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Amazon reconsidering N.Y. headquarters site amid opposition
Amazon.com is reconsidering its plan to bring 25,000 jobs to a new campus in New York City following a wave of opposition from local politicians, according to two people familiar with the company’s thinking. The company has not leased or purchased office space for the project, making it easy to...
Prosecutors: Paul Manafort continued Ukraine work in 2018
WASHINGTON — Prosecutors allege that Paul Manafort was working on Ukrainian political matters in 2018, after his indictment in the special counsel’s investigation, and also revealed that a former business associate of his who was assessed by the FBI to have ties to Russian intelligence attended President Trump’s inaugural, according...
Justice Department sues Philadelphia over supervised injection facility
The federal government has filed a lawsuit to block the city of Philadelphia from opening a site where people can go to illegally use drugs while under supervision, an effort aimed at preventing overdoses amid the nationwide opioid epidemic. The lawsuit sets up a court battle over whether such facilities...
A DOJ office with limited reach to probe handling of controversial child sex abuse case
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department office that handles employee discipline has opened an investigation into whether attorneys committed “professional misconduct” in allowing a well-connected millionaire to spend just over a year in jail to resolve allegations that he molested dozens of young girls. The department revealed the investigation Wednesday in...
Woman who accused Justin Fairfax of sexual assault gives her account
The woman who accused Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of sexual assault released a statement Wednesday identifying herself and describing an encounter in July 2004 during which she said Fairfax sexually assaulted her. “What began as consensual kissing quickly turned into a sexual assault,” said Vanessa Tyson, a fellow at...
Gannett board rejects hostile takeover bid. But that may be just the start.
Gannett’s board of directors said Monday that it had rejected a $1.36 billion buyout bid from Digital First Media, questioning the would-be buyer’s motives and accusing it of trying to conceal the company’s “inability to finance and complete” the deal. “After careful review and consideration, conducted in consultation with its...
Hawaii lawmaker proposes bill setting legal smoking age at 100
Lawmakers in Hawaii have proposed legislation that would begin phasing out cigarettes in the state, banning them altogether within the next several years. At least, for people younger than 100. The bipartisan bill, HB1509, aims to raise the legal minimum age to use cigarettes to exclude everyone but centenarians by...
Trump to nominate David Bernhardt, a former lobbyist, as the next Interior secretary
WASHINGTON — President Trump announced Monday that he will nominate David Bernhardt, a veteran lobbyist who has helped orchestrate the administration’s push to expand oil and gas drilling as the Interior Department’s number-two official, to serve as the next secretary. If confirmed, Bernhardt, a 49-year old Colorado native known for...
Joe Lieberman says he sees no reason for Northam to resign
Former senator Joseph I. Lieberman, Conn., the Democrats’ vice presidential nominee in 2000, offered a rare voice of support Monday for Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, D, staying in office amid the controversy over a racist photo in his medical school yearbook. Lieberman, who became an independent late in his Senate...
Super Bowl LIII: Six things you’ll remember from the Patriots’ win over the RamsVideo
The Patriots’ 13-3 win over the Rams may have been among the least memorable Super Bowls. It was the lowest-scoring title game in NFL history, the first Super Bowl without a touchdown through three quarters, and the first Super Bowl of the nine featuring Tom Brady and Bill Belichick decided...
Democrats fear Northam incident will hurt 2020 message
WASHINGTON — A racist photo in Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s yearbook entry has become a national political concern for Democrats, threatening to complicate their bid to draw a sharp contrast with President Trump and the Republican Party on race ahead of the 2020 election. As Northam defied a nationwide chorus...
Virginia governor’s medical school yearbook page shows men in blackface, KKK robe
RICHMOND - Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam on Friday acknowledged appearing in a “clearly racist and offensive” photograph in his 1984 medical school yearbook that shows a man in blackface next to another in a Ku Klux Klan robe. In a statement issued late Friday, Northam apologized for wearing a costume...
