(CNN) — Rudy Giuliani’s attorney has sent a letter to Congress informing them that Giuliani will not be providing documents to the impeachment inquiry, attorney Jon Sale told CNN on Tuesday.
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Continue Reading (CNN) — Dos socios del abogado de Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, conectados con los esfuerzos en Ucrania para buscar información sucia sobre el aspirante presidencial demócrata Joe Biden fueron arrestados el miércoles bajo cargos criminales por violar leyes de financiación de campañas, según un portavoz del Distrito Sur de Nueva York. Igor Fruman y Lev
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Bernie Sanders often points to Canada and Europe as models for universal health care coverage. But the Vermont independent senator’s “Medicare for All” plan differs substantially from the insurance systems that exist up north and across the pond. Canadians and most European countries have private insurance industries alongside their government programs. One of the most
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Cyntoia Brown says she’s honored to be the picture of what a second chance after prison looks like. Brown was granted clemency and released from prison after spending more than a decade jailed for killing Johnny Mitchell Allen, who Brown said bought her for sex when she was 16. In her first interview since being
Continue Reading Russia has stepped up its role in the conflict in Syria by deploying military police to the country’s north. The Russian units are patrolling a contact line between Syrian and Turkish forces, according to a statement Tuesday by Russia’s Defense Ministry. The line runs along the northwestern borders of the Manbij district. After Turkey launched
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO — In what is becoming a growing trend, hundreds of dry-cleaners throughout the country have switched to new, environmentally friendly alternatives to the solvent now used to dry-clean clothes. So Consumer Reports put three of these new methods of dry-cleaning to the test. From mere appearances, there is no visible difference between cleaners using perchloroethylene
Continue Reading After years battling to assert the Kremlin’s power on the international stage, Vladimir Putin is now on what seems like a victory lap of the Middle East. On Tuesday, Kremlin-backed forces further stepped up to fill the vacuum left in northern Syria by the US. Russian military police units patrolled the contact line between Syrian
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Google has met few daring ideas it doesn’t like. But three years ago, the idea of a self-driving bicycle was just too much. It mocked the concept of an autonomous bicycle in an April Fools’ Day video. Why would anyone need a bike that rode itself? Since then the electric bike and scooter-sharing craze has
Continue Reading Well, this is a new one. In the wake of President Donald Trump’s disastrous decision to pull American troops out of northern Syria, House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming) suggested that she had figured out what led Trump to this: Impeachment! Yes, impeachment. Here’s Cheney on “Fox & Friends” on Monday: “The impeachment proceedings
Continue ReadingAs part of a cooperative effort between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the professional garment and textile care industry, the EPA Design for the Environment (DfE) Program recognizes the wetcleaning process (i.e., water-based cleaning systems) as one example of an environmentally-preferable technology that can effectively clean garments. Currently, most of the nation’s 34,000
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Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO, CA (KOVR) — A community garden that was growing food for a local food bank was vandalized over the weekend. The incident happened at a community garden near Northfield Drive in Sacramento. Officials say hundreds of pounds of produce, including butternut squash, watermelons, and pumpkins, was ruined
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story New York, NY (WCBS) — A man’s body was found early this morning inside a manhole in Columbus Circle. A Verizon worker made the gruesome discovery around 3:15 a.m. near 58th Street and Eighth Avenue. Investigators believe the victim may have been homeless and had apparently been dead
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DANIA BEACH, FL (WFOR) — A South Florida Holocaust survivor continues to defy the odds. As a young man, Hallandale Beach resident Juilis Eisenstein survived for years in four different Nazi concentration camps. He’s spent his life since informing children about what happened there. Over the weekend, friends,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SANTA ANA, CA (KCAL/KCBS) — Area police are investigating the death of a 10-year-old girl in Santa Ana who died by suicide. Santa Ana detectives were at Hazard Elementary School on Monday investigating reports that the fifth grader may have been bullied. Officers said they would be interviewing
Continue Reading The crowd is on their feet and chanting his name before he even takes the stage. “Tauren! Tauren! Tauren!” An electric guitarist unleashes a series of triumphant power chords as fans hold their smartphone cameras aloft, the glowing screens dotting the darkened concert hall like fireflies. Young women squeal as an athletic young man in
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Chicago, IL (WBBM) — A man said he was beaten up during a night out at a River North nightclub while the bouncers didn’t bat an eye. CBS 2’s Charlie De Mar sat down with the man, Jeovany Guerrero Martinez, who has now filed a lawsuit. In the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story RICHMOND, CA (KPIX) — It’s a small but growing movement in the Bay Area: living tiny. Community leaders are increasingly deploying tiny homes to help the homeless. When Amanda Kovattana saw her first tiny home, she says she was “charmed by the idea.” “I mean, it’s so cute
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story FORT WORTH, TX (KTVT) — Senseless — That’s how Atatiana Jefferson‘s father describes her death. One day after a Fort Worth police officer shot Jefferson inside her residence, flowers and candles sit outside the home on E. Allen Avenue. Her family is still processing her death and have
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story FRANKLIN, MA (WBZ) — Why did the emu cross the road? Franklin police aren’t sure, but they were thankfully able to catch it Monday morning. According to a post on their Facebook page, officers were finishing a traffic stop when they spotted an emu running across Lincoln Street.
