Hammers, axes will test prototypes for border wall

Contractors have completed eight prototypes of President Trump's proposed border wall with Mexico, triggering a period of rigorous testing to determine if they can repel sledgehammers, torches, pickaxes and battery-operated tools. Contractors have completed eight prototypes of President Trump's proposed border wall with Mexico, triggering a period of rigorous testing to determine if they can repel sledgehammers, torches, pickaxes and battery-operated tools.

Drug company billionaire arrested on charges of opioid conspiracy

John Kapoor, a billionaire whose company developed a liquid version of the opioid painkiller fentanyl, was arrested in Phoenix on Thursday on charges that he spearheaded a scheme to bribe doctors and pharmacists across the nation to boost sales - largely to patients who did not need the medication. The scheme was first described in December in an indictment against six executives at the company, Insys Therapeutics in Chandler, Ariz.

Lindsey Graham to testify at Senate corruption trial

Lindsey Graham is taking a break from his Senate duties Thursday to testify on behalf of a Democratic senator on trial for federal corruption charges. Graham will travel to Newark, N.J., to testify in the corruption trial of Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., Graham's office announced.

Disneyland puts transportation hub on hold, reveals plan to build parking structure within resort

Disney has put on hold plans to build a transportation hub on the eastern edge of the resort. The Disneyland Resort has shelved plans for a new transportation hub on the eastern edge of the Anaheim property and will build a 6,500-space parking structure near its shopping district.

Mediaite Q&A: Nicolle Wallace on WH Morale, W’s Speech and …

Deadline: White House , her first full-time hosting gig for MSNBC, is a smart political-panel show that airs in the hours after the White House press briefing, now conducted by Sarah Huckabee Sanders . That timing is fitting, given what makes Wallace's insights on the current administration particularly valuable: a longtime Republican, she was once communications chief for George W. Bush and a senior adviser to Sen. John McCain's 2008 presidential bid.

Officials say Trump’s opioid emergency won’t mean new money

The Trump administration's declaration of the opioid crisis as a nationwide public health emergency won't bring new dollars to fight a scourge that kills an estimated 142 Americans each day, but will expand access to medical services in rural areas and shift some federal HIV money to help addicts, White House officials said Thursday.

More than 50 years of theories: JFK file release imminent

Seeking to settle the matter once and for all, Congress passed a law 25 years ago mandating the government release all its documents and giving agencies a long window to keep sensitive information secret. And this Thursday, in pursuant with the JFK Records Act, the remaining few thousand secret government documents relating to the assassination - from a total that once made up millions - will see the light of day, barring a block from President Donald Trump.

Bipartisan health care plan would reduce deficit, experts say

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., the ranking member, and Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, meet before the start of a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017, the morning after they reached a deal to resume federal payments to health insurers that President Donald Trump had halted. A bill that would fund health care payments that have been called "bailouts" by President Donald Trump would drive down the deficit, according to congressional budget experts.

Senators rally behind Trump and his agenda after mini-revolt

Donald Trump is holding onto much of his GOP support, a day after a pair of the party's prominent senators denounced their president and invited colleagues to join them. Most GOP lawmakers rallied around Trump and his agenda on Wednesday, with one all but saying "good riddance" to Jeff Flake of Arizona and Bob Corker of Tennessee.

PAC head now campaign chief for Ward in Arizona Senate race

Rollins, the chairman of a political action committee that has endorsed Arizona Senate candidate Kelli Ward is being named as her camp... The upstart tea party Republican who challenged Arizona Sen. John McCain last year and then set her sights on the state's junior senator is suddenly in the national spotlight. The upstart tea party Republican who challenged Arizona Sen. John McCain last year and then set her sights on the state's junior senator is suddenly in the national spotlight.

Tennesseea s Corker doubles down on his criticism of Trump

In this Oct. 25, 2017 file photo, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., talks to reporters as he returns to his office from a vote, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Taking on a crowd of jeering union workers, standing up to a charismatic Democratic opponent on his home turf or lecturing upper management of one of the world's largest corporations, Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker has rarely backed down from a fight.

Fire at Indonesia fireworks factory kills 23, injures dozens

Hary Kurniawan, chief of police for the Jakarta satellite city of Tangerang, said Thursday that dozens of people have also been injured. The Los Angeles Dodgers won Game 1 of the World Series with a 3-1 victory over the Houston Astros.

Trump has won the civil war where it counts — with voters

Traditional Republicans fancying the cracks in their party as an opening to primary President Trump in 2020 need to deal with one inconvenient fact: Republican voters aren't interested. The brawl for dominance in the Republican Party is certainly remarkable.

Upstart Republican now in headlights of Arizona Senate race

In a Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017 photo, former Republican Arizona state Sen. Kelli Ward smiles as she is greeted by supporters at a campaign fundraiser, in Scottsdale, Ariz. Ward was expected to run against Republican U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake in the Arizona 2018 primary, but Flake has bowed out of a re-election, announcing his retirement on Tuesday.

Power lines lay broken after the passage of Hurricane Maria in Dorado, Puerto Rico.

QUESTIONS have been raised about a $300 million contract to help rebuild Puerto Rico's electrical infrastructure was awarded to a small, two-year-old company that had only two employees when Hurricane Maria struck the US territory. Both Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill have called for an investigation after Whitefish Energy Holdings in Montana secured the multi-million dollar deal.