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A 21-year-old Florida man accused of killing five people in a bank rampage has been charged with five counts of premeditated murder in the first degree. ...Read more

President Donald Trump said in a late night tweet on Wednesday that he would delay a State of the Union address until the government shutdown was over, responding to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s move to block his plans for the speech. ...Read more

Police said Wednesday that a male nurse at a health care facility in Phoenix where an incapacitated woman gave birth in December has been arrested. Nathan Sutherland, 36, is being held at the Maricopa County Jail on sexual assault and vulnerable adult abuse charges. ...Read more

Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Tuesday that the Senate is scheduled to vote Thursday afternoon on two competing bills that aim to re-open the federal government.  ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed President Donald Trump to enforce his policy barring certain transgender people from joining or staying in the military; this as the justices put on hold lower court rulings blocking the plan on constitutional grounds. ...Read more

As the government shutdown continues on, sickouts among TSA workers reached 10 percent. The agency that provides security at the nation’s airports acknowledged “many employees are reporting that they are not able to report to work due to financial limitations.” ...Read more

Californian Democratic Senator Kamala Harris announced her candidacy for president this morning on ABC’s Good Morning America. Senator Harris said she chose the day that America honors the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., to announce because of all that the Civil Rights leader has meant to her family and our nation. ...Read more

In a series of tweets Sunday morning, President Donald Trump lashed out at Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Democrats for rejecting his proposal offering temporary protections to some undocumented immigrants in exchange for $5.7 billion in border security funding. The president accused Pelosi of behaving “irrationally” for turning down his offer. ...Read more

A Roman Catholic Diocese in Kentucky said a group of high school students could be expelled after viral video showed them confronting indigenous marchers in Washington D.C. during the inaugural Indigenous Peoples March. ...Read more

Severe, heavy rain slammed Northern California, affecting highway traveling and contributing to two fatal traffic accidents that killed four people in the Sierra foothills and Wine Country. The storms were also responsible for a tree that fell onto a homeless encampment in Oakland, killing an unidentified person. ...Read more