Elaine Luria is one of the seven newly-elected Democrats in the US House of Representatives whose decision to back an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump tipped the scales. The day after they spoke out, Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a formal inquiry would take place. How would constituents welcome her when she returned? Impeachment was […]
Elaine Luria is one of the seven newly-elected Democrats in the US House of Representatives whose decision to back an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump tipped the scales. The day after they spoke out, Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a formal inquiry would take place. How would constituents welcome her when she returned? Impeachment was […]
The Bay Area was jolted Saturday morning when a minor earthquake struck about 10 miles from San Francisco. The earthquake, which had a preliminary magnitude of 3.5, hit at 8:41 a.m. local time. It originated about five miles deep in the earth, and occurred about three and a half miles southwest of Colma, Calif., according […]
For more than 15 years on death row, Randy Halprin filed challenge after challenge to his sentence. The denials began to stack up. Finally, on Friday, one of his appeals persuaded Texas’ highest court to stay his execution, which had been scheduled for Oct. 10. Mr. Halprin’s lawyers had found several people who said that […]
STOCKHOLM (REUTERS) – Working-level nuclear talks between North Korea and the United States have broken off, North Korea’s chief negotiator said on Saturday (Oct 5). “The negotiations have not fulfilled our expectation and finally broke off,” the North’s chief nuclear negotiator, Kim Myong Gil, told reporters through an interpreter outside the country’s embassy in Stockholm. […]
ATHENS (AFP) – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday (Oct 5) accused members of Congress of harassing his department to obtain documents linked to an impeachment investigation against President Donald Trump. “There have been congressional inquiries that have harassed and abused State Department employees by contacting them directly and seeking to have them […]
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — On a recent afternoon, under two giant chandeliers, some of the key people responsible for the future of crime and privacy tried to solve a murder. “She was found in 1982 in Newark,” said the class leader, who opened the session by bursting into song. That plus the little plates of […]
BUENOS AIRES — Liliana Furió’s ruby red flat shoes glided across the dance floor in swift, assured moves, making her baggy pants sway gently. She and a lean young Russian man were rapture personified, clasped in a tight embrace as they circled counterclockwise with a few other pairs in perfect synchrony. But it was hard […]
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders underwent emergency surgery after suffering a heart attack, his campaign has confirmed. The senator was taken to hospital on Tuesday after complaining of chest pain at a campaign event in Nevada. Doctors operated on Mr Sanders, 78, to remove a blockage in one of his arteries. Mr Sanders said he […]
A five-alarm fire engulfed the top floor of a Bronx apartment building on Friday night, injuring 10 people — two of them seriously — and prompting more than 200 firefighters to respond, the authorities said. Nine of the 10 people injured were firefighters, according to Jason Powell, a Fire Department spokesman, who said that one […]