carolina primary and Super Tuesday, candidates are increasingly invoking Mr. Obama as they court black voters. He isn't playing favorites, ...
What Dean Walsmith really wants for his birthday is to have a computer notice him. Mr. Walsmith, who turns 52 and who celebrates his 13th leap-year birthday ...
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., got into a public spat about scientific knowledge after the latters blasted the choice to put ...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warned that electing Mike Bloomberg in November would pave the way for another candidate who could be “even worse” than ...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rose to prominence as a whip-smart, hardworking young person in touch with her constituents. Three-year-old footage reveals ...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) used her Christian faith to ardently defend the rights of LGBTQ Americans during a congressional committee hearing on ...
A spokesman for Donald Trump Jr. ripped Rep. John Garamendi, D-Calif., and MSNBC anchor Hallie Jackson Friday after the lawmaker said he would get into a ...
Democratic lawmakers expressed frustration Friday with the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus, saying they left a closed-door briefing by top ...
As he pursues the nomination of a party he hasn't even deigned to join over the long term, Sanders is coming to Elizabeth Warren's home state for two pre-Super ...
Trump's late panicky response, his professed confidence in Chinese efforts to get the disease under control, and his flop sweat about the market are the exact ...
"One day it's like a miracle, it will disappear. And from our shores, you know, it could get worse before it gets better ... Nobody really knows," Trump said.
President Trump hit billionaire businessman Tom Steyer ahead of Saturday's presidential primary in South Carolina, where Steyer is hoping for a strong ...
I no longer remember which debate it was that made me face the fact that I liked Tom Steyer. It's not the kind of thing I care to admit; I don't tend to “like” ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. — It is easy to dismiss Tom Steyer as a dead man walking — a candidate polling at just 2 percent in national surveys whose campaign rolls ...
Moving to stem a vaping epidemic among young people, the House has approved a bill to ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes and other flavored tobacco ...
The legislation, which would ban menthol in all cigarettes, drew opposition from some civil rights groups and African-American lawmakers, who said it could lead ...
A sweeping bill to ban all tobacco flavors and tax e-cigarettes passed the House on Friday morning on a 213-to-195 vote after Democratic leaders scrambled to ...
A ban on flavored e-cigarettes and tobacco products passed the House on Friday but divided Democrats, with some saying it unfairly targets African Americans.
Amy Klobuchar may be polling in the single digits in Virginia, but to the suburban voters who packed her rally in Falls Church on Friday, she represents the best ...
As South Carolina Democratic voters head to the polls on Saturday, one name on the ballot has been noticeably absent from the state for nearly 48 hours ahead ...
This article is part of The Best Case for Each Candidate, where Opinion columnists make their argument for each of the top six candidates. Since President ...
PALM BEACH, Fla. – Makeshift contraptions for catching sea life off West Africa are landing on Florida beaches like hobo fishermen, drowning turtles and ...
Makeshift contraptions for catching sea life off West Africa are landing on Florida beaches after a current-driven journey across the tropical Atlantic.
All north and southbound lanes have reopened on the Turnpike in central Palm Beach County after a major crash involving a semi and dump truck on Friday ...
CHICAGO — Fifty officers and detectives will be dedicated to CTA as part of Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Chicago police's new CTA safety plan. The mayor along ...
The Sanders campaign has made its video livestreaming a central part of its overall messaging, fundraising and organizing strategy. Here's a look behind the ...
South Carolina is a red state, without question -- but that didn't stop one man from yelling out the rallying cry "Yes we can" at a recent gathering for Jaime ...
MSNBC host Chris Matthews mistook Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., for Democratic Senate candidate Jamie Harrison on Friday, chalking it up to "mistaken identity.".
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A new IRS question appears at the top of Schedule 1 to your 2019 Form 1040. It asks if you received, sold, sent, exchanged, or otherwise acquired any financial ...
The average tax refund check is slightly smaller than last year, the Internal Revenue *Service* reported on Friday. The average refund issued so far fell to $3,125, ...
We all know that the Internal Revenue *Service* (IRS) won't initiate taxpayer contact with a phone call. But a knock on the door? That's precisely the plan as part of ...
For police departments, there has been no greater, or worse, home for the law enforcement equivalent of dad jokes than Facebook. They have issued arrest ...
Several U.S. police departments are falsely warning members of the public that their crystal meth could be contaminated with coronavirus, and that they should ...
Two dozen police departments, 10 journalists and radio stations, one Army substance abuse program, and a candidate for local sheriff have spread a claim on ...
As many as 700 people in New York state are reportedly under self-quarantine at home and one patient is being tested for the infection in New York City. In Long ...
ALBANY ― No bail, no budget. Gov. Cuomo said flat out for the first time Friday that he won't approve a state budget without changes to New York's contentious ...
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says he may sue the federal government over its failure to approve a plan to ease traffic in Manhattan by charging motorists ...
This week's stock-market plunge amid mounting fears of a global economic slowdown triggered by the coronavirus couldn't come at a more crucial time in New ...
President Trump's recent announcement of clemency for a handful of white-collar offenders was a reminder that proudly progressive New York shows much less ...
South Carolina's Republican Gov. Henry McMaster described the "love" voters in the state have for President Trump ahead of a rally Friday night, the day before ...
The Democratic Party has created a dramatically front-loaded primary schedule this year, with the intention of wrapping up the nomination quickly. Party leaders ...
As the campaign continues at full force, a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research asked Americans to say what word or phrase ...
UPPER SOUTHAMPTON TWP, Pa. - Authorities say four children were hurt and one remains in critical but stable condition after a car plowed through a daycare ...
SOUTHAMPTON, Pa. (CBS) — Officials say four children have been hospitalized after a delivery driver crashed her car into a Southampton day care center filled ...
At least three people were missing and thirteen others sent to hospitals Friday after apparently being dumped from a boat off the coast of San Diego, authorities ...
The Catholic Diocese of Buffalo declared bankruptcy as it looks to settle over 250 lawsuits filed under the state's modified Child Victims Act law. "We have no ...
