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Former Presidents George W. Bush, left, and George H.W. Bush arrive at St. Martin's Episcopal Church for a funeral service for former first lady Barbara Bush, Saturday, April 21, 2018, in Houston. By MICHAEL GRACZYK, Associated Press HOUSTON - Former President George H.W. Bush has been hospitalized in Houston with an infection, just after attending the funeral of his wife, Barbara, a spokesman said.
Former President George H.W. Bush is awake, alert and talking after he was admitted to intensive care earlier this week, a family spokesman said Tuesday. Bush, 93, was admitted to the Houston Methodist Hospital Sunday morning after contracting an infection that spread to his blood, family spokesman Jim McGrath said, a day after a funeral was held for his wife, Barbara Bush.
A guereza monkey jumps while carrying a newborn baby at the Prague Zoo in Prague, Czech Republic, April 5, 2018. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled, following an earlier case, that animals can have standing under the Constitution to bring lawsuits .
Flatiron Books announced Tuesday that sales topped 600,000 copies, a number that includes print, audio and e-books. The former FBI director's memoir has been one of the year's most anticipated releases.
By all accounts, the Legal Orientation Program has been a smashing success for the federal government. The program - which provides rudimentary legal guidance to people facing deportation - saves taxpayer money, speeds the court process, and has been praised by judges, lawyers, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The massive growth of the wine industry has led to a very real problem-wine monocultures that transform ecologically complex places such as the hills of Napa County into carefully manicured landscapes that leave no room for the wild. That a lot of wineries require hillsides makes this worse, as many species exist on a pretty strict elevation level.
This detail from Amy Chozick's story is just confirming something we could already have inferred, but I think it's important to have it on the record: A few weeks before Election Day, I was stuck in my cubicle poring over John Podesta's emails. I wanted to be on the road.
The Trump administration is standing behind White House physician Ronny L. Jackson after his confirmation to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs was slowed by questions about his background and experience. "Admiral Jackson has been on the front lines of deadly combat and saved the lives of many others in service to this country," White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said in a statement.
This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Erick Davila. Attorneys for the Texas death row inmate want the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his scheduled execution this week for the shooting deaths of a 5-year-old girl and her grandmother during a birthday party 10 years ago outside a Fort Worth apartment.
'If they restart it, they're going to have big problems': Trump rages against Iran as he it would restart nuclear program at own peril and slams Obama's deal Donald Trump warned Iran on Tuesday that it will 'have big problems' if it restarts its nuclear program with or without an agreement providing sanctions relief in exchange for its cooperation. Trump brushed off an assertion that Tehran would seek to become nuclear capable if he he ditches the nuclear agreement that the U.S. entered into with the rogue nation, saying it 'won't be so easy to restart it.'
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that victims of overseas atrocities can't use a centuries-old law to sue foreign corporations for complicity, blunting what once was a favorite legal tool for human-rights advocates. ruling on Tuesday, which divided the court along ideological lines, marks the second time in five years the high court has cut the reach of the 1789 Alien Tort Statute.
Foo Fighters "My Hero" was released in 1998, but they performed the song live since 1995. Some people assume the song is about Dave Grohl's former Nirvana band-mate Kurt Cobain, but in fact it's not.
The Senate Veterans Affairs Committee is examining allegations that President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Veterans Affairs Department oversaw a hostile work environment as the White House physician and allowed the overprescribing of drugs, according to congressional officials briefed on the committee's work. The allegations, which have been under investigation since last week, forced the postponement of Jackson's confirmation hearing, planned for this Wednesday as senators scrutinize the nominee's time leading the White House medical staff.
The latest Goucher Poll puts Maryland's Republican governor, Larry Hogan , in a strong position to win a second term. But while Maryland Democrats, who outnumber Republicans 2-1, widely approve of Hogan's job as governor, whether they vote for him in November remains an open question.
A U.S. Senate committee approved the nomination of President Donald Trump's choice for secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, on Monday after a Republican senator who had been opposed threw his support behind the CIA director in the face of party pressure. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved the nomination on a party-line vote, with all 11 Republicans backing him, nine Democrats opposed and one Democrat, Chris Coons, voting "present" because one Republican was at a funeral out of town.
One in three older Americans with Medicare drug coverage is prescribed opioid painkillers, but for those who develop a dangerous addiction there is one treatment Medicare won't cover: Methadone is the oldest, and experts say, the most effective of the three approved medications used to treat opioid addiction. It eases cravings without an intense high, allowing patients to work with counselors to rebuild their lives.
"For as long as the 27th Congressional District in Texas has been embroiled in litigation over whether it was racially gerrymandered, Nick Gilby has been working on Democratic Party campaigns there. Those seven years, he says, have been 'like banging your head against a wall to see if you can move it.'
Accompanied by first lady Melania Trump and Macron's wife, Brigitte Macron, the pair planted a tree on the White House grounds that Macron brought with him as part of his three-day state visit to Washington. OK, so how does military history tie in? The sapling sprouted at a World War I site in France where the Battle of Belleau Wood took place.