Acting Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Ken Cuccinelli gave "two enthusiastic thumbs up" Friday to the Supreme Court's 5-4 vote denying a request to halt construction of President Trump’s border wall over environmental concerns."The president has told us and he has directed his administration to press ahead aggressively, but always within the boundaries of the law, always within the boundaries…
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Seven people, including an Alaska state lawmaker, died Friday when two small airplanes collided in midair near the airport in Soldotna, a small community on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula.Alaska State Troopers said state Rep. Gary Knopp, 67, of Kenai was the sole occupant of one plane. The other plane was flown by a local…
U.S. President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with leadership from the National Association of Police Organizations in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Friday, July 31, 2020.Anna Moneymaker | The New York Times | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump on Friday told reporters he will act as soon…
What did former New York Times opinion editor Bari Weiss mean when she wrote in her scathing resignation letter in July that Twitter was becoming the "ultimate editor" of the liberal newspaper?That's what host Bill Maher wanted to know Friday night when Weiss appeared on "Real Time with Bill Maher."Weiss began by expressing gratitude toward tech CEOs, such as Facebook's Mark…
(CNN)Three of President Donald Trump's marquee properties -- Mar-a-Lago, Trump National Doral and his Trump International Hotel in Washington -- reported a mixed revenue record in 2019, according to …
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…