Trump says he'll release policy specifics soon
BIRCH RUN, Mich. (AP) — Donald Trump says his campaign is prepared to lay out specific policy plans. He’s just not ready yet.
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Sen. Claire McCaskill on Ferguson, Iran, Trump
Katie Couric sits down for an interview with Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO), who remains undecided about the president’s Iran Deal…
Donald Trump: 'I whine until I win'
Police, protesters face off again in Ferguson
Police arrested nearly two dozen people during another night of demonstrations.
Sanders lets civil rights activists open LA campaign event
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders vowed that he would fight harder than any other presidential candidate to end institutional racism in front of a packed Los Angeles arena, two days after …
Officials downstream from Colorado mine spill demand answers
Local officials in towns downstream from where millions of gallons of mine waste spilled into a southwest Colorado river are demanding answers about possible long-term threats to the water supply. Colorado …
Protests return to Ferguson streets, state of emergency declared
By Carey Gillam and Scott Malone FERGUSON, Mo. (Reuters) – Riot police clashed early on Tuesday with protesters in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri marking the anniversary of the police shooting of an unarmed black teen whose death sparked a national outcry over strained race relations. About 200 demonstrators, some waving flags, beating drums, and shouting anti-police slogans, marched along a street that was a flashpoint of riots that erupted
Virginia ex-governor's conviction appeal denied by U.S. court
A U.S. appeals court denied former Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell’s appeal of his 2014 corruption conviction on Tuesday, setting the stage for an appeal to the Supreme Court. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in a brief opinion that no judge had voted for a rehearing of McDonnell’s appeal of his 11 convictions. A three-judge panel of the court in July had upheld McDonnell’s conviction for taking $177,000
More than 30 people arrested in Arkansas drug, gun case
More than 30 people in northeast Arkansas have been arrested on firearms and drug charges in a major federal investigation, a U.S. Attorney’s office said on Tuesday. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Arkansas scheduled a news conference later in the day to discuss the unsealing of 40 federal indictments charging 70 defendants with drug and gun crimes in the case, it said in a statement.
Google to become Alphabet as firm shakes up operating structure
Investors have been after Google CEO Larry Page for years to cut back on the pie-in-the-sky bets that many see as a costly distraction to the company’s highly profitable core search and Internet advertising businesses.