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A gunman opened fire in the baggage claim area at the Fort Lauderdale airport Friday, killing five people and wounding eight before being taken into custody, officials said. The attack sent panicked passengers running out of the terminal and onto the tarmac.
President-elect Donald Trump said Friday he had a "constructive meeting and conversation" with the country's top intelligence officials who briefed him on alleged Russian election-related hacking. "I have tremendous respect for the work and service done by the men and women of this community to our great nation," Trump said in a statement after the meeting.
Anyone can go watch Donald Trump be sworn in as president on the National Mall, but a ticket is needed in order to get within about a half-mile of the action. The tickets are color-coded, and ticket holders are required to enter the Capitol grounds through the entry point designated for their color-coded section.
Multiple victims have been shot dead by at least one gunman at Florida's Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, a major tourist hub in the greater Miami area, according to officials who said there was an "ongoing incident" at the baggage claim area in Terminal 2. There were five people dead, several more injured and one person in custody, according to Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel's office, which said police received a call just before 1 p.m. local time on Friday about shots fired at Terminal Drive. The shooting occurred in the baggage claim area of Terminal 2. The FAA ordered a stop to all flights and the airport was evacuated.
Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio says he won't support his Senate colleague Jeff Sessions, who is President-elect Donald Trump's pick for attorney general. Brown says he met with Sessions this week and says the Alabama Republican has a civil rights record "at direct odds with the task of promoting justice and equality for all."
The recent drug court graduation featured the fo.lowing speakers: Supreme Court Justice Brent Benjamin; Mike Lacy, Director of Probation Services; Michael Browning, Representative for Senator Joe Manchin; Chad Story, Representative for Congressman Evan Jenkins; Gabriel Frye, Logan County Juvenile Drug Court Probation Officer and Chris Newsome, past ... (more)
The 23-year-old South Side hip-hop star is one of several new members who will be joining the board at the city's DuSable Museum of African American History, according to a source with knowledge of the move. Chance and fellow new board member Dr. Eric Whitaker,a University of Chicago Medical Center official who is a friend of the Obamas, are part of a shakeup in oversight at the South Side insitution, 740 E. 56th Pl.
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer talks to reporters after a weekly Senate Democrats' luncheon on Capitol Hill on June 7, 2016. The new Congress is the most diverse in history, with more minority lawmakers than ever before and a record 21 women in the U.S. Senate.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, right and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders appear on stage together at LaGuardia Community College, on Jan. 3 in New York. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo made a big splash this week when he announced a fairly inexpensive plan to make college tuition-free for as many as 1 million New Yorkers.
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered ... . The first page of the Joint Analysis Report narrative by the Department of Homeland Security and federal Bureau of Investigation and released on Dec. 29, 2016, is photographed in Washington, Jan. 6, 2017.
A low-key, behind-the-scenes, let's-get-a-deal-done type, the Springfield lawmaker is now the ranking Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee, which means he will be one of the minority party's point people in critiquing Republican proposals and arguing for Democratic alternatives. As Republicans prepare to repeal Obamacare, Neal frames things this way: "The Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security are all linked," and all essential to the middle class.
U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke said Thursday he is all but certain to make a run for U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz 's seat in 2018. "I've had the chance to talk to a lot of people around the state of Texas over the last six weeks, and I will tell you, I'm very encouraged," he told The Texas Tribune on Thursday in an interview.
Donald Solem, the political organizer and campaign quarterback who ran successful drives on behalf of countless civic issues from school bonds to parking garages, seemed to make friends with everyone who shook his sizable hand. He was a large man with a broad smile, a cheery manner and keen insight into getting voters to see things his way.
Rep. Keith Ellison attends a news conference with the Congressional Progressive Caucus about the nominations for President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet in Washington on Dec. 8, 2016. U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison , who had not commented on a controversial United Nations resolution that called Israel's settlements in disputed territories "illegal," voted Thursday night against a GOP resolution that condemned it.
Since the Senate Majority Leader declared that a Select Committee on the issue of Russian hacking would be unnecessary, today's Armed Services proceedings may have been the last one of its kind for awhile. It doesn't suit or please Trump one bit.
The US House of Representatives passed a scathing rebuke Thursday night to a United Nations Security Council resolution the Obama administration allowed through last month that condemned Israeli settlements as illegal. House Resolution 11 declared the UN motion a "one-sided" effort that is an obstacle to peace, placing disproportionate blame on Israel for the continuation of the conflict and encouraging Palestinians from engaging in direct, bilateral negotiations.
The second-ranking House Democrat, Steny Hoyer of Maryland, would support an effort to challenge certification of the votes that will formally put Trump in the White House on Friday, he told ABC News Political Director Rick Klein on the Powerhouse Politics podcast. Congress is slated to count the Electoral College ballots to officially elect Donald Trump as President on Friday, but a few House Democrats, led by Rep. Ed Perlmutter of Colorado, are weighing options to protest the Electoral College votes.
The Latest on accusations that Russia meddled in America's presidential election to help Donald Trump win : The White House says President Barack Obama is being briefed on a classified report about Russian and other foreign meddling in U.S. elections. Earnest says Obama has asked intelligence officials to also brief members of Congress and the incoming president.