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Authorities say that two Chicago police officers were killed Monday after being struck by a metro train. Officers Conrad Gary and Eduardo Marmolejo were responding to a shots fired call on the city’s South Side when a passing train hit them, Chicago police Superintendent Eddie Johnson told reporters. The train had been traveling at 60 mph to 70 mph, he said. A suspect was ultimately taken into custody and a gun was recovered, Johnson said.... [Read Full Story]

Roger Stone, a longtime GOP consultant and former adviser to President Donald Trump, has settled a defamation suit that sought $100 million in damages over false online statements he published on InfoWars.com.... [Read Full Story]

President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order before the end of the year creating a U.S. Space Command as a major military command. U.S. Officials said that Vice President Mike Pence will make the announcement Tuesday at the Kennedy Space Center, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, and Trump could sign the order as soon as Tuesday. This move is separate from Trump’s goal of creating a “Space Force” as an independent armed service branch.... [Read Full Story]

The White House is pushing the federal government closer to the brink of a partial shutdown later this week, digging in on its demand for $5 billion to build a border wall as congressional Democrats continue to stand firm against it.... [Read Full Story]

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President Trump tweeted Sunday morning that he will be reviewing the case of a former U.S. Army Green Beret who has been charged with the murder of a suspected Taliban bomb maker; indicating that the president may be considering granting a pardon.... [Read Full Story]

Kotex tampons are being pulled off the shelves by retailers across the U.S. and Canada after complaints of the product unraveling and pieces being left in the body. Some users even had to seek medical attention to remove the lost tampon pieces.... [Read Full Story]

Apple is expanding its presence in the U.S. as a part of a billion-dollar investment that the company said would generate at least 5,000 new jobs. According to a statement released early Thursday morning, the company plans to build a new $1 billion campus in Austin, Texas, and open new offices in Seattle, San Diego and Culver City, California, to broaden its U.S. footprint,... [Read Full Story]

New York Attorney General-elect Letitia James plans to launch sweeping investigations into President Donald Trump, his family and “anyone” in his circle who may have violated the law once she settles into her new job next month.... [Read Full Story]

A federal judge in Manhattan has sentenced Michael Cohen, the president’s former personal attorney, to three years in prison for crimes including campaign finance violation, tax evasion, and lying to Congress. U.S. Judge William Pauley said “Cohen pled guilt to a veritable smorgasbord of fraudulent conduct” and “lost his moral compass.” He added that “as a lawyer, Mr. Cohen should have known better.”... [Read Full Story]

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According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, tens of thousands of pounds of Jimmy Dean meat products possibly containing pieces of metal have been recalled.... [Read Full Story]

The Supreme Court refused to hear a case that would’ve considered whether states can block Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers.... [Read Full Story]

Hundreds of thousands lost power, and at least three people were killed as a winter storm brought freezing rain and as much as 2 feet of snow to parts of the Southeast. In addition, almost 2,000 flights were also canceled by the massive winter blast.... [Read Full Story]

Retired Marine Gen. John Kelly is leaving the White House as President Trump’s chief of staff, the president told reporters on Saturday. Kelly became chief of staff in July 2017 after initially serving as Trump’s Homeland Security Department secretary. ... [Read Full Story]

On Sunday, Italian police investigating a deadly disco stampede said they found a pepper spray can, and were questioning dozens of witnesses following accounts by concertgoers that a teenage boy had sprayed an irritating substance, triggering the mad rush by the crowd that caused the stampede.... [Read Full Story]

KISS frontman Paul Stanley will be releasing his autobiography Backstage Pass on April 30, 2019. ... [Read Full Story]

According to Japan’s Ministry of Defense and the US Marine Corps., rescuers are searching for crew members aboard two US Marine planes that collided mid-air off the coast of Japan in the early hours of Thursday morning.  The KC-130 and F/A-18 collided at 1:42 a.m. local time, according to a Japanese Defense Ministry statement.... [Read Full Story]

On Thursday, six doctors were charged in an unsealed indictment with cheating Medicare and Medicaid out of almost $500 million, in addition to fueling the nation’s opioid epidemic by illegally prescribing more than 13 million doses of prescription pain medication. The money and drugs involved make the alleged health care fraud conspiracy one of the largest in Michigan history, and one of the largest nationwide. ... [Read Full Story]

A filing by special counsel Robert Mueller says that President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, provided so much information to the special counsel’s Russia investigation that prosecutors say he shouldn’t do any prison time.... [Read Full Story]

Former President George H.W. Bush, who died Friday at age 94, was honored Wednesday at a state funeral at the Washington National Cathedral. George W. Bush, the 43rd president, gave a tearful eulogy of his father, saying he taught his children about the importance of public service and how to live a life with grace, humility and kindness. “He was a genuinely optimistic man,” Bush said. “And that optimism guided his children, and made each of us believe that anything was possible.”  During the final moments of his eulogy, Bush fought back tears, saying “Dad is hugging Robin and holding mom’s hand again.” (referring to George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush’s daughter, who died in 1953 from leukemia at the age of 3.)... [Read Full Story]

A glitch by Wells Fargo has led to hundreds of mistaken foreclosures, which means that more than 500 of the bank’s customers lost their homes. The financial institution said that a computer glitch is in part to blame for an error that reportedly led to 545 customers losing their homes. The organization filed papers with the Securities and Exchange Commission last month, noting that it had incorrectly denied 870 loan modification requests.... [Read Full Story]

The Dow Jones dropped nearly 800 points on Tuesday, nearly a three percent plunge. The S&P 500 declined 2.5%, while the Nasdaq tumbled 3%.... [Read Full Story]

On Monday it was announced that Nexstar Media Group Inc. has agreed to buy Tribune Media Co. in a $4.1-billion deal, creating the nation’s largest owner of local television stations.... [Read Full Story]

The Centers for Disease Control say cases of acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) have peaked for the year; however they still have not determined the cause of the polio-like, paralyzing illness. Cases of AFM continued to pop up nationwide, but the CDC said Monday that they expect the number of new cases to decline for the rest of 2018.... [Read Full Story]

Funeral ceremonies for former President George H.W. Bush are slated to begin Monday in Houston and then continue in Washington, D.C. before returning for a service followed by burial in College Station, according to the official schedule released this weekend.... [Read Full Story]

Afghan officials and Taliban members said on Sunday that a top commander of the Taliban was killed in Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand in a joint operation by Afghan and US Special Forces.... [Read Full Story]

On Thursday, President Donald Trump said he was canceling a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin scheduled to take place during the upcoming summit for the Group of 20 industrialized nations in Argentina, citing the current Ukraine crisis.... [Read Full Story]

President Trump’s longtime former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty Thursday to lying to Congress about the Russia investigation. The deal is the second that Cohen has reached with federal prosecutors and represents a potential blow to Trump, who continues to discount both special counsel Robert Mueller and inquiries into his campaign’s potential collusion with Russia. Cohen has provided dozens of hours of interviews to the special counsel’s team, according to multiple sources. ... [Read Full Story]

House Democrats selected Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi as the nominee for speaker of the House on Wednesday in a closed-door meeting with the caucus. The nomination marks a win for Pelosi in her bid to reclaim the leadership position when Democrats take back control of the House in January 2019. She needed only half of the Democratic Caucus to vote on her behalf in order to secure the nomination.... [Read Full Story]