Wednesday was a day of careful counterargument by congressional Republicans, the day after America’s top envoy in Ukraine gave House impeachment investigators an explosive, detailed roadmap of President Donald Trump’s drive to squeeze that country’s leaders for damaging information about his Democratic political rivals.
A wind-driven wildfire forced evacuations north of San Francisco in Sonoma County on Thursday morning.
The government-ordered, closed-door operation on Thursday satisfies a decades-old desire of many in Spain who considered the vainglorious mausoleum that Franco built an affront to the tens of thousands who died in Spain’s Civil War and his subsequent regime as well as to Spain’s standing as a modern democratic state.
British police raided two sites in Northern Ireland and questioned a truck driver as they investigated the deaths of 39 people found in a truck container at an industrial park in southeastern England. British media, citing sources, reported Thursday that the victims were all Chinese citizens.
The Rev. Al Sharpton says “Pantaleo’s decision to seek his reinstatement is not only disrespectful to the police commissioner and NYPD, but also the Garner family.
Mourners, constituents and other well-wishers paid respects to U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings on Wednesday as his body lay in repose at a historically black college in Baltimore.
Presidential candidate and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren denounced a proposed city of Las Vegas ordinance that bans camping downtown or on residential streets.
Dillard A. Scott is seeking election to the District D seat on the Clark County Commission, currently represented by term-limited Commissioner Lawrence Weekly.
The immigrants have remained in the U.S. in violation of the law and still are subject to removal orders that ICE will enforce.
Special prosecutor Christopher Caldwell urged the judges to reject Arpaio’s arguments, saying the there are no legal consequences from the now-pardoned conviction.
Dimitrios Pagourtzis is charged with capital murder in the May 2018 Santa Fe High School attack that left 10 people dead and 13 wounded.
The regulations were a key part of the GOP’s 2017 tax code overhaul, limiting the deduction permitted for state and local taxes to $10,000.
Baxter Franklin King, 19, was found Wednesday night in Logan Canyon, Utah, according to the school’s public information office.
The deputy was a four-year veteran of the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office and previously worked for the Placerville Police Department for two years.
The deposition with Laura Cooper, a senior Defense Department official who oversees Ukraine policy, was temporarily on hold.
