Democrats launched their proposed plan today to address climate change, which would create thousands of jobs in renewable energy. More than six senators running for president or considering a bid for the White House co-sponsored the Green New Deal put forth by freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and veteran Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts.. ...Read Full Story
On Thursday, the Ford Motor Co said it will hire 500 workers and invest $1 billion in its Chicago assembly operations to help keep up with increased demand for sport and crossover-utility vehicles. Ford’s announcement comes shortly after the announcement that rival GM in laying off 4,000 workers. Ford announced last fall that part of their $11 billion restructuring includes dropping all passenger car models except the iconic Mustang. It is shifting resources to light trucks, like those it is building in the Chicago.. ...Read Full Story
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is once again apologizing for claiming Native American ancestry after it was revealed that she filled out a registration card for the State Bar of Texas in 1986 and wrote “American Indian” in the line asking her race. The latest disclosure comes as Warren prepares to officially launch her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.. ...Read Full Story
On Wednesday, the controversy in Virginia widened to the top three elected officials in the state, casting serious uncertainty over who will lead the state in the coming weeks.. ...Read Full Story
President Trump delivered his second State of the Union address on Tuesday night, coming at a time where the threat of another government shutdown looming due to a partisan over his border wall and multiple investigations into his campaign’s contacts with Russia. The President called for unity again and again, delivering a speech that was a sharp contrast to the last month of digging in his heels during a 35-day government shutdown and almost two years of political battles during his administration.. ...Read Full Story
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam on Tuesday resisted calls to step down over a racist photo on his 1984 medical school yearbook page, with the state’s Democratic Latino organization joining those asking for his resignation.. ...Read Full Story
Pilgrim’s Pride is recalling 58,000 pounds of popcorn-style chicken sold at Publix Super Markets after consumer complaints of rubber in the product. The Texas company is the third major poultry producer in recent weeks to recall a total of nearly 163,000 pounds of chicken possibly tainted with extraneous material, or in these cases, rubber and wood. The problem was discovered on Jan. 30, when Pilgrim’s Pride was told by Publix employees about a consumer complaint regarding white rubber in the products, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). The popcorn chicken was offered in hot and refrigerated cases in the deli department in all Publix stores in Florida, sold between Jan. 17 and Jan. 31, the grocery chain said in a statement. It was also sold in some Publix stores in southern Georgia, southern and coastal South Carolina and southern Alabama. . ...Read Full Story
A fire broke out at Second Chance Wildlife Sanctuary in Orange County, Florida early Monday morning, killing nearly three dozen animals. Neighbors reported the fire around 1:30 a.m; crews responded with water trucks because the fire was in a rural area. The blaze was extinguished by 3 a.m.. ...Read Full Story
Border Patrol agents have reportedly discovered a 60-foot-long tunnel in Texas along the U.S.-Mexico border.. ...Read Full Story
Maryland State Police troopers said a Saturday morning crash killed five children and injured two adults. Prince George’s County police and fire responded to reports of a car crash shortly before 5 a.m. showing that the 2005 Chrysler Pacifica went off the left side of the road into a wooded area, hitting several trees before spinning into a snow-covered field. Inside the car, police say, were two adults: 32-year-old Dominique R. Taylor, identified as the driver, and 23-year-old Cornell D. Simon in the front passenger seat. Both were transported by Prince George’s County Fire Department medic units to UM Prince George’s Hospital Center and remain there while undergoing treatment for injuries.. ...Read Full Story
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday she will allow a floor vote on any bipartisan border security proposal crafted by congressional negotiators, but she drew a red line, insisting “there’s not going to be any wall money in the legislation.” Pelosi’s statement President Donald Trump to shoot back at Pelosi’s insistence that Congress will not fund the border wall.. ...Read Full Story
A New Jersey company that issued a voluntary recall in December of infant ibuprofen sold at Walmart, CVS Pharmacy and Family Dollar stores across the nation has expanded the recall to include three additional lots of the product. Tris Pharma, Inc. announced the expansion Tuesday, which specifically affects CVS and Walmart stores. Last month the company said Infants’ Ibuprofen Concentrated Oral Suspension, USP (NSAID) 50 mg per 1.25 mL, may potentially have higher concentrations of ibuprofen than labeled.. ...Read Full Story
