WASHINGTON — Sen. Al Franken apologized Monday to voters, aides and “everyone who has counted on me to be a champion for women” as the Minnesota Democrat fought to bolst...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump returned to his own kind of code talking Monday by deriding Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren as “Pocahontas” at a White House event h...
JACKSON, Miss. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from an African-American attorney who called the Confederate battle emblem on the Mississippi flag “...
The estate tax affects a very small — and very wealthy — number of Americans.
Only the estates of about 2 out of every 1,000 Americans who die face this tax right now. ...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The state of Florida has paid more than $11 million over a 30-year period to settle hundreds of cases that alleged that state workers were sexually h...
WASHINGTON — More than 2,000 conservatives in tuxedos and gowns recently filled Union Station’s main hall for a steak dinner and the chance to cheer the man who saved th...
Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said Sunday that President Donald Trump should be “very worried” about his former national security adviser Michael Flynn cooperating ...
But foot traffic tumbles again
CHICAGO — The driest Thanksgiving weekend in five years may have helped holiday shopping, despite an overall decline in foot traffic. But s...
WASHINGTON — Michigan Rep. John Conyers, under investigation over allegations he sexually harassed female staff members, said Sunday he will step aside as the top Democr...
Army leaders monitor progress
FORT BENNING, Georgia — The young Army infantry recruits lined up in full combat gear, guns at the ready. At the signal, a soldier in front ...
