Canadian CEO pleads guilty in U.S. to helping drug cartels
The chief executive of a Vancouver-based company pleaded guilty on Tuesday to facilitating international narcotics traffic by supplying drug cartels with encrypted communications devices, the U.S. Justice Department said.
Powder found in Senator Cruz’s campaign building non-hazardous: officials
At least two people were taken to a hospital after a white powdery substance was found in a Houston building where U.S. Senator Ted Cruz’s campaign office is located, but tests showed the substance to be non-hazardous, fire officials said on Tuesday.
North Carolina town may never fully recover from double whammy of storms
The childhood home Katrina Bullock returned to in the rural North Carolina community of Fair Bluff about 16 years ago to care for her sick mother was devastated by flooding from Hurricane Matthew in 2016.
America to buzz as phones get ‘presidential alert’ test Wednesday
The Trump administration will send messages to more than 200 million U.S. cellphones on Wednesday testing a previously unused presidential alert system that aims to warn the public in the event of a national emergency.
Chicago policeman defends shooting of black teen at trial
The white Chicago police officer who shot to death a black teenager in 2014 told jurors at his murder trial on Tuesday that he felt threatened when he opened fire, as he took the witness stand in his own defense.
Hurricane Florence death toll rises to 51
The death toll from Hurricane Florence has risen to 51, officials said on Tuesday, more than two weeks after it made landfall in North Carolina as a Category 1 storm and brought devastating floods to the region.
Trump calls Kavanaugh allegations ‘scary time’ for men falsely accused
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday allegations of sexual misconduct against his U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh showed that “it’s a very scary time for young men in America” who now may be presumed guilty even when innocent.
U.S. arrests four men in connection to 2017 Charlottesville rally
Four men linked to a white supremacist group were arrested on Tuesday in connection with the white nationalist rally that turned deadly in Charlottesville, Virginia, last year, authorities said.
U.S. high court mulls death penalty for killer who forgot crime
U.S. Supreme Court justices, delving into the issue of aging prisoners with dementia, struggled on Tuesday over whether a convicted Alabama murderer should be spared the death penalty because strokes have erased his memory of committing the crime.
Key U.S. senator concerned about Kavanaugh’s ‘partisan’ tone
A Republican U.S. senator who could be pivotal in determining whether President Donald Trump’s nominee Brett Kavanaugh gets to sit on the Supreme Court raised concerns on Tuesday about the judge’s “partisan” tone at last week’s hearing into sexual misc…
