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WASHINGTON (AP) — Denouncing the suspect as an “animal,” President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged tougher immigration measures based on skills and other merits rather than a lottery after the deadly truck attack in New York City. Trump noted during a Cabinet meeting that the driver in Tuesday’s attack entered the country through the “Diversity […]
A Tennessee man will not be charged in the shooting and killing of his 18-year-old son. WSMV news reports that the Metro Nashville Police Department made its decision after a meeting with the District Attorney’s Office on October 29, 2017. Police say 55-year-old Brentnol James shot and killed his son, Kobe Hoyle on October 29. […]
UPDATE: University Of Hartford freshman Brianna Brochu has been expelled and faces hate crime charges. Police are asking for the court to charge Brochu with “intimidation based on bigotry or bias” for harassing her ex-roommate Chennel Rowe. A University of Hartford student was the victim of bullying and cruel treatment by her White roommate in her […]
BALTIMORE (AP) — Fellow police officers are testifying at a disciplinary hearing for a Baltimore police van driver. The hearing is expected to continue Wednesday for Officer Caesar Goodson, who drove the van in which 25-year-old Freddie Gray suffered a fatal injury after being arrested in April 2015. The police department is seeking to fire […]
Two New Orleans teens were arrested for the shooting deaths of a man and woman. Arrested with two counts of first-degree murder Sean LaBaud, 17, and Terke Johnson, 18, were booked and processed on October 30 according to Glen. T. Boyd a spokesman from the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s office. The two are charged with the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump dismissed George Papadopoulos as a “liar” and a mere campaign volunteer, but newly unsealed court papers outline the former adviser’s frequent contacts with senior officials and with foreign nationals who promised access to the highest levels of the Russian government. They also hint at more headaches for the White […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans struggled to complete work on a sweeping tax proposal, delaying its public release by a day as President Donald Trump set an ambitious, by-Christmas timetable for passage of the legislation. The GOP tax-writers strained to make last-minute changes to the proposed legislation, working Tuesday through the day and night to […]
Gov. Mark Dayton became the latest public official to denounce a racially biased attack on St. Paul mayoral candidate Melvin Carter.
CHICAGO (AP) — Former President Barack Obama has delivered opening remarks at a Chicago leadership summit hosted by his foundation for hundreds of civic leaders and artists from around the world. Obama calls the two-day event starting Tuesday a “collective conversation” to exchange ideas with young people and help spark change. He says a goal […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A man in a rented pickup truck mowed down pedestrians and bicyclists along a busy bike path near the World Trade Center memorial Tuesday, killing at least eight and injuring 11 others in what the mayor called “a particularly cowardly act of terror.” The 29-year-old driver was shot in the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is spending more than $200 million a day responding to recent hurricanes and wildfires, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency told Congress Tuesday in testimony that also slammed the $300 million Whitefish contract in Puerto Rico. FEMA Administrator Brock Long told a Senate panel that about 25 million […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tech giants Facebook, Twitter, and Google are set to go before senators Tuesday to defend their security measures as new revelations have emerged that Russian-linked accounts reached much more American voters than previously thought. Testimony from Facebook obtained by The Associated Press on Monday revealed that posts generated by a Russian internet […]
