To hear Rep. Steve Scalise tell it, President Donald Trump nearly won the Louisiana governor’s race all by himself. “Eddie Rispone made up a 22-point disadvantage over the last month because of President Trump’s involvement,” the Louisiana Republican congressman said of the party’s gubernatorial nominee. “Clearly, President Trump’s involvement made a big difference at helping
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If a stranger on the internet promises you a Christmas gift for a $10 buy-in and some personal information, it probably isn’t legit, the Better Business Bureau warns. Not only will you be conned out of a gift, but you might have accidentally joined an illegal pyramid scheme. “Secret Sister,” an internet-wide gift exchange that
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House Republicans are asking a Republican senator who spoke to President Donald Trump and the US Ambassador to the European Union about the freezing of US security aid to Ukraine to provide information relevant to the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry. The House Oversight Committee’s ranking Republican, Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, and the House Intelligence Committee’s
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Click here for updates on this story DES MOINES, IA (KCCI) — A man charged with attempted murder of a police officer after an early Sunday morning incident in Des Moines made a court appearance Monday morning. Troy Donald Ramero Ruggles, 25, went before a judge Monday morning. He is charged with two counts of
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Science has identified in the plant kingdom the “missing link” of cellular immortality between human and single-celled animals, according to a new study led by scientists from Arizona State University and Texas A&M University. “This is the first time that we have identified the detailed structure of the telomerase component from plants,” said co-author Dr.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story FAYETTEVILLE, AR (KHBS) — A Fayetteville church found the burial grounds for dozens of slaves in its backyard when the land was being surveyed for a cell phone tower. Pastor Steve Dixon said Christian Life Cathedral sits on top of a hill in Fayetteville where a cell phone
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SAN DIEGO (KSWB) — When Officer Andre Thomas was called to investigate a stolen car last month, he didn’t find the thief, but he did find a new friend in need of some help. At the time, the loss of Thomas’ beloved yellow Labrador, Melakai, was still fresh.
Continue Reading President Donald Trump’s financial documents won’t be released Wednesday, after the Supreme Court on Monday put on hold a lower court opinion that allowed a House subpoena to go forward. The court did not set a timeline when it will rule or release the documents, but has asked for the House to respond on Thursday
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Even before Meghan Markle married Prince Harry, I was an Anglophile obsessed with all things British. I woke up extra early with my mother to watch the wedding of Harry’s mom, Diana Spencer, to his father Prince Charles, when I was a child. I kept a scrapbook (God, do they even make those anymore?) of
Continue Reading With 78 days until the Iowa caucuses, the 2020 election will be here before you know it. Every Sunday, I deliver to your inbox the 5 BIG storylines you need to know to understand the upcoming week on the campaign trail. And they’re ranked — so the No. 1 story is the most important of the coming week. 5. Impeachment,
Continue Reading Over the weekend, President Donald Trump sent this tweet: “Tell Jennifer Williams, whoever that is, to read BOTH transcripts of the presidential calls, & see the just released statement from Ukraine. Then she should meet with the other Never Trumpers, who I don’t know & mostly never even heard of, & work out a better
Continue Reading The Supreme Court on Monday denied “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli’s appeal request over his 2017 fraud conviction, effectively upholding his seven-year prison sentence. The former pharmaceutical executive was convicted of securities fraud and conspiracy in 2017 for defrauding investors out of more than $10 million between 2009 and 2014 in what prosecutors called a Ponzi
Continue Reading The Department of Commerce has again extended the temporary general license allowing American companies to sell to Huawei, the embattled Chinese tech company. The existing temporary license was set to expire Monday. The announcement is good news for Huawei and for American tech companies who rely on it as a key customer. The Commerce Department
Continue Reading Khizr Khan, the Gold Star father who offered a scathing rebuke of Donald Trump at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, endorsed Joe Biden’s presidential bid on Monday. “I’m supporting Joe Biden for President because of the America he stands for and the one he will fight for — the country that my son, Humayun Khan,
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While nothing can bring back the two teenagers who died in the shooting at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, California, there are some ways you can help. The father of 15-year-old Grace Anne Muehlberger has set up a GoFundMe to memorialize his daughter. “It is with the most unexplainable brokenness that we share our