Approximately 2,000 additional active duty U.S. service members are expected to deploy to the southern border, many of whom will be used to build and reinforce about 160 miles of concertina wire.. ...Read Full Story
Polar air brought record-low temperatures to much of the U.S. Midwest on Wednesday. School was canceled for Wednesday and Thursday in many cities, including Chicago, and police warned of the risk of accidents on icy highways. Michigan said all state offices would remain closed through Thursday. The U.S. Postal Service even halted deliveries from parts of the Dakotas through Ohio. . ...Read Full Story
A concert Foreigner performed in London in support of their debut album is getting released as Live at the Rainbow ’78, available on Blu-ray, DVD and digital video on March 15.. ...Read Full Story
President Donald Trump has accepted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s invitation to deliver the State of the Union address next Tuesday. . ...Read Full Story
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump’s longtime political adviser and confidante Roger Stone pleaded not guilty in a federal courthouse in Washington, D.C. Stone is being arraigned on a seven-count indictment brought by special counsel Robert Mueller.. ...Read Full Story
NBC’s veteran anchor Tom Brokaw continues to face backlash for his comments about Hispanics needing to “work harder” to assimilate and Hispanic parents not teaching their children to speak English. ABC News chief national affairs correspondent Tom Llamas said Monday that, “it was hurtful, and besides being ignorant, it’s just not true.”. ...Read Full Story
After the longest shutdown in government history, federal employees went back to work Monday. However, the economic effects will be felt for a long time. A report released Monday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found that the economy took an $11 billion hit, including $3 billion that’s gone forever, in the 35 days that parts of the federal government went unfunded.. ...Read Full Story
Two bombs exploded just minutes apart at a Roman Catholic cathedral in the southern Philippines, killing at least 20 people and wounding more than 100 others during a Sunday Mass.. ...Read Full Story
Dakota Theriot, the man accused of killing five people in Louisiana, was captured Sunday morning in Richmond County, Virginia. Theriot, 21, was apprehended following a night on the run after being named a suspect in the shooting deaths of his parents, his girlfriend, and her father and brother in two separate shootings Saturday. Richmond County Sheriff Stephan B. Smith said Theriot was arrested without incident as he arrived at a family member’s home. . ...Read Full Story
The House Intelligence Committee on Thursday subpoenaed Micheal Cohen to testify sometime in Mid-February. The subpoena comes one day after Cohen postponed his scheduled Feb. 7 appearance before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee citing “threats” by President Trump and his attorney Rudy Giuliani. . ...Read Full Story
A 21-year-old Florida man accused of killing five people in a bank rampage has been charged with five counts of premeditated murder in the first degree.. ...Read Full Story
President Donald Trump said in a late night tweet on Wednesday that he would delay a State of the Union address until the government shutdown was over, responding to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s move to block his plans for the speech.. ...Read Full Story
Police said Wednesday that a male nurse at a health care facility in Phoenix where an incapacitated woman gave birth in December has been arrested. Nathan Sutherland, 36, is being held at the Maricopa County Jail on sexual assault and vulnerable adult abuse charges.. ...Read Full Story
Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Tuesday that the Senate is scheduled to vote Thursday afternoon on two competing bills that aim to re-open the federal government. . ...Read Full Story
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed President Donald Trump to enforce his policy barring certain transgender people from joining or staying in the military; this as the justices put on hold lower court rulings blocking the plan on constitutional grounds.. ...Read Full Story
As the government shutdown continues on, sickouts among TSA workers reached 10 percent. The agency that provides security at the nation’s airports acknowledged “many employees are reporting that they are not able to report to work due to financial limitations.”. ...Read Full Story
Californian Democratic Senator Kamala Harris announced her candidacy for president this morning on ABC’s Good Morning America. Senator Harris said she chose the day that America honors the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., to announce because of all that the Civil Rights leader has meant to her family and our nation.. ...Read Full Story
In a series of tweets Sunday morning, President Donald Trump lashed out at Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Democrats for rejecting his proposal offering temporary protections to some undocumented immigrants in exchange for $5.7 billion in border security funding. The president accused Pelosi of behaving “irrationally” for turning down his offer.. ...Read Full Story
