The top U.S. general in the Middle East and Central Asia said Friday that President Donald Trump was wrong to withdraw all U.S. troops from Syria and to declare without evidence that ISIS had been defeated. “It would not have been my military advice at that particular time,” Gen. Joseph Votel, head of U.S. Central Command, […]

In 2016′s Democratic presidential race, Sen. Bernie Sanders’ identity was clear. He was the radical progressive offering a distinct alternative to Hillary Clinton, whose experience and coziness with financial elites made her a convenient foil for the rumpled democratic socialist from Burlington, Vermont. Sanders was the true believer who didn’t have to explain away voting for the […]

MORRISVILLE, Pa. (AP) — A mother and her adult daughter killed five of their close relatives, including three children, and were found “disoriented” after child welfare authorities arrived for a surprise visit to their trashed apartment outside Philadelphia, police and prosecutors said Tuesday. Shana Decree, 45, and her daughter Dominique Decree, 19, were charged with […]

George Conway pulled no punches with his Twitter commentary of Michael Cohen’s hearing before the House oversight committee on Wednesday. The conservative attorney, who is married to top White House adviser Kellyanne Conway, live-tweeted throughout the testimony of President Donald Trump’s former fixer and personal lawyer. Conway took multiple jabs at Trump, who he accused […]

LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Experts were working Tuesday to determine the cause of an increase in dolphin strandings along the Southern California coast. The Pacific Marine Mammal Center said it has responded to six beached dolphins this month and received reports of two others. Necropsies have been performed on all the dolphins to try […]

Lawrence O’Donnell crunched the polling numbers on Monday and concluded that President Donald Trump faces a tough challenge to be re-elected in 2020. The host of MSNBC’s “The Last Word” claimed Trump has “run out of moves” because “there won’t be another Trump tax cut” and “there won’t be a Trump wall.” He also explained […]

By April Simpson LONDON, Ky. — Michael Calebs begins feeling nostalgic standing in the airy barn on his rolling, 400-acre farm. He recalls the hard labor of his youth: climbing up to horizontal beams to hang floppy tobacco leaves to air cure so the leaves could develop a sweet taste. Calebs places a small amount […]

Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-Texas) tore into President Donald Trump’s fake narrative that U.S. border towns are lawless frontiers, declaring that they’re “safer than any city the president has ever lived in.” The border town of McAllen, Texas ― population 145,000 ― in Gonzalez’s district didn’t have a single homicide last year, the congressman pointed out in […]

Michael Cohen concluded his widely watched testimony on Wednesday by predicting the United States may not see “a peaceful transition of power” if Donald Trump loses the presidency in the next election. “Given my experience working for Mr. Trump, I fear that if he loses the election in 2020, that there will never be a peaceful […]

GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) — The ex-boyfriend of the New York woman whose body was found inside a suitcase in a wooded area of Connecticut was held without bail Tuesday on a charge carrying a potential death penalty. Javier Enrique Da Silva Rojas, 24, of Queens, New York, was detained in the death of 24-year-old Valerie […]