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Joe Biden: Congress has ‘no alternative’ but to impeach if Trump blocks probe
Former vice president Joe Biden said in an interview broadcast Tuesday that Congress would have “no alternative” but to impeach President Donald Trump if his administration seeks to block its investigations of issues raised in the special counsel’s report on Russian election interference. Appearing on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Biden...
Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams will not run for Senate in 2020
Stacey Abrams, the Georgia Democrat who garnered national attention after narrowly losing her bid for governor last year, announced Tuesday that she will not run for Senate, despite a fierce lobbying effort by party leaders. Abrams, 45, who in recent months has said she also was considering a presidential bid,...
Forget that persistent myth: You can drink water while eating
It’s the kind of advice a well-meaning friend might chime in with as you chug a glass of water after sitting down for a meal: “You shouldn’t drink water before eating — it’s bad for your digestion.” She may have heard that warning from her mom years ago and assumed...
JPMorgan Chase offered customers some financial advice. It didn’t go well.Video
JPMorgan Chase, the country’s largest bank, attempted to offer its financially-strapped customers some advice Monday. It quickly backfired. If their balances are low, the bank suggested customers “make coffee at home” or “eat the food that’s already in the fridge.” JPMorgan Chase’s brief attempt at levity turned into a social...
Beto O’Rourke’s new climate plan: carbon emissions to net zero in 30 years
Former congressman Beto O’Rourke, Texas, in the first major policy plan of his presidential candidacy, proposed Monday slicing carbon emissions to net zero in 30 years, spending $5 trillion to make the country’s infrastructure more climate-friendly and having the United States rejoin the Paris climate agreement. O’Rourke, part of a...
Ditch the Craigslist couch and try renting your furniture instead
Millennials: They love their #shelfies, their plants and their minimalist decor. But, caught in a web of stagnant wages, student loan debt and temp jobs, many can’t foot the bill for the West Elm-like look they aspire to or can’t justify buying furniture for the long term. How do retailers...
Stephen Moore, Trump’s Fed nominee, apologizes for past comments about womenVideo
Stephen Moore, President Trump’s likely nominee for an opening on the Federal Reserve Board, apologized Sunday for his past controversial comments about women that caused a firestorm last week. Moore, a longtime conservative commentator, has come under scrutiny for columns he wrote in the National Review in the early 2000s...
Trump says ending family separation was ‘disaster’ that led to surge in border crossingsVideo
WASHINGTON — President Trump said in a television interview Sunday that ending the practice of separating children from their families at border crossings has been “a disaster” that has resulted in a surge of people coming into the country illegally, though he overstated the increase as measured by the government....
William Barr may withdraw from Mueller report hearing over terms of testimony, House Democrats sayVideo
WASHINGTON — Democrats and the Justice Department are in a standoff over the terms of Attorney General William Barr’s planned testimony before the House Judiciary Committee this week, raising the prospect that the hearing might not go forward at all. A senior Democratic committee aide said Sunday that Barr risks...
Trump not expected to attend White House ceremony for National Teacher of the Year
In May, President Trump welcomed the state Teachers of the Year to the White House and gave an award to the National Teacher of the Year, Mandy Manning of Washington state. During the ceremony, Manning made no secret of her opposition to some of Trump’s policies. This year, Trump is...
Trump praises No. 2 pick Nick Bosa, not top pick Kyler Murray
The NFL Draft wasn’t far from President Trump’s mind Saturday night as he addressed a crowd in Green Bay, Wis., and his decision to laud the second overall pick, a white player who has expressed support for Trump, but not mention the No. 1 pick, who is black, has sparked...
Aftermath of violence reveals signs of further Sri Lanka terror plans
SAINTHAMARUTHU, Sri Lanka — They arrived a day or two after the Easter Sunday bombings and moved into a low-slung house behind a high wall and black metal gate, unloading boxes from a pale gray minivan. But the neighbors in the seaside town of Sainthamaruthu soon began to suspect something...
