WASHINGTON—President Trump declared a national emergency Friday over border security, bypassing Congress to divert money from elsewhere in the government to pay for additional barriers along the southern border, a move likely to ignite immediate…

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders takes questions during a daily briefing, March 5, 2018. (Leah Millis/Reuters) White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders sat for an interview with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators,…

Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event in Green Bay, Wisc., in August 2016. (Eric Thayer/Reuters) The word covers every contact between anyone connected to Trump and anyone connected to Russia, with…

Editors, USA TODAY Published 4:08 a.m. ET Feb. 16, 2019 | Updated 4:09 a.m. ET Feb. 16, 2019 Aurora, Illinois, shooting: Investigation into alleged gunman's past, motives Authorities will resume their investigation into the deadly…

The discount shoe retailer Payless ShoeSource is set to close all of its stores when its files for bankruptcy later this month. Veuer's Mercer Morrison has the story. Buzz60 Payless ShoeSource confirmed Friday that it…

Authorities have identified Gary Martin as the gunman who killed several employees at an Aurora, Ill. warehouse and injured five police officers. (LinkedIn) The gunman in a deadly shooting spree at a manufacturing warehouse in…

Antonella Barba’s bizarre life story is certainly one for the books – or should we say, one for the movies. Only this one doesn’t look like it will have a happy ending. The 32-year-old singer…

A new Amazon documentary series on Lorena Bobbitt reveals misconceptions on its subject and domestic violence.. Robert Hanashiro, USA TODAY Lorena Gallo, known to the world as Lorena Bobbitt, has been with her partner for more…

Parents and students at a memorial on the anniversary of the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., February 14, 2019. (Joe Skipper/Reuters) Family members and survivors continue to press the…

Men work on a production line manufacturing robotic arms at a factory in Huzhou, China, January 8, 2019. (Stringer/Reuters) To counter China, we must have ambitions of our own. A  new report on China from…

Psilocybin mushrooms (Wikimedia) No only are they medically useful, but in a free country, people should be allowed to use whatever substances they want. The decriminalization of magic (psilocybin) mushrooms is going to be on…

Beto O’Rourke, the Democratic former Texas congressman, addresses supporters before an anti-Trump march in El Paso, Texas, U.S., February 11, 2019. (REUTERS/Loren Elliott ) Former congressman Beto O’Rourke said Thursday evening that he would “absolutely”…

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) celebrated the abandonment by Amazon of the multibillion dollar company’s plans to build a new headquarters in New York City, hailing it as a victory for campaigners. Amazon chose Long Island…

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with the EU’s top diplomat in Brussels on Friday, a day after Vice President Mike Pence accused America’s traditional European allies of trying to undermine…

President Donald Trump says the wall he envisions in some places along the southern border would be harder to scale than Mount Everest. He says the wall is "very, very on its way" and says…

FEMA Administrator Brock Long listens as President Donald Trump holds an Oval Office meeting in Washington, D.C., September 11, 2018. (Leah Millis/REUTERS) William “Brock” Long, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency for the past…

A man buys balloons on Valentine’s Day in Los Angeles, Calif., in 2017. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) You’ve saved hundreds if not thousands of dollars by society allowing you to look just straight-up worse than we do.…

Signs at a rally as public school teachers strike for a second day in Denver, Colo., February 12, 2019. (Michael Ciaglo/Reuters) Media coverage of the Denver teachers’ strike has gotten the story wrong because it…

California Governor Gavin Newsom is abandoning plans to build a high-speed railroad between Los Angeles and San Francisco, saying the ambitious project that was approved by voters and championed by his predecessor is too costly.…

Former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke, who is the midst of a nearly seven-year prison sentence for the murder of a black teen, was assaulted by fellow inmates soon after being transferred to a…

(Pixabay) Here’s what we learned from enacting and defending a modest reform. A  national movement to reform “civil forfeiture” is underway. In many states, current policy allows the government to confiscate property on the grounds…

(Pixabay) The Social Security 2100 Act doesn't live up to the rhetoric. On January 31, over 200 House Democrats jointly introduced the Social Security 2100 Act, legislation that would expand Social Security both by raising…