A constitutional law expert fiercely defended her knowledge of the impeachment inquiry Wednesday before the House Judiciary Committee after the panel’s top Republican suggested she wasn’t read up on the proceedings. Pamela Karlan, a professor at Stanford University, was responding to Rep. Doug Collins, who said the four professors invited to speak about impeachment were
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Light showers will move across northern portions of the region today ahead of a low-pressure system that is impacting California. Drier weather is in store for the region tonight with the weather story shifting to the winds by Thursday. On Thursday, winds will impact east slopes of the area mountains. Those of you that live
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Stars live violent lives, and the planets around them don’t always survive their brutal phases. But for the first time, astronomers have found evidence of a planet that survived a star’s transition to death. In what researchers called “one of those chance discoveries,” they found an ice giant exoplanet — a planet outside of our
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Tucked away on a street in New York’s trendy SoHo neighborhood, a throng of bubbly influencers giggled and posed for selfies. A DJ played pulsating music amid a sea of neon lights and colorful walls that were expertly curated for Instagram. And, of course, there was alcohol and hors d’oeuvres were passed around. The scene
Continue Reading The stunningly consequential accusation spelled out in the Democrats’ impeachment report represents the most sweeping effort yet to capture the span of President Donald Trump’s alleged offense and to boil it into a crisp indictment. In effect, the 300-page House Intelligence Committee summary of witness testimony, timelines and phone records accused Trump of perpetrating one
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Click here for updates on this story DENVER (KMGH ) — You can hear and see the development in Cherry Creek as the cranes go up and the apartments and condos start popping up. But some neighbors who live nearby those construction projects say their streets are being flooded by construction workers and contractors who
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A Wisconsin school resource officer on Tuesday shot and wounded a student who stabbed him during an altercation, police said. It was the second shooting to take place in a high school in the state in two days. The incident occurred shortly after 9 a.m. in the office of the school resource officer at Oshkosh
Continue Reading William “Rick” Singer, the mastermind of the college admissions scam, approached seven Stanford coaches about potential recruits between 2009 and his arrest in 2019, Stanford University’s president said on Wednesday. There was no evidence that any Stanford Athletics employees — aside from the former sailing coach — agreed to support a Singer client in exchange
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CHESAPEAKE, VA (WTKR) — A couple says a thief tore open Christmas presents and stole their guns and electronics after breaking into their Chesapeake home. Security videos from neighbors in the Homemont section of Chesapeake captured video of an SUV outside of Kathi and Ricky Gent’s house on
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HOUSTON, Texas — A Texas judge has temporarily halted the construction of a private wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, delivering a blow to the group that has ardently supported the President Donald Trump’s push for additional border barriers. “We Build the Wall,” a group founded by an Air Force veteran, kicked off new construction on
Continue Reading President Donald Trump appeared to be in a fractious mood as he met with world leaders at the NATO summit outside London on Wednesday, calling the leader of the US’s northern neighbor “two-faced” and abruptly canceling his end-of-meeting press conference which was scheduled to take place while the House Judiciary Committee is holding its first
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Over 200,000 background checks for gun purchases were initiated on Black Friday, making this the second-highest day of checks ever, according to data released by the FBI. The data said 202,465 total checks were started Friday, falling short of the record set on 2017’s Black Friday with 203,086. Black Friday is typically the biggest day
Continue Reading Sundar Pichai is now indisputably one of the most powerful figures in Silicon Valley. On Tuesday, Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin announced that Pichai would take over as CEO of parent company Alphabet in addition to his role as CEO of Google. “He will be the executive responsible and accountable for leading Google,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TAMPA, FL (WFTS) — A local military wife finds a way to include her husband in their Christmas photo during his deployment. Danielle Cobo will spend Christmas away from her husband. He deployed in early 2019. He is serving overseas as a Black Hawk helicopter pilot. He closed
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(CNN) — Después de que el presidente Donald Trump lo calificó de “dos caras”, el primer ministro de Canadá, Justin Trudeau, admitió este miércoles que él y otros líderes mundiales estaban hablando sobre el presidente de Estados Unidos cuando fueron captados por la cámara en un evento del Palacio de Buckingham la noche anterior. El
Continue Reading On the Sunday before Thanksgiving the Republican governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, made a secret trip to the White House to introduce his pick for the next senator from Georgia to President Donald Trump. A Trump-aligned conservative wrapping up his first year in office, Kemp had brought along Kelly Loeffler, an Atlanta businesswoman and political
Continue Reading American blue chips such as Caterpillar and Deere and consumer companies like toy giant Hasbro and Roomba maker iRobot have all been hit hard by trade tensions between the United States and China. But many midsized US companies are realizing that they need to diversify away from China and have already begun to take action.
