‘El Chapo’ jurors see intimate texts caught by drug lord’s spyware
Prosecutors in the U.S. trial of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman on Wednesday shared with jurors text messages they said the accused Mexican drug lord sent to his wife and apparent mistress in which he discussed narrowly escaping from a raid and joked about …
Trump says Republicans ‘totally unified’ after talks on border security
U.S. President Donald Trump said after talks with congressional Republicans on Wednesday that the party was unified in its demands for border security.
Trump says he has right to declare border emergency, Democrats to test Republican resolve
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he has a right to declare a national emergency to build a wall on the southern border if no deal with Congress can be reached on funding the project, but Democrats plan to test Republicans’ resolve on the i…
‘My mortgage is due’ Some U.S. federal workers seek shutdown cash
About 1,000 furloughed federal workers have turned to online fundraising to help cover their expenses as a partial shutdown of the U.S. government drags on for nearly three weeks, a spokeswoman for GoFundMe.com said on Wednesday.
Trump claims ‘unwavering’ Republican support for his border stance
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that support among Republican lawmakers was “unwavering” for the tough stance he has taken to try to secure funds for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Error in U.S. prisons law means well-behaved inmates wait longer for release
U.S. prisoners who were expecting earlier release for good behavior, thanks to a new criminal justice law enacted last month, must keep waiting due to an error in the bill, said activists working with the White House to fix the mistake.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and wife MacKenzie to divorce
Amazon.com Inc founder and Chief Executive Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest person, and his wife MacKenzie Bezos are divorcing after 25 years of marriage, the couple said on Twitter on Wednesday.
Trump to halt U.S. relief funds for California wildfires
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he has ordered a halt to federal disaster relief for California’s wildfires unless state officials involved in forest management “get their act together.”
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and wife MacKenzie set to divorce
Billionaire Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive of Amazon.com Inc, and wife MacKenzie Bezos, are divorcing after 25 years of marriage, the couple said in a joint statement on Twitter on Wednesday.
DNA test clears Golden State Killer suspect of 1975 murder: prosecutor
DNA evidence has cleared a former policeman accused of being the “Golden State Killer,” who terrified a swath of California with dozens of rapes and murders in the 1970s and 1980s, in one murder case from 1975 in which he was a suspect, prosecutors sai…
