The reduced tariffs are to take effect next Feb. 14. The move comes after the Trump administration agreed to halve tariffs on about $112 billion in Chinese goods.
Authorities say a multimillion-dollar embezzlement scheme funneled money from a fund for needy families into personal expenses, including a stay at a luxury rehab center in California.
The Department of Homeland Security says the state's "Green Light" law allowing licenses for immigrants without legal status interferes with security. State officials call it "political retaliation."
A lawyer says Madoff, who is serving a 150-year sentence, suffers from terminal kidney failure. The Federal Bureau of Prisons denied a similar request for release last year.
New research shows that climate change and habitat loss are causing widespread decline among bumblebees in North America and Europe — and putting ecosystems that depend on these pollinators at risk.
Footage from a privately run immigration detention center in California shows eight men linking arms in a hunger strike. Officers responded with pepper spray, saying the men were inciting "rebellion."
The Senate found President Trump not guilty of the impeachment charges against him. "We went through hell, unfairly," he said in a statement at the White House.
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence said former President Barack Obama's administration was caught off guard and wasted time when it should have been reacting to the attack on the election.
New Yorker writer Adam Entous says the U.S. could face further retaliation from Iran for the death of Qassem Soleimani: "If you look at their history, they take a long time before they strike back."
Prosecutors have said their piece; now it's time for Weinstein's legal team to take the stage. But before his rape trial moves on, here's a glimpse of the four biggest courtroom moments so far.