WASHINGTON — Majorities of American voters believe that President Donald Trump abused his power and obstructed Congress in the Ukraine scandal, but the public remains split — largely along party lines — over whether those actions justify his removal from office. Those are the findings of a new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released […]

It’s Groundhog Day… again. And this year Punxsutawney Phil declared: “Spring will be early, it’s a certainty.” At Sunrise on Sunday, members of the famous rodent’s top hat-wearing inner circle revealed his 134th “prognostication,” according to the Pennsylvania Tourism Office. Awoken by a large crowd’s chants of “Phil!” the groundhog was hoisted in the air […]

A man the Iraqi government says is an Al Qaeda leader has been arrested in Arizona, prosecutors said. Authorities in Iraq have accused Ali Yousif Ahmed Al-Nouri, 42, of killing two police officers in Fallujah in 2006 with other members of the terror group founded by Usama Bin Laden, Arizona federal prosecutors said. Al-Nouri was […]

Health officials said Saturday that a man in Massachusetts has been infected with the coronavirus after returning from a recent trip to China, bringing the overall reported cases in the United States to eight. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health received confirmation late Friday evening that a Boston man in his early 20s contracted the […]

Presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg (D) released a tax plan Saturday that seeks to collect $5 trillion over a decade by increasing taxes on the wealthy. In the plan, Bloomberg looks to reverse much of the tax reforms put in place by the Trump administration in 2017. That includes adding […]

U.S. stocks took steep losses Friday morning after major domestic airlines canceled flights to China as the country struggles to contain the outbreak of the lethal coronavirus. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost up to 450 points Friday, falling roughly 1.6 percent, after Delta Air Lines and American Airlines announced they would suspend all flights […]

The World Health Organization declared coronavirus a public health emergency of international concern at a news conference Thursday in Geneva. This is only the sixth time such an emergency has been declared, with past examples including the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Zika virus. The WHO reserves the designation for […]

SAN DIEGO — U.S. authorities this week announced the discovery of the longest smuggling tunnel ever found on the Southwest border, stretching more than three-quarters of a mile from an industrial site in Tijuana, Mexico, to the San Diego area. The tunnel featured an extensive rail cart system, forced air ventilation, high voltage electrical cables […]

WASHINGTON — An annual congressional report says the U.S. budget deficit is likely to burst through the symbolic $1 trillion barrier this year despite a healthy economy. Tuesday’s Congressional Budget Office report follows a burst of new spending last year and the repeal in December of several taxes used to help finance the Affordable Care […]

Former national security adviser John Bolton is adding fresh uncertainty to President Trump’s impeachment trial. Bolton’s accusation, made in a forthcoming memoir, that Trump tied $391 million in aid to Ukraine to the country helping with investigations into Democrats — including former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden — ricocheted across the […]