“It is time for this boondoggle to die,” said President Donald Trump’s transportation secretary.

Three varieties of cottage cheese sold under Walmart’s Great Value brand got yanked from stores in 24 states on potential ...

White babies are now outnumbered by minority babies, according to new population estimates from the Census Bureau. In 2015, racial and ethnic minorities made up 50.2 percent of babies under a year old ...

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Andy Barr isn’t even a declared U.S. Senate candidate, but a conservative Washington group has already tossed a shot across the bow, committing to oppose the Lexington congressman if he attempts to ...

Former President Barack Obama said reparations for Black Americans were a “non-starter” during his presidency. Obama, the country’s 44th and first Black president, said on Bruce Springsteen’s ...

The estate of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein has been officially valued at $636.1 million, according to a new, verified inventory filed Friday in his probate case in the Virgin Islands. Epstein’s ...

WASHINGTON — In 2006 and 2007, Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages, but never told the buyers it was secretly betting that a ...

On July 10, 1981, Ken Rex McElroy was shot to death in plain view of 30 to 40 people who gathered around his pickup outside a tavern in Skidmore, Mo. Kansas City Star MARYVILLE, Mo. — Out of law ...

“When you have such a shocking set of coincidences, there’s got to be something behind them. And that’s the challenge, to find out what that is.” Four commanding officers at a premiere Navy weapons ...

President Barack Obama separated parents from their children at the border. Obama prosecuted mothers for coming to the United States illegally. He fast tracked deportations. And yes, he housed ...

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