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On Wednesday, President Trump continued to distance himself and the U.S. from tensions in northeastern Syria, telling reporters at a White House photo-op in the Oval Office, “It’s not our border.” Trump provided the many reasons why the U.S. should not be involved in the fighting, saying, “So, if Russia wants to get involved with the — with Syria, that’s really up to them. They have a problem with Turkey, they have a problem at a border. It’s not our border. We shouldn’t be losing lives over it.”. ...Read Full Story

President Trump said on Tuesday that Vice President Mike Pence will lead the U.S. delegation being sent to try to negotiate a ceasefire and settlement between Turkey and U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria.  The delegation was set to depart within 24 hours of his announcement, according to a senior administration official.. ...Read Full Story

President Donald’s Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, said on Tuesday he will not comply with a congressional subpoena, saying in part “if they enforce it then we will see what happens.”. ...Read Full Story

A Fort Worth police officer who fatally shot a woman in her home while she babysat her 8-year-old nephew has resigned from the force, and could still face criminal charges. Interim Police Chief Ed Krauss said on Monday that Officer Aaron Dean, who is white, would have been fired and is considered dishonorably discharged from the department. Krauss also said the U.S. Justice Department will examine the case for possible civil rights violations.. ...Read Full Story

Multiple statues of Christopher Columbus were vandalized amid continued calls to change the name of the federal holiday honoring the Italian explorer. Red paint, along with messages about genocide, were sprayed on landmarks in both San Francisco and Providence, Rhode Island. ...Read Full Story

Rescue crews continued to search for missing people after a typhoon caused serious damage in central and northern Japan, killing as many as 36 people.. ...Read Full Story

Questions and demands for justice remain after a white police officer killed a black woman, 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson, inside her own home in Texas over the weekend.  An attorney for Jefferson’s family, Lee Merritt, said after viewing video taken from a Fort Worth officer’s bodycam during the shooting that “You didn’t hear the officer shout, ‘Gun, gun, gun. He didn’t have time to perceive a threat. That’s murder.”. ...Read Full Story

Congressional Democrats issued a subpoena for U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry on Thursday, regarding the possible role he played in President Donald Trump’s effort to get Ukraine’s president to investigate a political rival.. ...Read Full Story

According to court documents released Thursday, two associates of Rudy Giuliani — who have been linked to his investigations in Ukraine — have been indicted for campaign finance violations.. ...Read Full Story

Federal prosecutors have revealed that an employee of the Defense Intelligence Agency in northern Virginia was arrested Wednesday, charged with leaking top secret information to two journalists, one of whom he was romantically involved with. The Justice Department says Henry Kyle Frese, 30, of Alexandria, Virginia, leaked government secrets involving a foreign country’s weapons system in 2018 and 2019.. ...Read Full Story

Turkey began a planned military offensive into northeastern Syria on Wednesday, launching airstrikes and artillery fire across the border. The airstrike comes just days after the Trump administration announced it was pulling US troops back from the area.. ...Read Full Story

A Massachusetts children’s book author has been identified as one of five family members found shot to death in their home.. ...Read Full Story

Police said on Tuesday that arrest warrants have been issued for three suspects in the slaying of a man who testified at the high-profile trial last month of ex-police officer Amber Guyger in the wrong-apartment killing of Botham Jean. The witness, Joshua Brown, 28, was a former neighbor of Jean.  Brown was gunned down on Friday night in what police described as a botched drug deal.. ...Read Full Story

President Donald Trump signed a limited trade agreement on Monday with Japan, a deal that would win back benefits American farmers lost when Trump pulled out of a broader Asia-Pacific pact his first week in office. U.S. farmers have been operating at a disadvantage in Japan since Trump withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, which had been negotiated by the Obama administration. The other 11 Pacific Rim countries, including big farm producers such as New Zealand and Canada, went ahead without the United States and were enjoying preferential treatment in Japan.. ...Read Full Story

On Monday, President Donald Trump warned Turkey against “going too far” in Syria, one day after giving Ankara a green light to invade its southern neighbor. The Pentagon pulled back about two dozen of its forces from Syria’s northern frontier, where they serve as a buffer between the Turkish military and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, after Trump’s surprise announcement late Sunday that US forces “will no longer be in the immediate area.”. ...Read Full Story

The legal team representing the whistleblower whose complaint sparked an impeachment inquiry against President Trump now says it is representing a second whistleblower described as an intelligence official with first-hand knowledge of the allegations against the president.. ...Read Full Story

