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WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin took military aircraft on at least seven occasions without adequate justification, his department’s inspector general said in a report. The inspector general said that Mnuchin’s use of the planes was not illegal but that he had failed to meet rules that require that military flights be used only

WASHINGTON – For the last six years, nearly all employers have had no choice but to include birth control coverage in the health insurance plans they offer their employees. On Friday, however, the Trump administration rescinded that regulation, allowing employers to exclude contraceptive care from insurance benefits for religious or moral reasons. The announcement from

The head of the federal deportation agency said Friday his agents will now have to go out into communities in California even more frequently to round up illegal immigrants, now that the state has embraced a full sanctuary policy. Tom Homan, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, made the comments a day after

It’s a hell of a time in America when a video game taking an anti-Nazi stance is considered by some to be to controversial. Yet here we are. The video game Wolfenstein II, the latest iteration of an exercies in killing virtual Nazis, has angered Nazis with an online presence because it is about…killing Nazis.

WASHINGTON — The Las Vegas massacre has breached Republicans’ solid opposition to additional gun restrictions, prompting party leaders as well as the National Rifle Association to say they will consider limiting so-called “bump stocks,” which can turn assault rifles into virtual machine guns. The White House signaled a willingness Thursday to consider a ban, and

Donald Trump complained to Puerto Rican hurricane victims this week that their suffering is throwing his budget “out of whack,” but for the same cost as the first family’s exorbitant travel, the government could have sent nearly 130 cargo ships to the island, a new analysis shows. The president and first family have reportedly spent

MIAMI — Tropical Storm Nate formed early Thursday, dumping heavy rain across the Central American coast on a northward track headed for the U.S. At 8 a.m., the storm was located about 10 miles south of Nicaragua’s north coast with sustained winds of 40 mph. It’s expected to make landfall Thursday as it continues moving

Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer delivered $10,000 to Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. in 2015, in the months after Vance’s office decided not to prosecute Weinstein over sexual assault allegations, according to an International Business Times review of campaign finance documents. That contribution from attorney David Boies — who previously headlined a fundraiser for