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Ahead of his visit to Ohio, President Trump declared ISIS will be “gone by tonight,” in an announcement he made on the White House South Lawn.. ...Read Full Story

The Northeast will kick off spring over the next few days with a deluge of heavy rain, winds and in some states, even snow.. ...Read Full Story

West Virginia’s attorney general has sued the state’s Catholic diocese and it’s former bishop, saying they “knowingly employed pedophiles” while failing to alert parents about potential risks at Catholic schools and other activities.. ...Read Full Story

United States officials say that U.S.-backed forces have captured Islamic State fighters tied to a January suicide bombing in Syria that killed four Americans, generating concrete leads about the deadliest attack to date there against U.S. personnel.. ...Read Full Story

More than 8 million people are under flood warnings in the Midwest and the Mississippi River Valley, and the deadly flooding that has deluged parts of Nebraska has created islands where dry land should be.  Meteorologists are warning that the situation could get worse before it gets better.. ...Read Full Story

Officials said that hours after the shooting on a tram in the Dutch city of Utrecht on Monday, which killed three people, a suspect was arrested. Police have identified the man as Gökmen Tanis, 37, who was born in Turkey. Justice Minister Ferdinand Grapperhaus said authorities were able to identify the suspect from surveillance footage and the getaway car they believed he used to flee the scene. Grapperhaus also said Tanis has a criminal record.. ...Read Full Story

 24-year-old man was arrested in the shooting death this week of reputed crime boss Francesco "Franky Boy" Cali and will face murder charges in New York, police said Saturday.” data-reactid=”10″ type=”text”>Police said this weekend that 24-year-old Anthony Comello was arrested in the shooting death this week of reputed crime boss Francesco “Franky Boy” Cali and will face murder charges in New York. Officials said he was in custody in New Jersey pending extradition to Staten Island.. ...Read Full Story

On Sunday morning, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand formally launched her presidential bid. Gillibrand, who launched an exploratory committee earlier this year as a precursor, joins more than a dozen other Democrats who have already formally entered the contest to win the nomination to challenge Republican President Donald Trump in the November 2020 election.. ...Read Full Story

On Thursday, the House voted unanimously for a resolution calling for any final report in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation to be made public, a symbolic action designed to pressure Attorney General William Barr into releasing as much information as possible when the probe is concluded.. ...Read Full Story

On Thursday, the Senate voted to block President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency intended to allow funding of a border wall. A dozen GOP senators went against the White House, with Trump saying he would veto the measure. The final margin was 59-41. Republican senators voting for the resolution and against Trump were Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Roy Blunt of Missouri, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, Kentucky’s Rand Paul, Rob Portman of Ohio, Marco Rubio of Florida, Jerry Moran of Kansas, Roger Wicker of Mississippi, and Mitt Romney and Mike Lee of Utah.. ...Read Full Story

On Wednesday, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sentenced to a total of seven and a half years in prison, after a federal judge rejected his appeal for no additional time. Within minutes of the sentencing, prosecutors in New York brought state charges against Manafort — a move that appeared to guard against the possibility that President Trump could pardon him. The president can pardon federal crimes, but not state offenses.. ...Read Full Story

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump said his administration issued an order to ground the Boeing 737 MAX 8 planes involved in two recent catastrophic crashes.   . ...Read Full Story

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the US is withdrawing all remaining diplomatic personnel from its embassy in Caracas, citing the “deteriorating situation in Venezuela.” . ...Read Full Story

Aviation experts, consumer advocates and politicians are calling for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the airlines that operate the Boeing 737 Max aircraft in the U.S. to ground the jets, this coming after an Ethiopian Airlines crash that killed all 157 people on board.. ...Read Full Story

Customs agents have seized the biggest shipment of cocaine recovered at the ports of New York and New Jersey in 25 years.. ...Read Full Story

On Monday, the democratic party chose Milwaukee to host Democrats’ 2020 national convention. Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez chose Milwaukee over Houston and Miami after deliberations lingered longer than party leaders or officials from the three finalist cities had expected.. ...Read Full Story

Martin Shkreli, 35, is being investigated by federal authorities for allegedly running his pharmaceutical business from behind bars. Nicknamed “Pharma Bro” for his behavior, the newest allegations stem from a Wall Street Journal report has suggesting Shkreli was using a contraband cellphone to secretly lead his company from within the thick walls of the Federal Correction Institution in Fort Dix, New Jersey.. ...Read Full Story

Eight Americans were among 157 people killed when a plane crashed shortly after takeoff in Ethiopia on Sunday morning.. ...Read Full Story