Sen. Cory Booker joins the 2020 presidential race
Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey said Friday that he will seek the Democratic nomination for president, adding his name to a growing and increasingly diversified field of 2020 candidates intent on taking on President Trump. Booker made his announcement via an email and video to supporters, and he had...
Freeze adds layer of complication for farmers, livestock
RIPON, Wis. — On the coldest day in two decades on his fifth-generation dairy farm, Chris Pollack grabbed a thick, black hose from the barn and ventured into the subzero cold, where his beef cattle were chomping cud and waiting for water. The power had briefly gone out the previous...
Proposed rules would shake up drug pricing by ending rebates to middlemen
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Thursday proposed bringing transparency to one of the most secretive aspects of drug pricing by ending the widespread practice of rebates to middlemen — an effort to reduce what consumers pay for prescription medicine. Under draft rules announced by Health and Human Services Secretary...
Intelligence officials were ‘misquoted’ after public hearing, Trump claims
WASHINGTON — A day after ridiculing his top intelligence officials as “passive and naive” and claiming they were ignorant about world affairs, President Trump on Thursday said the media had fabricated a conflict, and that the officials were “misquoted” by the press after a public congressional hearing that was carried...
Democrats offer no money for border wall
WASHINGTON — House Democrats unveiled a new border security plan Wednesday that contains no money for physical barriers along the U.S.-Mexico divide, defying President Trump’s insistence on a wall of some kind to stave off another government shutdown. The Democrats’ proposal was their opening bid in bipartisan House-Senate negotiations aimed...
Sanders: God wanted Trump to be president
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told a Christian television station Wednesday that God “wanted Donald Trump to become president” so he could support “a lot of the things that people of faith really care about.” The early, abbreviated transcript provided by the conservative evangelical station CBN — Christian...
Congress introduces bills to train police to identify child sex traffickers
WASHINGTON — Though the scourge of child sex trafficking may seem like an intractable problem, a program designed by a state trooper in Texas has shown real results: hundreds of children rescued, and hundreds of pimps and kidnappers arrested, by patrol officers on mostly routine traffic stops, both in Texas...
Roger Goodell admits blown call in Rams-Saints; NFL will consider replay for pass interference
ATLANTA — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said Wednesday that the league’s competition committee will consider the prospect of making pass interference calls subject to review by instant replay, but he stopped short of declaring that he favors such a change to the sport’s replay system. Goodell, speaking at his annual...
Official: Air traffic safety system will take time to recover after shutdown
WASHINGTON — The pipeline that produces air traffic controllers essential to the aviation system and the economy will reopen Monday, but union officials warn that it may be years before the system rebounds from consequences of the 35-day federal government shutdown. “We’re not sure what the damage really is,” said...
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam faces fierce conservative backlash over abortion bill
RICHMOND — Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam faced intense backlash on Wednesday for comments he made about a fellow Democrat’s abortion-rights bill, whose sponsor said it would allow abortion right up to the final moments of pregnancy. In a radio interview, Northam was asked about the bill brought by Del. Kathy...
Democratic candidates face political risks when pressed on health care specifics
When Sen. Kamala D. Harris spoke about health care at a CNN forum Monday evening, she threw her support behind a “Medicare-for-all” plan, sounding similar to other candidates seeking the Democratic presidential nomination. But when pressed for details, the senator from California explained the idea in a way most Democrats...
Old-school Rams DC Wade Phillips knows how to stop Tom Brady
ATLANTA — As Bum Phillips once said, “There’s two kinds of coaches: them that’s fired and them that’s gonna be fired.” His son, Wade Phillips, has been fired enough times to know how true that is: He has walked a broken line through the NFL with nine teams in 41...
British Parliament says Britain shouldn’t leave EU without Brexit deal
LONDON — The British Parliament on Tuesday sought to assert control over Brexit, declaring its opposition to leaving the European Union without a deal and voting to send Prime Minister Theresa May back to Brussels to reopen talks with European leaders. But the measures are nonbinding and aspirational. They do...
