[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Tuesday current policy regarding transgender personnel serving in the military would remain in place until he advises President Donald Trump on how to implement…

[ad_1] NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Rubik’s Cube has delighted and confounded millions of players since Hungarian architecture professor Erno Rubik created it in 1974. Now the company that makes the twisting puzzle wants to…

[ad_1] (Reuters) – Demand for Confederate flags at Chris Ackerman’s Civil War memorabilia shop in Pennsylvania has surged since violence at a white nationalist rally in Virginia this month reignited the United States’ debate over…

[ad_1] CYPRESS, Texas (Reuters) – The mayday call went out near midnight to all members of the Cy-Fair Volunteer Fire Department organizing rescue operations in the outskirts of Houston. There was a new emergency: Four…

[ad_1] ATLANTA (Reuters) – Georgia on Monday unveiled a statue of the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. on the same capitol grounds in Atlanta where statues of segregationists remain. The new installation…

[ad_1] (Reuters) – Two people were killed and four hospitalized Monday after a shooting at a library in the small city of Clovis, New Mexico, the city’s fire chief said. One person was arrested in…

[ad_1] LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A Los Angeles man who has spent more than two years building tiny, portable homes to help house the city’s homeless population recruited a group of fourth and fifth grade…

[ad_1] CHICAGO (Reuters) – The Chicago Board of Education approved on Monday a $5.75 billion fiscal 2018 budget, which assumes nearly $570 million in uncertain funding, and also a plan to issue up to $1.9…

[ad_1] (Reuters) – Civil rights groups filed two new lawsuits on Monday challenging President Donald Trump’s controversial ban on transgender people serving in the U.S. military. The lawsuits, filed in federal courts in Seattle and…

[ad_1] FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Damages from Harvey, the hurricane and tropical storm ravaging Houston and the Texas Gulf Coast, are estimated to be well below those from major storms that have hit New Orleans and…

[ad_1] (Reuters) – Flood-stranded Texans in the Houston area took to social media on Sunday with desperate pleas to be rescued from their homes as Tropical Storm Harvey and its torrential rains slowly lumbered across…

[ad_1] ROCKPORT, Texas (Reuters) – Rescue crews raced against rising floodwaters early on Sunday to pull hundreds of stranded residents from their homes and cars in southeast Texas as Harvey, the most powerful storm to…

[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump should not have pardoned a former Arizona sheriff who was convicted of criminal contempt in a case of racial profiling, the Republican speaker of the House of Representatives,…

[ad_1] (Reuters) – Border Patrol agents discovered a tunnel running under the U.S.-Mexico border Saturday in San Diego, California apparently used for illegal immigration, authorities said. Border Patrol Agent Eduardo Olmos said Saturday that agents…

[ad_1] (Reuters) – Hundreds of counter-protesters gathered near a barricaded San Francisco park Saturday despite the cancellation of a free-speech rally that city leaders feared could draw right-wing extremists. The planned gathering by Patriot Prayer…

[ad_1] CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (Reuters) – Craig Uggen stopped short in his white Ford truck as gusting winds from Hurricane Harvey pushed waves from Corpus Christi Bay over the road. His anxiety rose with the…

[ad_1] CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (Reuters) – Hurricane Harvey slammed into the Texas coast as a Category 4 storm on Friday, bringing life-threatening winds and the likelihood of catastrophic flooding as the most powerful storm in…

[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday granted a pardon to controversial former Arizona lawman and political ally Joe Arpaio less than a month after he was convicted of criminal contempt in…

[ad_1] LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A U.S. consumer advocacy group said that actress Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop lifestyle business makes deceptive claims about some of its products, and it has asked the California Food Drug and…

[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will no longer sponsor an awards program honoring voluntary corporate actions to combat global warming, it announced on Friday, the agency’s latest move to undo Obama-era…

[ad_1] SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – San Francisco braced on Friday for a weekend of protests, including a rally by an Oregon-based group that local leaders labeled “white supremacist” as the city’s mayor urged residents to…

[ad_1] (Reuters) – As early as November, the stretch of Jefferson Davis Highway that runs through Alexandria, Virginia, will boast a new title after the city council voted to erase the name of the Confederacy’s…

[ad_1] WASHINGTON/DETROIT (Reuters) – A federal judge in Detroit sentenced former engineer James Liang to 40 months in prison on Friday for his role in Volkswagen AG’s (VOWG_p.DE) multiyear scheme to sell diesel cars that…

[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser Gary Cohn said in an interview published on Friday that the administration needs to be more unequivocal in condemning hate groups, but added he was…

[ad_1] SINGAPORE (Reuters) – U.S Navy and Marine Corps divers have recovered and identified a second body in the search for ten sailors missing after a collision between a guided-missile destroyer and merchant vessel near…

[ad_1] SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) – A Gulf of Mexico storm rapidly intensified on Thursday spinning into the potentially biggest hurricane to hit the mainland United States in 12 years and taking aim at the heart…

[ad_1] CHICAGO (Reuters) – Illinois legislative leaders said on Thursday they reached a deal over a new education funding formula that would restart aid payments to the state’s 852 school districts. Details of the agreement…

[ad_1] FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Reuters) – Florida is scheduled on Thursday evening to put to death an inmate via an injection that includes a drug never before used in a U.S. execution. Mark James Asay,…

[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump picked a new fight on Thursday with fellow Republicans whose support he needs to advance his policy agenda, saying congressional leaders could have avoided a “mess” over raising…

[ad_1] (Reuters) – The owner of a Powerball ticket sold in Massachusetts won more than $750 million on Wednesday, and the prize, one of the largest in the lottery’s history, is still unclaimed. Powerball said…