A Roman Catholic Diocese in Kentucky said a group of high school students could be expelled after viral video showed them confronting indigenous marchers in Washington D.C. during the inaugural Indigenous Peoples March.. ...Read Full Story
Severe, heavy rain slammed Northern California, affecting highway traveling and contributing to two fatal traffic accidents that killed four people in the Sierra foothills and Wine Country. The storms were also responsible for a tree that fell onto a homeless encampment in Oakland, killing an unidentified person.. ...Read Full Story
Hyundai Motor and affiliate Kia Motors stated they will recall about 168,000 vehicles in the U.S. at risk of fuel leaks, following the recall of them in 2017 for engine fire risks. In addition, they will provide software upgrades for 3.7 million vehicles. The companies stated that a high-pressure fuel pipe may have been harmed or improperly installed as part of an engine replacement during the previous recall, and that installation could boost the possibility of fire. The software update intends to protect the vehicles from internal damage, and also provides new extended warranties for engine issues. . ...Read Full Story
According to a spokesman, police have arrested three men in the death Officer Chatéri Payne of Shreveport, Louisiana. Trevon Anderson, 26, Lawrence Pierre, 22, and Glenn Frierson, 38, each face charges of second-degree murder. Payne had graduated from the police academy just two months before she was shot dead a week ago in a northwestern Louisiana home.. ...Read Full Story
Thousands of active duty US Coast Guard service members did not receive their paycheck Tuesday, making it the first time in history that US Armed Forces service members were not paid during a lapse in government funding.. ...Read Full Story
Volkswagen announced at the Detroit Auto Show that it will be investing $800 million in its factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee to build a new electric vehicle at the plant. Volkswagen Chief Executive Herbert Diess said: “The US is one of the most important locations for us, and producing electric cars in Chattanooga is a key part of our growth strategy in North America.”. ...Read Full Story
U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman from NY said on Tuesday that the Trump administration is barred from adding a question about citizenship to the 2020 census. The Federal Judge said that while such a question would be constitutional, U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross had added it arbitrarily and not followed proper procedure. However, this decision won’t be the final word on the matter.. ...Read Full Story
Shortages of federal airport security workers in the partial U.S. government shutdown forced several large U.S. airports to close security lanes Monday.. ...Read Full Story
On Monday, President Donald Trump emphatically denied that he’s ever “worked for Russia” — this statement comes in response to a news report that the FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation into whether he was an agent working on behalf of Russia against American interests, concerned about his behavior after he fired FBI director James Comey.. ...Read Full Story
A deadly winter storm rolled east to the mid-Atlantic United States on Sunday, after dropping more than a foot of snow on parts of the Midwest and killing at least 7 people in highway accidents.. ...Read Full Story
A mass fentanyl overdose incident in Northern California on Saturday, leaving one dead and at least a dozen others hospitalized.. ...Read Full Story
Counsel at the White House is adding to it’s legal team to, in the hopes of preventing President Trump’s confidential discussions with top advisers from being disclosed to House Democratic investigators. The strategy to assert the president’s executive privilege is being developed under new White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, who has also hired 17 lawyers in recent weeks to help in this effort.. ...Read Full Story
President Donald Trump is taking the shutdown battle to the U.S.-Mexico border, in the hopes of boosting his case for the border wall after negotiations with Democrats halted over his demands for funding. Trump walked out of his meeting with congressional leaders, as efforts to end the partial government shutdown fell apart. The White House meeting in the Situation Room ended after just 14 minutes, where Democrats claim they asked Trump to re-open the government but that he told them if he did they wouldn’t give him money for the wall. . ...Read Full Story
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced Wednesday he and his wife, MacKenzie, are planning to divorce. Bezos said on Twitter he and MacKenzie have already separated. The two were married in 1993 and have four children.. ...Read Full Story
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In an address from the Oval Office, President Trump delivered an address to gain support for his proposed border wall and to end the partial government shutdown.. ...Read Full Story
