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By Fred Imbert andAlexandra Gibbs, CNBC U.S. stocks traded sharply higher as investors chased a market breaking out on better-than-expected earnings and rising economic optimism under President Donald Trump. The Dow …

By Lee Habeeb, LifeZette It’s a story you won’t hear anywhere this week as the life of Martin Luther King is celebrated: the story of the battle for the soul …

By Jess Bravin, The Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON—Shortly before his death in February 2016, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia spoke favorably of Donald Trump’s presidential run. “Justice Scalia thought it …

By Laurie Kellman and Jonathan Drew, Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — When truck driver Chris Gromek wants to know what’s really going on in Washington, he scans the internet …

By Nathan Bomey, USA Today Walmart is boosting the minimum hourly wage for its U.S. employees to $11 and dishing out bonuses of up to $1,000, crediting President Trump’s tax …

By Brendan Kirby, LifeZette As the details of the so-called Gang of Six’s immigration proposal emerged Thursday, they were so bad that the head of a Washington think tank could …

By Anggy Polanco and Francisco Aguilar, Reuters SAN CRISTOBAL/BARINAS, Venezuela, Jan 11 (Reuters) – Hungry mobs ransacked a food collection center, and a supermarket in Venezuela’s western Andean state of …

By Doina Chiacu and James Oliphant, Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Facing strong condemnation at home and abroad, U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday denied using the word “shithole” to describe …

By AJ Willingham, CNN (CNN)The Muslim population is growing, and in the next two decades Muslims could become the second-largest religious group in the United States, according to a Pew …

By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Consider this cold comfort: A quick study of the brutal American cold snap found that the Arctic blast really wasn’t global warming …