Aerial photographs show widespread devastation to farms and industrial sites in eastern North Carolina, with tell-tale trails of rainbow-colored sheen indicating potential contamination visible on top of the black floodwaters. However, conditions remain so bad more than five days after ...
Read More »US home sales were flat in August
U.S. sales of existing homes were unchanged in August, as a shortage of houses priced at less than $250,000 — a level considered to be affordable for the middle class — has become a drag on the real estate market. ...
Read More »EU, UK fail to resolve border row as Brexit deadline looms
Britain and its European Union partners failed on Thursday to secure a breakthrough in Brexit talks, largely because of seemingly intractable divisions over the best way to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland and how to deal ...
Read More »Missouri 5-year-old meets city leaders over ice cream
A 5-year-old Missouri girl is on mission to have ice cream with some of the state’s most influential people. Kindergartener Taylor Duncan met Tuesday with Missouri Gov. Mike Parson and Jefferson City Mayor Carrie Tergin over orange sherbet, the Jefferson ...
Read More »Missouri Sen. McCaskill says she’ll vote against Kavanaugh
Missouri’s Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill announced Wednesday she will vote against President Donald Trump’s nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, citing his positions on “dark money” issues. McCaskill said in a statement that the recent sexual ...
Read More »Trump’s tariffs put GOP candidates in a bind in rural areas
In the aptly named Harvester Restaurant, wheat farmer Roy Dube makes clear he’s no fan of President Donald Trump’s trade policy. “We get him elected into office and he pulls us out of trade agreements,” Dube said last week as ...
Read More »Kavanaugh accuser’s colleagues point to her integrity
Her studies first brought her West, although for Christine Margaret Blasey Ford, the move to California proved a way to leave behind what had gone wrong in her teenage years in the patrician suburbs of Washington, D.C. Born into a ...
Read More »Immigrant families struggling with trauma of separation
A 6-year-old boy sobs at the school-bus stop in suburban Maryland and begs his mother to promise she will not disappear again. A toddler in Honduras wakes up screaming and searches for the government social worker who cared for him ...
Read More »Appeals court rules for bartenders, waiters in tip fight
Restaurants must pay waiters and bartenders minimum wage when they are engaged in tasks such as cleaning toilets that are unrelated to their main jobs and do not offer tips, a divided U.S. appeals court ruled Tuesday. At issue in ...
Read More »Trump rips Sessions: ‘I don’t have an attorney general’
President Donald Trump escalated his attacks on Attorney General Jeff Sessions, saying, “I don’t have an attorney general.” Trump, in a Hill.TV interview released on Wednesday, said that he’s “so sad over Jeff Sessions,” whom he has repeatedly denounced for ...
Read More »August housing construction up 9.2 pct., but permits slide
U.S. home construction rebounded in August at the fastest pace in seven months but applications for new building permits plunged, sending mixed signals for an industry that has been struggling with rising lumber costs. Housing starts increased 9.2 percent in ...
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