Nearly every morning since their father’s victory on Election Day, three of Donald Trump’s grown children walk through the Trump Tower lobby and board an elevator. But are Don Jr., Ivanka and Eric going to the campaign office on the ...
Read More »Wal-Mart kicks off Cyber Monday on Friday
Cyber Monday is starting earlier and earlier. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Monday that it’s kicking off its so-called “Cyber Monday” deals at 12:01 a.m. EST Friday for the first time ever as it aims to grab customers ahead of its ...
Read More »Opening the Ivy League to an underrepresented bloc: Veterans
It’s not easy to find military veterans in undergraduate programs at most Ivy League schools. Harvard has only three in its undergrad liberal arts and sciences school. Princeton, just one. Students from the eight Ivies hope to change those kinds ...
Read More »St. Louis police officer shot in ‘ambush’ attack, chief says
A St. Louis police sergeant was hospitalized in critical condition but expected to survive after being shot Sunday night in what the police chief called an “ambush.” Police Chief Sam Dotson said the 46-year-old officer was shot twice in the ...
Read More »After Muslim backlash, lawmaker drops change to no-mask law
Advocates accused a Georgia lawmaker of targeting Muslim women with proposed changes to a 1951 state law passed to unmasked the Ku Klux Klan, creating a backlash that prompted the Republican legislator to quickly discard the idea. State Rep. ...
Read More »Election result triggers flood of immigration questions
Immigration hotlines are buzzing. Legal clinics are seeing an influx of clients. Public schools are fielding frantic questions from parents and students. Since the election, Donald Trump’s tough talk on immigration has stirred anxiety nationwide among immigrants regardless of legal ...
Read More »Judge awards damages of $36M in Bobbi Kristina death case
A judge in Atlanta on Thursday ordered Bobbi Kristina Brown’s partner, Nick Gordon, to pay $36 million in a wrongful death case, her estate’s lawyers said. Brown, the daughter of singers Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, was found face-down and ...
Read More »US Jews grapple with election-year eruption of anti-Semitism
American Jews gathered Thursday to wrestle with how they should confront an election-year surge in anti-Semitism, a level of bias not seen in the U.S. for decades. At a national meeting of the Anti-Defamation League on Thursday in New York, ...
Read More »Trump selects Sen. Jeff Sessions as US attorney general
President-elect Donald Trump has selected Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions as his pick for attorney general, signaling a sharp break in philosophical direction from the Obama administration’s Justice Department. The pick was disclosed Friday by a senior Trump official who wasn’t ...
Read More »Appeals court rejects lawsuit against California egg law
Six states lacked the legal right to challenge a California law that prohibits the sale of eggs from chickens that are not raised in accordance with strict space requirements, a federal appeals court said Thursday. The states — Missouri, Nebraska, ...
Read More »Prosecutor: No reasonable officer would have killed Castile
Prosecutors say that when Philando Castile was pulled over in July, he calmly told the officer he had a gun and was licensed to carry it. Moments later, the officer fired shots, and a bleeding Castile’s last words were: “I ...
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