Trump administration officials on Tuesday defended their plan to Congress for ending government control of mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, clashing with Democratic senators on whether the change would raise home borrowing costs and neglect lower-income homeowners.
President Donald Trump has fired National Security Adviser John Bolton, after speculation that the hawkish former U.N. ambassador was on his way out.
Salvage team member Tim Ferris called it “a rescue of a lifetime.” The four cargo ship members were trapped for 30 hours in darkness, 150-degree heat.
Republicans are hoping an eleventh-hour pep talk from President Donald Trump will propel them to a special election victory Tuesday in a GOP-friendly House district in North Carolina, a race that could illuminate their chances of retaking the House majority and Trump’s own reelection prospects in 2020.
BEIRUT — Iraq’s state-run TV channel, citing Iraq’s Health Ministry, says the death toll from a stampede in the Shiite holy city of Karbala has climbed to 31.
The Taliban have told Afghans to boycott the vote and warned that rallies and polling stations would be targets. The insurgent group is more distrustful than ever and has vowed to keep fighting.
The Senate’s top Democrat intends to force a vote to block President Donald Trump from using special emergency powers to transfer money from military base construction projects to pay for new fences along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Thousands of hurricane survivors are filing off boats and planes in the capital of the Bahamas, facing the need to start new lives after Hurricane Dorian but with little ideas on how or where to begin.
Apple delivered the news Tuesday while also unveiling three new iPhones that won’t look much different than last year’s models.
A federal judge has set a Dec. 18 sentencing date for Michael Flynn as a lawyer for President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser accused federal prosecutors of “egregious government misconduct.”
President Nicolás Maduro’s spokesman on Monday called the supposedly secret documents badly forged fakes.
The Clark County School District has received just over a third of the $34 million it sought, while rural Humboldt County had its request fully funded.
The video was shot on the Massachusetts Turnpike in Newton.
Once known as vet techs, students are now on a path to becoming veterinary nurses as the College of Southern Nevada joins other institutions to define and expand the profession.
Defense attorney Steven Greenberg argued that Matthew Berger was a nuisance, but his actions did not constitute a crime.
