Editor Brian Harrod Provides Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, with aggregated news from sources all over the world from the Roundup Newswires Network
Most Americans say sexual misconduct is a major problem and that too little is being done to protect victims, according to a new poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. But some - particularly Republican men - are concerned about the rights of the accused.
A large sea turtle was found entangled to large bales containing $53 million worth of cocaine, the U.S. Coast Guard said. Floating around the turtle were 26 bales containing the drugs.
A sea turtle was rescued after a boat crew found it entangled in bales of cocaine worth $53 million, the US Coast Guard said. The crew of the cutter Thetis encountered the loggerhead turtle in the eastern Pacific during a 68-day mission, the Coast Guard said on Tuesday.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? When I saw that headline, I immediately had a hunch and - surprise! surprise! - my hunch was correct: As the year comes to a close, Hollywood releases its final batch of films, many of which will go on to earn plenty of Oscar nominations. One of them is Call Me By Your Name , a coming-of-age drama about a 17-year-old boy who develops a romantic relationship with a 24-year-old man .
President Donald Trump 's latest travel ban executive order is unlawful, a panel of judges in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday. The appellate court panel's decision roughly aligned with a previous District Court injunction, BuzzFeed reported .
Congress voted Thursday to give itself an extra three weeks to settle bitter differences over how to reauthorize one of the government's most prized foreign intelligence-gathering tools, but the last-minute move has done little to reconcile competing concerns about the need to maintain powerful spy capabilities and Americans' right to privacy. Neither Republicans nor Democrats are united over how to limit the authority to conduct foreign surveillance on U.S. soil, particularly when it comes to the question of when law enforcement officials can scour the collected surveillance for information about Americans.
Lawyers for the widow of the man who killed dozens of people at a Florida nightclub say her statement to the FBI after the attack shouldn't be shown to jurors during her upcoming trial. Testimony continued Friday in a two-day hearing in an Orlando federal courtroom to determine which evidence can be presented at the trial scheduled to begin March 1. The Orlando Sentinel reports that Judge Paul Byron said he would announce his decision in a written order but didn't say when he expects to release that order.
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals today rejected a Trump Administration request to stay District Judge Kollar-Kotelly's order that the military allow qualified transgender people to enlist beginning January 1. On December 11, District Judge Kollar-Kotelly denied the same request. Both the appeals court and Judge Kollar-Kotelly rejected the Administration's argument that the military would not be prepared to accept transgender recruits by January 1-a claim undercut by a Department of Defense memorandum issued December 8 which lays out guidance for processing transgender enlistees.
About 20 years were spent preparing the highly contaminated Plutonium Finishing Plant for demolition. Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, both D-Wash., say they support the current halt to the demolition following the spread of radioactive contamination at Hanford.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has stayed its ruling pending Supreme Court review-just as has been done twice before. For one of President Donald Trump's most controversial decrees, trouble has indeed come in threes.
It was a relatively slow week in special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election, but some key revelations helped move the investigation forward. Anti-Mueller Republicans have been communicating with the White House : One of the Republicans who has been critical of Robert Mueller's investigation indicated that he has spoken to the White House about the issue, but maintains that the questions he asked about the two FBI agents who exchanged anti-President Donald Trump texts were motivated purely by the evidence.
Maine Sen. Susan Collins complained Tuesday that coverage of her role in crafting the Republican tax bill had been "unbelievably sexist" and had failed to note the ways in which she had gotten the law shaped to her liking. I think she has a point that the coverage has painted her as less successful in the tax negotiations than she really was.
Here is the Chattanooga Chamber calendar of events for Jan. 1-5 Wednesday, Jan. 3, Networking sponsored by REV Optimal Living 8-9 a.m. REV Optimal Living: 417 Frazier Ave. Thursday, Jan. 4, Downtown Chamber Council Meeting 7:30-9 a.m. Bessie Smith Cultural Center: 200 E M L King Blvd. Cost: $15 Thursday, Jan. 4, East Ridge ... The November ... (more)
President Donald Trump may be headed to his "Winter White House" at Mar-A-Lago to celebrate Christmas with his family, but for CNN's Jake Tapper , it's a " Festivus for the rest of us." Despite Trump touting the "achievements" scored in his first year in office, Republicans, Tapper and his panelists said, are headed into the 2018 midterm elections with more intra-GOP splits than ever before.
The fate of hundreds of thousands of young immigrants living here illegally and facing deportation will be decided next year, a Republican senator says. Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake said Wednesday he received assurances from Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., that the Senate will vote in January on bipartisan legislation.
Democratic Alabama U.S. Senate candidate Doug Jones acknowledges supporters at the election night party in Birmingham, Alabama, U.S., December 12, 2017. REUTERS/Marvin Gentry Democrat Doug Jones' surprise victory over Republican Roy Moore in this month's special U.S. Senate election will be certified on Dec. 28, Alabama state officials said on Friday.
Joy Reid appeared on Friday's edition of "Deadline: White House" and said Republicans and Fox News conspiracy theorists who are attacking special counsel Robert Mueller have only one goal, exonerating President Donald Trump, which they will pursue "by any means necessary." Reid zeroed in on Rep. Devin Nunes and other House Republicans who have been running a parallel "investigation" of the Steele Dossier using documents provided to them by the federal investigation into possible collusion with Russia by Trump's 2016 electoral campaign.
Allergan Inc said on Friday that it had lost its appeal in a patent battle with Novartis AG over its Sandoz division's rival version of Allergan's Combigan eye drug and said it would file a petition to for a rehearing of the case. Allergan said the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas' earlier decision that the Sandoz rival did not infringe two of Allergan's patents and reversed a decision on a third patent in favor of Novartis.
Gov. Rick Scott talks about his decision to file a public records request with the Florida Supreme Court over a case with big implications for the court's future. Gov. Rick Scott talks about his decision to file a public records request with the Florida Supreme Court over a case with big implications for the court's future.
Before departing for his Mar-a-Lago estate, Trump signed the $1.5 trillion tax overhaul into law. He also put off a government shutdown by signing a temporary spending bill.