The House Rules Committee voted 7-4 on Wednesday to kill the funding request by Rep. John Shimkus, R-Ill., a staunch advocate of nuclear waste storage at the Nevada site.
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Ford is recalling over 1.3 million vehicles mainly in North America to fix rear suspension and transmission control software problems.
The pilot killed when his helicopter hit the roof of a New York City skyscraper in rain and fog radioed that he was lost and trying to get back to the heliport but couldn’t find it, an official briefed on the investigation told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
President Donald Trump has asserted executive privilege over documents that were subpoenaed by Congress related to the administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
Nursing facilities have failed to report thousands of serious cases of potential neglect and abuse of seniors on Medicare even though it’s a federal requirement for them to do so, according to a watchdog report released Wednesday.
A North Carolina man charged with killing three much-admired Muslim university students pleaded guilty Wednesday, four years after the slayings.
A school district in northwestern Indiana says it’s seeking to fire a principal after a special needs teacher awarded an 11-year-old autistic student a trophy naming him the “most annoying male” of the school year.
A South Carolina woman accused of confronting her third-grader’s bullies was arrested and charged with disturbing schools.
President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden repeatedly laid into each other while traveling in the battleground state of Iowa on Tuesday.
With just over three weeks to go, exactly what’s going to happen in Washington on the Fourth of July remains a subject of intense confusion.
Iran’s president says the Islamic Republic does not seek war with the U.S., but will give “a crushing response” if it is attacked.
The World Health Organization says an expert committee has been alerted for a possible meeting to discuss whether to declare the Ebola outbreak a global health emergency.
Hong Kong police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters who had massed outside government headquarters Wednesday in opposition to a proposed extradition bill that has become a lightning rod for concerns over greater Chinese control and erosion of civil liberties in the territory.
House Democrats angling to spotlight damning allegations from special counsel Robert Mueller’s report are focusing Wednesday on contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Leonard Weiner, 81, was found dead inside a home near Charleston and Lamb boulevards after a house fire early Saturday morning, the Clark County coroner’s office said.