Tagged: SCOTUS

ADEN, Yemen (AP) - Yemen’s prime minister lands in southern port city of Aden, marking government’s return under deal with separatists.

HARTLAND, Wis. (AP) - A young Wisconsin girl with an inoperable brain tumor who received tens of thousands of pictures of her favorite animal from strangers has died at age 8. Emma Mertens loved dogs. So, after she was diagnosed in January family and friends sent photos of their dogs ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Dubai-based carrier Emirates announced on Monday it would be buying 20 additional wide-body Airbus A350s, bringing its total order for the aircraft to 50 in a deal worth $16 billion at list price. Separately, the Emirati budget carrier Air Arabia announced the purchase of ...

BALTIMORE (AP) - The Baltimore Museum of Art will add only artwork created by women to its permanent collection in 2020. Museum director Christopher Bedford announced the policy Thursday, saying something radical must be done to rectify centuries of imbalance. The Maryland museum acquired its first work by a female ...

EDEN, N.C. (AP) - Police in North Carolina say a gaming shop employee shot back at four men during an attempted armed robbery, wounding one of them. Eden police say in a news release that the men walked into The Vault displaying firearms Saturday night. Lt. Chuck Gallaher says the ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) - Police in North Carolina say they found a 20-year-old man dead next to his dirt bike after an apparent crash. Winston-Salem police stated in a release obtained by news outlets that Christopher Austin Lackey was found dead in the front yard of a home early Sunday ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Turkey’s SunExpress airline announces order for 10 of 737 Max jets grounded globally after crashes worth $1.2 billion.

ELLICOTT CITY, Md. (AP) — An update is scheduled for the latest developments in a plan to mitigate flooding in the historic district of Ellicott City, Maryland. Howard County Executive Calvin Ball is scheduled to provide updates to the Ellicott City Safe and Sound Plan on Monday. The effort was ...

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police using tear gas and rubber bullets fought off protesters Monday as they tried to break through a police cordon that is trapping hundreds of them on a university campus. Protesters advanced on the police from outside the cordon, while others emerged from the ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - An 18-year-old Kentucky high schooler has pleaded not guilty to second-degree assault and criminal mischief in an assault on a reportedly autistic classmate. News outlets report Damon Simmons is accused of attacking the Iroquois High student on Thursday with the help of three juvenile students. An ...

Pompeo is expected to announce a U.S. plan to soften its stance on Israeli settlements in the West Bank, which would further weaken the Palestinians' claim to statehood, according to an Associated Press report.

From Beyond Meat to Uber to Levi Strauss, some big names have attempted to tap the public markets to raise capital this year. But individuals who want to buy these companies' stocks should beware the risks.

Prince Andrew is one of several people, including Presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, whose past friendship with Jeffrey Epstein is under renewed scrutiny.

Trump's responses to Mueller drew new scrutiny during the criminal trial of Roger Stone, who was found guilty of lying to Congress and witness tampering Friday.

Apple just released iOS 13.2.3 which fixes a bunch of bugs, including some related to search, Mail messages not showing up and background apps.

Google's cloud group has acquired another small company to help challenge the likes of Amazon and Microsoft.

California is suing the nation's biggest e-cigarette maker, alleging Juul Labs deliberately targeted teenagers with its early marketing campaigns.

Seemingly small monthly charges are adding up as people "subscribe" instead of owning an asset outright.

McDonald's new CEO Chris Kempczinski is asking employees for feedback after taking the helm of the company two weeks ago.

The Supreme Court temporarily blocked a ruling that required accounting firm Mazars to turn President Donald Trump's tax returns over to Congress.

Russia weaponized social media in an attempt to influence the 2016 presidential election. But its efforts didn't end after it was caught.

His recent apology for stop-and-frisk probably won't win him the nomination.

In his astonishingly stupid interview with Emily Maitlis, the Queen's favourite son gave us mortals a window into a sordid world, says Guardian columnist Suzanne Moore

An unhappy coincidence Thursday morning was, for me, the perfect metaphor for the mass (media) hysteria engendered by the televised impeachment hearings the nation was burdened with last...

