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The financially strained U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said Tuesday it would cancel the planned furlough of 13,000 workers scheduled for Sunday after sustained bipartisan pressure from Congress."Averting this furlough comes at a severe operational cost that will increase backlogs and wait times across the board, with no guarantee we can avoid future furloughs,"…

Evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr. sought to sever business ties with a Miami Beach hotel pool attendant who had an affair with his wife in 2015 just before Donald Trump launched his White House bid, according to a report Tuesday.POLITICO based its report on an interview with Giancarlo Granda who says his affair with Becki Falwell began…

It usually takes several days to even a week for a tropical storm to grow into a powerful hurricane. But if conditions are just right, a major hurricane can develop in just hours.

New York Times opinion columnist Bret Stephens warned on Monday that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden created “a dangerous opening for Trump” by saying he would be willing to "listen to the scientists" and shut down the U.S. this winter.In a column headlined, "Biden’s Loose Lips Could Sink His Chances,” Stephens described the disclosure as the “former vice president’s biggest…

Senate Democrats Tuesday unveiled an ambitious climate-change plan that calls for spending $400 billion annually to achieve net-zero emissions no later than 2050, even as California struggles with rolling blackouts under a comparable statewide renewable-energy standard. The 263-page report, the latest of the Democratic Green New Deal-style proposals, seeks to increase federal spending on climate…