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The Defense Department said Monday evening that suspicious packages had been received at military installations in the Washington, D.C., region, and were under investigation. In addition, an NBC news report indicated that "similar" packages were located at mail processing facilities for both the CIA and the White House.
Suspicious packages were found at multiple US government installations in the Washington, DC area on Monday and were being analyzed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to determine their contents, law enforcement officials said.
More than 2,300 Border Guard officers took part in the operation. They also arrested 17 people suspected of providing illegal residents with accommodation, 24 people suspected of employing them and 14 people suspected of terrorist activity.
Texas and more than a dozen other states led by Republican governors got behind the Trump administration on Monday in its lawsuit over California's so-called sanctuary laws that protect people in the U.S. illegally. California's laws are designed to interfere with or block federal immigration enforcement but the state does not have that authority, the other states said in a court filing in the U.S. Department of Justice's lawsuit against California.
Of the issues that divide Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and President Donald Trump's incoming national security adviser, John Bolton, one stands out: North Korea. Bolton, who will replace Army Lt.
The Wisconsin Senate plans to take up a bill next week that would change election law after a judge ordered Gov. Scott Walker to hold special elections to fill two vacant legislative seats. Under the proposal, the governor would no longer be required to call special elections for vacant legislative seats "as promptly as possible."
Just when police in the La Crosse area thought they had almost eliminated meth as a major drug problem, it has made a comeback. That's what La Crosse County chief deputy Jeff Wolf told Sen. Tammy Baldwin and others at a drug roundtable held in La Crosse on Monday.
A former employee of the data firm Cambridge Analytica tells CNN the company might have violated US election laws by using non-US citizens to work on American campaigns during the 2014 midterm election cycle. Company whistleblower Christopher Wylie says the data firm, which was hired by Donald Trump's presidential campaign during the 2016 election, was even warned about the practice by the company's US-based law firm two years prior.
American who escaped al-Qaeda captivity in Syria says the FBI under Mueller and Comey 'betrayed' him and claims the bureau tried to run an intelligence operation instead of rescuing him He claims the FBI prioritized trying to track the computers and learn about the group rather than investigating his abduction An American photojournalist who managed to escape al-Qaeda captivity in Syria five years ago claims the FBI betrayed him and that agents put intelligence gathering ahead of his safety. Matt Schrier, now 39, was taken hostage by Jabhat al-Nusra, a militant group aligned with al-Qaeda, while he traveled through Syria back in December 2012.
A congressman who represents Fort Hood has introduced legislation to change how authorities handle crimes including sexual assault that the children of service members commit on military bases.
Linda Brown, the Kansas girl at the center of the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down racial segregation in schools, has died at age 76. Topeka's former Sumner School was all-white when her father, Oliver, tried to enroll the family. He became lead plaintiff in the 1954 Brown v.
The California Court of Appeal has created some First Amendment breathing room for the creators of docudramas. It's coming at the expense of legendary actor Olivia De Havilland.
A commercial fishing crew and a federal observer were rescued after their vessel sank and they spent hours in a life raft hundreds of miles off the coast of Hawaii, the U.S. Coast Guard said Monday. The agency said it received an emergency distress alert from the Princess Hawaii late Sunday morning about 400 miles north of the Big Island.
Linda Brown, who at the age of 9 became the cornerstone figure in the landmark Supreme Court case that struck down segregation in the nation's schools, has died at age 76 in Kansas, according to published reports. Linda Brown Smith, 9, is shown in this 1952 photo.
The Trump administration's decision to shutter the Russian consulate in Seattle displeased many Russian immigrants Monday, some of whom rushed to its offices in hopes of securing passports, visas and other important documents. TOPEKA, Kan.
In this Aug. 13, 2015, file photo, hemp plants tower above researchers who tend to them at a research farm in Lexington, Ky. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Monday, March 26, 2018, he wants to bring hemp production back into the mainstream by removing it from the controlled substances list that now associates it with marijuana, its illicit cousin.
Dr. Kim Schrier, an Issquah pediatrician running as a Democrat to replace GOP Rep. Dave Reichert, becomes the second 8th District candidate to top $1 million in money raised. Dr. Kim Schrier, an Issquah pediatrician running as a Democrat to replace GOP Rep. Dave Reichert, becomes the second 8th District candidate to top $1 million in money raised.
In this Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017, file photo, White House Senior adviser Jared Kushner attends a meeting in Beijing. The head of the federal government's ethics agency says the White House is looking into whether up to $500 million that went to Trump administration senior adviser Jared Kushner's family real estate company may have spurred ethics or criminal law violations.
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The veteran Hollywood star, 101, sued the network for defamation over what she said was a damaging portrayal of her as a gossip. The three judge panel overturned a previous court ruling that found in the actress's favor and ruled Monday that the First Amendment allowed filmmakers to embellish the historical record, Variety reported.