On Tuesday, House Democrats — in their first move since taking the majority — introduced a measure that would expand background checks for sales and transfers of firearms to tighten the nation’s gun laws.. ...Read Full Story
Cyntoia Brown, a Tennessee woman who was convicted as a teenager of killing a man while she said she was a sex trafficking victim, was granted clemency Monday by Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam. Haslam said the decision comes after careful consideration of “what is a tragic and complex case.” Said Haslam in a statement: “Cyntoia Brown committed, by her own admission, a horrific crime at the age of 16. Yet, imposing a life sentence on a juvenile that would require her to serve at least 51 years before even being eligible for parole consideration is too harsh, especially in light of the extraordinary steps Ms. Brown has taken to rebuild her life.”. ...Read Full Story
The Supreme Court said that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is missing arguments for the first time in more than 25 years as she recuperates from cancer surgery last month.. ...Read Full Story
Authorities say that a suspected drunken driver heading the wrong way on Interstate 75 in Kentucky struck a vehicle carrying five family members from Michigan early Sunday, killing all six people.. ...Read Full Story
A 20-year-old man was arrested late Saturday in the shooting death of 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes, who was killed in a drive-by shooting while sitting in the backseat of her mother’s car in Houston last month, police said. Eric Black Jr., 20, was charged with capital murder following the deadly shooting on Dec. 30, Harris County Sheriff’s Office announced in a news release Sunday. Black, who investigators identified as a suspect based on a tip, reportedly admitted to “taking part in the shooting.” He told investigators he mistook Barnes’ family car for another one he saw the night before the deadly shooting. ...Read Full Story
President Trump made a surprise appearance in the White House briefing room Thursday for the first time since becoming president, but took no questions from reporters. . ...Read Full Story
U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi made history by becoming became House Speaker for a second time as the new Congress took office Thursday. Pelosi, 78, became the nation’s first female House speaker when she took the gavel in 2007, and now becomes only the third person to serve in that capacity in non-consecutive terms.. ...Read Full Story
According to State Department officials, U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman has visited a U.S. citizen detained in Russia, and expressed support for him by offering the embassy’s assistance. It is unusual for the U.S. ambassador to be the one to make that consular visit, which is usually handled by embassy staff.. ...Read Full Story
Immigrant youth looking to start over in the United States are having their applications for green cards rejected because the Trump administration says they’re too old. U.S. government programs in place since 1990 has let young immigrants subject to abuse, abandonment or neglect by a parent seek a court-appointed guardian and a green card to stay in the country and applicants must file paperwork before age 21. However, the Trump administration has said some are too old to qualify once they turn 18, prompting a flurry of denial notices over the past year in New York, Texas and California and additional questions of applicants in New Jersey.. ...Read Full Story
A 2-year-old child was rushed to a hospital after slipping and falling into a rhino exhibit Tuesday at a Florida zoo. The injury occurred after the toddler came into contact with one of the animal’s snouts, zoo officials said. The child was taken to Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, and the child’s mother was taken to Orlando Regional medical center with “non-critical injuries” to her arm. The incident happened at the Brevard Zoo in Melbourne during a hands-on, educational experience called “Rhino Encounter,” according to a statement from zoo spokesperson Elliot Zirulnik. Each session is open to guests ages 3 and up, and is led by a zookeeper, lasting about 20 minutes.. ...Read Full Story
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According to court documents filed by the state attorney general, California’s largest public utility provider — Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (PG&E) — could face murder or manslaughter charges if it were found responsible for causing the state’s recent deadly wildfires.. ...Read Full Story
A 22-year-old intern at a North Carolina zoo was killed Sunday after a lion escaped a locked space. The Conservators Center in Burlington announced that the intern was killed during a routine cleaning of an animal enclosure at about 11:30 a.m. ET. The intern was identified by the Caswell County Sheriff’s Office as Alexandra Black, 22, a native of New Palestine, Indiana, and was a recent graduate of Indiana State University.. ...Read Full Story
On Thursday, attorneys for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev asked an appellate court to overturn his conviction and death penalty sentence for helping carry out the 2013 attack, which killed three people and wounded more than 260 others.. ...Read Full Story
