WASHINGTON (AP) — Charges against the man accused of shooting two National Guard members have been upgraded to first-degree murder after one of the soldiers died, the U. S. attorney for the District of Columbia announced Friday, while investigators continue to seek a motive and the U. S. government announced a halt to all asylum decisions. Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, and Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, 24 were hospitalized in critical condition after the Wednesday afternoon shooting near the U...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump says he wants to “permanently pause migration” from poorer nations and is promising to seek to expel millions of immigrants from the United States by revoking their legal status. He is blaming immigrants for problems from crime to housing shortages as part of “social dysfunction” in America and demanding “REVERSE MIGRATION. ”His most severe social media post against immigration since returning to the Oval Office in January came...

MOSCOW (AP) — A U. S. -Russian crew of three began a mission on the International Space Station after being launched there on a Russian spacecraft Thursday. A Soyuz booster rocket lifted off at 2:27 p. m. from the Russia-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan to put the Soyuz MS-28 into orbit. The spacecraft carried NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Russian crewmates, Sergei Mikaev and Sergei Kud-Sverchkov. The craft docked at the International Space Station at 5:34 p. m. The three to...