AUSTIN, Texas — A protester who was apparently armed with a rifle at a demonstration against police violence in the Texas capital was shot and killed after a witness says he approached a vehicle that had driven through the crowd and the driver opened fire. The shooting happened just before 10 p.m. Saturday as demonstrators […]

A nurse at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles said she was sent home after refusing to wear a surgical mask instead of a protective respirator to treat COVID-19 patients — and that she was denied a coronavirus test even after she began displaying symptoms. A nurse at a hospital in Kentucky said she was […]

A salvo of rockets hit an Iraqi base on Saturday outside Baghdad that houses American troops, Iraqi officials told The Associated Press. Officials told the wire service that more than a dozen rockets landed near the base, Camp Taji, and that two Iraqi soldiers were wounded in the attack. The strike comes days after Kataib […]

The House overwhelmingly passed nearly $8 billion in emergency funding to combat the coronavirus on Wednesday amid growing concerns about a widespread outbreak within the United States. The 415-2 House vote sends the legislation to the Senate, where it will be considered Thursday. That could get the measure to the White House by the end […]

It did not look like a place that held secrets. Its owner, a retired doctor with a foreign accent too faded to place, often left his garage doors open. He had a fondness for clutter — so much so that there was no room for automobiles in the three-car garage. But that was just something […]

President Trump’s proposed budget includes about $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act over a decade, analysts said. The budget released Monday includes $844 billion over 10 years in cuts from the “President’s health reform vision,” a stand-in for the repeal and replacement of ObamaCare. There are also more than $150 […]

The Trump administration is expanding its travel ban by restricting travel from six countries, citing security risks, the Department of Homeland Security announced Friday. The countries — Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania — join seven other nations, five with Muslim majorities, that were already part of a Trump administration’s travel ban announced in […]

Two people are dead and a third is in critical condition following a shooting at the West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement, Texas, on Sunday, according to The Dallas Morning News. One person died at the scene of the shooting, another died on the way to the hospital and a third remains in […]