Road Trip: Traveling Through Texas in the Footsteps of Presidents
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Category Archives: US News
EU to tax Harleys, herpes virus in Alzheimer brains, cucumber…
The European Union will start taxing a range of U.S. imports Friday, including quintessentially American goods like Harley-Davidson bikes and cranberries, in response to President Donald Trump's decision to slap tariffs on European steel and aluminum. The former US vice-president Joe Biden has accused "demagogues and charlatans" of stirring up voters' fears just as they did in the 1930s, as the issue of migration convulses politics on both sides of the Atlantic.
Amazon Issues Guidelines On Transgender Employee Inclusion In The UK
Amazon has launched a new set of guidelines intended to help company employees and leaders in the U.K. make transgender employees feel included in a productive work environment. "Diversity and inclusion is good for our business and our customers, and transgender employees are an important part of our team," said Amazon U.K. media director Simon Johnson, the Financial Times reported Friday.
Gov. Scott: Privately built Orlando to Tampa high speed rail in works
Gov. Rick Scott , who rejected $2.4 billion in federal funding for a high-speed train from Orlando to Tampa as one of his first acts in office, revealed Friday that a similar but privately funded project is on the table. The Florida Department of Transportation received an unsolicited proposal in March from Brightline to lease right of way and build a high-speed rail line connecting Orlando and Tampa along Interstate 4. Brightline already is building a rail line from Miami to Orlando, with a terminus at Orlando International Airport.
Democrats Have Zero Tolerance for Solutions to Illegal Immigration
Nor were they able to implement the policy in a humane way. Family separation is callous and ineffective, but its existence doesn't excuse the ginned-up moral panic, the pious grandstanding, or the historically illiterate associations to Nazi death camps unleashed by its critics.
Mayor Emanuel Announces Plan to Expand Transit-Oriented Development…
Mayor Rahm Emanuel today announced a plan to expand the City's transit-oriented development policy to include high-ridership, high-frequency CTA bus routes. Originally introduced in 2013, Chicago's TOD policy supports development around Chicago's train lines to both encourage lower carbon transportation choices and reduce household costs associated with car ownership.
President Trump says Republicans should ‘stop wasting their time on immigration’ until after midterms
President Donald Trump told Republicans on Friday they should "stop wasting their time" trying to pass an immigration measure before the November midterms, potentially sinking efforts by House leaders to build a consensus on a bill. Congress has been facing growing pressure to act on immigration, including from Trump himself.
A Conversation With Judicial Watch
On today's episode of The Daily Daily Caller Podcast, we have a chat with Chris Farrell, director of investigations and research at Judicial Watch. Almost all of the scandals discovered during the Obama administration, including the existence of Hillary Clinton's secret email server was discovered by Judicial Watch.
Supreme Court restricts police on cellphone location data
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday imposed limits on the ability of police to obtain cellphone data pinpointing the past location of criminal suspects in a major victory for digital privacy advocates and a setback for law enforcement authorities. In the 5-4 ruling, the court said police generally need a court-approved warrant to get the data, setting a higher legal hurdle than previously existed under federal law.
Mayor Emanuel And The Chicago Film Office Announce Record TV Filming
Mayor Emanuel and the Chicago Film Office at the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events today announced ten shows will film this summer and fall in Chicago. This includes filming for four new shows, as well as many returning long-running series including NBC's Chicago franchise.
Everything The Media Got Wrong About The Crying Girl On The TIME Cover
The media's narrative about family separation at the border has been completely demolished, as the truth behind a viral photo of a crying Honduran child tells a completely different story. Getty photographer John Moore captured the shot of the child looking up at her mother and crying.
Supreme Court decision requires warrant to obtain cellphone records for tracking
The United States Supreme court issued a decision this morning required police to obtain a warrant from a judge in order to track individuals through cellphone records. The 5-4 ruling is being regarded as a win for privacy advocates in the U.S. The decision derived from a 2011 case in which FBI agents used three months of phone records in order to capture and convict a Michigan man of robbing Radio Shack and T-Mobile locations.
Nevada Evangelicals Are Backing Brothel, Strip Club Owner For State Legislator
A legal brothel and strip club owner won the nomination for a seat on the Nevada state assembly, and now some evangelicals are backing him. Dennis Hof, 71, who declares himself "America's best-known pimp" and runs five legal brothels, was nominated June 12 for a state assembly seat in Nevada and now aims to win in the general elections in November, with the blessing of some of Nevada's evangelical voters, according to Reuters.
Columbia High graduate is now a colonel in the U.S. Army
Lt. Col. Kathy Brown's husband, Col. Eric L. Brown , thinks she is the first black female West Pointer from Georgia to make the rank of full colonel.
You Don’t Need to Be a Citizen to Have a US Bank Account
Alexis Flores-Betancourt was 5 when her family loaded everything they owned onto a truck and trundled across country from California, where she was born, to Texas, one of several movesa Alexis Flores-Betancourt was 5 when her family loaded everything they owned onto a truck and trundled across country from California, where she was born, to Texas, one of several moves her parents made in search of a brighter future. That was in 2002, and in the years that followed, she recalls, life in the Lone Star State wasn't the easiest.
Supreme Court rules warrant generally needed to track cell phone location
United States [SCOTUSblog materials] that police must generally obtain a warrant in order to obtain cell phone location data. This case arose from petitioner Timothy Carpenter's conviction for armed robbery, for which he was sentenced to 116 days in prison.
Oilfield services provider wins patent damages
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Friday that companies can recover profits lost because of the unauthorized use of their patented technology abroad in a victory for Schlumberger N.V., the world's largest oilfield services provider. The 7-2 decision overturned a lower court's ruling that had enforced limits on applying U.S. patent law overseas and reduced by $93.4 million the damages sum that rival ION Geophysical Corp. had to pay for infringing Schlumberger technology that helps find oil and gas beneath the ocean floor.
Consumer protection agency’s structure unconstitutional: Judge
A federal judge in New York ruled on Thursday that the structure of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is unconstitutional, forbidding the agency from suing a company that advances money to people awaiting settlement payouts. The decision by U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska is at odds with a February ruling by the federal appeals court in Washington that upheld the CFPB's structure.
Average insurance premiums to rise 5.1%
One insurance company proposes raising its premiums for Affordable Care Act health plans by 10 percent on average next year in Indiana, while the other insurer intends to hold its average rate steady and expand coverage statewide.
Trump: GOP should give up on immigration until after 2018 elections
Toys R Us will be no more after next week. The toy retailer, which started liquidating in March, has said that all Toys R Us and Babies R Us locations will close on or before next Friday, June 29 via posts on the company's social media pages.