A Turkish airliner skidded off a runway, crashing and breaking apart while landing in bad weather in Istanbul Wednesday, killing three people and injuring over 100 more passengers.... [Read Full Story]
On Wednesday, the Senate acquitted President Donald Trump on charges of abusing his power and obstructing Congress, bringing an end to the third presidential impeachment trial in United States history.... [Read Full Story]
President Trump delivered his third State of the Union address late Tuesday, less than 24 hours before the GOP Senate is expected to vote to acquit him of impeachment charges. Republicans stood numerous times to applaud, but two moments between Trump and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) went viral, highlighting party tension. ... [Read Full Story]
The Iowa Democratic Party released the majority of the results from the Iowa caucuses on Tuesday, which show Mayor Pete Buttigieg with a narrow lead over Bernie Sanders in state delegates- but Sanders with a slight edge in the popular vote. No winner has been announced, but the state party has provided results from 71% of precincts from all 99 counties. ... [Read Full Story]
The California Highway Patrol said a gunman killed one passenger and wounded five others on a Greyhound bus traveling from Los Angeles to the San Francisco Bay Area early Monday morning.... [Read Full Story]
Two people were killed and another wounded in a shooting at a Texas A&M-Commerce University residence hall Monday, according to campus police. The Texas A&M-Commerce University Police Department said it was investigating three gunshot victims in Pride Rock Residence Hall on campus.... [Read Full Story]
A funeral Saturday in Florida led to gunfire, killing a teenager and a man and leaving two other people wounded, police said. Riviera Beach police said in a statement that the shooting happened near the Victory City Church shortly after 2:30 p.m. Riviera Beach is a suburb of West Palm Beach.... [Read Full Story]
London police officers shot and killed a suspect after at least two people were stabbed Sunday in what authorities are investigating as a terror attack. The attack in the Streatham neighborhood of south London — an area that doesn’t have any typical British landmarks similar to those areas hit by earlier attacks.... [Read Full Story]
On Thursday morning, the Trump administration announced that it would take steps to overhaul Medicaid. Named the “Healthy Adult Opportunity,” Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma said the new guidance would provide states the option to receive their federal Medicaid funding as a block grant, or a lump sum, to provide coverage to nondisabled adults, while providing states greater autonomy to manage their programs.... [Read Full Story]
For the first time in the U.S., the coronavirus has spread from one person to another, health officials said on Thursday. The 6th diagnosed case in the U.S. was identified as the husband of a Chicago woman who got sick from the virus after she returned from the epicenter of an outbreak in China. There have been previous cases in China and elsewhere of the virus spreading between people in a household or workplace. ... [Read Full Story]
The first of two days of question-and-answer sessions got underway Wednesday at President Trump’s impeachment trial, where senators got their first opportunity to participate in the proceedings.... [Read Full Story]
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration can implement its divisive “public charge” rule, which seeks to withhold citizenship from immigrants the government deems likely to rely on public benefits like Medicaid and Section 8 housing.... [Read Full Story]
President Trump’s legal team rested its case on the final day of opening arguments in his impeachment trial. The White House team reiterated their arguments that the allegations by the House don’t rise to the level of impeachable offenses. They also said the president was well within his rights to delay military aid to Ukraine and justifiably skeptical about the country’s commitment to fighting corruption.... [Read Full Story]
A 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck just northwest of the Jamaican town of Lucea on Tuesday. Data from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) showed that at 2:10 p.m. EST, the powerful quake could be felt as far away as Cuba and southern Florida.... [Read Full Story]
President Donald Trump’s defense team begins its second day of arguments in the Senate impeachment trialm after the Democratic House managers laid out their case last week charging the president with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. ... [Read Full Story]
Authorities say that at least eight people are dead after a fire broke out on a marina in far northeast Alabama, filled with house and recreational boats early on Monday. Officials says the fire destroyed 35 vessels at Jackson County Park, along the Tennessee River, in Scottsboro, Alabama, about 100 miles northeast of Birmingham and 40 miles east of Huntsville.... [Read Full Story]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Sunday that the number of confirmed cases of the new coronavirus in the United States has risen to five. ... [Read Full Story]
NBA legend Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, and seven others were killed in a helicopter crash in California on Sunday.... [Read Full Story]
“Sopranos” actress Annabella Sciorra took the witness stand on Thursday at the trial agains Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, who she alleges violently raped her at her apartment. Sciorra’s testimony is the first and one of the most highly anticipated as Weinstein faces rape and sexual assault charges in New York.... [Read Full Story]
Jim Lehrer, the longtime anchorman for PBS who appeared on the air for more than 30 years until his retirement in 2011, died Thursday at 85, the news organization announced. Lehner died “peacefully in his sleep,” according to PBS who made the announcement in a tweet.... [Read Full Story]
Authorities say that four people were killed Wednesday in a crash of a small airplane at a Southern California airfield. The plane went down at Corona Municipal Airport, about 40 miles east of Los Angeles, Corona police said on Twitter. Four fatalities were confirmed, the Corona Fire Department said in the Twitter post.... [Read Full Story]
The Senate reconvened Wednesday afternoon to hear opening arguments from the House’s impeachment managers. ... [Read Full Story]
President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial began on Tuesday, with prosecutors from the House of Representatives and lawyers for the White House debating how the case should proceed.... [Read Full Story]
On Tuesday, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the first U.S. case of the deadly new coronavirus. The CDC and Washington state officials said the man, in his 30s, was in good condition at Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett.... [Read Full Story]
With new cases reported in China’s capital and other Asian countries, the number of people known to have been infected with the “coronavirus” jumped from 62 to over 200 on Monday. Over the weekend, a third patient in the region died of the pneumonia-like virus, bringing the death toll to three.... [Read Full Story]
On Monday, thousands of Second Amendment supporters carrying long firearms and wearing stickers reading “Guns Save Lives” descended upon Virginia’s Capitol in Richmond for a widely publicized rally to protest a recent push by state Democrats for comprehensive gun control. The activists who gathered in Richmond on Monday were heard in large groups reciting the Second Amendment in unison, while others broke out in chants of “we will not comply!” When one speaker asked the crowd if they were ready for gun control, the crowd yelled back, ”No!”... [Read Full Story]
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has expressed ‘outrage’ in a meeting Sunday with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi over the death of an American national imprisoned in Egypt since 2013.... [Read Full Story]
Authorities say that a gunman opened fire on police in Honolulu Sunday, killing at least two officers before a large, multi-house fire erupted in the neighborhood. Officers were responding to an assault call in a neighborhood at the base of Diamond Head on Sunday morning when they encountered a man with a firearm who opened fire, striking two officers.... [Read Full Story]
The Georgia parole board granted clemency to a death row inmate on Thursday, hours before he was to be executed for the murder of a convenience store clerk three decades ago. Georgia’s Board of Pardons and Paroles said in a statement they commuted the death sentence of 58-year-old Jimmy Fletcher Meders to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. He had been scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at 7 p.m. EST.... [Read Full Story]
The Senate formally accepted the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump shortly after noon on Thursday, House managers, who will act as prosecutors, arrived on the Senate floor after walking silently across the Capitol to present the articles, with House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff taking the lead role.... [Read Full Story]
