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Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump's nominee to fill Antonin Scalia's empty seat on the Supreme Court, will face the Senate at 11 a.m. Monday for his first round of confirmation hearings. Gorsuch is widely viewed as a Constitutional…

Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny gave a speech in the East Room of the White House Thursday evening to commemorate St. Patrick's Day — and to not-so-subtly roast the heck out of President Donald Trump, whose second Muslim ban was blocked by a federal…

A five-alarm fire broke out at an apartment building under construction in Raleigh, North Carolina, around 10 p.m. Thursday night, NBC affiliate WITN reports. The fire caused severe damage to five other buildings and affected 10 buildings…

An emergency medical technician was killed in the Bronx on Thursday after a man ran her over with her own stolen ambulance, WABC, a local ABC News affiliate, reported Friday. Yadira Arroyo, the emergency worker killed Thursday, and her partner were…

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the oldest justice on the court, celebrates her 84th birthday Wednesday. The dissent-loving, cancer-beating icon is a lifetime crusader for women's rights who sometimes falls asleep after too much wine —…

David Cay Johnston – who appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show Tuesday night to discuss President Donald Trump's 2005 tax returns — has had an illustrious career as an investigative journalist. The morning after Maddow, Trump called Johnston a reporter…

March 14 is a sacred day among math fans: It's Pi Day, so named because the date is the same as the first three digits of the famous constant of pi — 3.14 — which measures the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. While most of us only…

Hope you brought your neck pillow to the airport, because it's going to be a long wait.  How many flights have been canceled Tuesday? As of 11:15 a.m., 6,227 flights have been canceled Tuesday in the wake of winter storm Stella, according to recent…

Make sure those brackets are filled: The NCAA's March Madness tournament is fast approaching.  The tournament is set to begin on Tuesday and Wednesday with First Four doubleheaders, but things will really heat up on Thursday, with 16 games scheduled…

Grab a thick blanket and cue up Netflix: Winter storm Stella has made her much-anticipated debut in the Northeast, blanketing cities like New York, Boston and D.C. in snow. The nor'easter blizzard prompted a state of emergency across the tristate…

Ready your clocks and add an extra shot of espresso to your coffee: Daylight saving time is just around the corner, giving us an extra hour of daylight to enjoy in exchange for shaving off an hour of precious sleep starting Sunday, March 12.…

Video interviews from home always bear the risk that something will disrupt the professionalism and seriousness of the moment. For Robert Kelly, a professor of political science at Pusan National University in South Korea, that moment came Friday…

According to the latest poll by CNN/ORC, Melania Trump, who never leaves Trump Tower and who definitely doesn't tweet, is more popular than her husband, President Donald Trump. The poll, conducted between March 1 and March 4, found the largely…

The GOP's proposed bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act was approved by the House Ways and Means Committee in a 23-16 vote after a grueling 18-hour session that lasted into early Thursday morning. The House Energy Commerce Committee, which also…

The Jewish celebration of Purim, the festival of lots, begins at sunset on Saturday, March 11, and lasts until nightfall on Sunday, March 12. Purim is a celebration of life that is sometimes referred to as "Jewish Halloween" or "Jewish Mardi Gras"…

On Wednesday, March 8, International Women's Day is expected to be celebrated a little differently than in years past: The organizers behind the wildly successful Women's March have arranged for the A Day Without a Woman strike. Many businesses —…

GOP lawmakers released a draft bill on Monday of the American Health Care Act — the Republican Party's proposed alternative to the Affordable Care Act, known to many as Obamacare — which was met with many negative responses, despite the support of…

Americans are almost evenly divided on key changes Republicans are considering in their restructure of the Affordable Care Act, dubbed "Trumpcare," according to a new poll by CNN/ORC. CNN reported that 50% of Americans oppose both removing the ACA…

Despite the Trump administration's claim that Attorney General Jeff Sessions was solely acting in the capacity of a U.S. senator when he met with a Russian ambassador during the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, campaign finance records…