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President Donald Trump said he’s the first US president to solve a war. Pants on Fire! At least two U.S. presidents — Theodore Roosevelt and Jimmy Carter — personally conducted negotiations that led ...

A: Small amounts of aluminum are sometimes included in vaccines as adjuvants, or substances that boost the body’s immune response to the vaccine to ensure protection from infection. That boost means ...

President Donald Trump said U.S. military strikes on five Venezuelan boats have saved more than 100,000 lives because the maneuvers thwarted drug smuggling.

Una abundancia de evidencia derivada de los videos compartidos en redes sociales, incluyendo por la tía de la joven, muestra que este incidente ocurrió recientemente en Hoffman Estates y que ICE ...

The investigative media outlet ProPublica published documents that show three Trump administration Cabinet members signed mortgages classifying separate houses as their principal residences. But the ...

Administration documents show that the administration’s proposed budget for WIC for the next year would cut $291 million for the program. In the short-term, the administration said it will use tariff ...

"Vaccine makers are exempt from all liability for vaccine injury and death," says the billboard, which was sponsored by West Virginians for Health Freedom, a group that advocates for parental choice ...

PolitiFact found two street signs (Morton Street and Glendale Lane,) at the intersection depicted in the video. Google Maps shows that the intersection where the arrest took place is in Hoffman ...

McLaughlin served in the first Trump Administration at the State Department as the Chief of Staff for Nuclear Arms Control, focused on negotiating country-first nuclear arms control deals and at the U ...

California vote-by-mail envelopes differ by county, so not all envelopes have holes and not all envelope holes reveal voting marks. However, the punched-in holes are considered best practice in the ...

As the Posse Comitatus Act has been interpreted by the courts, civilian law-enforcement officials cannot make "direct active use" of military personnel, including using federal military forces, over ...