WASHINGTON (WASHINGTON POST) – President Donald Trump on Thursday (Oct 3) appealed to a foreign country to take action involving his electoral opponents. It was the third time we know of that he’s done so. The first time, when Trump asked Russia to find Hillary Clinton’s “missing emails,” he insisted he was joking. The second […]
Oct 3 (Reuters) – Survivors and family of 58 people who were slain in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history have reached a settlement of at least $735 million with MGM Resorts, a law firm representing the victims and MGM Resorts International said on Thursday. MGM Resorts owns the Mandalay Bay Hotel in […]
Liberal leader Justin Trudeau is facing criticism over his campaign’s use of two planes. None of the other parties in this election is using more than one plane as their leaders campaign across Canada’s vast territory. The Conservatives accused Mr Trudeau of being “hypocritical” on environmental issues for using two planes – already a carbon-intensive […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Mr Donald Trump said on Thursday (Oct 3) he would “certainly” think about approaching Chinese leader Xi Jinping to investigate the US President’s domestic political rival Joe Biden. Mr Trump told reporters at the White House that Ukraine should probe the front running Democratic presidential hopeful and his son, Mr Hunter Biden […]
A California police officer driving a Tesla Model S during a high-speed chase on a Bay Area freeway radioed to his colleagues that he was running low on battery. He needed someone else to take over. “I am down to six miles of battery on the Tesla, so I may lose it here in a […]
Seven people have died after a Second World War-era B-17 bomber crashed after encountering mechanical trouble on takeoff. The four-engine, propeller-driven plane struggled to get into the air and crashed into a maintenance shed at Bradley International Airport in Connecticut as the pilots circled back for a landing, officials and witnesses said. It was carrying […]
He had just finished a breeding session and was returning to the farm where he lives in western Maryland. But he apparently had other designs. The bull, a 1,500-pound Black Angus known simply as No. 33, somehow managed to escape from a cattle trailer as it passed through Baltimore. For the next three hours, the […]
Donald Trump accused his opponents yesterday of attempting a “coup” by pursuing impeachment as he stepped up his rhetoric over the Ukraine whistleblower scandal. The US president went on the attack as Democrats said they would subpoena the White House for documents related to how Mr Trump urged Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden, the former […]
Amber Guyger, the former Dallas police officer convicted of murder for fatally shooting her unarmed neighbor in his apartment, was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison. Guyger, 31, learned her fate after a sentencing hearing that included emotional testimony from the family of the victim, Botham Jean, and revelations that she shared racist and offensive texts […]
BEIJING • China will exempt some agricultural products from additional tariffs on US goods, the official Xinhua News Agency said yesterday, in the latest sign of easing Sino-US tensions before a new round of talks aimed at curbing a bruising trade war. The United States and China have both made conciliatory gestures, with China renewing […]