Rep. Michael Grimm announced late Monday that he will resign his seat in Congress, one week after the Staten Island, New York Republican pleaded guilty to federal tax evasion.
Scalise, the new Majority Whip in the House, gave a speech at a white supremacist event in 2002 but says he does not remember doing it and dismisses any notion he himself adheres to those beliefs.
Fifty U.S. law-enforcement officers were killed by guns in 2014, a figure that marks a 56 percent jump from previous years but still remains far below historic highs.
The Texas federal judge presiding over the multistate lawsuit which claims President Obama's executive action on immigration reform violated the U.S. constitution has allowed U.S. Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz to file court briefs, along with others in support of the lawsuit.
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio received a mixed reaction from the crowd when he addressed hundreds of new police recruits at a police graduation ceremony at Madison Square Garden on Monday.
Two Los Angeles police officers in a patrol car were shot at Sunday night in an unprovoked attack while they were driving in the southern part of the city, police said. The officers returned fire, but no one was injured.
Although the United States and Cuba are normalizing their diplomatic relations, travel restrictions will still be in place, particularly for non-Cuban-descent travelers.
The war in Afghanistan came to a formal end Sunday with a flag lowering ceremony in Kabul. The war in Afghanistan came to a formal end Sunday with a flag lowering ceremony in Kabul, The Associated Press reported.
The botched execution of Clayton Lockett in April and others this year in Ohio and Arizona did not motivate death penalty states from banning the practice, the Associated Press reported.
