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White House senior adviser Stephen Miller listens as

Dems, GOP raise concerns about national emergency

WASHINGTON — White House senior adviser Stephen Miller, an immigration hard-liner, defended President Donald Trump’s ...

Obituaries Society grande dame Lee Radziwill dies at 85
Lee Radziwill, who parlayed her cachet as the younger sister of former first lady Jacqueline ...
28 m ago
New York De Blasio on presidential run: 'I have not ruled it out'
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday that he was not ruling out ...
47 m ago
Nation Brands struggle with racial insensitivity
Retailers and top fashion brands like Gucci and Prada keep apologizing for products that smack ...
10:54 AM
Nation 13 quotes that stood out in Trump's State of the Union
Here are 13 quotes that stood out from President Donald Trump's second State of the Union address.
2/6/19
Celebrities Chicago police: Smollett assault case has 'shifted'
Chicago police say "the trajectory of the investigation" into the reported attack on Jussie Smollett has shifted and they want to conduct another interview with the "Empire" actor.
2/16/19
Nation State Dept.: Nauert out as pick for UN ambassador
Heather Nauert, picked by President Donald Trump to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations but never officially nominated, has withdrawn from consideration, the State Department said.
2/16/19
Nation Early-voting states are focus for Dems in 2020 contest
Five Democratic senators vying for their party's nomination to challenge President Donald Trump in 2020 ...
10:31 AM
Nation Fact check: Trump's State of the Union claims
President Trump laced his speech with puffed-up numbers and partial truths Tuesday as he hailed an "economic miracle," warned of human traffickers flooding across the border and appeared to place Afghanistan in the Middle East instead of where it is, Asia.
2/6/19
Nation Potential privacy lapse found in 2010 census data
An internal team at the Census Bureau found that basic personal information collected from more than 100 million Americans during the 2010 head count could be reconstructed from obscured data, but with lots of mistakes, a top agency official disclosed Saturday.
2/16/19
Nation Police: Aurora attacker shouldn't have owned gun
The man who opened fire and killed five co-workers at a suburban Chicago manufacturing plant took a gun he wasn't allowed to have to a job he must have known he was about to lose.
2/16/19
Nation Vatican defrocks former U.S. cardinal over sex abuse
Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has been found guilty by the Vatican of sex abuse and defrocked, as calls rose Saturday for Pope Francis to reveal what he knew about the once-powerful American prelate's apparently decades-long predatory sexual behavior.
2/16/19
Nation Climate change means more floods, great and localized
COLUMBIA, S.C. — When he took the job 15 years ago, Horry County Emergency Manager ...
2/16/19