Republican House members John Ratcliffe and Jim Jordan are being considered for a role on President Donald Trump's defense team for the upcoming Senate impeachment trial, a person familiar with the discussions said Tuesday.
The daughter of a Wisconsin state legislator was found guilty Tuesday of supplying drugs that led to the death of a pregnant woman and her baby.
A man accused of igniting a container of flammable liquid and throwing it at a sheriff's deputy who was badly burned pleaded guilty Tuesday to attempted murder.
Facing a shortage of 3.5 million houses, some California lawmakers want developers to build more apartments and other housing closer to public transportation — even if it means overriding local zoning laws.
An elected official in metro Phoenix has resigned months after being charged with running a human smuggling operation that paid pregnant women from the Marshall Islands to give up their babies in the U.S.
U.S. officials said Tuesday they're planning to send at least another 100 firefighters to Australia to join 159 already in the country battling wildfires that have killed 25 people and destroyed 2,000 homes.
He will serve part of his sentence in the Minnesota Security Hospital.
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Kansas City and a national gun safety advocacy group filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging that several businesses and individuals trafficked firearms in the region while willfully ignoring evidence that the guns were being sold illegally.
Tracing the roots of "Minnesota Nice" is difficult, partly because people don't agree on what the term means.
Plus, Gophers coach P.J. Fleck shares his team's fall semester GPA.
Although the prosecution was seeking a 13-year term for Johnson, County Attorney Mike Freeman said, "This is an appropriate sentence under the present Minnesota sentencing guidelines."
The factories did not sustain substantial damage, but employees needed to assess their personal situations and tend to their needs, the company said.
