President Trump honored Tiger Woods for his comeback Masters win by awarding him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, at the White House on Monday. "The age of Tiger gave us moments that will live forever in…
In renewing a threat to sharply raise tariffs this week on hundreds of billions of dollars worth of goods from China, President Trump said in a tweet on Sunday that the levies have had little impact on U.S. consumers --…
One of the nation's oldest civil rights organizations is warning that Russian attempts to interfere in the U.S. political process deliberately targeted African Americans, drawing a link to domestic efforts to curtail voting rights and roll back landmark civil rights…
In a sweeping rebuke of Attorney General William Barr's conclusion there was insufficient evidence in the Mueller report to show President Trump obstructed justice, over 400 former federal prosecutors have signed an open letter saying Mr. Trump would face "multiple…
Scientists have identified a new cousin to the Tyrannosaurus rex 21 years after its fossilized bones were discovered in New Mexico. Sterling Nesbitt, a paleontologist at Virginia Tech, made the find when he was just 16. The new dinosaur is…
President Trump's former attorney and personal fixer Michael Cohen is heading to prison on Monday to begin serving his three-year sentence, at a facility Forbes once ranked as one of "America's 10 Cushiest Prisons." Cohen was convicted for crimes including…
The House Judiciary Committee has scheduled a Wednesday meeting to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over the full, unredacted report from special counsel Robert Mueller. Barr missed a deadline the committee's chairman,…
President Trump's surprising decision to renew his expanded tariff threats is raising anxiety among investors. The Dow fell more than 350 points, about 1.3 percent, shortly after the start of trade Monday. While the threats could be just another negotiating…
A 14-year-old football phenom featured in Sports Illustrated was killed on Saturday night after he was hit by a stray bullet while leaving a party in Venice, Illinois. Police said Jaylon McKenzie and a 15-year-old girl were both struck by…
Washington – The United States is deploying forces to the Middle East, in response to what administration officials say are threats of a possible attack by Iran or allied fighters on American troops in the region. White House national security…
President Trump's surprising decision to renew his expanded tariff threats is raising anxiety among investors. His action has Wall Street's stock index futures pointing to a sharp drop on Monday morning. While the threats could be just another negotiating ploy,…
Boeing said Sunday that it discovered after airlines had been flying its 737 Max plane for several months that a safety alert in the cockpit was not working as intended, yet it didn't disclose that fact to airlines or federal…
Democratic presidential candidate and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker introduced a sweeping gun violence prevention plan. If elected, the campaign announced Monday that on day one of his presidency, Booker will use executive action to close gun sales loopholes and…
Pilots operating a chartered Boeing 737 that slid off a runway into the St. Johns River while landing at Naval Air Station Jacksonville Friday night requested and were granted a last-minute runway change, CBS Jacksonville affiliate WJAX-TV reports. The National…
Waukegan, Ill. — Search and recovery personnel found the body of another worker Sunday in the rubble of a northern Illinois silicone factory that exploded and burst into flames two days earlier, bringing the death toll to three employees. One…
Border business: Inside immigration President Trump's latest choice to lead the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is a former Border Patrol chief under the Obama administration who has publicly backed the the president's border wall. Mr. Trump tweeted Sunday…
Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, the second-highest ranking Democrat in the Senate, slammed President Trump for his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of being "dazzled" by strongmen around the world. "This president is totally dazzled by Vladimir Putin,…
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the Trump administration is not counting on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un being completely candid in the stalled negotiations to denuclearize the Korean peninsula — a long-sought and elusive foreign policy goal of…
Behold the Edge, Celebrity Cruises' brand-new, billion-dollar baby, Yes, that's what it costs to build a cruise ship these days, often even more. Thirty million people are expected to go on cruises in 2019, up more than 12 million from…
For one week every year, the center of the known pizza universe isn't Naples, Italy, or New York, or even Chicago; it's Las Vegas, when the International Pizza Expo rolls into town, bringing with it thousands of professional pizza-makers, dough…
What happens to products you buy that you return? And what about the stuff that brick-and-mortar-stores or online merchandisers can't sell? It may end up in the hands of Curtis Greve, a vice president of Inmar, which has 25 facilities…
In 2009, Bill Murphy Jr. landed a top-level law job making big bucks. But when he showed up for work, he realized pretty quickly that he wasn't the right person for that spot. On his very first day, Murphy already…
While packing up her small apartment in the middle of San Francisco, Stephanie Robesky has been pausing to drool over three bedroom homes in the middle of the country. "I'm dying for a porch," she said. Correspondent Conor Knighton, "Is…
BAGHDAD (AP) — Every evening at the Muntada al-Masrah theater on Baghdad’s Rashid street, the cast and crew of the first TV drama filmed in Iraq in seven years take their places among the rooms and courtyard of this 19th-century…