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AUSTIN - A young Texas boy faced both praise and ridicule from adults after he opened a hot chocolate stand to raise money for President Donald Trumps’ border wall. Benton Stevens — a seven-year-old from Austin, Texas — wanted to…

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump called The Washington Post “a Fact Checker only for the Democrats” on Twitter Tuesday. “The Washington Post is a Fact Checker only for the Democrats,” Trump wrote on Twitter Tuesday.…

HAWAII - The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether or not the Ninth Circuit appeals court erred in a Clean Water Act (CWA) case that petitioners say would dramatically expand the law’s reach. The case, County of Maui, Hawaii, v.…

PARIS - Chanel creative director Karl Lagerfeld passed away Tuesday morning at 85 years old, marking the end of a historic chapter in the fashion house’s history. The German designer began work for Chanel in 1983.…

WASHINGTON - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg took the bench at the Supreme Court Tuesday, the first time she has heard arguments since her treatment for lung cancer in December 2018. The justice’s presence at Tuesday’s arguments was…

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump went after California’s troubled high-speed rail project, claiming it is “hundreds of times more expensive” than a U.S.-Mexico border wall. “The failed Fast Train project in California, where the…

WASHINGTON - More than 60 percent of Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to build a wall along the U.S. southern border, according to a Tuesday poll. Sixty-one percent disapprove and…

WASHINGTON - Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders announced on Tuesday that he will be entering the 2020 race to run for president on the Democratic ticket in 2020. “We began the political revolution in the 2016 campaign, and now…

WASHINGTON - Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein plans to leave the Justice Department in mid-March, agency officials told news outlets Monday. A Justice Department official said that Rosenstein’s departure is not related to a…

A former U.S. Air Force intelligence specialist accused of espionage for Iran, Monica Witt, was allegedly radicalized in part during a stint at a Washington university that has taken $100 million from Saudi Arabia and other Muslim…