Washington passes bill to become first state to compost human bodies
It may soon be legal for the dead to push daisies, or any other flower, in backyard gardens across Washington state. The state legislature recently passed a bill that, if signed by the governor, allows human bodies to be composted - and used for mulch. As the nation ages, U.S....
Pentagon set to expand military’s role along southern border
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is preparing to approve a loosening of rules that bar troops from interacting with migrants entering the United States, expanding the military’s involvement in President Donald Trump’s operation along the southern border. Senior Defense Department officials have recommended that acting defense secretary Patrick Shanahan approve a...
Multiple fatalities after tractor-trailer slams into traffic near Denver
Multiple people were killed Thursday near Denver after a tractor-trailer roared down a hill and into a traffic jam, incinerating a dozen cars and three trucks in a chain-reaction fireball. The aftermath left a smoldering apocalyptic stretch of highway in Lakewood, Colorado, with towering orange flames belching columns of black...
Report: Nearly 100,000 undocumented immigrants graduate from U.S. high schools each year
Nearly 100,000 undocumented immigrants are estimated to graduate from U.S. high schools every year, a new report says, although many do not have the same protection against deportation and other benefits that the “dreamers” do. The report, based on census data, was published by the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute, a...
Rod Rosenstein fires back at critics over Mueller report
NEW YORK — Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein hit back hard against politicians and the press Thursday night, and warned that hacking and social media manipulation are “only the tip of the iceberg” when it comes to Russian efforts to influence American elections. Speaking at the Public Servants Dinner of...
Trump administration hits pause on offshore oil plans as a result of court ruling
A recent federal court decision appears to have struck a blow to President Trump’s plans to expand offshore oil and natural gas drilling across the U.S. continental shelf, with the aim of turning the United States into an energy-exporting behemoth. In his first interview since being confirmed to Trump’s Cabinet,...
North Korea issued $2 million bill for comatose Otto Warmbier’s careVideo
BEIJING – North Korea issued a $2 million bill for the hospital care of comatose American Otto Warmbier, insisting that a U.S. official sign a pledge to pay it before being allowed to fly the University of Virginia student from Pyongyang in 2017. The presentation of the invoice – not...
Southwest Airlines grapples with financial fallout from Boeing 737 Max grounding
Airlines are struggling to deal with the financial fallout from the extended grounding of the Boeing 737 Max commercial jetliner, now in its seventh week. Southwest and American Airlines, the two U.S. airlines that owned 737 Max 8 aircraft when they were grounded on March 13, both report earnings this...
Mexico is now the largest U.S. trading partner
MEXICO CITY — President Donald Trump has threatened to rip up NAFTA. To shut the border with Mexico. To impose tariffs on the thriving car industry in Mexico. “They’re killing us on jobs and trade,” he said as a candidate. And yet, two years into his presidency, a strange thing...
5 things we don’t know about Boeing 737 Max crisis
Boeing’s first earnings report since two deadly crashes of its 737 Max jets showed that a worldwide grounding of the company’s flagship jet is taking a toll on its business. But it left unanswered many key questions about the crisis. The aerospace giant said Wednesday that its first-quarter earnings fell...
Bloodsucking ‘kissing bugs’ are on the march
It’s like “Sleeping Beauty” with a dose of nightmare fuel: A flat-bodied, six-legged insect moves toward you as you slumber, bound for the blood that surges around your eyes and lips. It crawls on your face. And the poop it leaves behind can be deadly. The triatomine bug, also known...
Nancy French: Romney wasn’t Christian enough for some Republicans. Somehow, Trump still is.
When Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, ran for president in the 2008 GOP primary, many evangelical Christian voters were reluctant - putting it mildly - to support him, because of his membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. One of Romney’s opponents, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, exploited...
Canada accuses Facebook of breaking local privacy law, threatens lawsuit
Canadian regulators on Thursday found that Facebook committed “serious” breaches of local laws over its mishandling of users’ personal information, announcing they would take the company to court to force it to change its privacy practices. The new legal threat from Canada comes after federal authorities and regulators in British...
