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Speaker MORE (R-Wis.) said Monday that Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), who was gravely wounded in a shooting this summer, will walk again. “He’s gonna walk but he’s gonna have to re-learn how to do it,” Ryan said during a CNN town hall in Racine, Wis., after Scalise joined a conference call with his GOP colleagues earlier in the day. “He sounded great.

President Trump on Monday unveiled his much-anticipated agenda for Afghanistan, a plan heavy on broad goals and light on details. Speaking from Fort Myer, Va., Trump laid out parameters that will keep U.S. troops in Afghanistan to attempt to win the 16-year-old war, rejecting those who have called for withdrawal. “The American people are weary of war without victory.

MOSCOW — The American diplomatic mission to Russia said Monday that it planned to sharply reduce visa services because of Moscow’s order to cut its staff, the latest in a series of tit-for-tat penalties by the two countries. The embassy said in a statement that, beginning Wednesday, it would suspend the issuance of all nonimmigrant visas — like those for business, work and tourism — and that from Sept.

SUBIRATS, Spain — The woman who spotted him on Monday afternoon said the young man was wearing unusually bulky clothes for a hot summer day.

In what may be the largest award so far in a lawsuit tying ovarian cancer to talcum powder, a Los Angeles jury on Monday ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $417 million in damages to a medical receptionist who developed ovarian cancer after using the company’s trademark Johnson’s Baby Powder on her perineum for decades. Eva Echeverria, 63, of East Los Angeles is one of thousands of women who have sued the consumer products giant Johnson & Johnson claiming baby powder caused their disease, pointing to studies linking talc to cancer that date to 1971, when scientists in Wales discovered pa

UPPER DARBY, Pa. — More than 30 people were injured when a train crashed into another train that was parked at a station in suburban Philadelphia. The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority said the crash happened around 12:15 a.m. Tuesday. An inbound Norristown High Speed Line train crashed into an unoccupied, parked train at the 69th Street Terminal in Upper Darby, said SEPTA spokeswoman Heather Redfern. SEPTA said 33 people aboard the train were injured. In an early morning news briefing, Upper Darby Mayor Nicholas Micozzie said at least four people suffered serious injuries.

WASHINGTON — The Interior Department has ordered a halt to a scientific study begun under President Obama of the public health risks of mountaintop-removal coal mining. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, which was conducting the study, said in a statement Monday that they were ordered to stop work because the Interior Department is conducting an agencywide budgetary review. Last year, West Virginia officials asked the

White supremacist marchers had not yet lit their torches when the deletions began. The ‘‘Unite the Right’’ Facebook page, which had been used to organize the rally in Charlottesville, was removed the day before the event was scheduled, forcing planners to disperse to other platforms to organize.

Today in the United States, sweeping majorities of the public say they support fair housing laws and the ideal of integrated schools.

Today in the United States, sweeping majorities of the public say they support fair housing laws and the ideal of integrated schools.