WASHINGTON — It was business as usual Thursday at the White House as a list of American political luminaries and family members gathered across town to remember Dick Cheney, the late former vice president with the aggressive foreign policy that helped spawn the “Make America Great Again” movement.

White House aides chatted and laughed ...Read more

While it’s already known President Donald Trump flew on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane, his brother suggests in a new interview Trump may have returned the favor.

“They say Donald was on Jeff’s plane like seven times, but I question, have they checked Donald’s flight logs from those days to see how many times Jeffrey was on his plane?” ...Read more

NEW YORK — Zohran Mamdani is softening his stance on how much power the city’s Civilian Complaint Review Board should have.

While still a candidate, Mamdani said he would as mayor empower the board — which investigates and prosecutes misconduct complaints against NYPD officers — to get the final say on what sort of disciplinary action ...Read more

OAKLAND, Calif. — A Hayward man was sentenced to five years in federal prison for operating a gun trafficking ring that prosecutors say relied on a woman he was pimping to purchase guns for him to re-sell to criminals.

Najee Thompson, 32, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, ending a case that ran into a snag when ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have altered their website on autism and vaccines, removing unequivocal statements that immunizations don’t cause the neurodevelopmental disorder and replacing them with inaccurate and misleading information about the links between the shots and autism.

Until Wednesday, ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Thursday denounced as “traitors” a group of Democratic lawmakers who have called on military service members to defy orders that are illegal or violate the Constitution.

In a string of posts on his social media site, Trump derided the six Democrats, all of whom are military veterans, for their recent video message ...Read more

The Trump administration on Thursday announced plans to open federal waters in the Pacific Ocean to new oil and gas leases for the first time in more than four decades.

The draft plan released by the U.S. Department of the Interior confirms rumors that have been swirling for weeks. The proposal would see as many as 34 offshore lease sales ...Read more

The National Transportation Safety Board detailed in a preliminary report Thursday how the UPS cargo plane that crashed in Louisville, Kentucky, earlier this month didn’t get higher than about 30 feet above the ground, based on data from a flight data recorder.

The Nov. 4 crash near UPS’ cargo hub at Louisville Muhammad Ali International ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate Agriculture Committee on Thursday advanced, along party lines, the nomination of Michael Selig to be chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

The panel approved Selig’s confirmation to replace CFTC acting Chairman Caroline Pham, 12-11. Thursday’s vote comes on the heels of his Wednesday nomination ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday called for Michigan U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin and other Democratic lawmakers to be arrested and possibly executed over their remarks in a recent video urging members of the U.S. military and intelligence community to refuse unspecified illegal orders.

In a remarkable message on social media, ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A student who claims they were sexually assaulted at a football camp this summer is suing the McCreary County School District, superintendent and high school football coach.

The suit, filed Nov. 19 in federal court, accuses Superintendent Clint Taylor, football coach Sam Marple and the district of negligence, negligent ...Read more

Gov. Maura Healey is calling on President Donald Trump to release Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) funding as cold weather begins settling in New England.

Healey urged the president to release the funds in remarks Thursday after the Trump administration announced that LIHEAP funding will not be restored until the end of the ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said he isn’t worried that President Donald Trump might try to embarrass him during their high-stakes White House meeting on Friday.

“I’m not concerned about this meeting, I view this meeting as an opportunity for me to make my case,” Mamdani told reporters Thursday when asked if he’s concerned ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Parts of the left wing on the UPS airplane that crashed in Louisville Nov. 4, killing 14 people, had fatigue cracks and signs of overstress, according to a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board.

The NTSB’s report was released Thursday, a little more than two weeks after the plane crashed near ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sen. Thom Tillis called for oversight of the use of the U.S. Border Patrol in Charlotte during a Senate hearing Thursday.

Border Patrol agents began appearing throughout Charlotte Saturday near places like grocery stores, schools and churches, rounding up Hispanic residents, often forcefully, and with little information about ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday called for Michigan Democratic U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin and other Democratic lawmakers to be arrested and put on trial over their remarks in a recent video urging members of the U.S. military and intelligence community to refuse unspecified illegal orders.

In a remarkable message on social media...Read more