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — La recién creada Comisión de la Verdad del Congreso de Guatemala inicio audiencias públicas este martes para “solicitar, recabar y recibir información” sobre la actuación de la Comisión Internacional Contra la Impunidad en Guatemala (CICIG). Este lunes, a través de un acuerdo legislativo firmado por el presidente del Congreso, Álvaro Arzú Escobar, se
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A pair of vehicle fires snarled traffic along El Paso highways on Tuesday morning. The first one happened around 9 a.m. when a car caught fire along Interstate 10 eastbound at Lee Travino. It closed two lanes and caused major delays for motorists. The second car fire occurred on Loop 375 south at Pellicano around
Continue Reading The man who confessed to police that he had a dead body in his vehicle and had killed three other people at his home was identified by police as Shankar Hangud, a 53-year-old from Roseville, California. Roseville Police Capt. Josh Simon said Hangud drove to Mt. Shasta Police Department on Monday with the body of
Continue Reading Wells Fargo’s fake-account scandal continues to haunt the big bank, exacerbating headaches caused by shrinking interest rates. Wells Fargo revealed on Tuesday a 23% drop in third-quarter profit that disappointed investors. The decline was driven by a $1.6 billion charge for legal costs linked to the bank’s infamous retail sales tactics. The legal hit underscores
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Using the graphic novel as the scaffolding for a dense, brooding HBO series, “Watchmen” grafts enough new threads onto its existing mythology to make “Westworld” look like a 1970s sitcom by comparison. Seemingly made strictly for die-hard fans, the series itself presents its own kind of Rorschach test: Occasionally frustrating and meandering, it’s never less
Continue Reading President Donald Trump loves polls. Except when they don’t have good news for him in them. Then he tries to discredit them. Witness this tweet from over the weekend in regard to a Fox News poll, which showed a majority of Americans (51%) favor the impeachment and removal of the President: “The Fox Impeachment poll
Continue Reading Thirty years after the debut of “The Arsenio Hall Show,” Hall is back with his first comedy special, a Netflix presentation that includes tackling the challenges of being a comedian in the modern age. “It’s a scary time to do standup,” Hall says near the outset. “You think every word could end your f—ing career.”
Continue Reading President Donald Trump — and his associates — have given all sorts of reasons for his refusal to release his tax returns: He’s under audit! Voters don’t care! His taxes are too complex for regular people to understand! None of those reasons made — or make — any sense. But now, thanks to CNN reporting,
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New Mexico is expected to lead the U.S. in pecan production this year as growers prepare for the upcoming harvest. The U.S. Agriculture Department’s statistics service says production in the southwest state is forecast at a record high 97 million pounds (nearly 44,000 metric tons). That would mark a 6% increase over 2018. Production in
Continue Reading As a dozen Democratic presidential candidates descend on Ohio for their debate on Tuesday, a larger political question looms: Is Ohio still a winnable swing state worth fighting for in the general election? Donald Trump carried the state by 8 percentage points in 2016, a Republican victory so resounding that some Democrats were left wondering
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