Snowstorm buries Pacific Northwest, with more on the way

SEATTLE (AP) — Residents of the Pacific Northwest took to neighborhood hills with skis, sleds or even just laundry baskets Saturday to celebrate an unusual dump of snow in a region more accustomed to winter rain. Read More

New York detective killed in friendly fire incident

A New York Police Department detective was shot and killed Tuesday, and a sergeant was hit in the leg, after they responded to a reported robbery at a cell phone store in the borough of Queens, city officials said. Read More

Israel readies to raze Palestinian murder suspect's home

The Israeli army said Sunday it had started preparations to demolish the West Bank home of a Palestinian suspected of killing an Israeli woman. "Overnight, troops operated in Hebron, where the suspect in the murder of Ori Ansbacher is from," the army said in an English-language statement. Read More

Toppled Malaysian leader's 1MDB trial delayed

Former Malaysian premier Najib Razak's trial over a massive financial scandal that contributed to his government's downfall was postponed Monday, in a blow to slow-moving efforts to bring the disgraced politician to justice. Najib had been due to go on trial Tuesday for the first time over allegations Read More

Seven jailed for life over Tunisian museum, hotel massacres

A Tunisian court jailed seven people for life on Saturday for their involvement in two deadly militant attacks in 2015, one on a museum in Tunis and the other on a hotel in a Mediterranean resort. Other defendants received jail sentences ranging from 16 years to six months, state news agency TAP quoted Read More

Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax could face articles of impeachment Monday

The second accusation of sexual assault against Fairfax has prompted one lawmaker to threaten impeachment proceedings against the lieutenant governor. Read More

Police: Ex-boyfriend arrested in death of Valerie Reyes, woman found dead in suitcase

The 24-year-old New Rochelle resident was found dead in a suitcase in Greenwich, Connecticut, last week. Read More

Blackface and black eye: Louisiana police department latest embroiled in racist scandal

The police department in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, apologized after a photo surfaced showing two officers in blackface during a 1993 sting operation. Read More

A lawmaker faces calls to resign after comparing LGBT people to the KKK

A member of the West Virginia House of Delegates is facing bipartisan criticism for a string of anti-LGBT statements, but the Republican lawmaker doesn't appear to be backing down. Read More

U.S. to Press Maduro With New UN Resolution on Venezuela

The draft resolution calls for the “immediate start of a political process leading to free, fair, and credible presidential elections,” according to a copy of the document seen by Bloomberg. The U.S. is trying to build upon growing international pressure on Maduro to cede power after President Donald Read More

'SNL' skewers politicians over blackface

"Saturday Night Live" weighed in on the blackface controversy surrounding Virginia Governor Ralph Northam and the state's attorney general, Mark Herring. Read More

Militant Iran taunts U.S. on revolution's 40th birthday

Soldiers, students, clerics and black-clad women holding small children thronged streets across Iran, many with portraits of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Shi'ite cleric who toppled the Shah in an Islamic uprising that still haunts the West. On Feb. 11, 1979, Iran's army declared its neutrality Read More

House Judiciary Committee hires lawyers who have written case for Trump impeachment

House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, a New York Democrat, has hired two legal consultants who have advocated for the impeachment or possible indictment of President Donald Trump for obstructing justice. Read More

'Pineapple Express' storm douses California with rain, snow

"The (Pineapple) Express is no joke," said Bob Oravec, meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland of the strongest weather system of the season. The weather system, also known as an atmospheric river, gets its name from the flow Read More

Harris' answer to critics who say she's not 'black enough'

In a radio interview, Sen. Kamala Harris responds to critics who claim she is not "black enough" as she enters her bid for a 2020 presidential run. Read More

Monica Witt: US Air Force officer defects to Iran with information 'seriously damaging' to national security, officials reveal

A US Air Force officer has defected to Iran and shared information that could cause "serious damage" to America's national security, officials have revealed. The former Air Force intelligence specialist was charged with espionage and was accused of working for Iran, according to an unsealed Read More

Journalist Sues Twitter for Banning Her over ‘Women Aren’t Men’ Tweets

After a number of temporary suspensions, Twitter in November permanently locked the verified account of Murphy, a Canadian writer and self-described feminist, informing her that she had violated the platform’s hateful-conduct rules. In late October, Twitter added “targeted misgendering or deadnaming Read More

Elizabeth Warren says Trump ‘may not even be a free man’ in 2020, on first day of campaign

Elizabeth Warren has struck back at Donald Trump on her first day campaigning for president, saying she is not certain that the president will even still be in office on election day in 2020 — or even out of jail. Ms Warren, a senator from Massachusetts, made the suggestion during a campaign rally in Read More

Opinion: Harris, Klobuchar and Warren are Trump's kryptonite

Dean Obeidallah writes that the Democratic women declaring their 2020 presidential candidacies could pose a serious threat to Trump's chances of re-election. Read More

There Is No Green New Deal

What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has thrust upon our national conversation is not, in any sense, a “Green New Deal.” It does not resemble a Green New Deal. It does not approximate a Green New Deal. It does not so much as represent the shadows or the framework or the embryo of a Green New Deal. It is, instead Read More

El Paso mayor says Trump is 'wrong' to connect city's crime drop and border barrier

El Paso, Texas, Mayor Dee Margo said hours before President Donald Trump is due to visit his city that Trump was wrong to claim a border barrier was responsible for El Paso's drop in crime. Read More

Venezuela's Maduro claims 'warmongering' Trump administration controlled by KKK

Beleaguered Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro has accused the Trump administration of warmongering and has claimed the White House is controlled by the Ku Klux Klan. As opposition leader Juan Guaido – who a month ago declared himself the county’s rightful president – called on supporters to once Read More