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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday he recently urged Office of Management Budget Director Mick Mulvaney to stand back and let bipartisan negotiators on Hill find a compromise on how to keep the government running before it runs out of money at the end of this month. “We can get this done,” the New […]

For “La La Land,” the movie is the music. While the musical didn’t win the Academy Award for best picture (at least not in the end), “La La Land” composer Justin Hurwitz did take home two Oscars . “La La Land” makes its Digital HD debut Tuesday. In a recent interview with CNN, Hurwitz described […]

When Kay Ivey was sworn in as Alabama’s new governor on Monday, she made history becoming the first Republican woman to hold the office. Ivey became the state’s highest-ranking politician after her Republican predecessor Robert Bentley made history of a different sort, resigning Monday and pleading guilty to misdemeanor charges related to an alleged extramarital […]

Donald Trump Jr. is not running for office in 2018. The first son told The Associated Press he won’t run next year, but said he’s open to the possibility of running in the future. “Maybe someday,” he said. “It’s not something I’m doing now. But you never know, it’s fascinating stuff.” A spokeswoman for Trump […]

The Justice Department announced Tuesday it would take further steps to up prosecutions against undocumented immigrants — the latest in a series of steps by the Trump administration to more aggressively enforce immigration laws. Attorney General Jeff Sessions traveled to the US-Mexico border at Nogales, Arizona, to make the announcement with Customs and Border Protection […]

Snip, snip, snip the scissors went, cutting up United-Chase credit cards and frequent flyer member cards. The public outrage flared on social media after a passenger was dragged off a United flight at Chicago O’Hare Airport. Aninda Sadhukhan visited his shredder to dispose of his United MileagePlus Explorer card with Chase Bank on Monday night […]

Simone Biles’ “Dancing With The Stars” performance Monday night brought the audience to tears. Contestants were asked to share their most significant life moments as part of the “Most Memorable Year Week” on the ABC dancing competition show. The 20-year-old Olympic gymnast emotionally recalled being adopted by her grandparents after her mother placed her in […]

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer held a conference call with reporters Tuesday to blast President Donald Trump’s handling of trade issues with China — including what he called China’s unfair trade practices, currency manipulation, intellectual property theft and more. “China has taken us to the cleaner when it comes to the economy. China has stolen […]

It is now clear that the deadly nerve agent sarin, the same agent which the Assad regime used to kill up to 1,500 people in East Ghouta near Damascus in August 2013, was used in the chemical attack on Idlib last week. As the Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations Chemical, Biological, Radiological and […]

First, the shock. Now, the fallout. An officer is suspended, United’s CEO is under fire, and customers are outraged after a man was violently removed from an overbooked flight. “If they had just tried some diplomacy, none of this had to take place,” passenger John Klaassen said Tuesday. By now, most everyone’s seen the cell […]

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has been named the youngest ever UN Messenger of Peace, with a special focus on girls’ education. The 19-year-old Pakistani activist became known around the world after she was shot in the head and neck by the Taliban on her way home from school in 2012. She narrowly escaped […]

British Vogue has appointed Edward Enninful as its new editor. The Ghana born, London-raised former model will be the first male and non-white editor in the magazine’s 100 year history. In the announcement declaring Enninful’s appointment, Condé Nast International chairman and chief executive Jonathan Newhouse called Enninful “an influential figure in the communities of fashion, […]

Toshiba’s financial crisis deepened Tuesday after the troubled Japanese company warned its future is at risk. The giant conglomerate said that there is “substantial doubt” about its ability to continue as a going concern and that it’s taking steps to deal with the situation. Toshiba has been hammered by huge losses at its American nuclear […]

Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door. You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up here. 1. Alabama governor Looks like the “Luv Guv” finally saw the writing on the wall. Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley resigned as […]

The US Department of Justice announced an “extensive effort to disrupt and dismantle” a network of thousands of compromised computers under the control of an alleged cybercriminal, a statement released Monday said. The “botnet” was responsible for the sending of hundreds of millions of spam e-mails, intercepting users’ online and financial credentials and “installing ransomware […]

Five years have passed since a scandal forced Rupert Murdoch to abandon his purchase of a media industry crown jewel: the British pay TV provider Sky. The problem then was outrage over phone hacking at Murdoch newspapers. Now, with a second takeover bid underway, accusations of sexual harassment and verbal abuse by Fox News star […]

The man suspected of the Stockholm truck attack has admitted to carrying out a “terrorist crime”, his lawyer said. At a hearing in the Swedish capital on Tuesday, the lawyer for Rakhmat Akilov, a 39 year-old from the central Asian republic of Uzbekistan, said that his client accepted his continued detention. Akilov, who did not […]

On its face, a special House election in Kansas should be a walkover for Republicans. Kansas Republicans control both U.S. Senate seats, all four House districts and the governor’s mansion and have massive majorities in the state House and Senate. It’s one of the most conservative states in the country and has been for a […]

Voters in Kansas’ 4th Congressional district will head to the polls Tuesday to vote in a special election for a House seat that few thought would be competitive. Republican Ron Estes, the Kansas state treasurer, will compete for the House spot against Democrat Jim Thompson, a civil rights attorney and army veteran, and Libertarian Chris […]

The missile strike launched by President Donald Trump on an Assad regime airfield last week did little to change the deadly status quo in Syria, where government aircraft were again bombarding rebel-held Idlib province a day later. In the US, the next steps remain a relative mystery. Trump administration officials appear at cross purposes over […]

The Syrian regime’s use of chemical weapons has been met with a decisive response from the US. Russia denounced Thursday’s airstrike on the Shayrat airfield, but is unlikely to counter-escalate, while the international community has generally responded positively. Whether the Trump administration will escalate its involvement in Syria remains unclear, but if it decides to […]

Not far from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, one expert after another warned Monday about the dangers that rising sea levels pose to Florida’s coast. Not that surprising, except this was a Senate committee field hearing challenging the position shared by President Donald Trump and many Republicans in Congress that climate change isn’t real. The site of […]

North Korea warned Monday it would respond to “reckless acts of aggression” by the United States, with “whatever methods the US wants to take,” as a US aircraft carrier strike group headed toward the Korean Peninsula. The Pentagon is sending the 97,000-ton USS Carl Vinson with an escort of a guided-missile cruiser and two destroyers […]

Since succeeding his father in 2011, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has impressed and confounded with his rise from political novice to adept operator. On Tuesday, the country’s political elite from Pyongyang and across the country will descend on the capital to attend the Supreme People’s Assembly, a largely symbolic meeting which Kim is […]

An 11-year-old boy who died last week of injuries suffered in a March suicide attempt will be laid to rest Tuesday. When Tysen Benz of Marquette, Michigan, hanged himself March 14, he left no note. But his mother, Katrina Goss, says Benz was the victim of a prank that drove him to take his own […]