Fourteen people have been injured in connection with a shooting late on Tuesday outside a funeral home on Chicagos South Side, police officials said Tuesday. The victims were taken by the Chicago fi…

Congressional Democrats are poised to mount a legal challenge to President Donald Trump's directive today to exclude undocumented people living in the United States from the apportionment base following the 2020 census. While the 2020 census does not include a citizenship question, the president argued that excluding "illegal aliens" from the count "reflects a better…

President Trump acknowledged Tuesday that he knew Ghislaine Maxwell, a longtime associate of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and said he wished her well.Maxwell was arrested in early July on charges that she aided Epstein in his years-long sexual exploitation and abuse of underage girls. Last week, a federal judge denied her bail.Epstein and Maxwell socialized…

TOPLINE Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday confirmed Republican lawmakers’ support for a second round of stimulus checks, but the amount of the payments and the restrictions on income are yet to be revealed. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks to the media after weekly policy luncheons on ... [+] Capitol Hill…

China on Wednesday condemned what it called an “unprecedented escalation" by the United States and threatened to retaliate after it was ordered to close the Chinese consulate in Houston.Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said in a daily news briefing that the government had been told without warning Tuesday to close the consulate.He said the consulate had been operating…