Shakil Afridi has languished in jail for years — since 2011, when the Pakistani doctor used a vaccination scam in an attempt to identify Osama bin Laden’s home, aiding U.S. Navy Seals who tracked and killed the al-Qaida leader. Americans might wonder how Pakistan could imprison a man who helped track down the mastermind of […]
“I think Democrats want to see the president give the State of the Union under a shutdown,” he said on “Fox News Sunday.” That address is scheduled for Jan. 30. Both sides are at risk from the shutdown, which began after Senate Democrats and some Republicans in the upper chamber blocked a House bill that […]
On the heels of nationwide demonstrations to protest against the policies of President Trump, a coalition of liberal activists is headlining a rally in Las Vegas Sunday to kick off a major push to elect Democrats across the country. Nevada is where a “Power to the Polls” initiative will launch that aims to register 1 […]
Evidence that young victims endured extreme and prolonged physical abuse. Homicide detectives could use cadaver dogs to sniff for the remains of other children in the suburban California “house of horrors,” according to a report. A week after 13 children, ages 2 to 29, were found living in deplorable conditions in the Riverside County home, […]
Republican and Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill lashed out at each other on Day One of the government shutdown Saturday, trading barbs and casting blame aThe rhetoric took a harsh turn, with Democrats complaining that President Trump is an erratic, unreliable negotiating partner and Republicans bemoaning Democrats’ intransigence over what the GOP sees as unreasonable immigration […]
WASHINGTON – Countering China’s rapidly expanding military and an increasingly aggressive Russia are now the U.S. military’s top national security priorities, outpacing the threat of terrorism, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Friday. He said competition with those adversaries has threatened America’s military advantage around the world. Laying out a broad new strategy for the Defense […]
The Supreme Court on Friday afternoon agreed to review the legality of President Trump’s latest travel ban. The decision comes about two months after the court granted the administration’s request to fully reinstate the ban after lower courts blocked the administration from banning people with a bona fide relationship to a person to entity in […]
LAS VEGAS — Bandits have gotten away with cash and chips from four casino-hotels in Las Vegas since last week, leaving police on the hunt for multiple suspects. Three of the casinos targeted by criminals are on the Las Vegas Strip and the fourth one is in the vicinity. The string of incidents comes less than […]
Arizona police say they believe they’ve pieced together a “jigsaw puzzle” they had been struggling to solve for weeks after identifying a man they believe is responsible for the deaths of nine people. If convicted, 35-year-old Cleophus Cooksey Jr. would become one of the most prolific serial killers in the state’s history. Cooksey was arrested on Dec. […]
President Donald Trump appeared to push back Thursday against comments by his chief of staff that his thinking on the long-promised border wall had “evolved,” with the president insisting that his views on the barrier hadn’t changed. “The Wall is the Wall, it has never changed or evolved from the first day I conceived of […]
DA says multiple officers have been hospitalized in Harrisburg. A “hero” U.S. marshal was shot and killed and another police officer was wounded Thursday morning in Harrisburg, Penn., when gunfire erupted during the service of a warrant. Another Harrisburg police officer was also struck, but he was not wounded due to protective body armor, authorities […]
WASHINGTON ― Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) warned Republicans that they must stand up to President Donald Trump’s attacks against the press or else risk being complicit in a dangerous slide to authoritarianism. Flake delivered an impassioned speech on the Senate floor Wednesday warning that Trump’s repeated attacks on the U.S. media as “fake news” are hurting […]