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The mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey admitted in federal court on Thursday that he stole $87,000 from a youth basketball team he founded.  Mayor Frank Gillam Jr. told the judge he stole funds raised from donors in Atlantic City and Philadelphia for the Atlantic City Starz for personal expenses between 2013 and 2018. He was elected mayor in 2017 after serving as a City Councilman.. ...Read Full Story

On Thursday, the law firm representing the survivors and families of the 58 people killed in the mass shooting in Las Vegas in 2017 reached a settlement with MGM Resorts for at least $735 million.. ...Read Full Story

On Wednesday, Senator Bernie Sanders’ campaign said that the Democratic presidential candidate had a heart procedure for a blocked artery and was canceling events and appearances “until further notice.”. ...Read Full Story

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo acknowledged on Wednesday that he listened in on the telephone call between Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that prompted a House of Representatives impeachment inquiry against the President. “I was on the phone call,” Pompeo told reporters during a visit to Italy.. ...Read Full Story

Former U.S. special envoy to Ukraine, Kurt Volker – who resigned his post last week after his name appeared in a whistleblower complaint about President Donald Trump’s dealings with the Ukraine — will testify in the House’s impeachment inquiry on Thursday.. ...Read Full Story

On Tuesday, Amber Guyger — the white former Dallas police officer who said she fatally shot her unarmed, black neighbor after mistaking his apartment for her own — was found guilty of murder after just a few hours of deliberation by the jury.  The jury reached the verdict in Guyger’s high-profile trial for the killing of Botham Jean after six days of witness testimony. ...Read Full Story

A Justice Department official said on Monday that President Donald Trump sought help from the Australian prime minister to investigate the origins of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.. ...Read Full Story

On Monday, House Democrats subpoenaed President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani for documents related to their investigation into Trump’s efforts to have Ukraine investigate former Vice President Joe Biden.. ...Read Full Story

A veteran NYPD officer was shot and killed in New York City during a physical struggle with an armed suspect. The 27-year-old suspect was also shot and killed, police said.. ...Read Full Story

A man accused of driving an SUV through a suburban Chicago shopping mall was charged Sunday with a state terrorism and ordered held without bond.. ...Read Full Story

On Thursday, the Senate passed a short-term funding bill amid dispute over border wall funding that delays the risk of a government shutdown through Nov. 21.. ...Read Full Story

A whistleblower’s complaint about President Donald Trump was made public on Thursday.  In the complaint, it states that the White House officials were so concerned about what the president said in a July call with Ukraine’s new leader that they intervened to “lock down” the transcript of the conversation.. ...Read Full Story

The FBI has issued a warning regarding the potential for violence at theaters showing the upcoming movie “Joker,’ coming years after a mass shooting during a “Batman” movie in Colorado in 2012. According to multiple sources, authorities are concerned about the film’s plot inspiring someone to commit a mass shooting.. ...Read Full Story

On Wednesday, President Trump defended his July phone call with Ukraine’s president, saying there was “no pressure” on him – even after a transcript of the call showed Trump urging his counterpart to open a probe related to Joe Biden.. ...Read Full Story

On Tuesday, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House of Representatives will launch a formal inquiry into whether President Donald Trump should be impeached.  In a press conference, Pelosi said: “today I’m announcing the House of Representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry. I’m directing our six committees to proceed with their investigations under that umbrella of impeachment inquiry. The president must be held accountable. No one is above the law.”. ...Read Full Story

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump said that he has authorized the release of a transcript of a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that is at the center of a controversy over whether he pressured Kiev to investigate Joe Biden.  . ...Read Full Story

On Monday, the trial began in the case of the murder trial of a former off-duty Dallas police officer charged with shooting and killing a black neighbor last year after the officer entered his apartment by mistake. And in an unusual move, the Judge on the case decided to sequester the jury on the trial. . ...Read Full Story

At the United Nations during the Climate Action Summit on Monday, the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg gave an emotional speech appealing to world leaders about the grave need to stop the effects of climate change.. ...Read Full Story

At least three people are confirmed dead and four were hospitalized on the south side of Pittsburgh, after a “party or event” according to police.  . ...Read Full Story

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said House Democrats “may have to impeach President Donald Trump” following allegations that the President pressured Ukraine to investigate a political adversary. Schiff — a senior Democrat who has long been cautious about efforts to oust the president — said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday that Trump’s request that a Ukrainian leader investigate a business connected to former vice president Joe Biden’s son would be “the most profound violation of the presidential oath of office.” Additionally, Schiff says that the director of national intelligence’s unwillingness to turn over a recent whistleblower complaint about a call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky could amount to a “coverup.”. ...Read Full Story

The American firearms company Colt is suspending production of military-style weapons for civilian use, which includes the popular AR-15.. ...Read Full Story

