Swimming is illegal during a double flag warning on the coast, and officials advise residents to play it safe. "Within this general trend, a surprising result is that we found more [increase in] urban development in the flood zones in the inland counties than in coastal areas", says Nina Lam, a professor of environmental studies at Louisiana State ...
Ryan, Pelosi's opponent last fall, said that Pelosi's continued role as the GOP's favorite bogeyman makes it "a heck of a lot harder" for Democrats as they try to notch victories in the GOP-friendly districts they will need to win next year.
The Senate health care plan eliminates the individual mandate forcing people to buy health insurance as well as some ACA taxes. "And we'll see if we can take care of that", Mr Trump said , calling the group of conservative senators "four very good people".
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell , R-Ky., has said he's willing to alter the measure to attract support, and next week promises plenty of back-room bargaining as he tries pushing a final package through his chamber. Shortly after the Senate bill was released on Thursday, the challenges that lie ahead in the Senate came into view. With a 52...
Heller is the only Republican senator up for re-election in 2018 in a state that Trump lost, making him one of the most vulnerable Republicans in the next election. Senate President pro Tem Kevin de Leόn, D-Los Angeles, also had a visceral reaction. Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) recently said, before he knew about his party's plans to gut Medicaid,...
GOP Senate leaders were eager for a seal of approval from Trump, who had urged them to produce a bill more "generous" than the House's. "I am very supportive of the Senate #HealthcareBill", Mr Trump tweeted , seeking to give the effort a boost.
Rahm Emanuel - but he left the House to become Obama's chief of staff and later to run for mayor of Chicago. People were cheering, dancing and drinking long into the night. While Ossoff was running in a congressional district traditionally dominated by Republicans, Jon Ossoff lost because he was inauthentically tried to appeal to the right and t...
North Korea said today the death of Mr Warmbier, who was kept prisoner in the hermit state since last January, was "a mystery to us as well" . "The fact that Warmbier died suddenly in less than a week just after his return to the U.S. Mr Warmbier's death heightened tensions between the two countries, already at loggerheads over the North's nucl...
No it's true. And [Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is] a very rich person in charge of commerce. Referring to Gary Cohn, his chief economic adviser, Trump said: "This is the president of Goldman Sachs ". "They're representing the country", he insisted. "I think there's a lot of drama right now in the presidency", Atchison said. You know rea...
The Pentagon ended its ban on transgender people being able to serve openly in the United States military in 2016, but Carter said at the time that the process would occur in stages in a timetable comparable to the lifting of "don't ask, don't tell", which had banned openly gay, lesbian and bisexual people from serving in the military.
Now the remnants of Tropical Storm Cindy are expected to roll into the region this afternoon and evening with the greatest threat of heavy rain and potential flooding in areas that were ravaged by flood waters a year ago today. Five people in the town of 1,500 died. Here is a more detailed weekend weather outlook. Authorities said they will...
Despite the backlash, The Public Theater told The Associated Press that it stands "completely behind" the play, adding, "Such discussion is exactly the goal of our civically engaged theater; this discourse is the basis of a healthy democracy".
The shooting in August touched off two days of protests and violence on this city's north side. The case stands out for a few reasons, mainly this. The officer is also African-American. Upon hearing the jury's decision, Smith's family gasped and burst into tears. "A short time later, those facts and those circumstances changed and it was cert...
Prior to Georgia and South Carolina, Democrats fell in special races in Kansas in April and Montana in May. "I feel very confident about the support that I have in my caucus", Pelosi said at a press conference in the Capitol after Republicans featured her in nearly every ad attacking Democrat Jon Ossoff in the Georgia congressional race whi...
More than 2500 family, friends and well-wishers gathered for the funeral of Otto Warmbier , the U.S. student who died after falling into a coma while in prison in North Korea . The United States, South Korea and others often accuse North Korea of using foreign detainees to wrest diplomatic concessions. Sentenced to hard labour early a year ago ...
Brown, 18, was black and unarmed when he was fatally shot by white officer Darren Wilson on August 9, 2014. Michael Brown was fatally shot by a white police officer almost three years ago in Ferguson, Missouri, setting off months of protests.
Hometrack believes that there is the potential for material upside in house prices outside the south of England. Home prices in London have nearly doubled since 2009 as low mortgage rates allowed buyers to borrow more and the supply of new stock failed to meet demand.
So if and when the Senate votes on its version of the American Health Care Act, Republicans should have no illusions about how the public feels about what they are doing. Trump, in an interview with Fox News that aired on Friday morning, called the group of conservative lawmakers "four very good people". "They'd like to get certain changes".
Wisconsin's attorney general plans to ask the full 7th Circuit Court of Appeals or the U.S. Supreme Court to review Thursday's 2-1 split decision from a three-judge appeals panel. Rovner also held that Dassey's mental capacity made him specially vulnerable to such manipulation, which might otherwise be Constitutional. Dassey's lawyers, Professors...
On Thursday, a three-judge panel on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago released a 2-1 opinion that Dassey's confession to helping his uncle Steven Avery kill Halbach on Halloween 2005 was involuntary. But the documentary filmmakers cast doubt on the legal process used to convict Dassey and Avery . Speaking on WTMJ-AM Friday, Brad S...