WASHINGTON (AP) – The US government proposed new rules on Tuesday (Dec 17) to increase organ transplants – steps to make it easier for the living to donate and to make sure that organs from the deceased don’t go to waste. The proposals come after President Donald Trump in July ordered a revamping of the […]
Democrats, Republicans to decide how much time will be set aside for debate for Wednesday’s historic impeachment vote. WHAT IS IMPEACHMENT? The founders of the United States included impeachment in the US Constitution as an option for removal of presidents by Congress. They agreed that presidents could be removed if found guilty by Congress of “treason, bribery […]
WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, on Tuesday (Dec 17) rejected demands by Democrats to call four White House officials as witnesses during President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate. On the eve of a House vote Wednesday that is all but certain to result in Trump’s impeachment on two charges, […]
Three people are confirmed dead and several others have been injured as powerful storms smashed into buildings, downed trees and left a trail of destruction around the US Deep South on Monday. One person was killed in a suspected tornado strike on a Louisiana home, and two others were confirmed dead after another storm hit […]
ALEXANDRIA, LOUISIANA (AP) – Three people are confirmed dead and a dozen more injured as a powerful storm front packing suspected tornadoes smashed into buildings, downed trees and left a trail of destruction around the US deep south on Monday (Dec 16), the authorities said. One person was reported killed in a suspected tornado strike […]
A stripper decapitated her lover's Star Wars-obsessed disabled son "like a chicken" after having sex with him in exchange for drugs and money, a court heard. Roena Cheryl Mills, 43, bludgeoned Bo White, 29, until he was unconscious and then cut off his head with kitchen knives and stabbed him repeatedly. After the gruesome murder, […]
Tornadoes have torn through several south-eastern states in the US, killing at least three people and injuring several others, officials say. Two people were killed in Alabama and one in Louisiana, according to local authorities. Storms triggered dozens of tornado warnings. The extreme weather tore the roofs off houses, downed trees and caused mass power […]
Every month, Telita Hayes adds nearly $200 to the commissary account for her ex-husband, William Reese, who has been in the Louisiana State Penitentiary for 28 years. Each prisoner there is given three meals a day and some personal hygiene items, like soap and toothpaste. But when Mr. Reese gets hungry between meals, or when […]
For nearly 40 years, the murder of a college student, Helene Pruszynski, stumped Colorado detectives. The cold case languished for so long that all but one of her immediate family members had died. But then on Thursday, Ms. Pruszynski’s older sister, Janet Johnson, got a phone call: A prosecutor said homicide investigators had made a […]
The New Jersey Legislature was on the verge of passing one of the strictest pro-vaccine laws in the nation on Monday, which would end religious exemptions to vaccine requirements for students enrolled in any day care, school or college, public or private. The hotly contested bill, which comes on the heels of a measles outbreak […]