Testifying Tuesday before a Senate committee, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the number two military officer in the country denied sexual misconduct allegations levied against him by a former aide.
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Immigrant advocacy lawyers urged a federal judge Monday to temporarily freeze the Trump administration’s new rules blocking most people crossing at the U.S.-Mexico border from seeking asylum.
Read moreAdvisory committees for the Environmental Protection Agency have been stripped of academic scientists while stakeholders from industries the agency regulates have filled out those spots, in a shift that scientists warned Tuesday could upend oversight of environmental matters in favor of profit-driven motives.
Read moreAs the Trump administration’s plans to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census officially come to an end, the head of the Census Bureau expressed confidence Tuesday that his agency is prepared for the critical once-a-decade count.
Read moreDefying a congressional subpoena, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway refused for the second time Monday to attend a House Oversight Committee hearing on her violations of a federal law limiting the political activities of federal employees.
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A malicious cyberattack in March disrupted the California, Utah and Wyoming electrical utility systems for several hours. No customers lost power and it only affected internal system operations, but it was enough to raise concerns about a more damaging and widespread attack on the electric grid.
Read moreHouse Democrats are considering a delay of special counsel Robert Mueller’s high-profile hearing next week because of concerns over the short length of the scheduled hearings before two committees.
Read moreDuring its first-ever hearing on the subject, the House Oversight Committee met Thursday with experts and survivors of childhood trauma, a day after an immigrant mother gave emotional testimony about the death of her baby daughter following their stay at a detention center.
Read moreYazmin Juarez’s 19-month-old daughter died after getting sick following her stay at an unsanitary immigration detention center in Texas. She told lawmakers her story Wednesday to shed light on the human toll behind the Trump administration’s immigration policy, leaving few dry eyes in the room.
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By the time Paul Gibbs was 5 years old, he had already gone through nine surgeries for a condition he was born with that damages his kidneys through an inability to expel waste. His kidneys reached the end stage of failure by 2008 and Gibbs was forced to seek help for his $79,000 transplant surgery, asking members of his church and family friends for donations.
Read moreNative American advocates told lawmakers on a Senate panel Wednesday that tribal police should have jurisdiction over violent cases committed by non-Natives on tribal land and the federal government should improve databases tracking such crimes.
Read moreRebecca Wood’s daughter was born three months premature, required a feeding tube and has relied on Medicaid waivers for critical treatment most of her life. The patient advocate told lawmakers Wednesday her daughter would not have survived if Wood had not put off her own serious dental procedure for an infection that cost her parts of her jaw.
Read moreThe warming of the planet and related effects of climate change will impact the finances of American citizens, the U.S. economy and the federal budget, experts told the House Budget Committee on Tuesday.
Read moreFinding he poses too great a threat to public safety, a federal judge ruled Friday that a witness in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation with links to associates of President Donald Trump must stay in jail on charges of transporting child pornography.
Read morePlanned Parenthood urged a St. Louis judge Wednesday to issue a preliminary injunction barring Missouri officials from pulling the plug on the state’s only remaining abortion clinic.
Read morePlanned Parenthood won the first round Tuesday in a legal battle to keep Missouri’s only abortion clinic open, after a St. Louis judge quashed subpoenas seeking the testimony of four doctors in the state’s bid to pull the clinic’s license.
Read moreA Tennessee judge ruled Wednesday there is enough evidence for a grand jury to hear the case of a man accused of killing eight people in a rural community a few miles from the Kentucky border, including his parents.
Read moreCapturing an image of a black hole was considered impossible just a generation ago but an international collaboration produced that very impossibility last month. On Thursday, scientists told Congress they are ready to go even deeper into the reaches of the universe’s greatest cosmic mysteries.
Read moreThe Trump administration may have issued a directive ordering American astronauts back to the moon in five years, but lawmakers bristled Wednesday as NASA officials offered few concrete details about the lunar landing plan or the project’s prospective budget.
Read moreTestifying Thursday afternoon before the Massachusetts Gaming Commission, the ex-wife of casino mogul Steve Wynn said she was removed from the company’s board after reporting rape allegations against him.
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