Israeli police chiefs will recommend to the country's attorney general that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be indicted on corruption charges, according to reports in local media.
The booming stock market has been good for ordinary Americans with retirement accounts, and it also has enriched another class of investors to an extent some find problematic: Some medical economists say that nonprofit hospitals are using lucrative Wall Street portfolios to fatten their bottom lines rather than lower what patients pay for health care.
The U.S. official in charge of protecting American elections from hacking says the Russians successfully penetrated the voter registration rolls of several U.S. states prior to the 2016 presidential election.
At 10:04 Wednesday morning, House Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) took the floor for a one-minute speech — and ended up talking for eight hours and 10 minutes.
[....] Four months after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, a picture is emerging of the contracts awarded in the earliest days of the crisis. And examples like the Tribute contract are causing lawmakers to raise questions about FEMA’s handling of the disaster and whether the agency was adequately prepared to respond.
Kansas runs one of the darkest state governments in the nation, and its secrecy permeates nearly every aspect of service, The Kansas City Star found in a recent investigation. Readers responded with calls for change in Topeka. Now it's your chance to be heard.
The Star will host a town hall beginning at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 8, at the Capitol Plaza Hotel in Topeka. We are partnering with the Kansas Press Association, which is holding its annual convention at the hotel. The town hall will take place in the hotel's Emerald Ballroom.
The Fed handed down unprecedented punishment late Friday for what it called the bank's "widespread consumer abuses," including its notorious creation of millions of fake customer accounts. Wells Fargo won't be allowed to get any bigger than it was at the end of last year -- $2 trillion in assets -- until the Fed is satisfied that it has cleaned up its act.
In an exclusive interview, the vice president said the GOP could expand its majorities in Congress with his team’s campaign strategy.
By Jake Sherman & Anna Palmer @ Politico.com, Feb. 1
[....] The vice president’s team has devised a unique ancillary strategy to support his cross-country campaigning: partnering with America First Policies — a Trump-backed public-policy nonprofit group designed to boost the president's agenda — to hold public events designed specifically to discuss legislative achievements like the tax bill [....]
Donald Trump Jr.’s response to questions about his 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Russians was drafted on Air Force One last summer and was later shown to provide misleading information.
The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, has informed President Trump that the statement is among the things he would like to discuss in an interview.
