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Nicole Kushner Meyer (third from left), the sister of White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, poses at a promotional event in Shanghai on Sunday.

Kushner Family Business Pitch In China Prompts Questions About Investor Visas

Jared Kushner's sister recently pitched a New Jersey project to investors in China. Such investors could get a crack at an immigration visa to the United States in exchange for $500,000.

A U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent passes along a section of border wall in Hidalgo, Texas.

Trump's Plan To Hire 15,000 Border Patrol And ICE Agents Won't Be Easy

Applicants have to go through "extreme vetting" including a grueling polygraph exam. In the past, Customs and Border Protection has had trouble retaining agents.

Tom and Dick Smothers on the "Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" set

'Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour' Premiered 50 Years Ago

Fifty years ago, the "Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" changed television when it premiered on CBS Feb. 5, 1967.

WKRC-TV Hires New Meteorologist, Moves John Gumm To Nights

WKRC-TV viewers will see a female meteorologist on "Good Morning Cincinnati" next month, but she's not who you might expect. Channel 12 hired morning...

People Knowingly Donated $100,000 To Dig A Big, Pointless Hole In The Ground

Cards Against Humanity, maker of the game of the same name, celebrated Black Friday by digging a giant hole in the ground, funded by online donations. The company finished the dig on Sunday.

House Speaker Paul Ryan, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid bow their heads in prayer in this 2015 photo. All three are Christians, as are more than 90 percent of congressional members.

Nonreligious Americans Remain Far Underrepresented In Congress

Only one member of Congress is religiously unaffiliated, but more than 1 in 5 Americans is.

Chicago police officials ride bikes by a broadcast of President Trump's inaugural address on Jan. 20. The president has threatened to "send in the Feds" to intervene in the city's law enforcement.

Trump Threatens To 'Send In The Feds' Over Chicago's Violent Crime

The Department of Justice is already working with the Chicago Police Department, and local authorities are cooperating with the DEA, ATF and FBI to investigate and combat violent crime in the city.

A Yemeni child suspected of having cholera sits outside a makeshift hospital in the capital, Sanaa, earlier this month. World health authorities say that of the more than 1,300 people who have died of the disease, a quarter have been children.

Yemen Now Faces 'The Worst Cholera Outbreak In The World,' U.N. Says

World health authorities say the war-torn nation now has upwards of 200,000 suspected cases, and that number is increasing at an average of 5,000 a day. A quarter of those who have died are children.

A map shows seismic activity around the site of a 5.8 magnitude earthquake that struck western Montana early Thursday.

Montana Earthquake Is Felt For Hundreds Of Miles Early Thursday

The earthquake was the strongest to hit western Montana in years; it was followed by at least 10 measurable temblors with magnitudes of up to 4.9.

An African giant pouched rat sniffs for traces of land mine explosives at a training facility run by APOPO, a nonprofit that trains the rats to detect both tuberculosis and land mines. Not only does it have an excellent nose, but it can jump 5 feet in the air.

In March Mammal Madness, Our Money's On The Giant Pouched Rat

Because what mammal can take down a rodent that sniffs out land mines as well as TB — and jumps 5 feet in the air? Surely not tonight's competitor, the maned wolf.

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