Trump seeks to delay rape accuser’s defamation lawsuit pending ‘Apprentice’ appeal
U.S. President Donald Trump asked a New York state trial judge to put on hold a defamation lawsuit by Elle magazine advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, who has accused him of rape, saying a successful appeal in a separate defamation case could shield him…
Buttigieg holds lead over Sanders in latest Iowa caucus results
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg held his lead over U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders in the Iowa caucuses in updated results released by the Iowa Democratic Party on Wednesday.
About 350 U.S. evacuees from China land at California air base
Two planes carrying about 350 Americans out of Wuhan, China, arrived at a U.S. military base in California on Wednesday, in Washington’s latest effort to bring its citizens home from the epicenter of the fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak.
Biden vows to stay the course after ‘gut punch’ in Iowa
Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden vowed on Wednesday to go on fighting for the Democratic presidential nomination despite what he called “a gut punch” he took in Iowa’s contest where partial results showed the political veteran lagging in fourth pla…
Uber gets permit to restart testing its self-driving cars in California
Uber Technologies Inc has been allowed to restart testing its self-driving vehicles with a backup driver in California, almost two years after its autonomous car killed a pedestrian in Arizona.
Chesapeake Energy, others sued for $1 million in fatal Texas oil-well blast
Chesapeake Energy Corp and three oilfield service firms were sued by the daughter of a worker who suffered fatal injuries when a Texas oil well exploded in flames last month.
‘I’m not going anywhere,’ Biden says after poor showing in Iowa
Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden vowed on Wednesday to go on fighting for the Democratic presidential nomination despite what he called “a gut punch” he took in Iowa’s contest where partial results showed the political veteran lagging in fourth pla…
U.S. Speaker Pelosi says she ripped up Trump speech because it ‘shredded the truth’
U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi had not planned to tear up President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech but decided to do so after she could not find a page “that didn’t have a lie on it,” she told fellow Democratic lawmakers o…
New York charges NRA over illegal insurance sales, deceiving members
New York’s financial regulator on Wednesday filed civil charges accusing the National Rifle Association of offering insurance to its members without a license and concealing how it routinely kept some of their premiums for itself.
About 350 U.S. evacuees from virus-hit Chinese city land at California air base
Two planes carrying about 350 Americans out of Wuhan, China, arrived at a U.S. military base in California on Wednesday, in Washington’s latest effort to bring its citizens home from the epicenter of the fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak.
