With the fight over health care in Congress brewing, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders took to the Senate floor Wednesday afternoon to argue against the Republican plan to repeal Obamacare. In the May 7, 2015, tweet, which came before Trump announced his presidential campaign, the real estate mogul bragged that he was the first potential GOP candidate to pledge no cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid — and that former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee had “copied” him.
Police have released video of a dramatic shootout between two officers and man who opened fire on them, leaving the officers wounded and the suspect dead. On April 23, police were called to the Arizona Walmart to remove 24-year-old Mitchell Oakley, who was allegedly trespassing on the property, but officers didn’t know Oakley had a gun. In the video recorded at 6:41 a.m., Officers Joshua Pueblo and Daniel Colwell approach Oakley inside a McDonalds in the store and Oakley stands on a chair and begins shooting at them.
The United States added Hamza bin Laden, son and would-be heir of the late global jihadist leader Osama bin Laden, to its terrorist blacklist on Thursday. Hamza, who is in his mid-twenties, has become active as an Al-Qaeda propagandist since his father's death at the hands of US special forces on May 2, 2011. According to letters found in the Navy SEAL raid on Osama's hideout in Pakistan, Hamza wrote to the Saudi-born Al-Qaeda leader asking to be trained to follow him.
Before Dylann Roof was arrested for killing nine black church members, he scribbled a note to his mother, apologizing for all the repercussions his actions would cause. Jurors who convicted Roof of hate crimes and other charges will decide whether he should be executed or face life in prison. Roof has pointed out that there was no dramatic confrontation that led him to begin hating blacks.
To say Faraday Future has gotten off to a rocky start over the past couple of years may be the understatement of the year, and it’s only January. The company debuted its FFZERO1 concept supercar amid a whirlwind of buzz at CES 2016, but the press quickly dismissed the car as vapor. A year full of turmoil with Faraday’s main financier, lawsuits filed by vendors alleging millions in unpaid bills, and numerous top-level executive departures cast further doubt on the company’s future.
By Elana Ringler YAVNE, Israel (Reuters) - After 15 years of development, an Israeli tech firm is optimistic it will finally get its 1,500 kg (1.5 tonne) passenger carrying drone off the ground and into the market by 2020. The Cormorant, billed as a flying car, is capable of transporting 500kg (around half a tonne) of weight and travelling at 185 km (115 miles) per hour. "Just imagine a dirty bomb in a city and chemical substance of something else and this vehicle can come in robotically, remotely piloted, come into a street and decontaminate an area," Urban Aeronautics founder and CEO Rafi Yoeli told Reuters.
Looking to challenge LG's OLED sets for TV color supremacy, Samsung at CES announced its 2017 lineup of QLED TVs, which boast much improved colors, brightness, and contrast than last year's models. Available later this year, the Q9, Q8, and Q7 models use Samsung's Quantum Dot technology to reproduce a range of colors rivaling that of LG. For 2017, Samsung has improved its Quantum Dot technology so that it can show 99 percent of the DCI P3 color space — an increase of 20 percent from last year.
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Taiwan has protested to Vietnam after the country deported four Taiwanese accused of fraud to its rival, China, alleging that this was done under pressure from Beijing. Countries including Malaysia, Cambodia and Kenya have recently deported Taiwanese suspects to China, in deference to Beijing's claim to sovereignty over the self-governing island. Taiwan has vigorously protested the deportations, saying it should be allowed to prosecute its own citizens.
When Donald Trump addressed revelers at the annual New Year’s Eve bar at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida on Saturday, he was standing next to Joe Cinque, a convicted felon with rumored Mafia ties. “Your taxes are coming down, regulations are coming off, we’re going to get rid of Obamacare,” Trump said as Cinque pumped his fists in the air. Cinque is the president and CEO of the American Academy of Hospitality Sciences, an organization that hands out Star Diamond awards to restaurants, hotels and businesses.
Chicago Police are investigating an apparent torture video found on social media showing a white man being taunted, battered and cut by a group of African-Americans who were smoking, drinking and laughing. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said Wednesday four people are being questioned but no charges were immediately filed. “Officers later became aware of a social media video depicting a battery of an adult male, which is believed to be the same individual [found wandering],” police said in a statement.
Jets with the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group backed a Turkish army operation near Al-Bab in Syria last week but did not use weapons, the Pentagon said Tuesday. "Last week, there was a request... when some Turkish forces came under fire for air support and there were flights conducted by the coalition at that time," said Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook. Turkish forces have been engaged for several weeks in deadly fighting against the Islamic State group to retake the city.
Keepers at ZSL London zoo began the mammoth task of counting the park’s more than 700 species using treats to entice some animals out for the annual stocktake. Information collected is then shared with other zoos around the world to help in the protection of endangered species.
