The U.S. Coast Guard on Monday afternoon said it would send out more more boats and aircraft to search for a tourist submersible that went missing en route to visit the 1912 wreckage of the Titanic in the North Atlantic Ocean. Coast Guard 1st District Commander Rear Adm. John Mauger said crews are searching about...
In 2010, the then-five-year-old child ran onto the field at the West Point graduation ceremony as cadets tossed their caps into the air. As is tradition, the children who catch a hat get to keep it, along with any money or messages left inside.
The owner of two Sacramento-area restaurants illegally denied $70,000 in overtime wages and allegedly offered workers the services of a "priest" to confess "workplace sins" to, the U.S. Labor Department said.
“The week the House stood still” could be a sci-fi thriller. But it wasn’t fiction and certainly wasn’t scientific. It was a real-life drama that unfolded on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives the week of June 5. The legislative business of the world’s greatest deliberative body came to a grinding halt June 6, when...
The U.S. and China are seeking to thaw icy tensions between the world’s two superpowers and pave the way for a face-to-face meeting between President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping later this year. Xi’s welcoming of Secretary of State Antony Blinken in a private meeting Monday in Beijing signals the seriousness with which China...
The U.S. in early 2020 disrupted a plot by Russian President Vladimir Putin to assassinate a former high-ranking Russian spy turned CIA-informant in Miami. The episode, reported Monday by The New York Times, illustrates another example of Putin’s hard-line toward perceived enemies that have played out in assassination efforts that take place inside Russia and...
Republicans are urgently trying to erase the stigma over early mail voting among many of their voters as the party works to catch up with Democrats in 2024. Earlier this month, the Republican National Committee (RNC) rolled out its “Bank Your Vote” campaign to encourage GOP voters to get comfortable with the practice ahead of...