Authorities said Tuesday that the mother of 5-year-old Taylor Rose Williams has been arrested and charged in connection with the girl’s disappearance. Hours before police announced the arrest, investigators found remains that they believe to be Taylor in rural Alabama. ... [Read Full Story]
On Tuesday, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said in a court filing that he would not bring a lawsuit challenging a subpoena for his testimony in the impeachment probe into President Trump, adding that at the direction of the president he would not cooperate with the investigation.... [Read Full Story]
After a series of tweets blasting Apple’s new credit card for alleged gender discrimination, New York’s Department of Financial Services is launching an investigation. The Apple Card was launched in partnership with Goldman Sachs earlier this year. It uses an algorithm to assign credit limits, but many online pointed out it may favor men over women. ... [Read Full Story]
Top Pentagon official Laura Cooper, who oversees U.S. policy regarding Ukraine, told House impeachment investigators last month that President Donald Trump directed the relevant agencies to freeze aid to Ukraine over the summer,.... [Read Full Story]
A three-day search for a California hiker ended when he was found dead on top of a glacier in Sequoia and Kings National Park. Alan Stringer, 40, of Huntington Beach, was reported missing Monday evening when he didn’t return home after a hike. Investigators found his body Thursday at the top of the Darwin Glacier, which is near the base of Mount Darwin. Stringer had just recently bought hiking equipment and took mountaineering course, and did not tell anyone his hiking plans or potential routes. His vehicle was found shortly after midnight Tuesday morning, authorities said.... [Read Full Story]
Kaiser Permanente has confirmed that their chief executive and chairman, Bernard J. Tyson, died in his sleep early Sunday at age 60. His cause of death is unclear.... [Read Full Story]
On Thursday, House Democrats released the transcript of closed-door testimony by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent Rep. Adam Schiff, the Democrat leading the House impeachment probe, announced earlier this week that the first open hearings will be held next week, when Democrats will continue with the public phase of their investigation.... [Read Full Story]
President Donald Trump has been ordered by a New York State judge to pay $2 million to a group of nonprofit organizations as part of a settlement in a civil lawsuit stemming from persistent violations of state charities laws. The case was brought by the New York attorney general’s office after the Trump Foundation held a fundraiser for military veterans during the 2016 campaign. ... [Read Full Story]
The U.S. Senate has passed a bill making certain types of animal cruelty a federal felony. The Senate unanimously passed the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act, which criminalizes certain acts of animal cruelty.... [Read Full Story]
Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, the Republican incumbent, requested the secretary of state’s office to recanvass the vote totals after Tuesday’s night election ended with Democratic rival Andy Beshear being announced as the winner.... [Read Full Story]
An arrest warrant has been issued for a man suspected of stealing a car that belonged to a New Hampshire couple found buried at a South Texas beach. On Tuesday, the Kleberg County Sheriff’s Office in Kingsville, Texas, said that Adam Curtis Williams, 33, is wanted on felony theft charges. Authorities identified Williams as the man seen in a surveillance photo released Monday crossing the border into Mexico in a car that belonged to James and Michelle Butler, whose bodies were found in a shallow grave in Corpus Christi last week.... [Read Full Story]
Mexican military has confirmed that at least nine members of an American family, including six children, were killed in an attack in northern Mexico. The family was ambushed by an armed group while traveling from the town of Galeana in Chichuahua state to Bavispe in Sonora state between 9:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. local time, according to Mexico’s security minister, Alfonso Durazo.... [Read Full Story]
A Colorado white supremacist was arrested before his planned attempt to bomb a historic synagogue, according to the FBI. ... [Read Full Story]
On Monday, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that New York City Police Commissioner James O’Neill has resigned. O’Neill plans to take a job in the private sector, and said during a press conference on Monday, “I came into this job with one mission: to fight crime and keep everybody safe, and we did it and continue to do it.”... [Read Full Story]
A US judge has temporarily blocked a rule proposed by President Donald Trump that would require immigrants to prove they will have health insurance within 30 days of arrival in the US, or can pay for medical care. Judge Michael Simon, a district judge in Oregon, granted a preliminary injunction against the proposal.... [Read Full Story]
