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Bob Gildersleeve, 71, a former police officer and firefighter, has seen his share of grim scenes. Few compared with the wreckage he encountered on Wednesday: the twisted remains of an Amtrak train that his son had been riding hours before.

President Barack Obama is moving aggressively to shrink the prison population at Guantánamo, whittling the number of detainees nearly in half since he took office. But his drive to close the offshore prison before he leaves office in two years faces very long odds. Among the obstacles: existing law limits transfers, the new Congress seems even more hostile to loosening those restrictions than

(CNN)Large, mostly Democratic-leaning, metropolitan centers are consolidating their dominance of the national economy even as smaller, mostly Republican-leaning communities at their periphery show clear signs of economic revival under President Donald Trump, according to an extensive new analysis of regional economic dynamics published Tuesday.

These twin trends -- consolidation at the

Democratic and Republican lawmakers believe next year’s battle for the Senate majority largely will hinge on the presidential race — and who wins the Democratic Party’s nomination.

Democrats think they have a shot at winning back the Senate and unified control of Congress, but only if their voters show up in mass to sweep Trump from office.

“It depends on who our candidate is,”