U.S. invokes racketeering (RICO) law in charging metals traders U.S. prosecutors took an unusually aggressive turn in their investigation of price fixing at JPMorgan Chase & Co., describing its precious metals trading desk as a MORE
More than 1 in 16 women consider their first sexual experience to be rape, a study published Monday found. In a survey of 13,310 American women from 18 to 44 years old, about 6.5 percent reported their first sexual MORE
That’s right POTUS announced what he will do — not immediately in this tweet, but sometime later…but real soon In a tweet, Trump announced he chose Robert C. O’Brien as his new National Security MORE
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. —President Trump maligned the problem of homelessness in California as he arrived in the nation’s most populous state Tuesday, arguing that people living on the streets here have ruined the “prestige” of MORE
A cheerleading team in North Carolina has been put on probation after posing with a banner endorsing President Donald Trump at a school sports match. The school, North Stanly High School, bars the display or MORE
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is expected on Wednesday to formally revoke California’s legal authority to set tailpipe pollution rules that are stricter than federal rules, in a move designed by the White House to MORE
The Defense Department is no longer moving forward with three border barrier projects in California and Arizona, according to a court filing Monday. The move is reversal of an earlier Pentagon authorization for about 20 MORE
A Virginia judge has blocked the city of Charlottesville’s effort to remove the Confederate statue that sparked a deadly white nationalist rally in 2017. MORE
The California legislature worked through the summer to finalize the text of the state’s landmark data privacy law before time to make amendments ran out on Friday. In the Assembly (California’s lower house), Assemblywoman Jacqui MORE
Congressman Adam Schiff claimed on Sunday that the official who sits atop the intelligence community is rejecting a subpoena to turn over a whistleblower complaint in order to protect an even higher-ranking official, possibly a MORE
The Working Families Party, a liberal organization founded in New York, endorsed Sen. Elizabeth Warren for president on Monday, offering a fresh glimpse into an emerging primary season divide on the progressive left. Warren won the WFP’s MORE
Presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) on Monday took aim at President Trump after he said the U.S. is “locked and loaded” MORE
NASCAR is facing backlash from gun manufacturers and gun rights organizations after reportedly rejecting certain advertisements from weapons manufacturers. MORE
Kenya on Friday became the third country to start routinely inoculating infants against malaria, using the world’s first vaccine to combat a disease that kills 800 children globally every day. “This is the most advanced MORE
Gregory Cheadle, the black man singled out by President Trump as “my African-American” at a rally, is leaving the Republican Party and pursuing a congressional run as an independent, PBS News reported Thursday. The 62-year-old real estate broker told the outlet MORE
he Trump administration on Thursday is expected to complete the legal repeal of a major Obama-era clean water regulation, which had placed limits on polluting chemicals that could be used near streams, wetlands and water bodies. MORE
Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (D) on Thursday filed a $400 million defamation lawsuit against CBS Corp. and CBS Broadcasting in New York, charging the organization with publishing false statements from two women who accused him MORE
Medicaid, the government program that provides health care to more than 75 million low-income and disabled Americans, isn’t necessarily free. It’s the only major welfare program that can function like a loan. Medicaid recipients over MORE
A nursing home doctor has been acquitted of the murder of an elderly woman with severe dementia following a closely watched euthanasia trial in the Netherlands. The court in The Hague concluded on Wednesday that MORE
The United States will not give temporary protected immigration status to people from the Bahamas who evacuated after the archipelago was battered by a Category 5 hurricane, the White House said on Wednesday. “The Bahamians MORE
Republicans dominating a nearly half-empty North Carolina House chamber used an unexpected vote Wednesday to override Democratic Governor Roy Cooper’s veto of the state’s two-year budget, prompting accusations of trickery and deception from Cooper and MORE
Trump denied that the White House pressured National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) into falsely issuing a statement that National Weather Service (NWS) was wrong in its Hurricane Dorian forecast. He told reporters today: “No MORE
Republicans for the Rule of Law released a new video that will air on Fox News in D.C. and South Carolina using a clip of Graham’s own Senate floor speech about election security from July 2018. MORE
Last year, when I met with Ahmad Massoud, the son of Afghanistan’s national hero, Ahmad Shah Massoud, I asked him what he thought about the American-led peace negotiations with the Taliban. His response was telling, and surprisingly MORE
Source: GATINEAU, Quebec — Along the coast of the United States, people who lost homes to Hurricane Dorian are preparing to rebuild. But Canada — which has faced devastating flooding of its own — is MORE