The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and three accompanying warships have arrived in the Middle East
Ex-Olympic snowboarder accused in drug smuggling ring heads to court
A former Canadian Olympic snowboarder turned top FBI fugitive is expected to appear in federal court on charges related to allegedly running a billion-dollar multinational drug trafficking ring and orchestrating multiple killings
Officer fatally shoots an aggressive raccoon on a New York boardwalk
A New York police officer who fatally shot a raccoon that aggressively charged toward people has been placed on modified duty while the matter is reviewed
Los Angeles homeless services CEO charged with defrauding taxpayers to pay for luxury lifestyle
The CEO of a Los Angeles homeless services charity faces federal and state fraud charges after prosecutors said he lived a luxury lifestyle that included lavish vacations and designer clothes paid for with $23 million in public money meant to keep peop...
Trump threatens to hike South Korean tariffs to 25% over inaction on trade deal
The national assembly has yet to approve the trade framework reached in October.
Fed expected to keep rates unchanged as Chair Powell pivots back to economics
After two weeks of intense political and legal scrutiny, the Federal Reserve will seek to make this week’s meeting about interest rates as straightforward and uneventful as possible, though President Donald Trump probably still won’t like the result
Lawyers accuse Mexico of breaking law in sending cartel members to US without order
A group of lawyers and family members of cartel members accused Mexico’s government on Tuesday of breaking the law by sending nearly a hundred Mexican citizens to the United States without an extradition order
Federal judge dismisses Justice Department lawsuit seeking Oregon’s voter rolls
A federal judge in Oregon has dismissed a Justice Department lawsuit seeking Oregon's unredacted voter rolls
NTSB to highlight what led to a deadly midair collision near Washington, DC, at daylong hearing
A daylong hearing on Tuesday should make clear what played the biggest role in causing last January’s midair collision near Washington D.C. that killed 67 people
Barbara Hurman obituary
My mother, Barbara Hurman, who has died aged 100, was an archaeologist specialising in the identification and illustration of finds – the items disinterred during the course of excavations. She worked on a number of sites for the Bucks Museum, in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, the Milton Keynes Archaeological Unit, the Department...