WASHINGTON ― The government shutdown is in its 25th day, and no one is even talking. There is no deal in the offing, and neither Democrats nor Republicans have moved at all from their initial positions. Instead, Capitol Hill and the White House are stuck waiting for the other side to completely capitulate while neither […]

Michael Ollove In crime novelist Agatha Christie’s biggest hit, “And Then There Were None,” guests at an island mansion die suspicious deaths one after another. So you can forgive Jeff Lyle, a big fan of Christie’s, for comparing the 36-bed community hospital he runs in Marlin, Texas, to one of those unfortunate guests. In December, […]

Seth Meyers thinks he knows what may have happened to the notes that President Donald Trump reportedly seized from his own interpreter following his 2017 meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Now we don’t know what Trump did with those notes, but we do know that in her tell-all book former Trump aide Omarosa said […]

CNN’s chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said Friday was a “bad day” for the news media. Toobin said the calling into question by special counsel Robert Mueller’s office of a BuzzFeed article that alleged President Donald Trump told his former fixer and personal lawyer Michael Cohen to lie before Congress “reinforces every bad stereotype about the […]

GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) — A woman found dead and bound in a suitcase in a wooded area of Connecticut was identified Thursday as a 24-year-old New York resident who was reported missing last week. Greenwich, Connecticut, police said the woman was Valerie Reyes, of New Rochelle, New York, who was last seen Jan. 29 and […]

Former White House photographer Pete Souza used an old image he snapped of The Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger to comment on the indictment of President Donald Trump’s longtime associate Roger Stone. FBI agents raided Stone’s Florida home Friday morning and arrested him on charges of obstruction, false statements and witness tampering as part of special […]

Charlie Sykes has come up with a way for President Donald Trump to save face with his conservative base over his proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall — and also end the ongoing government shutdown. “About the only way that I think he’s going to get out of this is for the Democrats to give him a […]

Accidental opioid overdoses are not only on the rise but now cause the most preventable injury-related deaths in the U.S. for the first time ever, according to a new report. The latest numbers from the National Safety Council, which analyzed 2017 data from the National Center for Health Statistics, place accidental opioid overdoses ahead of […]

A Florida airport is helping make sure hundreds of federal employees who work there will be able to put food on the table while they work without pay during the ongoing partial government shutdown. Tampa International Airport teamed up with Feeding Tampa Bay and United Way Suncoast to set up a food bank on Monday. […]

China has granted Ivanka Trump’s business preliminary approval of five new trademarks ahead of next week’s trade talks with the U.S., The Associated Press reported. Four of them, including wedding gowns, sunglasses and child care centers, got the green light on Sunday. The fifth, which involves charitable fundraising, art valuations and brokerage, was approved earlier […]