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Bogaletch Gebre, the Ethiopian women’s rights activist who fought to end female genital mutilation, has died. She was said to be 66. Gebre died in Los Angeles on November 2, according to KMG Ethiopia, the charity she founded with her sister. The organization did not say how she died, but the Los Angeles Times reports
Continue Reading Before NASA’s Cassini mission ended its study of Saturn in 2017, it also flew by Saturn’s moon, Titan. The data provided by the Hyugens probe, which was part of the mission, suggested that Titan was the perfect candidate for further exploration. And now, that data has helped scientists put together the first global geological map
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Washington (CNN) — Melania Trump sigue comprometida con evitar que los chicos usen cigarrillos electrónicos, dice la oficina de la primera dama, incluso cuando el presidente Donald Trump está poniendo consideraciones políticas por encima de su plan previamente anunciado de prohibir los cigarrillos electrónicos con sabor que atraen a los menores. La primera dama fue
Continue Reading (CNN) — La Compañía de Gas y Electricidad del Pacífico (PG&E, por sus siglas en inglés) advirtió a sus clientes en 19 condados de California que podrían sufrir cortes de energía debido a un fuerte viento en altamar. Unos 250.000 residentes podrían verse afectados por un corte de energía pública esta semana a medida que
Continue Reading As he waited for his murder trial to begin, Patrick Frazee sent letters to a man he met in jail asking him to kill some of the witnesses, the former inmate testified. Frazee is charged with murdering Kelsey Berreth, the mother of his toddler daughter. She went missing last Thanksgiving Day and her body hasn’t
Continue Reading President Donald Trump will award the National Medal of Arts to Jon Voight, an Oscar winner and outspoken Trump supporter, the White House announced Sunday. Voight’s honor was announced along with seven other recipients of the National Medal of Arts and National Medal of Humanities, who will be presented with their medals on Thursday by
Continue Reading Abigail Moen, 9, didn’t know what a cleft lip or cleft palate was until she watched a commercial that brought tears to her eyes. “I was sad,” the fourth-grader from Eastchester, New York, told CNN. “I said, ‘Daddy, can we do something? I want to help those kids.’” The commercial detailed the hardships kids born
Continue Reading President Donald Trump held an unannounced meeting with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell at the White House residence on Monday, the first such meeting between the President and the nation’s top monetary policymaker since an informal dinner last February. Over the past year, Trump has routinely attacked Powell, a former investment banker, pressuring him to
Continue Reading This was originally published as the November 18 edition of CNN’s Meanwhile in America, the daily email about US politics for global readers. Sign up here to receive it every weekday morning. The facts just keep getting worse for President Donald Trump — and a key witness could gut his entire impeachment defense this week.
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WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. House of Representatives is now investigating whether President Donald Trump lied to special counsel Robert Mueller in written answers he provided in the Russia investigation, the House’s general counsel said in federal court Monday. “Did the President lie? Was the President not truthful in his responses to the Mueller investigation?”
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story FLINT, MI (WNEM) — Fancy finger foods, warm beverages, and cannabis? That’s on the menu for women in Mid-Michigan at the first event of it’s kind, High Tea. The event’s organizer said the goal of High Tea is to provide cannabis education in a safe environment. “So now
Continue Reading South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg surged 16 points to land at top of the Democratic field in the latest CNN/Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa caucuses poll. Sometimes a climb in the polls for a candidate is surprising, but in the case of Buttigieg, you could see the potential a mile away. Why? It all has
Continue Reading Christine Blasey Ford, whose allegations of sexual assault against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh rocked his confirmation hearing last year, said Sunday that although coming forward to tell her story was traumatic, she’s “thankful” it started a larger conversation about the subject. In remarks after accepting an award from the American Civil Liberties Union in
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EL PASO, Texas — Sid Balman Jr. is a fourth generation Texan and Pulitzer nominee, and he’s celebrating the release of his new novel with a signing on November 15 in El Paso. Sid is a veteran reporter who covered four major wars and traveled with two presidents and four secretaries of war during his
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A growing number of smaller companies are adopting a four-day workweek. Now the results of a recent trial at Microsoft suggest it could work even for the biggest businesses. The company introduced a program this summer in Japan called the “Work Life Choice Challenge,” which shut down its offices every Friday in August and gave
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