The Department Of Defense has confirmed that the U.S. Naval Academy will ban people who are transgender from attending the school, beginning with the 2020 school year. The school in Annapolis, Maryland, currently accepts transgender students and retains midshipmen who transition to another gender.... [Read Full Story]
Sol Pais, the 18-year-old Florida woman who was said to be “infatuated” with 1999 massacre at Columbine High School, was found dead Wednesday near Mount Evans in Clear Creek County, west of Denver, officials there said. Pais was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Jefferson County Sheriff Jeff Shrader said during a press conference. The FBI announced her death in a tweet.... [Read Full Story]
recall of its 13-ounce packages of Chewy Chips Ahoy after receiving reports of an "unexpected solidified ingredient" in some packages, it announced on Tuesday.” data-reactid=”23″ type=”text”>On Tuesday, Mondelēz Global has issued a voluntarily recall of its 13-ounce packages of Chewy Chips Ahoy! cookies, after receiving reports of an “unexpected solidified ingredient” in some packages. ... [Read Full Story]
Health officials are reporting that the number of confirmed cases of measles in the United States this year jumped by nearly 20 percent in the week ended April 11, in the country’s second-worst outbreak in nearly two decades.... [Read Full Story]
Hours after a massive fire engulfed the historic Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on Monday, a city official said the structure of the building had been saved. The fire at the cathedral caused the roof to collapse, destroyed a spire and spread to one of the building’s two rectangular towers. The mayor’s office said those living near Notre Dame were evacuated as a safety precaution. The Paris prosecutors’ office ruled out arson and possible terror-related motives, and said it was treating it as an accident, ... [Read Full Story]
Hours after Rep. Ilhan Omar released a statement reporting death threats following a tweeted attack from President Donald Trump, the President Trump again tweeted about Omar, saying: “before Nancy [Pelosi], who has lost all control of Congress and is getting nothing done, decides to defend her leader, Rep. Omar, she should look at the anti-Semitic, anti-Israel and ungrateful U.S. HATE statements Omar has made. She is out of control, except for her control of Nancy!” The President visited Minnesota on Monday to talk about taxes in a district that neighbors Omar’s own. Omar commented on the president’s visit on Twitter saying: “The Great State of Minnesota, where we don’t only welcome immigrants, we send them to Washington.” Omar is a Somali-American refugee.... [Read Full Story]
A large, flightless bird — similar to an emu and native to both Australia and New Guinea — killed its owner when the man fell down on his property in Florida, authorities said.... [Read Full Story]
South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg officially launched his presidential campaign on Sunday, entering the field of Democrats vying to take on President Donald Trump in 2020.... [Read Full Story]
The former attorney for Stormy Daniels, Michael Avenatti, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in California on 36 counts, including embezzling from a paraplegic, court documents show.... [Read Full Story]
Authorities have arrested a person in connection with suspicious fires at three historic black churches in southern Louisiana, a federal prosecutor said. The suspect was in state custody, U.S. Attorney David C. Joseph announced in a news release labeling the fires “despicable acts.” ... [Read Full Story]
Police in North Carolina said that a gas explosion partially collapsed a North Carolina building and set it ablaze on Wednesday morning, killing one person and injuring more than a dozen. Durham Police Department public affairs manager Wil Glenn said a contractor boring under a sidewalk hit a 2-inch gas line, triggering the explosion. One person was killed and 15 people were taken to area hospitals, Glenn said at a news conference. One firefighter was seriously injured, he also said.... [Read Full Story]
Federal prosecutors have announced the dismantling of one of the largest health care fraud schemes ever investigated by the FBI, charging 24 people in a $1.2 billion alleged scam involving telemedicine and durable medical equipment companies.... [Read Full Story]
On Wednesday, approximately 10 million people are under winter alerts, including blizzard warnings, and approximately 26 million people are under alert for high winds, affecting Wyoming, Colorado, South Dakota and Nebraska.... [Read Full Story]
Attorney General William Barr hopes to release special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, with redactions, “within a week,” he told members of a House Appropriations subcommittee on Tuesday.... [Read Full Story]
