WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department says it will carry out executions of federal death row inmates for the first time since 2003. The department says five inmates will be executed, starting in December. In 2014, President Barack Obama directed…
NEW YORK (AP) - UPS is responding to the growth in online shopping and pressures for speedy delivery by seeking to expand its drone deliveries and adding thousands of new spots where customers can pick up packages. The Atlanta-based package…
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump says the Russia probe created a "phony cloud'' over his administration and says House committee hearings featuring testimony from special counsel Robert Mueller were "all nonsense.'' He…
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former special counsel Robert Mueller told the House judiciary and intelligence committees that he would decline to quote from his report on the Trump-Russia investigation during his testimony before both panels on Wednesday. That's according to a…
WASHINGTON (AP) - The former special counsel in the Trump-Russia probe, Robert Mueller, will finally face congressional interrogators on Wednesday, testifying in televised hearings. Democrats hope Mueller's testimony will weaken President Donald Trump's reelection prospects in ways that Mueller's book-length…
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration is proposing to tighten automatic eligibility requirements for the food stamp program, a change that could affect about 3.1 million people. The Agriculture Department says the rule would close "a loophole" that enables people…
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate has confirmed Army veteran and former defense industry lobbyist Mark Esper as secretary of defense. Esper's confirmation ends a stretch of seven months the Pentagon didn't have…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (Fox 10) - Elevation Foods is voluntarily recalling egg salad, tuna salad, and sandwiches due to listeria concerns. Elevations Foods says containers of Archer Farms-brand…
WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republicans are pledging tough questioning of special counsel Robert Mueller when he testifies before Congress this week as Democrats plan to air evidence of wrongdoing by President Donald Trump in a potentially last-ditch bid to impeach…
NEW YORK (AP) - A federal judge has denied bail for jailed financier Jeffrey Epstein on sex trafficking charges involving underage girls. The judge's decision Thursday comes after prosecutors argued Epstein should remain behind bars in New York City because…
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Republican U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy of Wisconsin calls the four minority congresswomen targeted by President Donald Trump's controversial tweets “anti-American.'' The 7th District congressman defended Trump on the House floor Tuesday where Democrats asked that Duffy's words…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Federal Prosecutors announced Tuesday that it had decided not to bring civil rights charges against New York City police officer Pantaleo in connection with Eric Garner's 2014 death. Officers were attempting to arrest Garner on charges he…
WASHINGTON (AP) - Two Republican senators are taking issue with President Donald Trump's tweet that freshman Democratic congresswomen of color “go back'' to where they came from. Maine Sen. Susan Collins, who is up for re-election next year, said Trump's…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta is stepping down following criticism of his handling of a plea deal with a wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein, who is accused of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls. Trump…
NEW YORK (AP) - Fans of the World Cup champion U.S. women's soccer team are gathered at City Hall in New York for a ceremony where Mayor Bill de Blasio will give the…
