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Last year, the House and Senate voted on different versions of a bill that would require amateur athletic governing bodies to promptly report incidents of sexual abuses to law enforcement authorities. Following the widespread outrage that emerged over ...
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) called Wednesday for a congressional investigation into “the role of the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) and USA Gymnastics in allowing serial pedophile Dr. Larry Nassar unsupervised access to hundreds of girls across three ...
IRS Customer Serviceopen. Automated processes will continue, but most processes that require people, such as providing Customer Service, will close. The call center will remain open since filing season has begun. Some disaster-recovery effortsclosed ...
“Social Security is a mandatory program that will continue even if Congress fails to pass a spending bill,” USA Today reports. Read more: Social Security benefits? Passport? What the government shutdown would mean. — Going on vacation and waiting for ...
Thunder and lightning? Some sort of midair explosion? An enemy airstrike? With a rumble that shook the Earth, a bright burst of light illuminated the sky over southeastern Michigan on Tuesday night, leaving locals wondering what in the world had ...
The nation is having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad flu season. Flu is widespread in 46 states, according to reports to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nationally, as of mid-December, at least 106 people had died of the ...
In May 2016, journalist Joshua Green asked Donald Trump, who had just clinched the Republican presidential nomination, to envision the future of the party under his leadership. “Five, 10 years from now — different party,” Trump predicted. “You're ...
Nearly everywhere you turn during this frigid stretch of winter, much of the world seems covered in a layer of salt aimed at keeping our roads drivable and sidewalks free of ice. All that salt is one reason — although not the only one — that many of ...
The nation's overall cancer death rate declined 1.7 percent in 2015, the latest indication of steady, long-term progress against the disease, according to a new report by the American Cancer Society. Over nearly a quarter-century, the mortality rate ...
WASHINGTON _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Dist. of Columbia Lottery's “DC 4 Midday” game were: 6-4-2-1. (six, four, two, one). Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published ...
Just two weeks after a government shutdown, we're on another shutdown watch. This time, the deadline is Thursday for Congress either to pass a spending bill for the rest of the fiscal year or agree to delay the deadline until some time in March. Or ...
U.S. crude oil production is flirting with record highs heading into the new year, thanks to the technological nimbleness of shale oil drillers . The current abundance has erased memories of 1973 gas lines, which raised pump prices dramatically ...
The research team examined more than 800 relevant stories published or aired from January 2015 through December 2016, encompassing coverage from national broadcast and cable news outlets such as ABC, CBS and MSNBC; national mainstream newspapers like ...
Preaching morality while practicing cupidity can be tricky, but various American governments have done it for years regarding smoking. This mental contortion now has a new chapter. The four largest U.S. tobacco companies (Altria, R.J. Reynolds ...
When the Trump administration claimed credit this week for budget cuts at the United Nations, some critics of the organization saw the prudent oversight of taxpayer money, while others questioned Washington's determination to be seen wielding a big ...
With tensions continuing to build between the United States and North Korea, there's growing talk by politicians and TV pundits that we are on the brink of war. In truth, we shouldn't be anywhere close. This increasingly hot war of words — including ...
President Trump got his first big legislative accomplishment this week. He also got a slew of very bad polling data. Polls from Gallup, CNN, Monmouth University and Quinnipiac University all showed Trump's approval rating between 33 percent and 37 ...
Congress on Wednesday passed the most significant overhaul of the U.S. tax code in 30 years, delivering a landmark legislative victory to President Trump and the Republicans that had once seemed impossible for the fractured party. The sweeping measure ...
These days, no industry, no workplace, no pocket of American life seems to be immune from the long reach of sexual harassment. From Capitol Hill to Hollywood, higher education to hotel housekeeping, women -- and men -- are coming forward to tell their ...
The Pentagon admitted Saturday that its long-secret UFO investigation program did exist. But it said the program ended in 2012, when U.S. defense officials shifted attention and money to other programs. But whether the Advanced Aviation Threat ...
The Trump administration on Monday evening publicly acknowledged that North Korea was behind the WannaCry computer worm that affected more than 230,000 computers in more than 150 countries earlier this year. “The [WannaCry] attack was widespread and ...
Digital currencies have been front-page news as the value of bitcoin, the most popular of the cryptocurrencies, continues to surge, albeit with wild fluctuations. Bitcoin backers argue that once digital currencies become widely used, governments will ...
President Trump announced Wednesday that the United States formally recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and that he intends to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The decision has numerous important symbolic ...
TOKYO — North Korea claimed Wednesday that the entire U.S. mainland is within reach after “successfully” testing a new kind of intercontinental ballistic missile, which it called the Hwasong-15 and said could carry a “super large heavy warhead.” While ...
KILAUEA, Hawaii — As nuclear tensions between North Korea and the United States grow, officials in Hawaii are walking a delicate line — planning for a catastrophe while assuring residents and tourists alike that they can keep sipping beverages from ...
For decades, the term “Black Friday” has conjured up distinct images: turkey-stuffed consumers awake at insanely early hours of the morning, bursting into big-box stores to fight over flat-screen TVs. But in a muzzle flash, it seems, a new image may be ...