On Thursday, the House passed a resolution condemning anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry.  The resolution comes after days of debate over comments by Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., that some lawmakers said were anti-Jewish.. ...Read Full Story

President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, filed a lawsuit Thursday in New York City over unpaid legal bills. In a civil complaint filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Cohen accused the Trump Organization of breaking a promise made in July 2017 to pay his legal bills while he was still employed by Trump. Cohen claims he’s owed $1.9 million to cover attorneys’ fees and other related costs.. ...Read Full Story

On Wednesday, Democrats unveiled legislation to reinstitute net neutrality rules that were scrapped in 2017 by the Trump administration.. ...Read Full Story

On Wednesday, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen defended President Trump‘s assessment that the situation at the southern border constitutes a national emergency, telling lawmakers that an extended influx in migrants could “overwhelm” the immigration system.. ...Read Full Story

A California man was arrested for a spa bombing that killed his ex-girlfriend last year after the FBI linked explosive remnants to the suspect, his home and car.. ...Read Full Story

Manufacturer Washington Beef is recalling 30,000 pounds of ground beef after learning of possible contamination. The company is recalling the products after it learned “extraneous materials” could be comingled with the beef, said the Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service.. ...Read Full Story

On Monday, democrats on the House Judiciary Committee launched a wide-ranging investigation into allegations of obstruction of justice, corruption and abuse of power by President Donald Trump.. ...Read Full Story

Former two-term Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper announced his 2020 presidential bid in an online video on Monday. He joins an already crowded field of Democratic contenders including senators Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand and Bernie Sanders.. ...Read Full Story

Alice Cooper will hit the road with Halestorm for a co-headlining tour this summer that will hit amphitheaters across the U.S.  Motionless in Whiteare slated to serve as the opening act on all dates.. ...Read Full Story

A deadly tornado ripped through Alabama on Sunday that was part of a severe storm system, causing at least 23 deaths and catastrophic damage, as well as unleashing other tornadoes around the Southeast. . ...Read Full Story

On Sunday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler said he plans to request documents from more than 60 people linked to the President, saying “it’s our job to protect the rule of law. That’s our core function. And to do that we are going to initiate investigations into abuses of power, into corruption and into obstruction of justice.”. ...Read Full Story

Owner of the New England Patriots, Robert Kraft, entered a plea of not guilty to two counts of soliciting prostitution in Florida, court records show. Attorneys for the 77-year-old Kraft electronically filed the plea Monday in Palm Beach County Court, seeking a non-jury trial.. ...Read Full Story

Israel’s top prosecutor said on Thursday he intends to indict Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on corruption charges, a move that can shift the balance of power in the country’s April 9 election.. ...Read Full Story

In a televised hearing in Congress on Wednesday, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen accused him of breaking the law while in office, and said the President knew in advance about a WikiLeaks dump of stolen emails that hurt his 2016 election rival Hillary Clinton.. ...Read Full Story

On Wednesday, the Wake County district attorney’s office said that Leslie McCrae Dowless — the North Carolina Republican political operative at the center of an absentee ballot fraud scheme that led the state to order a re-run of a congressional election — was arrested and charged with obstruction of justice.. ...Read Full Story

According to sources close to the case, when President Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen takes the stand before a congressional committee on Wednesday, he will for the first time publicly accuse President Donald Trump of potentially committing a crime while in office.. ...Read Full Story

Russian state TV has listed potential targets in the U.S. in the event of a nuclear strike — and claimed that its new hypersonic missile technology could reach them in less than five minutes. Reuters called the report “unusual even by the sometimes bellicose standards of Russian state TV.” . ...Read Full Story

On Monday, stocks moved up higher on Wall Street after President Donald Trump agreed to hold off on raising tariffs on Chinese goods, which would have escalated a trade war between two of the world’s largest economies. . ...Read Full Story

U.S. District Court Judge Gray Miller has ruled that the Military Selective Service Act’s male-only registration is unconstitutional. . ...Read Full Story

Officials say that a California man who was wrongfully convicted for killing an ex-girlfriend and her son four decades ago has reached a $21 million settlement with the city of Simi Valle, California. . ...Read Full Story

Pope Francis ended a landmark Vatican meeting on clerical sexual abuse with an appeal “for an all-out battle against the abuse of minors,” which he compared to human sacrifice. Howeer, his speech did not offer concrete policy remedies demanded by many of the faithful.. ...Read Full Story

More than 3,000 public school educators hit picket lines in Oakland, California in a fight for higher wages, smaller class sizes and better overall working conditions.. ...Read Full Story

