1Ralph Northam scandal: How did we get hereMonday, February 4, 2019

Controversy swirled over the weekend after a racist photo in Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam's medical school yearbook surfaced. The photo, which pictured a person in blackface and a person dressed in a Ku Klux Klan robe, was featured on Northam's page in a 1984 yearbook. Northam, a Democrat, initially apologized for being... Read More

2Feds flag Arizona senator for excessive campaign donationsFriday, February 1, 2019

Arizona Sen. Martha McSally, whose fundraising practices have drawn scrutiny in the past, appears to have accepted more than $270,000 in excessive campaign contributions during the recent midterm campaign, according to the Federal Election Commission. Federal candidates can collect $2,700 from a single donor during... Read More

3Trump to NYT: Wall talks a 'waste of time'Friday, February 1, 2019

US President Donald Trump has dismissed the federal investigation into alleged Russian collusion in the 2016 election and talks about a proposed border wall. His lawyers had been reassured he was not a target in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, he said. Talks in Congress about wall funding - the issue... Read More

4Chicago Is So Ridiculously Cold That the Railroad Tracks Need to Be on Fire to Keep the Trains MovingWednesday, January 30, 2019

There are over 140,000 miles of privately-owned standard-gauge rail in the United States, vital to the transportation of billions of tons of freight and people. Occasionally, it gets really cold where some of those train tracks sit. Like right now, in Chicago, where Wednesday’s high temperature is expected to be thirteen... Read More

5Trump Calls His Intelligence People ‘Naive’Wednesday, January 30, 2019

President Trump on Wednesday pushed back against his intelligence chiefs’ national security assessments, saying “the Intelligence people seem to be extremely passive and naive when it comes to the dangers of Iran,” and he defended his own, more positive appraisals of threats to the United States posed by North Korea... Read More

6Kamala Harris defines her fight against Trump in CNN town hallTuesday, January 29, 2019

As Kamala Harris introduced herself as a 2020 presidential candidate to Iowa caucus-goers and the nation on Monday night, she showed exactly why she is viewed as such a formidable contender. During a CNN town hall at Drake University in Des Moines, she demonstrated an easy command of the policies that are most important... Read More

7China Launches Missile That Could Strike U.S. TerritoryTuesday, January 29, 2019

China has released footage of a new intermediate-range ballistic missile that has enough range to strike United States territory, dubbed by some as the “Guam killer.” The Dongfeng-26 (or DF-26) ballistic missile has a range of 1,864 to 3,567 miles, according to the South China Morning Post (SCMP). That means the U.S.... Read More

8Collapse of Two Plans to End Shutdown Propels Urgent NegotiationsFriday, January 25, 2019

A pair of measures to reopen the government — one with President Trump’s border wall, the other without it — failed in the Senate on Thursday, sending lawmakers from both parties into frenzied efforts to forge a compromise that could end the nearly six-week partial shutdown. In back-to-back votes, the Senate first... Read More

9Russia denies bail for former U.S. Marine accused of spyingTuesday, January 22, 2019

A Russian court on Tuesday rejected an American man's bid for release on bail and instead granted an extension to his detention pending a trial on espionage charges, according to Russia's state-run Interfax news agency. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said last week that Paul Whelan was caught "red handed" trying to recruit... Read More

10Ronaldo accepts €18.8m deal over tax evasionTuesday, January 22, 2019

ootball superstar Cristiano Ronaldo has cut a deal with a court in Madrid over tax evasion charges, accepting an €18.8m (£16.6m) fine. A huge media presence met the player outside the court, after a judge refused his request to appear by video or to enter the building by car to avoid the spotlight. The deal, agreed... Read More