 | | | | The Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma used a GoFundMe page and its own money to feed its many members who were furloughed or worked without pay during the U.S. government shutdown. | | | | | | President Donald Trump's longtime political ally Roger Stone is expected to plead not guilty on Tuesday to seven criminal counts after becoming the latest member of Trump's inner circle charged in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. | | | | | | Two-thirds of the continental United States will be a frozen ice box Tuesday, as the so-called polar vortex of frigid arctic air spins across the U.S. Midwest, clips the Great Lakes, the Ohio Valley and pushes on into New England. | | | | | | Four undercover Houston police officers were shot on Monday as they attempted to serve a warrant in a narcotics investigation and two suspects were killed when police returned fire, police said. | | | | | | As the Pentagon weighs new troop deployments to the U.S.-Mexico border, Democrats in Congress are poised to usher in unprecedented scrutiny of a politically charged mission championed by Republican President Donald Trump. | | | | | | The deadliest and most destructive California wildfires in a century caused insurers more than $11.4 billion in losses, the state's insurance regulator said Monday. | | | | | | The governor of Illinois on Monday issued an emergency preparedness plan ahead of a "historic" polar vortex of cold air and wind descending on much of the U.S., warning residents that temperatures were likely to plunge well below zero. | | | | | | An employee of a New York billionaire's family spent the weekend stuck in the elevator of the family's Manhattan townhouse before she was rescued on Monday, officials said. | | | | | | The U.S. economy was expected to lose $3 billion from the partial federal government shutdown over President Donald Trump's demand for border wall funding, congressional researchers said on Monday as 800,000 federal employees returned to work after 35 days without pay. | | | | | | President Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general, William Barr, told U.S. lawmakers in comments released on Monday that while he has never spoken about the substance of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation with Trump, he has discussed it in broad terms with Vice President Mike Pence. | | | | | |
