Two people were arrested and charged with the murders of two children whose remains were discovered encased in concrete and inside a suitcase in Colorado, the authorities announced. Corena Rose Minjarez and Jesus Dominguez were each charged with first-degree murder and abuse of a corpse on Friday, the Pueblo Police Department announced. The charges come…
The remains of a child were found encased in concrete in a storage unit in Pueblo, Colo., last month, and the police said Thursday that they were searching for two other children last seen in 2018 as part of the homicide investigation. The grisly discovery was made on the morning of Jan. 10 at a…
As a co-founder of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, Representative Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio, once antagonized his party’s leadership so mercilessly that former Speaker John A. Boehner, whom he helped chase from his position, branded him a “legislative terrorist.” Less than a decade later, Mr. Jordan — a fast-talking Republican often seen sans jacket,…
Human remains that were discovered last summer at the Lake Mead National Recreational Area in Nevada have been identified as those of a Las Vegas man who had been missing for nearly 25 years, the authorities said. The man, Claude Russell Pensinger, was 52 when he disappeared on July, 14, 1998, the Clark County Coroner’s…
WASHINGTON — Senator John Fetterman, the Pennsylvania Democrat who suffered a near-fatal stroke before winning his seat last year, spent a second night in the hospital on Thursday as doctors ruled out another stroke but monitored him for signs of seizure, his spokesman said. Mr. Fetterman, 53, was admitted to the hospital on Wednesday after…
WASHINGTON — Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the party leader, toiled on Monday — 24 hours before Republicans assume the House majority — to lock down the votes he needs to be elected speaker because he had so far failed to break through entrenched opposition from hard-right lawmakers. The recalcitrance among ultraconservative lawmakers, even after…
WASHINGTON — When the history of American hardship is written in some distant decade, two recent events may capture the whipsaw forces of the age. Child poverty fell to a record low. And the program that did the most to reduce it vanished. The story of that temporary program — technically, a tax-credit expansion but…