A serial killer known as the “Angel of Death” after he admitted killing three dozen hospital patients in Ohio and Kentucky died Thursday, two days after investigators said he was attacked in prison, Ohio’s prisons department said. Donald Harvey, who ...
Read More »Republican foes of health care bill win praise in districts
One of the House Republican rebels, Kentucky Rep. Tom Massie, wasn’t just “no” on the GOP health care bill to replace Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act. Massie was “hell no.” That won over Mary Broecker, president of the Oldham County ...
Read More »Nature groups want role in suit challenging marine monument
Environmental groups that want to save a marine monument created by former President Barack Obama in the Atlantic Ocean off New England’s coast are asking to intervene in a federal lawsuit that challenges its creation. They say the nearly 5,000-square-mile ...
Read More »Tracking phones: Insurers deny claims based on doubtful data
It took Jaclyn Bentley nearly three years to prove she didn’t burn her house down for the insurance money, allegations she and her lawyer say were born of the junk practice of analyzing cellphone tower data. She was camping with ...
Read More »Zinke: Border wall ‘complex,’ faces geographic challenges
Geographic and physical challenges — including the Rio Grande and threatened wildlife — will make it difficult to build the “big, beautiful wall” that President Donald Trump has promised on the U.S.-Mexico border, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said Wednesday. Building ...
Read More »Environmental groups vowing to fight climate actions
Environmental groups that have hired extra lawyers in recent months are prepared to go to court to fight a sweeping executive order from President Donald Trump that eliminates many restrictions on fossil fuel production and would roll back his predecessor’s ...
Read More »Lefties, techies long at odds in SF, team up against Trump
Before Donald Trump’s election, Laurence Berland viewed political protest as a sort of curiosity. He was in a good place to see it: San Francisco’s Mission District, once an immigrant enclave in the country’s heartland of radicalism that is increasingly ...
Read More »Contracts to buy US homes hit highest level since April
More Americans signed contracts to buy homes last month as warm weather and rising confidence appeared to encourage consumers to look for houses. The National Association of Realtors said Wednesday that its pending home sales index climbed 5.5 percent in ...
Read More »Gun control advocates say Newtown ruling is bad precedent
Gun control advocates are asking the Connecticut Supreme Court for permission to argue against a judge’s decision last year to dismiss a wrongful-death lawsuit against the maker of the rifle used in the 2012 Newtown school shooting, saying the ruling ...
Read More »In White House drama, Priebus is favorite target
In the behind-the-scenes drama of who’s up and who’s down in Donald Trump’s White House, chief of staff Reince Priebus is playing a starring role. Priebus, a genial Midwesterner with deep ties to the Republican establishment that Trump toppled, has ...
Read More »Democratic senator asks drugmakers about opioid sales plans
A Democratic senator is seeking marketing information, sales records and studies from manufacturers of the top-selling opioid products in the United States to determine whether drugmakers have contributed to an overuse of the pain killers. Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri ...
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