U.S. Supreme Court to mull time limits on military rape claims
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider whether military personnel can be prosecuted for rape long after the crime occurred in an appeal by President Donald Trump’s administration of a lower court ruling that overturned the rape conviction …
California, other U.S. states sue to block EPA from revoking state emissions authority
California and 22 other U.S. states filed suit on Friday to challenge the Trump administration’s decision to revoke California’s authority to set stiff vehicle tailpipe emissions rules and require a rising number of zero emission vehicles (ZEV).
Trump Twitter attack on impeachment witness seen by Democrats as intimidation
President Donald Trump launched a Twitter attack on a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine on Friday while she was testifying to an impeachment hearing in Congress, in an extraordinary moment that Democrats said amounted to witness intimidation.
‘The tweet was not witness intimidation’: reaction to Trump impeachment hearing
The U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee held its second public hearing on Friday in an impeachment inquiry examining President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, with Marie Yovanovitch, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, testifying….
U.S. restaurants remove dining rooms to speed off-site food frenzy
Restaurants are doing away with dining rooms as consumers increasingly order food deliveries through apps such as Uber Technologies Inc’s Uber Eats and GrubHub Inc.
‘This is a crazy environment’: Quotes from Trump impeachment hearing
The U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee held its second public hearing on Friday in an impeachment inquiry examining President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine. The witness was Marie Yovanovitch, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine.
Former U.S. envoy to Ukraine faults bosses at impeachment hearing
State Department leadership has damaged the institution by failing to resist “foreign and corrupt interests that apparently hijacked” U.S. policy toward Ukraine and by not defending its own diplomats, the former U.S. envoy to Ukraine said on Friday.
‘He simply always takes the bait’: Reaction to Trump impeachment hearing
The U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee held its second public hearing on Friday in an impeachment inquiry examining President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, with Marie Yovanovitch, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, testifying….
Trump adviser Roger Stone, self-proclaimed ‘dirty trickster,’ guilty on all charges
President Donald Trump’s longtime adviser Roger Stone was convicted on all charges on Friday by a federal court jury that found the veteran Republican operative and self-proclaimed “dirty trickster” guilty on seven counts of lying to the U.S. Congress,…
For California police, what motivated deadly school shooting is question of the day
California police on Friday were working to identify what motivated a 16-year-old to open fire on his fellow high school students a day earlier, killing two and wounding three others before shooting himself in the head.