Fleetwood Mac have postponed the final dates of a North American tour as Stevie Nicks recovers from the flu. Fleetwood Mac’s April 2 show in Boston, MA and April 3 appearance in Philadelphia, PA were cancelled on short notice last week and, now, The Toronto Star reports the group’s remaining four Canadian concerts – including Monday night’s show in Toronto – have also been put on hold.... [Read Full Story]
President Donald Trump is removing the director of the U.S. Secret Service, the White House said on Monday. This comes just a day after the resignation of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.... [Read Full Story]
President Donald Trump is removing the director of the U.S. Secret Service, the White House said on Monday. This comes just a day after the resignation of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.... [Read Full Story]
On Monday, New York legislators introduced a bill that would amend the state law to permit the N.Y. Department of Taxation and Finance commissioner to release any state tax return of President Donald Trump’s that has been requested by the leaders of the House Ways and Means Committee, the Senate Finance Committee and the Joint Committee on Taxation for any “specific and legitimate legislative purpose.” ... [Read Full Story]
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen will be leaving her position, President Donald Trump said on Twitter on Sunday.... [Read Full Story]
An American tourist who was kidnapped alongside her driver in a national park in southwestern Uganda has been rescued unharmed, the Ugandan military said on Sunday.... [Read Full Story]
Officials said on Thursday that the pilots of a Boeing 737 MAX jet followed the procedures for stopping a new anti-stall system, but they still couldn’t prevent last month’s crash of the Ethiopian Airlines jet which killed 157 people. It was the second recent fatal crash of a 737 MAX. Ethiopia’s Transport Minister Dagmawit Moges said “the crew performed all the procedures repeatedly provided by the manufacturer but was not able to control the aircraft.” Ethiopian Airlines also said in a statement on Twitter Thursday that the pilots were in “full compliance with the emergency procedures.”... [Read Full Story]
On Thursday, Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio announced a presidential bid as he joined a diverse group of Democrats looking to take on President Trump in 2020. In his first television interview as a candidate, Ryan said during an appearance on ABC’s “The View” that he was a “progressive who knows how to talk to working-class people” and said he could win back Rust Belt states lost to President Trump in the 2016 election.... [Read Full Story]
In light of recent accusations of inappropriate behavior from multiple women, former Vice President Joe Biden said he will be more mindful of personal space — stopping short of offering an apology. In a video posted to his Twitter account, Biden, 76, said:... [Read Full Story]
On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee approved subpoenas for special counsel Robert Mueller’s full Russia report, while Democrats also put pressure the Justice Department to release the document without redactions.... [Read Full Story]
At least one person is dead and two injured in a chemical plant fire on the outskirts of Houston, officials said.... [Read Full Story]
Presidential candidate Julián Castro unveiled on Tuesday a proposal to change crossing the border without legal permission a civil violation instead of a misdemeanor crime in his first major policy platform. Castro posted his detailed immigration platform on the website Medium Tuesday morning and in a news release.... [Read Full Story]
Early on Monday, several U.S. airlines experienced system outages due to a technical glitch in a shared computer program, authorities said. The Aerodata program — which monitors balance and weight of flights — crashed for a short time. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said several carriers were affected by the outage, including American, Delta, United, Southwest and Alaska Air. Dallas-based Southwest issued a ground stop order for a short time.... [Read Full Story]
The House Judiciary Committee will prepare subpoenas this week, seeking special counsel Robert Mueller’s full Russia report. This comes as the Justice Department appears likely to miss an April 2 deadline set by Democrats for the report’s release.... [Read Full Story]
Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney defended the Trump administration’s plan to cut off aid to three Central American countries, adding that El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras could do more to curb the flow of illegal immigrants into the United States.... [Read Full Story]
On Sunday, former Vice President Joe Biden said he believed he had never acted inappropriately — this coming after allegations by a female activist who said that he made her feel uncomfortable by kissing her at a campaign event in 2014.... [Read Full Story]
