Republicans survived an election scare on Tuesday and won a Kansas House seat in the first congressional election since President Donald Trump’s victory, but the margin was much narrower than expected in a district that had voted overwhelmingly for Trump in November.
The White House on Wednesday will instruct all federal agencies to submit a plan by June 30 to shrink their civilian workforces. A governmentwide hiring freeze the president imposed on Jan. 23 will be lifted immediately.
The Department of Energy’s Yucca Mountain program was defunded and dismantled under President Barack Obama, leaving only a handful of scientists from the hundreds who once worked on the project.
North Korean state media warned on Tuesday of a nuclear attack on the United States at any sign of American aggression, as a U.S. Navy strike group steamed toward the western Pacific — a force U.S. President Donald Trump described as an “armada.”
Video footage of a passenger being forcibly removed from a United Airlines plane after the flight was overbooked has sparked outrage across social media, Hollywood and called into question airline policies.
Authorities in Cookeville say a woman is dead and two other people have been wounded in a shooting outside an auto parts plant there.
The viral video of a man getting forcibly dragged out of his seat on a Uniter flight has ignited a social media uproar from Hollywood figures, media personalities, and Twitter users alike.
NASA will give Earth dwellers the first live-streaming look at 4K Ultra HD video from space during a session at the 2017 NAB Show on April 26 in Las Vegas.
Syria and North Korea might be two of the most embattled countries in the world right now. But in the face of increasing pressure from the United States, the two nations are reaffirming their friendship.
Students dove under desks when a man walked into his estranged wife’s elementary school classroom and opened fire without saying a word, killing her and an 8-year-old student and wounding a 9-year-old before fatally shooting himself, authorities said.
Tesla, the darling of Silicon Valley, on Monday became the most valuable American car company, surpassing General Motors, the Detroit granddaddy with $10 billion in sales on nearly 10 million vehicles.
News that a passenger was forcibly dragged off a United Airlines plane has gone viral all over the world, but in China the outrage has been fueled by one uncomfortable fact.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says Russia must choose between aligning itself with the U.S. and likeminded countries or embracing Syrian President Bashar Assad, Iran and the militant group Hezbollah.
For Elizabeth Barajas it had been an hours-long nightmare waiting to learn the fate of the daughter she had dropped off at school a couple of hours before police reported gunfire in a classroom.
The United States has made a preliminary conclusion that Russia knew in advance of Syria’s chemical weapons attack last week, but has no proof of Moscow’s involvement, a senior U.S. official said Monday.