On Thursday, the House approved 301-123 a stopgap spending measure that will keep agencies afloat through Nov. 21 and avoid a shutdown in October. . ...Read Full Story

Pennsylvania State Sen. Mike Folmer has stepped down following his arrest on charges of possession of child pornography. Folmer submitted his letter of resignation on Wednesday to Republican colleagues in Harrisburg.  According to leadership in the state chamber, after reviewing the charges and speaking to Folmer, they insisted that he resign. “We are sickened and disturbed by the charges brought against Mike Folmer,” the Pennsylvania lawmakers said in a statement.. ...Read Full Story

President Donald Trump on Wednesday named hostage negotiatior, Robert O’Brien, as the new national security advisor.  “I have worked long & hard with Robert. He will do a great job!” Trump tweeted.. ...Read Full Story

A teenage girl from Oklahoma was arrested after threatening to enter her former high school and “shoot 400 people for fun.” 18-year-old Alexis Wilson made the threats Sunday while working at a pizza shop in McAlester, Oklahoma.  Police say the incident began with Wilson showing a coworker an iPhone video of her shooting her newly purchased AK-47.. ...Read Full Story

Veteran journalist and political commentator Cokie Roberts died Tuesday at age 75. . ...Read Full Story

A U.S. service member was killed in action in Afghanistan on Monday, becoming the 17th American to be killed in combat there this year. The identity of the service member is being withheld pending family notification.. ...Read Full Story

One firefighter was killed and six people were injured on Monday when a propane explosion destroyed a new building in Farmington, Maine. Farmington Town Selectman Scott Landry said the firefighters were called in and the building evacuated when the smell of gas was detected.. ...Read Full Story

Following a drone attack on a major Saudi Arabian oil facility on Sunday, President Donald Trump said the United States was “locked and loaded.”. ...Read Full Story

Democrats are calling on Congress to impeach Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh after allegations of sexual misconduc resurfaced.. ...Read Full Story

On Thursday, the House Judiciary Committee voted along party lines, with Democrats approving the expansion of its impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump.. ...Read Full Story

The alleged gunman in the El Paso shooting, Patrick Crusius, has been indicted for capital murder by a grand jury in Texas.. ...Read Full Story

During an Oval Office meeting on e-cigarettes, President Trump said his administration is moving to ban all non-tobacco flavored vaping products.. ...Read Full Story

According to multiple reports, the Trump administration will not grant temporary protected status (TPS) to Bahamians affected by Hurricane Dorian.  It is being widely reported that the administration ultimately decided against offering the humanitarian relief after acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan said Monday that it was being considered. Granting TPS would allow Bahamians to work and live in the U.S. until it is deemed safe to return home. However, Bahamians can still come to the U.S. temporarily with the right travel documents, without being granted work permits.. ...Read Full Story

Juul Labs Inc. was warned by U.S. health officials that it may have violated the law by making claims its e-cigarette devices are safe; this coming at the same time a mysterious lung ailment is raising new questions about the health effects of vaping.. ...Read Full Story

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced that he had fired his national-security adviser John Bolton. The president tweeted. ““I informed John Bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the White House. I disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions, as did others in the Administration, and therefore I asked John for his resignation, which was given to me this morning. I thank John very much for his service. I will be naming a new National Security Advisor next week.”. ...Read Full Story

On Monday, President Donald Trump said that talks with the Taliban to bring peace to Afghanistan after 18 years of conflict are “dead.”. ...Read Full Story

On Monday, President Donald Trump said that talks with the Taliban to bring peace to Afghanistan after 18 years of conflict are “dead.”. ...Read Full Story

50 attorneys general are joining an investigation into Google over possible antitrust violations. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the initiative’s leader, announced on Monday the bipartisan investigation into Google’s practices. The bipartisan probe includes attorneys general from 48 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. California and Alabama are not involved in the probe, Paxton said at a press conference.. ...Read Full Story

Guns N’ Roses have announced the lineup of special guests that will be joining them on their upcoming fall dates on the extended Not In This Lifetime Reunion Tour.. ...Read Full Story

The U.S. Coast Guard’s Search and Rescue Mission coordinator for the Charleston, South Carolina region confirmed rescuers are still trying to find four missing people after a cargo ship capsized near Georgia on Sunday.. ...Read Full Story

On Sunday, former South Carolina governor and congressman Mark Sanford has announced he will launch a Republican challenge to President Donald Trump.. ...Read Full Story

The Department of Education fined Michigan State University $4.5 million fine Thursday for its “complete failure to protect students” from sexual abuse by the school’s former sports doctor Larry Nassar and his supervisor William Strampel.. ...Read Full Story