McDonald’s chief executive officer Steve Easterbrook has been pushed out of the company after violating company policy by engaging in a consensual relationship with an employee, the corporation said Sunday. The fast food giant said the former president and CEO demonstrated poor judgment, and that McDonald’s forbids managers from having romantic relationships with direct or indirect subordinates.... [Read Full Story]
A 14-year-old girl has been found safe, almost 10 days after she went missing along with a 34-year-old man in Virginia. Isabel Shae Hicks had last been seen on Oct. 21 at her home in Bumpass, Virginia, about 40 miles north of Richmond, police said. She “appeared unharmed,” according to authorities.... [Read Full Story]
The city of Chicago and its teachers’ union have reached a deal to end the teacher’s strike, compromising on the makeup days for the time the teachers spent on the picket line.... [Read Full Story]
The Federal Reserve cut interest rates for the third consecutive time on Wednesday, but did not offer clues as to whether or not it will cut rates further.... [Read Full Story]
Twitter says the company will no longer accept political ads. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said in a tweetstorm on Wednesday, “We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought. A political message earns reach when people decide to follow an account or retweet. Paying for reach removes that decision, forcing highly optimized and targeted political messages on people. We believe this decision should not be compromised by money.”... [Read Full Story]
House Democrats have released text of the impeachment resolution they plan to vote on, however when that vote will take place is still unclear. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi originally claimed the vote would be this Thursday. But on Tuesday, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer walked that back and said that not only was the vote “not an impeachment resolution” but that it might not be “ready to go on Thursday.” Hoyer told reporters Tuesday morning: “This is not an impeachment resolution. I don’t know what an impeachment resolution is.”... [Read Full Story]
Authorities have arrested the grandfather of an 18-month-old who fell out of a window on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship in Puerto Rico during a family trip in July. Puerto Rico’s Justice Department ordered the arrest of Salvatore Anello. He faces a charge of negligent manslaughter in the death of his granddaughter, Chloe Wiegand. While the vessel was docked in San Juan, Anello placed Chloe near an open window he thought was closed when her family said she fell out of the ship’s 11th story.... [Read Full Story]
With winds reaching hazardous levels in Southern California, the Getty fire in Los Angeles is growing, forcing thousands of residents to flee their homes. Burning in the hills north of Los Angeles’ famous Getty Center, the fire has consumed 400 acres. The Getty Center and Getty Villa are safe, but many houses were already affected by the fires.... [Read Full Story]
U.S. Coast Guard crews off-loaded millions of pounds of illegal drugs Monday. The drugs were seized recently off the coasts of Mexico, Central and South America.... [Read Full Story]
At least two people were killed and 14 others were injured after a gunman opened fire at an off-campus Texas A&M University-Commerce party. The shooting occurred just before midnight Saturday at The Party Venue in Greenville, Texas, about 15 miles from the Commerce campus.... [Read Full Story]
On Sunday, President Donald Trump announced the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State. Trump said in an address to the nation from the White House: “A brutal killer, one who has caused so much hardship and death, has violently been eliminated. He will never again harm another innocent man, woman or child. He died like a dog. He died like a coward. The world is now a much safer place.”... [Read Full Story]
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham introduced a resolution co-sponsored by more than three dozen of his colleagues condemning the House for a lack of transparency in the impeachment inquiry of President Trump.... [Read Full Story]
On Thursday, California emergency officials ordered hundreds of people to evacuate as a growing wildfire spread in Sonoma County.... [Read Full Story]
Four American Airlines flight attendants are facing money laundering charges, after at least three of them were allegedly caught by Customs smuggling more than $20,000 into the United States.... [Read Full Story]
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump declared a “big success” in Syria and lifted sanctions on Turkey he imposed after Turkey’s military assault on Syria’s Kurdish forces, a key American ally. ... [Read Full Story]
