Labor Secretary Alex Acosta held a news conference Wednesday afternoon following renewed scrutiny over his role in cutting a plea deal more than a decade ago for Jeffrey Epstein. Acosta, who served as a U.S attorney in
Kentucky Democrat Amy McGrath, a former fighter pilot who rose to national prominence last year in her failed campaign for Congress against Republican Andy Barr, has announced her bid to run against Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
H. Ross Perot, the self-made Texas billionaire who twice ran for president as a third-party candidate, has died. He was 89. Family spokesman James Fuller said Perot died early Tuesday at his home in Dallas surrounded by
MAD Magazine — the long-running satirical publication — will be leaving newsstands this fall. The illustrated humor magazine will still be available in comic shops and through mail to subscribers, but it will just reprint previously published
On Monday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill that would allow certain members of Congress to access President Donald Trump’s New York state tax returns. The bill requires New York officials to release tax returns
Convicted sex offender, billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, was arrested over the weekend in connection with federal sex trafficking allegations, law enforcement officials said. The arrest stems from incidents spanning from 2002 to 2005, three law enforcement officials said.
Investigators in the Bahamas are still trying to determine what went wrong in the moments before a helicopter crashed after takeoff and killed seven people, including West Virginia coal magnate Chris Cline, his daughter and two of
A 6.4-magnitude earthquake hit Southern California on Thursday, the strongest in the region in two decades. Kern County authorities said that there had been minor injuries from falling glass and that a nearby dam would be assessed
President Donald Trump sang the praises of the US military and American heroes of the past two and a half centuries on Thursday, the Fourth of July — avoiding politics during a rousing Independence Day speech in
On Tuesday, more than 200 major U.S. and international corporations signed an amicus brief submitted to the Supreme Court arguing that excluding sexual orientation and gender identity from federal civil rights law “would undermine the nation’s business