US energy secretary and Venezuela’s acting president tour oil facility in warming ties just weeks after Maduro ouster

US Energy Secretary Chris Wright toured oil producing facilities in Venezuela with its acting president Delcy Rodríguez as the Trump administration moves to control sales of the country’s oil.

Communications breakdown over El Paso airspace closure sparks finger pointing across Trump administration

The Federal Aviation Administration’s abrupt and unexplained closure of airspace above El Paso, Texas, early Wednesday has given way to a blame game inside the administration, with key senior ...

Want to train like a Winter Olympics athlete? Here’s what to eat, when and how often

Calorie intake and extreme eating habits aside, there are some key practices in Olympic athletes’ training and nutrition that ...

Department of Homeland Security on track to shut down with lawmakers leaving Washington and an unresolved ICE fight

A bitterly divided Washington is headed for its third government funding lapse of President Donald Trump’s second term — this time, a partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security over the ...

New judicial ethics code says judges may speak out against ‘illegitimate’ attacks

Newly released ethics guidance for the federal judiciary makes clear that judges can speak out against “illegitimate forms of criticism and attacks.” ...

FBI shares description of suspect in Nancy Guthrie case as reward for information grows to $100,000

Arizona law enforcement officials received thousands of calls regarding the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie after the FBI released footage from Guthrie’s front door camera taken the morning she ...

Guns and mental health struggles: What the apparent online footprint of the Canada school shooter tells us

The suspect in Canada’s Tumbler Ridge mass shooting posted about guns and hunting on her YouTube channel and appeared to have ...

A partial government shutdown is about to hit the Department of Homeland Security. Here’s what that means

The Department of Homeland Security could be ensnared by a partial government shutdown if Congress does not fund the agency by the end of Friday. But nearly all DHS workers would remain on the job — ...

‘You have to take a stand’ Democratic congresswoman pushes for ICE guardrails, as DHS shutdown looms

Dove tells CNN’s Audie Cornish that her voters are telling her to “do what you have to do” on DHS funding vote ...

Bipartisan opposition over inflammatory comments likely to sink Trump State Dept. nominee

Jeremy Carl, the Trump administration’s pick for a top State Department position, is unlikely to get the job after a bipartisan group of senators grilled him over his history of racist, sexist, and ...

Judge grants Ole Miss QB Trinidad Chambliss a preliminary injunction for extra eligibility

In saying “the NCAA ignored its own rules,” a Mississippi judge granted Ole Miss quarterback Trinidad Chambliss a preliminary injunction Thursday against college athletics’ governing body, allowing ...

An aspiring rapper is accused of throwing acid in a woman’s face. Prosecutors say his music video helped incriminate him

Almost five years after a New York college student was attacked by an unknown assailant who threw acid in her face, police ...