Last week, President Trump granted full pardons for Army First Lt. Clint Lorance and Army Maj. Mathew Golsteyn, who'd been accused of war crimes. Lorance had served six years of a 19-year sentence, and Golsteyn was facing trial for killing an alleged Taliban bombmaker. Navy SEAL Edward R. Gallagh...

Anyone following the increasingly desperate Democratic impeachment effort will by now be aware that they have exchanged the term quid pro quo for bribery and extortion. They rebranded President Trump's alleged offenses, according to a Washington Post report, after the...

ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith speaks on Colin Kaepernick's latest NFL tryout: STEPHEN A. SMITH: So let me get this straight, Colin Kaepernick has been working out all this time, him, people in his camp, his loved ones - everyone's saying he's ready to play football, he wants to play, just give him a chance. […]

Liuba Grechen Shirley, Rep. Pete King's (R-N.Y.) opponent in the 2018 midterm elections, will not run for the seat again after King announced his retirement last week."My last 2 deliveries were incredibly difficult...

President Trump called Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) on Monday to congratulate him on his reelection victory over the weekend, according to the governor's spokesman."The President congratu...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said on Monday the "facts are uncontested" that President Trump's dealings with Ukraine were an abuse of power.In a "Dear Colleague" letter sent to members...

Rep. Dina Titus (D-Nev.) slammed President Trump while speaking at a recent event in Las Vegas, saying at one point, "I'd like to impeach the bastard right now."According to a ...

Former Vice President Joe Biden highlighted his work on the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) in a new TV spot that will air in Iowa. The 60-second video set to air in Des Moines and Cedar Rapids...

WPA PoolIt’s fair to say it’s not been a great few days for Prince Andrew, and, on Monday, it got even worse after he was accused of using the n-word in a conversation with a former British government adviser.Rohan Silva, a key aide of former Prime Minister David Cameron, alleges that at a meeting in […]

Courtesy of NetflixBikram Choudhury became a self-made multimillionaire with “Bikram Yoga,” which was founded on 26 carefully-sequenced positions and performed in sweltering studios. Bikram claimed that, though he had learned his “hot yoga” craft under the tutelage of India’s Bishnu Charan Ghosh, his methods were uniquely his own, and that they’d helped him become a […]

You’ve spent days, weeks, and months trying to transform your eating habits. You’ve tried meal prepping and various popular diets, each one of them emphasizing eating certain food groups and foregoing others. You’ve followed all the rules, lost a bit of weight, and started to feel fresher, healthier, more energetic. Then, something happens. Maybe you […]

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Marwan Naamani/APBEIRUT—He has fought Israel since the 1990s and killed many fighters in Syria’s civil war, but the increasing difficulty of working-class life in Lebanon and a popular revolt against the country’s leaders has forced Abu Hussein to reevaluate his decades-long service to Hezbollah. The group whose name translates as “the Party of God” has been […]

Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast/GettyThe upcoming week on Capitol Hill will be defining for the impeachment inquiry. Eight witnesses will testify publicly over three days in what will be the second, and perhaps final, week of public impeachment hearings. Set to testify are several witnesses with firsthand knowledge of Trump’s July 25 call […]

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettyAt least on paper, Democrats talk tough about the importance of protecting the democratic process from a flood of billionaire bucks. “Big money is drowning out the voices of everyday Americans,” the 2016 Democratic Party Platform reads. “We must have the necessary tools to fight back and safeguard our electoral […]

Anthony Pidgeon/GettyWhen I would tell people that I was writing about Booker T. Jones, most of the time I drew blank stares. But when I added, “As in Booker T. and the MGs,” their faces lit up. Didn’t matter if they were old or young. They knew. Maybe they just knew “Green Onions.” That’s enough right […]

Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast/Getty/Mike AglioloOh, just another week, really. The president intimidates one witness, another witness has Donald Trump dead to rights on not caring about anything Ukraine except how it could help him beat Joe Biden, and the attorney general gives a fascist speech making it clearer than ever that he’s […]

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettyA senior executive of the GEO Group—the nation’s largest private prison and immigrant detention company—who lobbied the Trump administration for a multimillion-dollar cash infusion has also been staying in the luxurious Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C., billing an unknown sum to his corporate expense account, according to previously unreported records […]