Organizers of the March for Our Lives demonstration in Washington, D.C. claimed Sunday that some 850,000 people attended the pro-gun control event, but an imaging company said the turnout was much less. Virginia-based Digital Design & Imaging Service Inc., which … Read More
WASHINGTON –President Ronald Reagan once likened trade wars to the pie fights in old Hollywood comedies. One pie in the face leads to another. And then another. Pretty soon, Reagan said in a 1986 radio address, “everything and everybody just … Read More
The House and Senate increased their own budgets in the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending package. The Senate increased its total salaries of officers and employees by $12.6 million in the 2,232-page bill that lawmakers had fewer than 48 hours to … Read More
WASHINGTON — President Trump, hours after threatening to veto a $1.3 trillion spending bill and throwing the capital into turmoil, signed it into law on Friday, yielding to advisers and Republican leaders who urged him against manufacturing a government shutdown … Read More
‘If a trade war were initiated by the US, China would fight to the end to defend its own legitimate interests with all necessary measures’ The following is the full text of China’s response to US President Donald Trump’s plan … Read More
Energy Secretary Rick Perry attends a meeting in the Oval Office on March 20, 2018. (Kevin Dietsch) The U.S. military is concerned that the government isn’t moving quickly enough to ramp up American production of the plutonium cores that trigger … Read More
(CNN)The school shooting was over in seconds. But it could have dragged on longer and proven deadlier were it not for the rapid response of a school resource officer. When a 17-year-old gunman walked into Maryland’s Great Mills High School … Read More
(CNN)[Breaking news update, published at 9:26 p.m. ET] One person was injured at a site where an incendiary device was found Tuesday night in Austin, Texas, but the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said no package bomb was … Read More
(CNN)President Donald Trump will roll out new plans to tackle the country’s opioid epidemic on Monday in New Hampshire, the White House said Sunday. The plan will include stiffer penalties for high-intensity drug traffickers, including the death penalty for some … Read More
MIAMI — Police said Friday morning the death toll in the collapse of a pedestrian bridge being built here had risen to six — and there could still be more bodies in the rubble. But hopes of finding anyone still alive … Read More