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Julia Chavez, from left, hugs Senior Minister Steve Jungkeit as they stand with her son Mariano Cardoso Sr. after a press conference on Friday, December 15, 2017, at the First Congregational Church in Old Lyme. Cardoso Sr., who has lived in the United States for almost 30 years, received a last minute stay of removal after being given a deportation order by the Hartford I.C.E. and had taken into sanctuary by the church.
Billionaire Barry Sherman and his wife, Honey, have been found dead in their Toronto, Canada mansion, officials said.Two bodies were found at 50 Old Colony Road i... - Congressman Jeff Fortenberry and Congresswoman Debbie Dingell yesterday introduced the bipartisan Recovering America's Wildlife Act i... SEWARD, Neb. - The football careers of three Concordia University seniors will extend at least into this weekend.
Three ancient sculptures are being returned to their rightful owners in Lebanon as the Manhattan district attorney forms a new antiquities trafficking unit. Lawmakers in Colorado and New Mexico are revisiting their sexual misconduct policies as legislatures nationwide confront claims that they haven't done enough to protect victims.
Taking aim at the credibility of the FBI, President Donald Trump unleashed a blistering attack on the bureau's leadership even as he praised state and local police officers as a bulwark against rising violence and crime. Trump denounced the bureau for its handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation, calling it "really disgraceful" and continuing his questioning of his country's intelligence and law enforcement institutions as no president before.
California Sen. Tony Mendoza resisted calls Thursday from Senate leader Kevin de Leon, his former roommate, to take a leave of absence until an investigation is completed into his alleged sexual misconduct. "I was not appointed to the position I hold but was elected by the voters in my district," Mendoza said in a statement.
Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore is not conceding to Democrat Doug Jones, telling campaign supporters "it's not over." Campaign chairman Bill Armistead says that because the vote is close and approaching the state's recount requirement, "we do not have a final decision on the outcome."
Russian President Vladimir Putin scoffed Thursday at allegations of collusion between U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign and Russia, saying the reports have been "invented" by Trump's foes and have hurt the U.S. political system. He also mocked his most visible critic, Alexei Navalny, who is barred from challenging Putin in the March 18 presidential vote due to an embezzlement conviction, saying those like him want to plunge Russia into a destabilized quagmire.
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The Southern Tier council was not one of the top winners in the 2017 Regional Economic Development Council awards in Albany on Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017. If you want to relive the haze of the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival at the 50th anniversary celebration in the summer of 2019, rest assured New York will be there to help.
President Donald Trump has attacked the FBI leadership while proclaiming loyalty and support for law enforcement in an address at the agency's training academy. "It's a shame what's happened" with the FBI, the president said as he left the White House for Quantico, Virginia.
President Donald Trump's biggest religious freedom policy promise to evangelicals - repealing the Johnson Amendment - will no longer take place via Republican tax reform. A Democratic senator announced Thursday night that the repeal included in the House version of the tax bill, which would allow churches and other nonprofits to endorse candidates without losing their tax-exempt status, was removed during the reconciliation process with the Senate version, which did not include a repeal.
No organization has embraced Donald Trump's war on the press like the Environmental Protection Agency. Now, the EPA has gone beyond even the president's tough talk and into the dark world of political opposition research.
Alabama senator-elect Doug Jones says his victory over GOP Roy Moore in Tuesday's special election marks a moment for national unity. Jones said he is "overwhelmed" by his win over Moore, who did not concede and talked about a recount.
Sen. Marco Rubio made headlines yesterday when it was reported that he would refuse to support the Republican tax bill unless the child tax credit was expanded. Now, it looks like Rubio's gambit has paid off - at least partially - as the latest version of the bill is said to contain an increased child tax credit.
That's a significant tax break for the very wealthy, The new tax break for millionaires goes beyond what was in the original House and Senate bills. a Starting on Jan. 1, 2018, big businesses would see their tax rate fall from 35 percent to 21 percent, the largest one-time rate cut in U.S. history for America's largest companies.
In a controversial special election in Alabama on Tuesday, Democrat Doug Jones defeated Republican Roy Moore in a close race for the state's seat in the U.S. Senate. The special election was held to find a candidate to replace Jeff Sessions, who had resigned from his post earlier this year to serve as U.S. Attorney General.
After weeks of quarrels, qualms and then eleventh-hour horse-trading, Republicans revealed their huge national tax rewrite late Friday - along with announcements of support that all but guarantee approval next week in time to give President Donald Trump the Christmas legislative triumph he's been aching for. The legislation would slash tax rates for big business and lower levies on the richest Americans in a massive $1.5 trillion bill that the GOP plans to muscle through Congress before its year-end break.
EXCLUSIVE: Daddy duty! Mark Zuckerberg takes his toddler's potty to a burger restaurant and eats shaved ice as he enjoys his month-long paternity leave in Hawaii Trump refuses to rule out pardoning Michael Flynn and says Roy Moore should throw in the towel in Alabama senate race Protester in a wheelchair is shot dead by Israeli troops along with two other Palestinians as riots sparked by Trump's Jerusalem declaration continue in Gaza 'Who the hell wants to take care of them?' Trump says deporting MS-13 gang members is cheaper than housing them in jails and says visa lottery system has to end EXCLUSIVE: Republicans publicly defy Robert Mueller by holding fundraiser for Trump aide he has charged as questions mount over Russia probe Give it up Roy: Defiant Moore and his wife ignore deafening calls to concede the Alabama Senate seat election to Democrat Doug Jones as they carry on regardless ... (more)
U.S. stocks moved broadly higher in afternoon trading Friday, erasing modest losses from the day before and placing the major indexes on course for new highs.
President Donald Trump has attacked the FBI leadership while proclaiming loyalty and support for law enforcement in an address at the agency's training academy. "It's a shame what's happened" with the FBI, the president said as he left the White House for Quantico, Virginia.