With the confirmed death toll at 71 and the list of unaccounted for people more than 1,000, authorities in Northern California on Friday searched for those who perished and those who survived the fiercest of wildfires ahead of a planned visit by President Donald Trump. The president on Saturday...
Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee are prepared to subpoena former FBI Director James Comey and former Attorney General Loretta Lynch for depositions in their ongoing investigations of FBI and Justice Department officials' conduct during probes of Donald Trump's campaign and Hillary Clinton's...
Jennie-O is recalling more than 91,000 pounds of raw turkey in an ongoing salmonella outbreak. The recall is the first tied to an outbreak the U.S. Department of Agriculture says is widespread. It has resulted in one death and 164 reported illnesses in 35 states. Regulators did not say how many...
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says high school students who appear to be giving a Nazi salute in a photo are "a bunch of idiots." Walker was asked Thursday about the photo of Baraboo high school students that circulated earlier this week. The photo of about 60 boys was taken outside the Sauk County...
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been charged under seal, prosecutors inadvertently revealed in a recently unsealed court filing — a development that could significantly advance the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election and have major implications for those who publish government...
President Donald Trump did not commit Thursday to avoiding a partial government shutdown next month if lawmakers don't give him money to build a border wall, a top Republican senator said, raising the potential for a high-stakes budget battle as the GOP prepares to lose its grip on Congress. Senate...
Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker told Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham in a meeting on Thursday that special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation will proceed, according to a person familiar with the meeting. The meeting with Graham and Whitaker comes as a bipartisan group of senators is pushing...
The man accused of fatally shooting two African-American customers at a grocery store in Kentucky last month was charged Thursday with federal hate-crime and firearm offenses, the Justice Department said. Gregory A. Bush, 51, was charged in a six-count indictment that carries a possible death sentence...
Ron DeSantis emerged from a machine recount Thursday all but certain to become Florida's next governor while Gov. Rick Scott, R, maintained a narrow lead in the state's closely watched Senate race even as that contest now goes to a manual count. The Senate battle, in which Scott is seeking to unseat...
In a major new effort to curb smoking, a top U.S. health official pledged Thursday to try to ban menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars and tighten rules governing the sale of most flavored versions of electronic cigarettes. The proposed restrictions were aimed mainly at reducing smoking in kids:...
The Trump administration and Saudi Arabia each took steps Thursday to punish those they said were involved in the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but U.S. lawmakers and other critics said the moves did not go far enough. Many in Congress have accused the administration of placing its...