President Donald Trump plans to nominate Jessie Liu, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, for the role of associate attorney general, the White House announced Tuesday. The job, the No. 3 position at the Justice Department, has been vacant for over a year since former associate attorney general Rachel Brand’s unexpected departure. Brand […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A 42-year-old Columbia, Missouri, man has been charged with trying to burn down a local Planned Parenthood clinic last month, federal prosecutors said Monday. Wesley Brian Kaster was arrested Saturday after investigators searched his vehicle and found evidence linking him to the fire at the Planned Parenthood-Columbia Health Center. No […]

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) told a town hall meeting in New Hampshire on Monday that she supports renaming Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples’ Day. The presidential candidate’s support is part of a growing movement to re-evaluate the role of Christopher Columbus in the nation’s history and celebrate the shared history and culture of Native Americans. Columbus ― […]

By Rebecca Beitsch Environmentalists and Democratic lawmakers increasingly are working to bar the sale of sunscreens that may damage coral reefs, but the bans are dividing a surprising group: coral scientists. Hawaii last year became the first state to ban sales of sunscreens with oxybenzone and octinoxate, chemicals that are found in as much as […]

Bill Maher began Friday’s broadcast of “Real Time” with a blistering dissection of President Donald Trump’s Rose Garden declaration of a national emergency to pay for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. “He did it, fucko did it today,” said Maher, who described Trump’s address as “just completely crackers.” “I know I’ve said that before, […]

A statue replicating the iconic World War II photo of a sailor kissing a nurse was found spray painted with the Me Too movement’s hashtag in Sarasota, Florida, on Monday, authorities said. Sarasota police discovered the red-paint vandalism, which left ”#MeToo” scrawled along the nurse’s leg, early Tuesday morning. Authorities believe it was marked one day […]

President Donald Trump on Tuesday called on Rep. llhan Omar (D-Minn.) to either resign from Congress or step down from a House committee assignment over recent tweets some lawmakers decried as anti-Semitic. “I think she should either resign from Congress or she should certainly resign from the House Foreign Affairs Committee,” the president told reporters […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The longtime boss of the Colombo crime family, Carmine “the Snake” Persico, has died at the age of 85. Persico died on Thursday at the Duke University Medical Center, according to his attorney, Benson Weintraub. He had been serving what was effectively a life sentence at a federal prison in Butner, […]

By Alayna Alvarez Some of the communities hit hardest by the opioid epidemic and a related methamphetamine spike also are facing another health crisis: a steep rise in syphilis. It isn’t a coincidence. Many opioid users have started to use meth, either in combination with opioids or as a cheaper, more accessible alternative. Stimulants such […]

By Tim Henderson STARKVILLE, Miss. — The din of 27 howling puppies, waiting here for a ride to New York City, is the sound of lives being saved. The dogs, loaded onto a Dodge cargo van marked “Mississippi Mutts On the Move,” like at least tens of thousands of others making the trip northward might […]