Continue Reading What may have been the world’s tallest waterfall briefly formed on Greenland’s ice sheet last year, draining a meltwater lake of 5 million cubic meters of water — equivalent to 2,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools — in just five hours. Scientists from the University of Cambridge in the UK recorded the extraordinary phenomenon through the use
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, TN (WTVF) — A Wilson County woman is facing a lawsuit after she posted a negative review on Yelp about a middle Tennessee doctor in November. Kelly Beavers is accused of defamation and libel, and false light for a post she made about Dr. Kaveer Nandigam of
Continue Reading Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on Monday that will require manufactures of smartphones, computers, and Smart TVs to install Russian software on them before they can be sold in the country. The move has raised concerns over possible state surveillance and prompted fears that companies could pull out of the Russian market. It
Continue Reading Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Wednesday appointed Atlanta businesswoman Kelly Loeffler to take over the seat of retiring Sen. Johnny Isakson. Kemp, a Republican, had been pressed by President Donald Trump to appoint Rep. Doug Collins, CNN previously reported, but selected Loeffler in a rare act of defiance against Trump by a member of his
Continue Reading (CNN) — Durante más de un año, miles de católicos en Buffalo, New York, suplicaron, protestaron y rezaron para que el obispo Richard Malone renunciara. Distribuyeron peticiones, sostuvieron pancartas en vigilias de oración, incluso trataron de encontrar el avión de Malone en el aeropuerto. El miércoles, estos católicos de Buffalo finalmente lograron lo que deseaban,
Continue Reading Ford has tapped McDonald’s to help it turn coffee parts into car parts. Starting this year, Ford is incorporating coffee chaff — coffee bean skin that comes off during the roasting process — into the plastic headlamp housing used in some cars. It’s asked McDonald’s, which doesn’t roast its own coffee, to connect it with
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The House Judiciary Committee held its first impeachment hearing into President Donald Trump on Wednesday. Republican Rep. Doug Collins, the ranking member of the committee, delivered opening remarks prior to constitutional law experts’ testimony before the panel. Read his opening statement as prepared for delivery: “Thank you, Chairman Nadler. Welcome to Part Two of the
Continue Reading Nueva York (CNN Business) — Más de 20 años después de lanzar Google desde un garaje de Menlo Park, Larry Page y Sergey Brin están renunciando a las funciones ejecutivas en su empresa matriz Alphabet. Page y Brin renuncian como presidente ejecutivo y presidente, respectivamente, de Alphabet, anunció la compañía el martes. Sundar Pichai, el
Continue Reading Expedia just parted ways with its top two executives after a major disagreement between the board and the C-suite. CEO Mark Okerstrom and Chief Financial Officer Alan Pickerill resigned their roles Wednesday, effective immediately. The announcement of the abrupt move came from Barry Diller, who is the chairman of Expedia’s board. Diller said the board
Continue Reading A group of world leaders including Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson were caught on tape Tuesday night seemingly gossiping and joking about President Donald Trump’s, um, talkativeness. “He takes a … 40-minute press conference at the top,” Trudeau can be heard saying while the other
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Welcome to #HovDay. Jay-Z turns 50 years old (can you even believe that) on December 4 and there’s cause to celebrate over on Spotify. That’s because the prolific rapper’s music catalog has been returned to that streaming service after a two year absence. Spotify tweeted about it on Wednesday. “Happy birthday, Hov Welcome back to
Continue Reading The House Judiciary Committee held its first impeachment hearing into President Donald Trump on Wednesday. Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, a Democrat from New York, led the hearing. Read his opening statement as prepared for delivery: “The facts before us are undisputed. “On July 25, President Trump called President Zelensky of Ukraine and, in President Trump’s
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His performances are forever being scrutinized by the public eye, but Tiger Woods’ toughest critics could be in his own household. Woods won his first major title in 11 years at the Masters seven months ago, but he admits his kids — daughter Sam and son Charlie — hardly ever talk about his victory at
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