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Recent damage to underwater oil and electrical lines in the waterway connecting Lake Huron and Lake Michigan that's blamed for an insulation fluid spill was caused by a tugboat dragging its anchor, Michigan's attorney general announced Tuesday. Attorney General Bill Schuette said he notified Vanenkevort Tug and Barge that he's planning civil action against the company because of the damage believed to have been caused April 1 by the tug named Clyde S. Vanenkevort in the Straits of Mackinac.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Tuesday that President Donald Trump's tweet about Russia and China playing a "currency devaluation game" was a "warning shot." On Friday, the Treasury Department declined to label either nation a currency manipulator in a report.
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers said Tuesday that Republicans are confident the tax bill will help them in the midterm races, but said her party isn't taking anything for granted. "After years of stagnant economy, stagnant wages, people are seeing their take-home pay go up," Ms.
Bodies of all four members of a Southern California family who went missing earlier this month have been found after a boy's body was found late Monday afternoon, Mendocino County sheriff's officials said. The Thottapilly family -- Sandeep, 41, Soumya, 38, Siddhant, 12, and Saachi, 9 -- were returning home to Santa Clarita from a vacation in Portland, Oregon, when they were reported missing by a relative who had expected them to show up at their San Jose home on April 6, but still had not seen them two days later, according to San Jose police.
Born in 1819 in Manhattan, Herman Melvill was born into the middle class, as his father was a merchant specializing in goods from France. But when his father died in 1832, the family plunged into near-poverty, which had actually already started because of his father's massive debts.
Living in an age of unprecedented human-caused climate change sure is fun! This new study published in Nature shows that the Gulf Stream is at its slowest in at least 1,600 years, probably because of climate change. What are the effects of this? It ain't good.
American rapper, singer, songwriter, and media personality Cardi B arrives for the traditionnal Clive Davis party on the eve of the 60th Annual Grammy Awards on January 28, 2018, in New York. / AFP PHOTO / Jewel SAMAD Everyone has an opinion on Cardi B's decision to have a baby, and now so do the anti-choicers.
In the wake of the 2016 presidential election, Hiral Tipirneni talked to her three kids about the importance of civic engagement, of standing up for the issues you think are important, and of the value of women in politics. In response, Tipirneni's daughter Mira - who was 19 years old at the time - told her mother to put her money where her mouth was.
In this March 27, 2018, file photo, a group of sanctuary state supporters gather outside the Orange County Board of Supervisors meeting in Santa Ana, Calif., as they prepare to discuss joining a DOJ lawsuit against the state of California. More local governments in California are resisting the state's efforts to resist the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, and political experts see politics at play as Republicans try to fire up voters in a state where the GOP has grown weak.
At first, I was a little annoyed - we had to rifle through farm maps, income records and our memories to find the data they needed. The USDA completes the Census every five years, and they ask about every piece of a farm business, from off-farm work to sales to crops.
The Interior Department's internal watchdog says that charter flights taken by Secretary Ryan Zinke did not violate any laws, but that the department could have avoided some of the cost in an interim report published Tuesday. The department's inspector general found that three flights on private or military planes taken by Zinke generally followed the relevant rules and were all approved by ethics officials in advance.
Paul Ryan, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, has rendered very valuable service to his fellow Americans during his 20 years in Congress. His role has been especially valuable during the past year and a half.
On Monday evening, after a peaceful but noisy confrontation by pro- and con demonstrators, the Los Alamitos City Council began hearing hours of public comment on whether it should enact an ordinance exempting the city on grounds that the state law is unconstitutional. No vote had taken place by midnight.
Crain's columnist Joe Cahill has been a tireless cheerleader for Mayor Rahm Emanuel's dream of upscale express service to O'Hare. Back in February 2017 Cahill first made the argument that Chicago won't be able to maintain its status as a world-class city unless it offers business travelers and well-heeled visitors a seamless connection from the airport to the Loop.
The parent company of Allegiant Air faced calls for an inquiry into its safety record and a sharp drop in its stock price after a report by CBS News' 60 Minutes alleged the US budget airline suffers a high number of mechanical problems. The 60 Minutes segment, which aired Sunday, found more than 100 "serious mechanical incidents" on the ultra-low-cost carrier between January 2016 and October 2017.
In his first televised interview since being fired by the U.S. President Donald Trump, the former FBI director James Comey spoke on wide-ranging topics. In an interview with George Stephanopoulos broadcast on ABC, Comey declared that he believed Donald Trump was "morally unfit to be president."
San Francisco, April 17 : Cyber security representatives from the US and Britain have warned of Russian state-sponsored cyber-attacks that are targeting network infrastructure devices such as routers and firewalls, to compromise government and private sectors globally. According to a US Computer Emergency Response Team , the Technical Alert provided information on the worldwide cyber exploitation of network infrastructure devices by Russian state-sponsored cyber actors.
The farm bill House lawmakers will consider Wednesday forces vulnerable Republicans in contested House races in largely rural districts to make a difficult, perhaps politically lethal choice between the two constituencies. Reps.
On the eve of Tax Day, President Donald Trump is exaggerating the government's plans to shrink the much-dreaded federal income tax forms.aa He is promising a simplified, one-page tax form for next year that basically already exists - the 1040EZ. And after weeks of promises, Trump appears to be dropping a pledge to create an even smaller, card-size tax form.