Hunter Biden stood to make tens of millions of dollars if he could help a wealthy real estate tycoon in Romania escape corruption charges, so he sought to leverage money from a Chinese company to purchase a stake in the associate's real estate development project next to the U.S. embassy in Bucharest.

A federal appeals court gave President Trump temporary permission to federalize National Guard troops in Oregon, but said he remains barred from actually deploying them.

Eight days into the government shutdown with no end in sight, congressional sparring spilled outside the chamber floors and into the hallways.

The federal government will tally a deficit of $1.8 trillion for the just-completed fiscal year, the Congressional Budget Office projected Wednesday.