Donald Trump clobbered the press about a dozen times in a speech to a conservative gathering. Later in the day, his staff blocked CNN and The New York Times from attending a briefing.
An oil industry services company will pay $9.5 million in penalties for Gulf of Mexico safety violations and for pollution from a 2012 offshore platform fire that killed three workers.
Authorities cleared a protest camp where opponents of the Dakota Access oil pipeline had gathered for the better part of a year. Forty-six people were arrested.
The Corps has told those who remain in the Oceti Sakowin camp that they needed to leave by 2 p.m. Wednesday. Gov. Doug Burgum listed the same time and date in an emergency evacuation order last week.
U.S. Defence Secretary Jim Mattis said Monday the United States does not intend to seize Iraqi oil, shifting away from an idea proposed by President Donald Trump that has rattled Iraq's leaders.
Members of the largest Somali community in the United States say they're not surprised to see a growing number of asylum seekers braving the elements to illicitly enter Canada.