'Highly unusual': White House halts FBI background checks for senior staff, shifts them to Pentagon: Sources
Photo by Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The White House has quietly directed the FBI to halt the background check process for dozens of President Donald Trump’s top staffers, and has transferred the process to the
Republicans use legislative sneak play to tie Democrats' hands on tariffs
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In a sneaky legislative maneuver tied into the effort to pass a funding bill and avert a government shutdown, House Republicans earlier this week successfully blocked Democrats from forcing votes and debate
Tornadoes, flash flooding, damaging winds headed to Midwest, South, East Coast
ABC News (NEW YORK) — A multiday severe weather outbreak is set to bring tornadoes, flash flooding and damaging winds from the Midwest to the South and the East Coast. The severe weather begins in the Midwest
Trump expected to invoke wartime Alien Enemies Act to carry out mass deportations: Sources
Hulton Deutsch/Corbis via Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — As early as Friday, President Donald Trump is expected to invoke the Alien Enemies Act — a wartime law that allows the president to detain or deport the natives
Experts say Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil can't be deported without due process
Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The detaining of Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University student and Palestinian activist who possessed a green card, has raised questions about the deportation risks faced by lawful permanent residents amid the Trump
Trump asks Supreme Court to intervene on blocks to his birthright citizenship order
Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump’s administration has asked the Supreme Court to significantly narrow nationwide injunctions issued by three different federal judges blocking his executive order redefining birthright citizenship in
Dakota Johnson filmed on set of Colleen Hoover's 'Verity' film adaption
Jason Howard/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images via Getty Images Dakota Johnson was spotted on the streets of New York City filming for the upcoming movie Verity. Johnson was spotted on the streets of Manhattan on March 12 surrounded by film
Dad gunned down in Southern California home invasion, 13-year-old son calls 911
KABC (LOS ANGELES) — Authorities are searching for the man who broke into a Los Angeles-area house and gunned down a father while his wife and son were home, officials said. The 61-year-old victim was attacked at
98 protesters arrested at Trump Tower sit-in for detained activist Mahmoud Khalil
Alex Segre/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — At least 98 people were arrested Thursday at a protest in the lobby of Trump Tower in Manhattan that called for the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil
'Black Mirror' season 7 trailer shows off 'USS Callister' sequel
Netflix Black Mirror is coming back for more. Netflix has released the trailer for season 7 of the sci-fi anthology series. The show returns to the streamer on April 10. Notably, season 7 finds Black Mirror revisiting