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said during in an interview on Thursday that he is ruling out a Kansas Senate race in 2020.. ...Read Full Story

The high school student from Covington, Kentucky involved in a videotaped incident in January at the Lincoln Memorial has sued the Washington Post for defamation on Tuesday, claiming the newspaper falsely accused him of racist acts and instigating a confrontation with a Native American activist.. ...Read Full Story

Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow plans to target the United States with new hypersonic weapons if Washington deploys intermediate-range missiles in Europe.. ...Read Full Story

Bernie Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont and the runner-up in the 2016 Democratic primary, has officially launched his 2020 presidential campaign.. ...Read Full Story

A massive storm that began heading across the U.S. on Tuesday with heavy snow, ice conditions, and torrential rain to more than 200 million Americans over the next few days. 39 states will be affected, including every state east of the Mississippi River, with the worst of forecast for Wednesday.. ...Read Full Story

On Sunday, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida made a surprise visit to Cucuta, Colombia — a town along the Venezuelan border — visiting centers where the humanitarian aid is being stored. The senator also sent a message to Venezuela’s military, which has so far stood by embattled president Nicolas Maduro and has blocked aid from entering the country.. ...Read Full Story

On Monday, North Carolina’s elections director, Kim Strach, said she found evidence of fraud tainting the District 9 House race, the last undecided contest nearly three months after the 2018 midterms. Strach said her investigation found “a coordinated, unlawful and substantially resourced absentee ballot scheme” connected to Republican candidate Mark Harris. Strach also said they discovered that “efforts were made to obstruct this investigation and the testimony provided at this hearing.”. ...Read Full Story

Authorities say a man who killed four people during a hostage situation inside a Mississippi home has died at a hospital.. ...Read Full Story

Former Congressman Anthony Weiner has been released from federal prison, after being convicted of having illicit online contact with a 15-year-old girl in 2017.  54-year-old Weiner began serving a 21-month prison sentence at the Federal Medical Center Devens in Ayer, Massachusetts, in November 2017.. ...Read Full Story

Amazon said Thursday it is canceling its plans to build a new major campus in New York City.. ...Read Full Story

On Thursday afternoon the White House said that President Trump will sign a compromise bill to fund border security, but he will declare a national emergency to build the wall. The Senate passed the bill Thursday afternoon, and it is expected to be approved in the House later this evening.. ...Read Full Story

On Wednesday, Ford Motor Co said it was recalling about 1.48 million F-150 pickup trucks in North America due to a potential transmission downshift issue that could increase the risk of a crash.. ...Read Full Story

A judge ruled Wednesday that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort intentionally lied to investigators and a federal grand jury in the special counsel’s Russia probe. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson was another loss for Manafort, who faces years in prison in two separate criminal cases stemming from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.. ...Read Full Story

Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar has “unequivocally” apologized for tweets suggesting that members of Congress support Israel because they are being paid to do so.  Omar’s tweets drew bipartisan criticism, including a rebuke from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.. ...Read Full Story

Republican and Democrats said they reached “an agreement in principle” on legislation to fund the government past the Friday deadline and avert another shutdown.  The proposal would fund all seven remaining appropriations bills, includes $1.375 billion in funding for physical barriers — in the form of 55 miles of bollard fencing — and a reduction in overall Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention beds from the current 49,057 level to 40,520.. ...Read Full Story

President Trump’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, has postponed his scheduled closed-door appearance Tuesday before the Senate Intelligence Committee due to “post-surgery medical needs,” his attorney said Monday in a statement. Cohen’s attorney, Lanny Davis, said that the panel has accepted his client’s request for a delay and that a “future date will be announced by the committee.”. ...Read Full Story

According to new numbers released by the CDC on Monday, there are now 101 confirmed cases in 10 states this year. In Washington State, where there are 55 confirmed cases of the highly contagious viral disease, a public health emergency was declared. The CDC says the majority of the patients were not vaccinated.. ...Read Full Story

Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar announced Sunday that she will seek the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, entering a crowded field of candidates looking to challenge President Donald Trump. Klobuchar is one of several Democratic senators running, and among several women in the field. She said she will campaign at a time when the country is worn down by the “petty and vicious” nature of U.S. politics.. ...Read Full Story

Senator Elizabeth Warren has formally launched her bid for the White House in 2020 with a speech in which she promised to tackle economic inequality. Warren iis the latest Democrat to launch a campaign to become the party’s presidential candidate.. ...Read Full Story