Kamala Harris had the best campaign roll-out. Amy Klobuchar’s snowy debut showed grit. Elizabeth Warren’s opening campaign video was a bit odd. Take it from an unlikely armchair pundit sizing up the 2020 Democratic field: President Donald Trump. In tweets, ...
Read More »Aurora shooter’s permit was revoked but gun wasn’t seized
An initial background check failed to detect a felony conviction that should have barred the man who killed five co-workers and wounded six other people at a suburban Chicago manufacturing plant from buying the gun. Months later, a second background ...
Read More »US consumer prices flat in January
Consumer prices were unchanged in January, as lower gasoline prices offset the rising costs of housing, clothing and medical care. The Labor Department said the consumer price index rose only 1.6 percent last month from a year earlier. That matched ...
Read More »Families to quietly remember on school massacre anniversary
The communities and families terrorized by the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre will spend Thursday’s anniversary visiting graves, packing meals for the needy and contributing to other service projects as they quietly remember the 14 students and three staff ...
Read More »Democrats question pledges in $26.5B T-Mobile-Sprint deal
Democratic lawmakers are challenging a pledge by T-Mobile and Sprint not to raise prices or hurt competition if their $26.5 billion merger goes through. Although T-Mobile says it won’t raise prices for three years, Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J., chairman of ...
Read More »Virginia sex allegations are latest against state officials
Virginia’s lieutenant governor has denied newly publicized allegations that he sexually assaulted two women years ago and has vowed to continue serving in office. It’s a scenario that already has played out in several other states, with differing conclusions. At ...
Read More »Hawley subpoenaed in open records lawsuit
Sen. Josh Hawley has been subpoenaed to answer questions about his handling of Missouri’s open records law while he was the state’s attorney general. The Cole County Circuit Court issued the subpoena Monday as part of a lawsuit against Gov. ...
Read More »Notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman convicted
Mexico’s most notorious drug lord, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, was convicted Tuesday of running an industrial-scale smuggling operation after a three-month trial packed with Hollywood-style tales of grisly killings, political payoffs, cocaine hidden in jalapeno cans, jewel-encrusted guns and a ...
Read More »Small fire under investigation at Planned Parenthood clinic
Authorities say they’re investigating a suspicious fire at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Missouri that is seeking to regain its ability to offer abortions. Columbia police said officers responded to an alarm at the clinic on Sunday around 4 a.m. ...
Read More »Abortion case shows Roberts firmly at Supreme Court’s center
Chief Justice John Roberts broke with the Supreme Court’s other conservative justices and his own voting record on abortion to block a Louisiana law requiring abortion providers to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. Roberts didn’t explain his decision ...
Read More »Enquirer says it will investigate Bezos extortion claims
The publisher of the National Enquirer said it will look into claims of extortion and blackmail made by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who said the tabloid threatened to publish intimate photos of him unless he stopped investigating how the Enquirer ...
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