A longtime host of the nightly PBS “NewsHour” whose serious, sober demeanor made him the choice to moderate 11 presidential debates, has died. Jim Lehrer was 85.
ABC, CBS and NBC stuck to entertainment programming Wednesday night instead of showing President Donald Trump's impeachment trial in the Senate. Since it was the first night that House managers were outlining the case against Trump, it's likely that judgment by TV executives will carry through for the rest of the trial.
A lawyer says the killing of a Utah mother and three of her children by a gunman identified by police as her 16-year-old son is "nearly unbearable" for the father who survived.
China has decided to lock down three cities that are home to more than 18 million people in an unprecedented effort to try to contain a deadly new viral illness that has sickened hundreds and spread to other cities and countries in the Lunar New Year travel rush.
Terry Jones, a member of the Monty Python troupe that revolutionized British comedy, has died at 77. Jones family says he died Tuesday evening at his home in London after “after a long, extremely brave but always good-humored battle with a rare form of dementia.”
For over 10 years John Meade Jr. sat on the same bench and was known around town as the "friendly homeless man." After he died, local police discovered he served in the US Army and made sure he was buried with full military honors.
After some last-minute changes, the rules for President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial largely follow the ones used during the trial of President Bill Clinton.
Chief Justice John Roberts drew little attention to himself while presiding at his first impeachment trial. But just before 1 a.m. Wednesday, as tempers on the Senate floor had started to wear thin, he reminded everyone who was in charge.
SEATTLE (AP) — The U.S. on Tuesday reported its first case of a new and potentially deadly virus circulating in China, saying a Washington state resident who returned last week from the outbreak’s epicenter was hospitalized in good condition near Seattle. The man, identified only as a Snohomish County resident is in his 30s, was […]
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Face masks are selling out and temperature checks at airports are the new norm as China tries to control the outbreak of a new coronavirus that has reached four other countries and territories and threatens to spread further during the Lunar New Year travel rush.
A Hawaii handyman with a history of run-ins with police and neighbors faced eviction when authorities say he stabbed his landlord and killed two police officers. Then the house that the man and two women were believed to be inside caught fire.
The impeachment trial of President Donald Trump will resume this week and may start with a fight over the ground rules. By then, both sides will have submitted briefs. And four Democratic presidential candidates will have been forced back to Washington from the early nominating states to join every other senator in silence on the Senate floor.
People in a southern Puerto Rico city discovered a warehouse filled with water, cots and other unused emergency supplies donated in wake of Hurricane Maria.