Go back to California, the physician at a minor emergency center in a suburb of Tulsa told me. The words were flung — practically vomited — at me. I had gone to the center, a relatively new building that was beautifully decorated, on a Sunday morning ...
OVER THE HOLIDAY weekend, audiences in the rest of North America flocked to theaters to learn what Mexican moviegoers had affirmed more than a month ago: Disney/Pixar's “Coco” is an authentically appealing winner. The animated smash soared to a $71.2 ...
A NEW FBI report on hate crimes tells a sobering story. For the second year in a row, police departments across the country reported a rise in the number of crimes motivated by bias. In 2016, the FBI counted 6,121 reported incidents nationwide — an ...
If this year's Black Friday deals are giving you deja vu, you're not alone. Retailers, it turns out, tend to repeat the same promotions every year: Macy's has been selling $39.99 cashmere sweaters for five years running, while Best Buy has marked down ...
Seeking to prove that a conspiracy of astronauts fabricated the shape of the Earth, a California man intends to launch himself 1,800 feet high on Saturday in a rocket he built from scrap metal. Assuming the 500-mph, mile-long flight through the Mojave ...
Joanne Lin, head of advocacy and government relations for Amnesty International USA, said Tillerson's acknowledgment of ethnic cleansing sets an example for how to respond. “The time for outrage and condemnation has passed,” she said. “The ...
In 2007, he told USA Today: “The English wrote the history and established the traditions. That's life. Get over it.” Bad news: Even in that, Plymouth probably still was not first. An English settlement in Maine known as the Popham Colony held a ...
Gabby Douglas says she's “deeply sorry” for a comment she made about Fierce Five teammate Aly Raisman's stance on sexual assault victims. In an Instagram post Friday, Raisman spoke out against those who blame sexual assault on the way victims dress ...
There's been lots of talk about a supposed civil war brewing within the Democratic Party, as its centrist and progressive wings vie for power. But at least as a matter of presidential politics, this talk isn't premature — it's too late. The war may ...
This post has been updated. On Nov. 11, we celebrate Veterans Day with parades and Old Glory T-shirts, with salutes to those who served and prayers for those who fell. But the version of Veterans Day we know now wasn't always so. It wasn't always a ...
Of the many changes to the U.S. tax code proposed in House Republicans' plan released this week, few are proving to be as contentious as the cut to the mortgage interest deduction (MID). Under the proposal, homeowners would only be able to deduct ...
From Romania to Nepal, they call it the “golden ticket,” a diversity visa lottery that offers citizens of countries with low immigration rates a chance to come to the United States. Among the winners are a family of software engineers from Bulgaria, a ...
Over the summer, it appeared Ryan Lochte had been cleared of criminal charges in Brazil after he was accused of fabricating a story about getting robbed at gunpoint in Rio de Janeiro during the 2016 Olympics. Not so fast. On Friday, a decision made by ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Pope Francis is making his first phone call off the planet — and into space. On Thursday, the pope will reach out to the six astronauts on the International Space Station. It will be only the second time a pope phones the ...
President Trump went before a Values Voter Summit audience here in Washington last week and declared, “We're saying 'Merry Christmas' again.” There is no warrant in law that directs Americans to say “Merry Christmas,” “Happy Holidays” or anything at ...
With two weeks to go before Halloween, it's open season on witches. President Trump routinely dismisses the multiple investigations into possible collusion between his campaign and Russia before the 2016 election as “the single greatest witch hunt of a ...
while others countered, “USA! USA!” [Student protesters burn American flags in anger over racism and election]. Last fall, cheerleaders at Howard University began kneeling during the national anthem, after raising their fists in the black power salute ...
Eric P. Schwartz is president of Refugees International. He was on a fact-finding mission in Bangladesh from Sept. 15 to 19. In 1998, President Bill Clinton visited Rwanda, where he formally apologized for the U.S. government's inaction during the 1994 ...
The United States will withdraw from UNESCO at the end of next year, the State Department said Thursday, to stop accumulating unpaid dues and make a stand on what it said is anti-Israel bias at the U.N.'s educational, science and cultural organization ...
'Who are they gonna believe you or me?': Texas prosecutor fired after drunken Uber tirade · 3. 4 dead after gunman 'randomly picking targets' goes on rampage in Calif., tries to enter school · 4. Opinion Donald Trump Jr.'s incredible history of dumb ...
The International Monetary Fund is dialing back its expectations for the U.S. economy, according to a report out Tuesday. The IMF no longer expects President Trump's proposed tax cuts to happen, causing the international organization to cut its ...
Update: The Food and Drug Administration has given Baxter International permission to import saline and other intravenous solutions from its manufacturing facilities in Australia and Ireland to ease shortages in the United States, according to letters ...
In this occasional series, we will bring you up to speed on the biggest national security stories of the week. North Korea and the United States have exchanged alarmingly confrontational statements in recent weeks, fueling fears a miscalculation could ...
One of Melania Trump's favorite books is Dr. Seuss's “Oh, the Places You'll Go!,” which she read with her son, Barron, “over and over” when he was younger. The first lady, who is increasingly carving out a public profile for herself, chose the classic ...
