WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump suggested during an interview that aired Thursday night that Ukraine should not have fought when Russia invaded the country. “Zelenskyy was fighting a much bigger entity, much bigger, much more powerful,” Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity. “He shouldn’t have done that because we could have made a deal.” Trump...
The teenager who fatally shot a student at a Nashville high school partially live-streamed the incident, according to the platform, and he was influenced by internet content that authorities described Thursday as “harmful and objectionable.” The 17-year-old gunman, who wounded a second student before taking his own life, fired 10 shots from a 9mm pistol...
LOS ANGELES — Firefighters gained more ground Thursday on a fast-moving brushfire that erupted north of Los Angeles the day before and within hours exploded to thousands of acres amid high winds, officials said. The Hughes Fire, which started near Castaic Lake, was 24% contained and had burned more than 10,000 acres by Thursday afternoon, according...
The 41st annual Sundance Film Festival kicks off Thursday in Park City, Utah, with a heady slate of 90 feature-length films from around the globe. Each film will also screen in nearby Salt Lake City at least once during the festival, which runs through Feb. 2. Long at the forefront of breaking the best and...
A lawsuit filed against President Donald Trump by five pregnant women and several immigrant groups warns that Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship could render babies born to some asylum-seekers “stateless.” The executive order Trump signed Monday, titled Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship, attempts to limit birthright citizenship to people who have...
Panama will be one of the first stops for new Secretary of State Marco Rubio as he heads overseas late next week for the first time as the United States’ top diplomat, meaning he’ll face a unique sort of challenge early in his tenure. Panama is one of the U.S.’ closest allies in Latin America,...
A 12-year-old was shot Wednesday night after throwing a snowball at a car in Hartford, Connecticut, police said. The child and an 11-year-old were throwing snowballs when one snowball hit a car. The car “looped the block” to chase the kids and “fired rounds at the children,” Hartford police Lt. Aaron Boisvert said at a...
Many who work in the federal government knew that an incoming Trump administration would take aim at diversity, equity and inclusion jobs within their ranks. It was just a matter of when and how far he’d go. For most employees, it happened at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, when they got notices that they would be...
WASHINGTON — Key Senate Republicans are rejecting a request by a group of moderate Democrats to jettison their party-line efforts on immigration and instead work on a bipartisan solution. The decision shows the GOP’s determination to go their own way on one of President Donald Trump’s top priorities, despite their wafer-thin House majority and other...
WASHINGTON— President Donald Trump signed an executive order pardoning 23 anti-abortion activists Thursday, one day before he is expected to address thousands of anti-abortion demonstrators at their annual march in Washington, D.C. “Twenty-three people were prosecuted, they should not have been prosecuted,” Trump said during the Oval Office signing on Thursday noting that “many of...