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...
DECEMBER 19, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Seated at the head of his Situation Room conference table, President Donald Trump was adamant: American troops must come home from Syria. He had just announced as much to a crowd in Ohio. The assembled military and national security advisers told him the move was rash and unwise. So he gave them six months.
Eight...
DECEMBER 18, 2018
Then President-elect Donald Trump stands with his children Eric, left, Ivanka and Donald Jr. at Trump Tower in New York on Jan. 11, 2017. - Timothy A. Clary
NEW YORK - The Trump Foundation — the charitable foundation started by President Donald Trump years before he became a presidential candidate, which New York's top prosecutor said exhibited a...
DECEMBER 18, 2018
Brief Scorecard: Australia 326 (Harris 70, Head 58, Ishant 4-41) and 243 (Khawaja 72, Shami 6-56) beat India 283 (Kohli 123, Rahane 51, Lyon 5-67) and 140 (Lyon 3-39, Starc 3-46) by 146 runs
PERTH - Australia made quick work of breaking India's lower-order resistance - a meek, thin, inexperienced resistance - to level the series...
DECEMBER 18, 2018
NEW DELHI - Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today attacked his successor Narendra Modi over his alleged reluctance to comment on contentious issues, hinting that it was unfair to brand him as "silent" when PM Modi clearly seems to be the one avoiding the media.
"People say I was a silent Prime Minister. But I wasn't the Prime...
DECEMBER 18, 2018
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan
Alan Greenspan says the party's over on Wall Street.
The former Federal Reserve chairman who famously warned more than two decades ago about "irrational exuberance" in the stock market doesn't see equity prices going any higher than they are now.
"It would be very surprising to see it sort of stabilize here and then...
