Two top Republican senators asked the Justice Department on Monday whether it is conducting a criminal investigation related to Hillary Rodham Clinton’s use of a private server for email and whether the computer specialist who helped set it up is ...
Read More »Twitter offers new cash stream for presidential candidates
Think of it as tweeting for dollars. The social media service Twitter on Tuesday introduced a feature that enables political candidates and advocacy groups to raise money directly via its mobile application, making it quicker and easier to harvest small ...
Read More »Replacement named for bishop who didn’t report abuse
Pope Francis has appointed a bishop to the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph in Missouri, permanently replacing a cleric who was convicted of failing to report a suspected child abuser. The diocese announced on its website Tuesday that Bishop James ...
Read More »Schumer wants to keep drones way from airports, major events
Drone manufacturers would be forced to implement technology to keep the unmanned crafts away from airports and possibly events like parades and major sporting contests under a proposal Sen. Charles Schumer plans to introduce this week. Schumer said he would ...
Read More »Kentucky clerk won’t interfere with gay marriage licenses
Clerk Kim Davis returned to work Monday for the first time since being jailed for disobeying a federal judge and said she was faced with a “seemingly impossible choice” between following her conscience and losing her freedom over denying marriage ...
Read More »No checks, please: IRS no longer takes checks for $100M
Owe the tax man $100 million or more? Your check is no good at the IRS. Starting next year, the IRS says it will reject all checks for more than $99,999,999. That’s because check-processing equipment at the nation’s Federal Reserve ...
Read More »Officials: US to increase number of refugees by 5K next year
As soon as the aging P-3 surveillance plane rumbles off the island runway, a crew of three agents for U.S. Customs and Border Protection begins hunting with high-tech radar for anything that looks out of the ordinary in the vast ...
Read More »Pope will find US church struggling to hold onto Latinos
The St. John Paul II Pastoral Center, a Roman Catholic mission, sits at the rough end of a former strip mall in the shadow of an Arby’s. The space, church leaders say, was once used as a nightclub and movie ...
Read More »Why US job openings are surging, while hiring plods
U.S. companies are advertising a lot more jobs. But when it comes to filling them, many remain cautious. Job openings soared 8 percent to 5.75 million in July, the most since records began in 2000, the Labor Department said Wednesday. ...
Read More »Former CIA leaders release book defending brutal tactics
Former senior CIA officials instrumental in extracting information from al-Qaida prisoners through what most Americans consider to have been torture have published a book defending their conduct. The book, titled “Rebuttal,” takes aim at the Senate intelligence committee report released ...
Read More »Homeland Security taking to the sky in drug smuggling fight
As soon as the aging P-3 surveillance plane rumbles off the island runway, a crew of three agents for U.S. Customs and Border Protection begins hunting with high-tech radar for anything that looks out of the ordinary in the vast ...
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