Environmental groups sue over Trump auto emissions move
Nine U.S. environmental groups sued the U.S. Transportation Department on Friday over its effort to bar California from setting tailpipe emissions and electric vehicle requirements.
U.S. House defeats Republican measure disapproving of impeachment inquiry
The Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives killed a Republican resolution on Friday disapproving of the formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced this week.
U.S. House votes again to end Trump’s border emergency declaration
The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday backed for a second time legislation that would terminate President Donald Trump’s February declaration of a national emergency on the southern border with Mexico, sending the measure to the White House for T…
Former Dallas cop in wrong-apartment slaying trial breaks down on stand
A former Dallas police officer testifying in her own defense on a murder charge wept in the courtroom on Friday as she began to reenact the incident in which she killed her unarmed neighbor in his own apartment after she entered by accident.
Whistleblower report complains of White House cover-up on Trump-Ukraine scandal
A whistleblower report released on Thursday said President Donald Trump not only abused his office in attempting to solicit Ukraine’s interference in the 2020 U.S. election for his political benefit, but that the White House tried to “lock down” eviden…
Republicans see impeachment backfiring. Democrats fear they may be right
By Gabriella Borter, Brendan O’Brien, Andrew Hay and Zachary Fagenson
Exasperated Trump’s strategy: Flail at Democrats, attack whistleblower, tweet like crazy
U.S. President Donald Trump grew increasingly exasperated on Thursday as he sat in his cabin aboard Air Force One and watched television coverage of Democrats on a congressional committee accuse him of criminal behavior.
Roadmap for Puerto Rico’s exit from bankruptcy filed in U.S. court
Puerto Rico would reduce its core government debt by more than 60% under a restructuring proposal the bankrupt U.S. commonwealth’s federally-created financial oversight board filed in court on Friday.
House Speaker Pelosi accuses U.S. Attorney General of going ‘rogue’
House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday accused U.S. Attorney General William Barr of going “rogue” in the Justice Department’s handling of a whistleblower report that President Donald Trump solicited a political favor from Ukraine’s pr…
U.S. agents search Clio Laboratories in fraud probe, says official
U.S. federal agents conducted a search of Clio Laboratories in Lawrenceville, Georgia, on Friday, a government official said, as part of a nationwide crackdown into genetic-testing fraud against federal health insurance programs.