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Anthony Matesic, a designated market maker, follows stock prices at the New York Stock Exchange, earlier this month. Mark Lennihan/AP hide caption toggle caption Mark Lennihan/AP Anthony Matesic, a designated market maker, follows stock prices at the New York Stock Exchange, earlier this month. Mark Lennihan/AP While Santa Claus is relaxing at the North Pole after a very long day of delivering Christmas presents, there’s no sign yet that his…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An 8-year-old Guatemalan migrant boy died shortly after midnight on Tuesday after being detained by U.S. border agents, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said, making him the second migrant child this month to die in U.S. detention. The boy and his father were in CBP custody on Monday when a Border Patrol agent noticed the child showing signs of illness, CBP said in a statement….

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Video Biggest Political Moments in 2018 From Brett Kavanaugh’s bitter Supreme Court nomination battle to the dire climate change warning, a look at some of the biggest political moments in 2018. In 2018, President Trump traveled to Singapore for a historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, celebrities advocated for criminal justice reform in the Oval Office and Democrats took back the House after years in the political…

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An 8-year-old migrant boy from Guatemala apprehended by immigration authorities near the U.S.-Mexico border died on Christmas morning, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.  Congressman Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, identified the child as Felipe Alonzo-Gomez in a statement Tuesday evening. In a press release Tuesday afternoon, the agency said Felipe showed “signs of potential illness” on Christmas Eve and was transferred, along with his father, to Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center in…

The death toll from the tsunami that hit Indonesian islands without warning Saturday night has passed 420 with more than 1,400 people injured. Thousands of people were left homeless when the waves smashed homes on coastal areas of western Java and southern Sumatra. Disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said the death toll had climbed to 429 on Tuesday and at least 128 were missing. Military troops, government personnel and…

Vacations canceled. Attractions closed. Christmas services postponed.  The impacts of a partial government shutdown are extending well beyond Washington, D.C., and the government workers who live there. This Christmas, Transportation Security Administration agents and air traffic controllers are working without pay during the busiest travel days of the year. They will be probably paid retroactively, but workers don’t know when that paycheck will hit their bank accounts. Some law enforcement…

President Donald Trump speaks on the phone sharing updates to track Santa’s movements from the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Santa Tracker on Christmas Eve, Monday, Dec. 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) The child who President Trump queried about their belief in Santa Claus has been identified as a 7-year-old South Carolina girl who, yes, still believes in jolly old St. Nick. According to the Post and Courier newspaper,…

Video Second migrant child dies in US custody, CBP reports 8-year-old child from Guatemala was reportedly suffering from a cold and fever. An 8-year-old boy from Guatemala died Tuesday while in U.S. custody, immigration officials announced, becoming the second child to die in such circumstances this month. In a statement, Customs and Border Protection said the boy died shortly after midnight at the Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center in Alamogordo, N.M. The…

Trump chimed in Monday from the White House, where he has been cooped up in the mansion since Saturday, when the shutdown began. Trump, who typically spends Christmas at his Florida estate, tweeted at one point Monday about feeling lonely.

Defense Secretary James MattisJames Norman MattisTrump has weighed dismissing Mnuchin: Bloomberg Trump’s Fed feud roils markets, alarms Republicans GOP senator on Syria pullout: ‘Bad people’ will fill the void MORE wished U.S. troops a merry Christmas and worked Christmas Day after President TrumpDonald John TrumpPresident Trump, first lady attend Christmas service at National Cathedral Trump open to visiting Turkey in 2019 but no ‘definite’ plans, White House says Trump has…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump set off a Christmas social media storm when he asked whether a 7-year-old was too old to believe in Santa Claus, capping a week of plunging stocks, a government shutdown and the U.S. defense chief’s unceremonious departure. Twitter lit up like a Christmas tree after Trump made his remark during a holiday event with first lady Melania Trump, taking calls from children calling the…

Video Homeless man, couple conspired to deceive GoFundMe funds GoFundMe refunded more than $400,000 to 14,000 donors who believed they were helping a homeless veteran from Philadelphia — but later discovered it was an alleged scam concocted by a New Jersey couple. GoFundMe spokesman Bobby Whithorne said Tuesday refunds were issued to those who donated to the fund to help Johnny Bobbitt that was created by Katelyn McClure and her…

WASHINGTON — The lights were not twinkling. The toy trains were not whirring. Even the nearby bathrooms were locked. The national Christmas tree, symbol of a country’s seasonal cheer, instead stood as an icon of a government in paralysis, as the partial shutdown stretched into the holiday with an array of federal services frozen, some 800,000 public servants either idled or about to be and the disruption to the broader…

President Trump delivered a Christmas Day message that many won’t want to hear: “I can’t tell you when the government is going to be open. I can tell you it’s not going to be open until we have a wall, a fence, whatever they’d like to call it.” “But it’s all the same thing, it’s a barrier from people pouring into our country,” Trump said. Trump made the remarks to…

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WASHINGTON — The lights were not twinkling. The toy trains were not whirring. Even the nearby bathrooms were locked. The national Christmas tree, symbol of a country’s seasonal cheer, instead stood as an icon of a government in paralysis, as the partial shutdown stretched into the holiday with an array of federal services frozen, some 800,000 public servants either idled or about to be and the disruption to the broader…