Present Cabinet Members: Vice President Mike Pence Commerce: Wilbur Ross Defense: Mark Esper White House Chief of Staff: Mick Mulvaney (acting) State: Mike Pompeo Education: Betsy DeVos Energy: Rick Perry (Resigning end of year) Central MORE
The New York Times spent thousands of hours compiling proof that Russia bombed Syrian hospitals that were strictly and explicitly forbidden targets by the UN. There have been over 600 attacks on Syrian medical facilities MORE
As Canadians head to the polls on Monday, Justin Trudeau is bracing for the possibility of an electoral loss, marking a stunning turn of fortunes for the charismatic Liberal leader who had pledged to reshape the country’s MORE
Widespread damage across North Texas Monday morning — especially in and around Dallas — after severe weather moved through the area Sunday evening. A tornado touched down in Dallas, causing major damage to homes, businesses, MORE
Scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico are about to start experiments with “plasma guns” in the hope of achieving controlled nuclear fusion—a source of clean and near limitless energy. Nuclear fusion MORE
It appears, House Republicans are very, very upset with Rep. Adam Schiff. They will hold a vote today or this evening to censure him because they take issue with his handlings of the impeachment investigation. MORE
United campaign by media companies highlights government moves to penalise whistleblowing and criminalise journalism. The front page of every newspaper in Australia was blacked out on Monday as part of a campaign against moves by MORE
Stroke is no joke. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s bother and former mayor of Baltimore, Thomas D’Alesandro III, died at age 90 from complications of a stroke. Speaker Pelosi issued the following statement: “My MORE
Stunning surveillance footage captured the moment a high school coach in Oregon disarmed a student with a shotgun and then held him in his arms. Keanon Lowe, a football and track and field coach at Parkrose High MORE
By the New York Times Editorial Board: In the summer of 1950, outraged by Joseph McCarthy’s anti-Communist inquisition, Margaret Chase Smith, a Republican senator from Maine, stood to warn her party that its own behavior MORE
After a week of utter chaos, ethnic cleansing, escaped ISIS prisoners, and NO plan, whatsoever, on how to remedy the situation, The New York Times reports that Trump now considers leaving approximately 200 troops in MORE
Speaking with a reporter from The Hill, Senator Warren stated that if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to expand settlements and move away from a two-state solution, U.S. aid to the country is “on MORE
By any objective measure, this had seemed like an away banker during what was a fevered buildup. Manchester United, mired in their worst start to a season since 1989-90, were goal-shy; their confidence seemingly in pieces. MORE
Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney insists he did not admit to wrongdoing by President Trump after comments he made during a marathon press briefing Thursday were interpreted as evidence of a quid pro MORE
In the corrosive and dangerous Trump presidency, the outrages fly so fast and the chaos mounts so thoroughly that it’s easy to pass off the entire unsettling phenomenon as one more made-for-TV-and-Twitter unreality show. New MORE
The grieving parents of a British teenager say they are “extremely angry” and feel they have been “taken advantage of” after a highly choreographed White House encounter with US President Donald Trump — where he presented them MORE
The demonstrations began several weeks ago when “the county Board of Commissioners decided last month to give the United Daughters of the Confederacy, which donated the statue to the county in 1907, until Oct. 1 to come up with a plan for its future.” MORE
In 2005, Donald Trump was caught on tape bragging that his fame allowed him to sexually assault women. In 2016, as he was running for president, that recording, the so-called Access Hollywood tape, was made public, MORE
President Donald Trump late Saturday backed down from his decision to use his own for-profit golf course near the Miami airport for next year’s G-7 meeting, a move that would have put tens of millions MORE
Day 1003 of the Trump administration and I sure hope it comes to an end soon. We’re still standing; unfortunately, some of our allies have seen better days, sad. Crimes against humanity? Right now, the MORE
The Federal Aviation Administration is demanding answers from Boeing after receiving a 2016 electronic message exchange in which a test pilot talks of unknowingly having lied to regulators and discloses “egregious” problems with the flight control system MORE
Erik Mercer, a Maine social worker, unexpectedly found himself in the same airport terminal as Collins. What started as a civil conversation between a concerned voter and his elected representative has become a catalyst for MORE
How the Sinaloa Cartel Bested the Mexican Army Source: Cartel gunmen were everywhere. They openly drove in trucks with mounted machine guns, blockaded streets flashing their AKs and burned trucks unleashing plumes of smoke like MORE
Boris Johnson suffered yet another Brexit setback as UK lawmakers voted to delay approval of the UK Prime Minister’s departure deal until Parliament has passed the legislation required to enact it. Johnson must now ask the EU for MORE
A multiyear State Department probe of emails that were sent to former secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s private computer server concluded there was no systemic or deliberate mishandling of classified information by department employees, according MORE