WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service official at the center of the storm over the agency’s targeting of conservative groups told Congress on Wednesday that she had done nothing wrong in the episode, and then invoked her constitutional right to refuse to answer lawmakers’ questions.
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CEO pay has been going in one direction for the past three years: up.
As Oklahomans struggle to recover from a massive tornado that wrought devastation Monday afternoon, Southern Nevadans are stepping up with recovery aid and assistance.
Concerns about antisemitism are growing across the United States, according to recent data reported by Gallup.
The gunman who opened fire at the U.S. embassy near Beirut was charged with affiliation to the terrorist Islamic State group, security and judicial officials said.
Anas Saleh, 24, was charged with attempted coercion, a misdemeanor, and given a desk appearance ticket.
Iran has threatened to hit Israel in retaliation for an attack on a diplomatic compound in the Syrian capital of Damascus last week that killed senior Iranian military officials.
A new report shows an alarming rise in antisemitic incidents in 2023 and that hatred of Jews is emerging on both wings of the political spectrum.
Authorities closed the interstate on a day when most ski resorts around Lake Tahoe were closed, a tornado touched down in central California and visitors to Yosemite National Park were told to leave.
Ariel Salley is a Metropolitan Police officer and a reservist in the Israeli Defense Forces who is going back to Israel following Hamas’ attack.
Connor Sturgeon, 25, killed five people — including a close friend of Kentucky’s governor — while livestreaming the attack Monday on Instagram.
Thursday’s report from the Labor Department showed that applications declined 92,000 from a revised 590,000 a week earlier.
Power was restored to more homes and businesses Thursday in states hit by a deadly blast of winter that overwhelmed the electrical grid and left millions shivering in the cold this week.
If projections are true, over the next four weeks hospitals could be overflowing with 75,000 patients — about five times the current level — and an average of 400 people will die a day.
The new rules take effect before midnight in the vast region of Southern California, much of the San Francisco Bay Area and a large swath of the Central Valley.