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Federal authorities have doubled the reward to $20,000 for information on the theft of hundreds of explosives from a worksite in Pennsylvania. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says approximately 700 pounds of dynamite and 400 blasting caps were stolen over the weekend from a Gregory General Contracting Company site in the southeastern part of the state.
Effingham County State's Attorney Bryan Kibler said they decided to "flip the script" and "make this a sanctuary county like they would for undocumented immigrants." Illinois county votes to become 'sanctuary county' for gun owners Effingham County State's Attorney Bryan Kibler said they decided to "flip the script" and "make this a sanctuary county like they would for undocumented immigrants."
A former actress who says Bill Cosby raped her decades ago is asking the nation's highest court to review her defamation case against the comedian. Kathrine McKee's attorneys appealed the dismissal of her lawsuit against Cosby to the U.S. Supreme Court this week.
President Donald Trump has said that although he is looking ahead optimistically to a historic summit meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un he could still pull out if he feels the meeting is "not going to be fruitful". Mr Trump said that CIA director Mike Pompeo and Mr Kim "got along really well" in their recent secret meeting, remarking that "we've never been in a position like this" to address worldwide concerns over North Korea's nuclear weapons.
In this Tuesday, April 17, 2018 photo, a National Transportation Safety Board investigator examines damage to the engine of the Southwest Airlines plane that made an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia. A preliminary examination of the blown jet engine of the Southwest Airlines plane that set off a terrifying chain of events and left a businesswoman hanging half outside a shattered window showed evidence of "metal fatigue," according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
The Southwest Airlines pilot being lauded as a hero in a harrowing emergency landing after a passenger was partially blown out of the jet's damaged fuselage is also being hailed for her pioneering role in a career where she has been one of the few women at the controls. The Southwest Airlines pilot being lauded as a hero in a harrowing emergency landing after a passenger was partially blown out of the jet's damaged fuselage is also being hailed for her pioneering role in a career where she has been one of the few women at the controls.
A left-wing backlash against Starbucks is building after the coffee company included a Jewish group that recently criticized Women's March in its upcoming training sessions combating racial bias. The Anti-Defamation League , a mainstream Jewish civil rights organization, is one of several groups helping Starbucks conduct anti-bias training sessions.
On April 12 and 13, President Trump's approval rating , according to the Rasmussen Reports, was 50 percent. At the same point in Barack Obama's presidency, Obama's approval rating per Rasmussen was 48 percent and 49 percent.
In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, Lt. Tammie Jo Shults, one of the first women to fly Navy tactical aircraft, poses in front of an F/A-18A with Tactical Electronics Warfare Squadron 34 in 1992.
As his frustration with the investigation into his campaign and business expands into threatening new fronts, President Donald Trump refused to say Wednesday whether he plans to fire special counsel Robert Mueller and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. "As far as the two gentlemen you told me about, they've been saying I'm going to get rid of them for the last three months," Trump said during a joint press conference with the prime minister of Japan.
The Republican Party's Lincoln Day event was coming up, and Mary Regula was filling in for her husband, an Ohio politician who had been asked to speak about President Abraham Lincoln. Instead, Regula, a former teacher who had studied American history in college, began researching first lady Mary Todd Lincoln.
This undated family photo made available by Joyce Vance, shows U.S. Circuit Judge Robert S. Vance, who was killed by a mail bomb sent to his home in Mountain Brook, Ala., in 1989. Walter Leroy Moore Jr. was convicted of capital murder in the blast and is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on April 19, 2018.
California Gov. Jerry Brown said Wednesday that he would join President Donald Trump's border mission by contributing up to 400 National Guard troops, announcing a deal after a week of uncertainty about how to accomplish a deployment that focuses largely on illegal immigration and honor the governor's insistence that troops avoid immigration-related work. Brown said the Guard's duties include fighting transnational criminal gangs and drug and gun smugglers in an order that reiterates his initial positions that the Guard cannot handle custody duties for anyone accused of immigration violations, build border barriers or have anything to do with immigration enforcement.
Pennsylvania Game Commission employees recover a piece of the Southwest Airline engine covering that landed in Penn Township, Berks County, field Wednesday, April 18, 2018, on state game lands. A National Transportation Safety Board investigator photographs a piece of debris that landed in Penn Township, Berks County field from a plane that made an emergency landing Tuesday after a fatal engine mishap, Wednesday, April 18, 2018, on state game lands.
House Republicans, already rattled by a special-election loss in Pennsylvania, are enlisting President Trump and other GOP leaders to help turn back a stronger-than-expected Democratic challenge in next week's special election in a strongly Republican Arizona district. Republican Debbie Lesko, a former state senator, faces Democrat Hiral Tipirneni, a physician and health-care advocate, in the April 24 contest to replace former congressman Trent Franks, who resigned last year after he reportedly offered to pay a female staff member $5 million if she would carry his child.
Democratic candidates for U. S. Congress Lt. Col. Amy McGrath, left, Sen. Reggie Thomas, D-Ky, and Lexington Mayor Jim Gray debate at Transylvania University in Lexington, Ky., Wednesday, April 18, 2018.
The Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday ordered inspections of the type of engine that exploded Tuesday on Southwest Airlines flight 1380. The FAA said it will issue an Airworthiness Directive within the next two weeks that will require inspections of certain CFM56-7B engines.
When Surgeon General Jerome Adams issued an advisory calling for more people to carry naloxone - not just people at overdose risk, but also friends and family - experts and advocates were almost giddy. This is an "unequivocally positive" step forward, said Leo Beletsky, an associate professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University.
In this Tuesday, April 17, 2018 photo, a National Transportation Safety Board investigator examines damage to the engine of the Southwest Airlines plane that made an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia. A preliminary examination of the blown jet engine of the Southwest Airlines plane that set off a terrifying chain of events and left a businesswoman hanging half outside a shattered window showed evidence of "metal fatigue," according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte is preparing to issue a subpoena to force the Justice Department to turn over former FBI Director James B. Comey 's memos that he wrote - and then had leaked - detailing his interactions with President Trump. Congress has been seeking the memos but Mr. Rosenstein missed the deadline for production earlier this week.