Target reports booming holiday sales
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Target has joined other retailers in putting up booming sales numbers as shoppers returned in force during the critical holiday season. Sales at stores open at least a year jumped...
View ArticleWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange granted Ecuadorian citizenship
(CNN) Ecuador has granted citizenship to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa announced Thursday. Speaking at a news conference in Quito, Espinosa said...
View ArticleTrump: ‘Unlikely’ he’d submit to a Russia probe interview
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says that it “seems unlikely” that he’d give an interview in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into potential coordination between Russia and the...
View ArticleBen Crump Is For Us But Morgan And Morgan Is Who Answers The Phone For...
Morgan & Morgan, one of Orlando’s biggest law firms, is partnering with civil-rights attorney Ben Crump to launch a new firm, Ben Crump Law PLLC. Crump represented the families of Trayvon Martin,...
View ArticleKlansman responsible for ‘Mississippi Burning’ dies in prison
A Klansman who orchestrated one of the nation’s most notorious mass killings, the slayings of three civil-rights workers in 1964 in Mississippi, has died in prison. In 2005, a jury convicted Edgar Ray...
View ArticleGOP Rep Mia Love demands an apology from President Trump
On Thursday, Republican Rep. Mia Love of Utah, the first Haitian-American to be elected to Congress, demanded an apology from President Donald Trump for his comments about Haiti and African countries...
View ArticleT.I. and Killer Mike among Atlanta’s Mayor transition team
T.I. and Killer Mike are among the people who have been announced as members of Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms’ transition team. The 38-strong team was revealed in a news conference held Thursday...
View ArticleGovernment plans to cut housing aid while US gives $2B to assist the homeless
President Donald Trump’s administration announced $2 billion in grants Thursday for local agencies trying to help the homeless even as the government proposes deep cuts to federal housing programs. The...
View ArticleThe State of Kentucky becomes the first to implement Medicaid work requirements
Kentucky on Friday became the first U.S. state to receive approval from the federal government to implement work requirements in Medicaid, a fundamental change to the 50-year-old government health...
View ArticleKentucky Gets OK To Require Work From Medicare Recipients
Poor residents in Kentucky will have to work or do volunteer work if they want to keep their Medicaid benefits after the Trump administration on Friday approved the state’s request to add the...
View ArticleWells Fargo will close 800 more branches
Wells Fargo, scrambling to cut costs and offset soaring legal expenses, plans to pull the plug on 800 more bank branches by 2020. The planned closings, announced on Friday, will leave Wells Fargo with...
View ArticleIs President Trump following the doctor’s orders ???
President Trump isn’t sweating his doctor’s orders to exercise daily, claiming he runs around enough at the White House complex to make up for it. “I get exercise. I mean I walk, I this, I that,”...
View ArticleSupreme Court delays order for North Carolina to redraw maps
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday delayed a lower-court order that would have forced North Carolina Republican lawmakers to redraw the state’s congressional districts by next week...
View ArticleConvicted ex-coal CEO launches US Senate bid with town hall
LOGAN, W.Va. (AP) – A former coal company executive who went to prison for charges stemming from the deadliest U.S. mine disaster in four decades kicked off his U.S. Senate bid Thursday evening,...
View ArticleHouse passes short-term spending bill, but legislation faces long odds in Senate
House passes spending bill, which faces long odds in Senate WASHINGTON — House Republicans narrowly passed a four-week spending bill on Thursday night to avert a partial government shutdown, but...
View ArticleBare-chested Putin takes dip in icy lake for Epiphany
Russian President Vladimir Putin continued his tradition of stripping down to the waist in public Friday when he took a dip in the freezing waters of an icy lake to celebrate the Orthodox Christian...
View ArticleChris Christie stopped at airport for skipping security check
TRENTON, N.J. – Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie was stopped from cutting past a security checkpoint at Newark Liberty International Airport on Thursday, with Christie eventually getting in...
View ArticleGovernment shutdown looms as Senate remains divided
WASHINGTON – (AP) — A bitterly divided Congress hurtled toward a government shutdown this weekend in a partisan stare-down over demands by Democrats for a solution on politically fraught legislation to...
View ArticleProsecutors plan to retry Sen. Bob Menendez
The government has told a federal judge in New Jersey it will seek a retrial of Sen. Bob Menendez, whose 11-week corruption trial ended in a hung jury in November. The filing to the judge on Friday...
View ArticleCarl Higbie, Former Trump Administration Appointee apoligizes for comments he...
Former Trump administration appointee Carl Higbie apologized Friday for the racist, sexist, anti-Muslim and anti-LGBT comments he made on the radio. Higbie resigned on Thursday from his post as the...
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