A Louisiana duo arrested late Sunday were allegedly out to kidnap a man while live-streaming their exploits on Facebook. According to Baton Rouge police, Tony Green, 23, and Keeston Davis, 25, broadcasted themselves as they opened the front door of a home and unsuccessfully tried to pull a victim outside. "This incident was documented live and in progress on [Green's] Facebook page," an officer wrote in an arrest report obtained by The Advocate.
Leisure travel colossus Carnival Corporation is putting a spin on technology used at Disney World to turn cruise ships into what it bills as smart cities at sea. Carnival on Tuesday introduced an "Ocean Medallion" designed to tailor trips to individual passengers by learning their tastes and on-board habits, and even keeping track of roaming children. Capable of whispering wirelessly to a web of on-board sensors, the medallions are designed to help cruise operators anticipate guests' needs, making note of a favorite wine, say, and prompting suggestions as the journey progresses, according to Nytec, the US company behind the technology.
Samsung doesn’t bring any of its occasionally-combustible smartphones to CES, but the company is big enough that there’s still a whole bunch of new tech to gawk over. Samsung just took us through a whirlwind tour of some of its best new products, including a tiny cable, a big TV, and Chromebooks that you might actually want to buy. Also, a Samsung exec was worryingly enthusiastic about laundry for a solid 10 minutes on stage.
Luckily, the Student Loan Ranger is still here to help. If you have a question for the Student Loan Ranger, please reach out to us at studentloanranger@usnews.com. The federal government calculates this number, which helps determine eligibility for need-based financial aid, such as Pell Grants and subsidized Stafford loans.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A businessman from northern Haiti who has never held political office was certified as the official winner of the November presidential election Tuesday following a ruling by an electoral tribunal that found no evidence of large-scale voter fraud. The Provisional Electoral Council published final results showing that Jovenel Moise easily won a first-round victory with more than 55 percent of the votes, the same as the preliminary results that were announced in late November. Release of the results came hours after a special electoral tribunal dismissed allegations of massive fraud, announcing that it had found some irregularities in the Nov. 20 election but not enough to affect the outcome based on an analysis of 12 percent of the ballots.
By Susan Cornwell and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama exhorted fellow Democrats on Wednesday to preserve his legacy-defining healthcare law as Republicans moved ahead with their long-desired bid to scrap it in what Vice President-elect Mike Pence called the "first order of business" of Donald Trump's administration. The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate brushed aside unified opposition by Democrats and voted to open debate on a resolution setting in motion the Republican drive to repeal the 2010 Affordable Care Act, which has helped upwards of 20 million previously uninsured Americans obtain medical insurance.
The 115th Congress is back in session, and at least one thing looks the same as usual: 91 percent of its members identify as Christians. This proportion has basically remained constant for more than five decades, as long as this kind of data has been available, according to a new study from Pew Research Center. What has changed is the U.S. population: Only 71 percent of American adults identify as Christians.
Suspected Muslim rebels staged the Philippines' biggest jailbreak Wednesday when they stormed a dilapidated jail in the violence-plagued south of the country, freeing 158 inmates and killing a guard, authorities said. The attack added to a long history of daring jailbreaks in the southern Philippines, home to a decades-old Muslim separatist insurgency as well as extremist gangs that have recently declared allegiance to the Islamic State group. More than 100 armed men believed to have been led by a local Muslim guerrilla commander attacked the jail in Kidapawan city about 1:00am in what appeared to be a well-planned raid to free fellow rebels, jail authorities said.
It could take days before it is known why a Long Island Rail Road train crashed at the end of a platform as it pulled into a major transportation hub, injuring 100 people, federal transportation investigators said. The packed, rush-hour train crashed as it entered Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn on Wednesday morning, hurling passengers onto the floor and slamming them into each other. National Transportation Safety Board investigator Jim Southworth said it will take three to seven days to investigate the accident scene before they determine what caused it.
One of the Menendez brothers has spoken out for the first time in decades as a TV special revisits the notorious murder of their mother and father. Now, Lyle Menendez is speaking out from his prison cell for the first time in two decades. Read: Could a New California Law Bring a New Chapter in Menendez Brothers' Killings?
Multiple cat food companies have voluntarily recalled dozens of their products over concerns the pets could get sick from eating them. Certain cans of cat fold from 9Lives, EverPet and Special Kitty did not have the proper amount of thiamine, which is
A reported pause in global warming between 1998 and 2014 was false, according to US-British research published Wednesday that confirmed the findings of a controversial US study on ocean warming. Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of York, England, corroborated the results of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) research paper in 2015. The NOAA paper had shown ocean buoys now used to measure water temperatures tend to report slightly cooler temperatures than older ship-based systems.