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Ainsworth Elementary, which serves 600 students in Southwest Portland, showed high levels of lead at one-fourth of its water sources, including two drinking fountains and eight classroom sinks. Tests on water samples from Ainsworth Elementary show that one of every four water sources, including two drinking fountains and eight classroom sinks, contained lead at levels higher than a federal action threshold.
Angry House Republicans are announcing plans to investigate FBI Director James Comey's decision against pressing criminal charges for Hillary Clinton over her handling of classified emails. House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said Comey's decision defies explanation and leaves many questions unanswered.
FBI Director James Comey's decision not to seek a criminal indictment of Hillary Clinton over her misuse of a private e-mail server as secretary of State has brought out some pronounced reactions among American voters. "Many critics of the FBI 's decision claim that lower-level individuals caught mishandling classified information have been subject to prosecution and severe penalties.
The Joint External Evaluation Team joins U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Department of Agriculture colleagues in front of the Humphrey Building, Washington DC, May 2016 At first glance, this photo taken on a set of concrete steps in Washington, D.C., may look like an ordinary group shot-but it took an extraordinary series of events to make it happen. The photo shows colleagues from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Department of Agriculture standing alongside a team of 15 international experts from 13 different countries, known as the Joint External Evaluation Team .
A U.S. appeals court will weigh a constitutional challenge on Wednesday to a warrantless government surveillance programme brought by an Oregon man found guilty of attempting to detonate a bomb in 2010 during a Christmas tree-lighting ceremony. The case before a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is the first of its kind to consider whether a criminal defendant's constitutional privacy rights are violated under a National Security Agency programme that allows spying on Americans' international phone calls and internet communications.
Sarah Chase-McRorie, daughter of Pat Chase of Brush, recently was elected to serve as president of the Colorado Women s Bar Association. Twelve-year-long Brush resident Pat Chase, a retiree from her former position at the Morgan County Department of Health and Human Services, is beaming with pride of late and for good reason.
It's a food fight in Congress over genetically modified foods. The Senate is moving ahead on bipartisan legislation that would for the first time require food packages to carry labels listing genetically modified ingredients.
Bostonian Whitney White flew coast to coast to ask Democratic Presidential Nominee Hillary Clinton a question that is on the lips of many of African Americans. At the close of a Clinton campaign town hall meeting in Hollywood last Tuesday evening, the popular Internet personality asked Clinton how she plans to win the trust of black Americans who are skeptical of her due to her support of a crime bill that caused the incarceration rate among the African American community to sky rocket.
The FBI won't recommend criminal charges against Clinton for her use of a private email server while secretary of state, agency Director James Comey said Tuesday, lifting a major legal threat to her presidential campaign.
During the early years of the Clinton administration, when the president and his team were beset by the Whitewater real estate investment scandal, Hillary Clinton was, for better or worse, the White House bulldog. Whitewater was rooted in her and her husband's days in Arkansas, when they built an intricate web of relations with James and Susan McDougal, two Arkansas benefactors who went in on the real estate deal with them, donated money and employed Hillary Clinton at a prominent law firm.
At approximately 1:15 p.m. on July 4, 2016, Sheriff's deputies responded to the 4300 block of W. Ocean Avenue in the unincorporated area of Lompoc to a report of an assault that had just occurred. When deputies arrived, they contacted the reporting party, 30-year-old Arturo Herrera of Lompoc.
A Texas teenager who lit 180 sparklers that were taped together needed to have part of his leg amputated and suffered burns after the sparklers exploded. The FBI won't recommend criminal charges against Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server while secretary of state, agency Director James Comey said Tuesday, lifting a major legal threat to her... A former National Guard soldier has been charged with plotting to help the Islamic State and contemplating a Fort Hood-style attack against the U.S. military.
Volkswagen still may face criminal charges for cheating diesel emission air pollution tests after agreeing to an almost $15 billion settlement last week, according to California attorney general Kamala Harris. "I cannot confirm or deny an investigation.
A federal judge's decision to block a new Indiana abortion law from taking effect was a setback for anti-abortion activists who backed the push to tighten restrictions on the procedure that are already among the most strict in the country. Provisions put on hold a day before they were to take effect Friday would have banned abortions sought because of a fetus' genetic abnormalities, such as Down syndrome or because of the race, gender or ancestry of a fetus, and required that aborted fetuses be buried or cremated.
A new draft of the state's Clean Air Rule that could put carbon-capping regulations on the two oil refineries in Skagit County is on track to be finalized by September. The state Department of Ecology rule would require stationary sources that emit more than 100,000 metric tons of carbon a year to reduce their emissions by 1.7 percent each year.
On Sunday's morning's This Week show on ABC, host Martha Raddatz asked normally unflappable Hillary Clinton supporter Cokie Roberts about the "deep mistrust" voters have towards presumptive Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton. Concerning her campaign, Roberts responded that "I don't think they have a clue how to fix it."
Other states have gone several months without a spending plan before, and Illinois has had prior delays that caused great anxiety. But going an entire fiscal year without a full budget? It's the only time in post-World War II history it's happened in the country.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch, conceding that her airport meeting with former President Bill Clinton this week had cast a shadow over a federal investigation of Hillary Clinton's personal email account, said Friday that she would accept whatever recommendations career prosecutors and the FBI director make about whether to press charges in the case. Former President Bill Clinton, shown here May 5, declined to comment on Attorney General Loretta Lynch's remarks about their ... "I will be accepting their recommendations," Lynch said in an appearance at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado.