NEW YORK — President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order mandating a probe into whether banks have discriminated against conservatives and certain industries like gun manufacturers and cryptocurrency […]
Neo-Nazi group leader sentenced to 20 years in prison for planned Maryland power grid attack
BALTIMORE — The founder of a Florida-based neo-Nazi group has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for conspiring with his girlfriend to plan an attack on Maryland’s power […]
Trump to nominate top economic aide Stephen Miran to Federal Reserve board
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Thursday he will nominate a top economic adviser to the Federal Reserve’s board of governors for four months, temporarily filling a vacancy while continuing […]
Senior FBI official who resisted Trump administration demands has been pushed out, AP sources say
WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior FBI official who served as acting director in the first weeks of the Trump administration and resisted demands to turn over the names […]
Officials plan to seek the death penalty for a Tennessee man charged with killing 4
TITPONVILLE, Tenn. — Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty against a Tennessee man charged with killing the parents, grandmother and uncle of an infant found abandoned in a home’s […]
Ailing bull moose on Adirondack mountain hiking trail in New York put down
A bull moose whose lingering presence around an Adirondack mountain hiking trail this summer forced its closure was euthanized after showing signs of severely deteriorating health, environmental officials said Thursday. […]
Iowa shooting, explosion and fire leave 2 dead and 1 critically injured
GLENWOOD, Iowa — A shooting and subsequent explosion and fire in a house in western Iowa left two people dead and a third critically injured, authorities said. Dispatchers on Wednesday […]
District attorneys says Alabama teen killed by police had grabbed a gun
A district attorney said Wednesday that an Alabama police officer who fatally shot a teenager in the back was justified in his use of deadly force because the youth grabbed […]
Federal agents hid in back of rental truck at start of raid outside LA Home Depot
LOS ANGELES — U.S. Border Patrol agents jumped out of the back of a rented box truck and made arrests Wednesday at a Los Angeles Home Depot store during an […]
Afghanistan’s Taliban have ‘weaponized’ the judicial system to oppress women, UN expert says
UNITED NATIONS — Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have “weaponized” the legal and judicial system to oppress women and girls in what amounts to “crimes against humanity,” the independent U.N. investigator on […]