FILE – In this Jan. 4, 2017 photo, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and first lady Kathryn Helgaas Burgum greet the crowd at the governor’s inauguration celebration in Bismarck, N.D. Burgum’s preference for wearing jeans got him booted from the North Dakota Senate floor Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017, while he was posing for a photo with some high school students. ...

Univision anchor Jorge Ramos squared off with Fox News’ Sean Hannity Monday night in a debate over President Donald Trump’s illegal immigration policy, with Ramos calling the president the “deportation czar.” Ramos, who famously confronted Trump on the campaign trail over his promise to build a wall across the southern border hours after the president took credit for a series ...

Editor’s note: The following column is adapted from the new book “The Alpha Female’s Guide to Men & Marriage” Post Hill Press (February 14, 2017). Like me, my mother was not a perfect wife. She was, however, a remarkable and compassionate woman. And she was fiercely devoted to my father, so much so that five years after he died, she ...

In this Jan. 4, 2017 file photo, Oakland, Calif., Mayor Libby Schaaf, right, applauds as newly named Oakland Chief of Police Anne Kirkpatrick, center, is introduced during a media conference in Oakland.  (AP) The incoming police chief in Oakland will reportedly receive the largets base pay in the city’s history. Incoming Chief Anne Kirkpatrick will earn a base salary of ...

At least seven confirmed tornadoes hit southeast Louisiana Tuesday, causing major damage as a wave of severe thunderstorms swept through the region. Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said at a news conference at least seven confirmed tornadoes touched down in the state, including two in Livingston Parish, and one in six other parishes. He declared a state of emergency in ...

In 1941, Ken Aderholt’s grandfather built a single-story brick house along the banks of the Red River – a shallow and serene waterway serving as the boundary between Texas and Oklahoma – where the Aderholts have farmed wheat and raised cattle for generations.  The federal government is now claiming the land the house sits on is public. It declared hundreds of ...

A pair of F-16 jets struck two members of a ground-control party — killing a civilian contractor and wounding an Air Force service member — after a training exercise went awry on Tuesday night, officials said in a Wednesday statement. The F-16s were using unspecified munitions when the incident occurred at a range that’s part of the White Sands Missile Range ...

House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi launched into a blistering attack on President Trump’s Supreme Court pick Tuesday, accusing Judge Neil Gorsuch of being hostile to everything from clean air to children with autism – a hint of likely Democratic resistance, as some Republicans eye a potential “nuclear option.” Trump nominated Gorsuch to the Supreme Court on Tuesday, choosing an originalist ...