DECEMBER 22, 2018
A traveler walks outside a Greyhound bus station in Chicago in 2007. The bus company is expanding alerts to passengers about their rights when federal immigration agents board buses demanding identification and proof of citizenship. - Nam Y. Huh/AP
Greyhound Lines is expanding alerts to passengers about their rights should immigration agents board buses to demand identification and...
DECEMBER 22, 2018
Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, testifying early this year on Capitol Hill. — Saul Loeb/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
The company agreed to overhaul its privacy practices about seven years ago. After a yearlong string of news reports that have called Facebook’s data-sharing practices into question, federal regulators are taking a hard look at how the social...
DECEMBER 22, 2018
In recent years, Lakers forward LeBron James has become increasingly vocal on political matters and race relations. (Patrick Smith/Getty Images)
For LeBron James, the fundamental difference between the NBA and the NFL is the level of respect shown to players by the respective leagues and their team owners. The Lakers forward, who in recent years has become an...
DECEMBER 22, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Large parts of the federal government shut down overnight after President Trump torpedoed a bipartisan spending deal because it lacked the money he demanded for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Funding for numerous agencies, including those that operate parks, homeland security, law enforcement, tax collection and transportation, expired at midnight. Close to 400,000 federal...
DECEMBER 21, 2018
LONDON, ENGLAND - Flights from Gatwick were briefly suspended again on Friday after another sighting of a drone that's caused chaos at one of the UK's biggest airports.
An airport spokeswoman told CNN officials were made aware of the unconfirmed sightings at about 5:20 p.m. (12:20 p.m. ET) and closed the runway as a precaution. Flights in and...
DECEMBER 21, 2018
People arrived at the Capitol Visitors Center as work in Congress continued before a Friday night funding deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown. - AP
WASHINGTON, D.C. - More than 380,000 federal employees could be furloughed in the potential partial government shutdown, while 420,000 work without pay, according to estimates from a top Democratic lawmaker on the...
DECEMBER 21, 2018
Visitors walk in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016. - Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
WASHINGTON, D.C.— The Supreme Court won't let the Trump administration begin enforcing a ban on asylum for any immigrants who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border.
New Justice Brett Kavanaugh and three other conservative justices sided with...
DECEMBER 21, 2018
Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying holds a weekly press briefing. - Artyom Ivanov/TASS/Getty Images
BEIJING — China called the U.S. arrogant and selfish on Friday after two Chinese citizens were charged with stealing American trade secrets and other sensitive information on behalf of Beijing's main intelligence agency.
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said "the Chinese government has never...
DECEMBER 20, 2018
Stocks sank for a second day Thursday after the Federal Reserve raised benchmark interest rates and said that it would continue to let its massive balance sheet shrink at the current pace. Fears of a government shutdown also sent stocks tumbling to new lows Thursday afternoon.
The Dow closed 464 points lower, bringing its two-day declines to more...
DECEMBER 20, 2018
House Speaker Paul Ryan, accompanied by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, speaks to reporters outside the West Wing of the White House on Dec. 20, 2018, following a meeting with President Donald Trump. - Andrew Harnik
President Trump said Thursday he would not sign a stop-gap spending bill if it didn’t include money to build a wall along...
