Contentious confrontations as House panel presses toward historic Trump impeachment vote
The House Judiciary Committee pressed toward a historic vote Thursday to approve articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. Split sharply along party lines, the panel was expected to send ...
Authorities tie killers in New Jersey kosher market attack to fringe hate group
The two killers who stormed a kosher market in Jersey City had apparently been followers of the Black Hebrew Israelites — a fringe group whose members have been known to ...
Lawyer for late Jeffrey Epstein disappointed women won't give up lawsuits
A lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein's estate said Wednesday he is disappointed that women who say the financier sexually attacked them aren't suspending lawsuits to join a special compensation fund, but ...
Execution on hold in Tennessee after racism argument is raised
The pending execution of a black inmate was put on hold Wednesday by Tennessee's highest court after the inmate said racism tainted the jury selection at his trial. In August, a Nashville judge approved an agreement between Abu-Ali Abdur-Rahman and Nashville's district attorney to resentence ...
Jersey City's mayor says killers targeted kosher market; pair also suspected in Uber driver slaying
The man and woman who stormed a Jewish market in a deadly shooting in Jersey City clearly targeted the place, the mayor said Wednesday, amid growing fears the bloodshed was an anti-Semitic attack. New Jersey Attorney General Gurbil Grewal, though, cautioned that the motive for ...
Watchdog caught in congressional crossfire over Russia probe report
The Justice Department's internal watchdog was caught in a political tug of war Wednesday as Republican and Democratic senators used his report on the origins of the Russia investigation involving Donald Trump's 2016 campaign to support their views that it was a legitimate probe ...
Trump trial 'first' priority in January if House votes to impeach, Senate leader says
The trial of Donald Trump will be the Senate's first priority in January if the U.S. president is impeached as expected next week, the top Republican in Congress said Wednesday. The House Judiciary Committee was set to meet beginning Wednesday evening to debate two articles ...
Denmark police foil suspected Islamist terror attack plans, arresting 20 in nationwide sweep
Danish police have arrested "some 20 people" suspected of involvement in Islamist terrorism in a series of raids across the country, authorities said Wednesday. Flemming Drejer, the operative head of the Denmark's Security and Intelligence Service, said the suspects were "driven by a militant, Islamist ...
Democrats in the House of Representatives announced two articles of impeachment against U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday, declaring he "betrayed the nation" with his actions toward Ukraine as they pushed toward historic proceedings that will help shape the 2020 election. The specific charges aimed ...
Six people, including a police officer and three bystanders, were killed in a furious gunfight Tuesday that filled the streets of Jersey City with the sound of heavy fire for hours, authorities said. The dead included the two gunmen, Jersey City Police Chief Michael Kelly ...
Gunman kills himself after murdering six patients at Czech hospital
A gunman killed himself Tuesday after shooting dead six patients at a hospital in the eastern Czech city of Ostrava, in what the country's prime minister has called "an immense tragedy. The attacker gunned down people at close range at the trauma ward of the ...
U.S. attorney general says FBI may have acted in 'bad faith' on 'baseless' Russia probe
U.S. Attorney General William Barr said on Tuesday he is still not fully convinced that the FBI acted without bias when it opened its 2016 investigation into links between President Donald Trump's campaign and Russia. In his first interview since Justice Department Inspector General Michael ...
