Police in Tampa, Fla. believe the killing of a 20-year-old autistic man Thursday night is linked to two other suspicious deaths in the same neighborhood. Anthony Taino Naiboa’s family said he was taking a bus home from work and had gotten off at the wrong stop in the Seminole Heights neighborhood. They said he was […]
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Senate Passes $4 Trillion Budget, Eyes Tax Reform Next
The Senate on Thursday passed a Republican budget resolution that would pave the way to use a special procedural rule to consider tax reform later this year. The $4 trillion budget blueprint passed 51-49, with all Democrats and one Republican, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, voting against it, saying the budget “simply didn’t measure up […]
Judge Refuses To Throw Out ‘Sheriff Joe’s’ Guilty Verdict Ruling
U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton issued an order Thursday shutting down requests by the sheriff’s attorneys to have the facts behind the conviction thrown out after the pardon. Bolton said in the order that Trump’s pardon was an “executive prerogative of mercy, not of judicial recordkeeping,” according to Politico. “The pardon undoubtedly spared Defendant from any punishment that […]
George Bush Slams Trump In Latest Speech
You might say George W. Bush wants to make America great again. In remarks Thursday, he criticized the kind of politics, sentiment and populism that led to President Trump’s rise and election — though he never named Trump explicitly. “Bigotry seems emboldened,” Bush said in New York at a forum put on by the George […]
North Korea Threatens United States With Unimaginable Nuclear Attack
North Korea is warning that the United States will face an “unimaginable” nuclear strike for conducting ongoing joint naval drills with the South Korean military on the Korean peninsula. “The U.S. is running amok by introducing under our nose the targets we have set as primary ones,” the state-controlled news agency KCNA warned Thursday, Newsweek reported. “The U.S. should expect that […]
White House Does Not Dispute Fallen Soldier Family’s Claims
Under pressure over President Donald Trump’s reported handling of a call with the widow of an Army sergeant killed in action, the White House on Wednesday did not dispute details that have emerged about Trump saying the soldier “knew what he was signing up for” when he joined the military. Trump reportedly said this to […]
Trump Gives His Administration A “10” For Puerto Rico Aid
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday gave his administration a “10” for its response to Puerto Rico’s hurricane devastation, despite the widespread lack of electricity and drinkable water across the storm-ravaged island. Asked by reporters how he would grade the federal government’s efforts after Hurricane Irma thrashed the island, Trump declared “I give ourselves […]
Family Of Fallen Soldier Says Trump Disrespected Them
The mother of an Army sergeant killed in Niger said Wednesday that President Donald Trump, in a call offering condolences, showed “disrespect” to the soldier’s loved ones as they drove to the airport to meet his body. Trump, engulfed in controversy over the appropriate way for presidents to show compassion for slain soldiers, strongly disputed […]
Teacher In Hot Water For Making Students Speak American
CLIFFSIDE PARK, N.J. — Students staged a walkout on Monday after a cellphone video appeared to show a New Jersey high school English teacher reprimanding three students for speaking Spanish and telling them to speak “American.” The teacher told the students that U.S. soldiers are “not fighting for your right to speak Spanish — they’re […]
Trump Warns McCain That “I Fight Back”
President Trump threatened Arizona Sen. John McCain, a former POW with a terminal brain cancer diagnosis, over his comments at an awards ceremony Monday night which were critical of U.S. leadership. Mr. Trump was asked whether he had heard McCain’s remarks. “People have to be careful because at some point I fight back,” Mr. Trump […]
Coordinated Taliban Attacks Across Afghanistan Kill 74
The Taliban unleashed a wave of attacks across Afghanistan on Tuesday, targeting police compounds and government facilities with suicide bombers in the country’s south, east and west, and killing at least 74 people, officials said. Among those killed in one of the attacks was a provincial police chief. Scores were also wounded, both policemen and […]
Trump Says He Hopes ‘Crooked” Hillary Runs In 2020
President Trump and Hillary Clinton are still going at it, and if Trump has his way, they’ll square off again in 2020. President Trump tweeted Monday that he hopes “Crooked” Hillary Clinton runs for president again, even as the former secretary of state was telling an Australian media outlet that former FBI Director James Comey […]