State considers adding fourth shipping port

I ndiana may be landlocked by most definitions but its waterborne cargo traffic still ranks 11th in the nation - a position that might rise if the state expands its port system as planned. Gov. Eric Holcomb is pushing forward with a proposal to locate a port along the Ohio River in southeastern Indiana, likely in Lawrenceburg, where officials hope to redevelop the site of a former power plant.

Like Haman Being Hung on the Scaffold He Built for Mordechai

An online friend watching the week's events observes that they remind her of the villain Haman being hung on the very scaffold he had built to hang Mordechai. That sums up the week in which the federal investigators are themselves under investigation and the press is forced to recant the lies it has been publishing about the administration.

Trump defends Twitter outbursts as ‘modern day presidential’

Washington, July 2 - Not stopping at his spiteful Twitter remarks on the presenters of the MSNBC progaramme Morning Joe, US President Donald Trump has now gone a step ahead with his rant against the media and defended his social media outbursts as modern day presidential. My use of social media is not Presidential -- it's MODERN DAY PRESIDENTIAL.

Why the Senate’s plan to replace Obamacare hurts Louisiana worse than any other state

Jessica Michot, center, left and Angela Lorio, center right, speak in favor of the benefits of Medicaid as Parents, children and healthcare providers gather at the Baton Rouge office of Sen. Bill Cassidy to urge him and other senators to avoid cuts to Medicaid. Parents, children and healthcare providers hold signs and gather in the atrium at the Baton Rouge office of Sen. Bill Cassidy to urge him and other senators to avoid cuts to Medicaid.

Civil rights activists raise alarm over Trump’s DOJ pick

Civil rights and LGBT activists say they are concerned about President Donald Trump's nomination Thursday of Eric Dreiband to head the Justice Department's civil rights division because of his work defending major corporations and others against discrimination lawsuits. Dreiband, a labor attorney in Washington, D.C., who served as general counsel of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under George W. Bush, has represented such companies as R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.

Rep. Stewart calls Brian Head Fire a interesting, heartbreaking…

Crews fighting the fire that burned 13 residences and threatened the resort destinations of Brian Head and Panguitch Lake have the fire 60 percent contained as it continues to scar southern Utah. High winds and temperatures fanned the flames into one of the country's largest active wildfires, at 60,301 acres Saturday morning.

Obama pushes tolerance

Former U.S. President Barack Obama waves prior to delivering his speech during the 4th Congress of Indonesian Diaspora Network in Jakarta, Indonesia on Saturday. Following another week of dust-ups between the media and President Donald Trump, his predecessor shared a bit of wisdom from the other side of the world about tolerance and taking the daily news cycle in stride.

Hacker: I Was Recruited to Collude with Russians

Matt Tait, Lawfare: [R]ight around the time the DNC emails were dumped by Wikileaks -- and curiously, around the same time [Donald] Trump called for the Russians to get Hillary Clinton's missing emails -- I was contacted out the blue by a man named Peter Smith, who had seen my work going through these emails. Smith implied that he was a well-connected Republican political operative.

Trump administration is calling China’s bluff on North Korea

The Trump administration on Thursday announced secondary sanctions against Chinese entities accused of aiding North Korea's illicit nuclear and missile programs. The action is a sharp turn in President Donald Trump's approach to China and the beginning of a new and unpredictable effort to use sticks instead of carrots with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Iranian dissidents rally in France for the overthrow of Irana s theocracy

LE BOURGET , France - Thousands of supporters of a dissident Iranian opposition group rallied here Saturday for the overthrow of Iran 's theocratic government at an event that featured speeches by several Trump administration allies - including Newt Gingrich and Rudolph Giuliani - as well as the former head of Saudi intelligence. The boisterous event, held annually in this town just north of Paris, was organized by the controversial National Council of Resistance of Iran , a France-based group of Iranian exiles that brings dozens of current and former U.S., European and Middle Eastern officials together to speak out in support of regime change in Tehran.

Senate health care bill still up in the air as lawmakers go home for holiday

Sen. Susan Collins will celebrate the Fourth of July within view of the Canadian border, at a remote northeastern Maine town's annual parade. Sen. Lisa Murkowski will appear on the other end of the continent in an old timber town on an isolated Alaskan island.

The Latest: Chief: Nightclub shooting may be gang-related

Forecasters say Utah, Arizona and other parts of the Southwest could face more big wildfires this summer and fall, while hot and dry weather has also put the northern Great Plains at risk. Forecasters say Utah, Arizona and other parts of the Southwest could face more big wildfires this summer and fall, while hot and dry weather has also put the northern Great Plains at risk.

Campus carry of firearms among new Georgia laws taking effect

Dozens of new laws are now in effect with the start of Georgia's fiscal year, including an end to a ban on guns on the state's public college campuses. Gov. Nathan Deal signed 275 measures into law after the General Assembly adjourned at the end of March, and more than 100 of them took effect as of July 1. The rest became effective with Deal's signature or were written to take effect at later dates.

Opinion: Trumpa s apprenticeships wona t happen with the budget cuts he proposes

President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence greet House of Representatives committee leaders Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady , Education and Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx and others at a budget discussion in March. There is a troubling chasm in the world of work today, and it threatens U.S. prosperity and hopes of strengthening the middle class.