After decades in the spotlight supporting her parents’ political endeavors, Chelsea Clinton is speaking out on her own. While her parents spend their time under the radar, hiking and seeing Broadway shows, Chelsea has trained her fire on President Trump’s administration, using a method favored by the president himself: frequent, pointed tweets. Barron Trump deserves the chance every child does-to be a kid.
Members of conservation groups gathered on Jan. 30 in Helena, Mont., to protest a plan to transfer public lands to the states or sell them off to private individuals or companies. Following backlash from conservationists across the Western states, Rep. Jason Chaffetz announced that he is pulling a bill that would have sold off more than 3 million acres of federal land. “I’m a proud gun owner, hunter and love our public lands.
The officers were found in separate rescue operations by 5:30 a.m. on Thursday from the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in the town of Smyrna, Delaware Department of Correction Commissioner Perry Phelps told a news conference. "Our priority now will be to determine what happened and how this happened ... and we will make whatever changes are necessary to ensure nothing like it ever happens again," Carney said.
An 80-year-old man is accused of punching a police officer who stopped him from approaching kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart with a knife at a book-signing event in Indiana. Smart — who was 14 in 2002 when she was snatched from her bedroom in Salt Lake City and held for nine months — had been speaking about overcoming adversity at Indiana State University on Wednesday when the incident occurred. Hudson then concealed the knife and started to walk up a line of about 100 people who were waiting to meet Smart and have books signed, Newport said.
The chief executive of Phillips 66 said on Friday he expects the Dakota Access Pipeline to start operations in the second quarter, even though the project - which has sparked protests by Native Americans and environmentalists - is still in the midst of legal battles and a U.S. regulatory review. Phillips 66 has a 25 percent stake in the $3.8 billion project led by Energy Transfer Partners LP . Phillips 66's CEO, Greg Garland, made the comments on a conference call with analysts to discuss quarterly earnings.
Milo Yiannopoulos, the conservative provocateur and Breitbart News columnist, claims he is going to attend the White House press briefing on Friday. “I’ll be there,” Yiannopoulos said in an email to Yahoo News. Yiannopoulos said he didn’t know whether he would get to ask White House press secretary Sean Spicer a question at the briefing.
A report in Defense News states China is making steady progress on its second aircraft carrier, the Shandong. Under construction near Shanghai, Shandong is set to be China's first domestically produced aircraft carrier and the first to be combat-ready. Previously known as Type 001A, the carrier's official name was recently announced on Shandong province television and radio.
A person close to the investigation tells The Associated Press that French prosecutors have extended their embezzlement probe of presidential candidate Francois Fillon to cover two of his children. The person said the probe is now also looking at Fillon's daughter, Marie, and son, Charles. The Canard Enchaine weekly has reported that they were hired by Fillon as parliamentary aides when he was a French senator in 2005-2007, earning 84,000 euros ($91,000) in total.
Italian photographer Alessio Putzu spent two years touring the British coastline to capture stunning images of the seaside, from Cornwall to the Highlands, and Northumbria to the Mumbles, in Wales. (Caters News)See more news-related photo galleries and
Ann Voskamp has been a successful Christian author for the past decade, with a largely conservative evangelical audience. “I just think we’re called as the church right now to stand up and to be on the right side of history that says, ‘We will risk, we will open the doors for children who are starving,’” Voskamp said, holding a sign and standing outside the Washington Hilton as Trump spoke to religious leaders inside. Voskamp and her friend Vickie Reddy co-founded a group called We Welcome Refugees after a trip to Iraq in 2015.
The US Treasury tweaked its sweeping sanctions on Russia's FSB intelligence agency Thursday to make sure US traders in Russia can obtain FSB-required import permits for certain US technology goods. The White House quickly denied reports that the move constituted an "easing" of pressure on Russia by the new administration of President Donald Trump. "I haven't eased anything," Trump said during a meeting with executives of motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson.
When former NFL player Joe McKnight was tragically gunned down in December in an apparent road rage incident, there seemed to be more questions than answers. Now, two months later, the man who admitted to shooting McKnight is facing a murder charge for pulling the trigger. Ronald Gasser Jr., 54, was initially charged with manslaughter for shooting McKnight three times, but the charge is now second-degree murder after a grand jury indicted Gasser Thursday.
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Documents unsealed in federal court reveal new details about the mental health of convicted Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof, including a psychiatrist's finding that his disorders make it hard for him to focus, interact with others or express emotion. Roof's psychiatric records remain sealed, as do the transcripts from two competency hearings which were closed to the public over objections by media organizations including The Associated Press.
Two hours before far-right Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos was to give a speech at the student union, protesters tossed metal barricades and rocks through the building's windows and set a light generator on fire near the entrance, footage from news outlets showed. Police ordered protesters to disperse as the school put the campus on lockdown. Protesters also tossed bricks and fireworks at police in riot gear who fired rubber pellets back at the crowd, according to SFGate.com, a news outlet in San Francisco.
A squirrel was spotted hopping around, blinded, outside the Hope Center for Kids in Omaha, Nebraska, Tuesday after it somehow got its head stuck under a chewed out plastic cereal bowl. After staff members of the non-profit noticed the critter stumbling around in the middle of a street, team member Joey Wolfe went out to try to rescue it. Armed with just a broom, Wolfe can be seen in a video posted to Facebook nudging the cup, while simultaneously jumping out of the squirrel's way.
Ford’s F-150 Raptor has been a hot commodity in China for years though it’s never officially been sold there, so most that have made it over arrived as gray imports. That’s no longer the case as Ford is now selling the Raptor in its Chinese showrooms and this week shipped the first examples over. It marks the first time the automaker has shipped an F-Series pickup built in the United States to China.
Awards in the telecom industry are kind of like company logos — everyone’s got them and they all think theirs is the best of the lot. Case in point: AT&T just posted a lengthy self-congratulatory rant about its newly won J.D. Power award, which it says is clearly more important than any other award that a certain other mobile company may have recently received. The award, which indicates the top ranking in J.D. Power’s “2017 U.S. Wireless Customer Care Full-Service Performance Study, Volume 1,” is what AT&T insists is the “gold standard” because it comes from J.D. Power.
Plenty of people got stuck in the middle of the new travel and immigration restrictions in the United States, and now even former world leaders are caught in the mix. On Thursday, former Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik was pulled aside and questioned for an hour at Washington Dulles airport. Bondevik, returning home from the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, said the move wasn’t a direct cause of Trump’s recent controversial immigration restrictions.
An Afghan woman whose husband cut off her ears said Thursday she was seeking donations for treatment abroad, as activists condemned the latest gruesome incident to highlight the abuse of women in the conservative country. Zarina, 23, was still hospitalised in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif Thursday, her mutilated ears bandaged and her face swollen. The husband punched his young wife several times then grabbed a sharp knife and sliced both her ears before disappearing.
Steve Kerr, Gregg Popovich, and Stan Van Gundy – have become three of the sports world’s leading commenters on race and politics. Ever since the rise of Donald Trump, the trio have decided not to #StickToSports, and instead have spoken poignantly on current events. On Thursday, Popovich was asked about what Black History Month means to him.
Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, accused of running one of the world's biggest drug empires, glimpsed his glamorous young wife in court Friday despite being denied marital visits behind bars. The 59-year-old defendant, one of the world's most notorious criminals who escaped twice from prison in Mexico, has been held in solitary confinement in New York since being extradited to the United States on January 19. Emma Coronel, a 27-year-old former beauty queen and mother of Guzman's twins, attended his second court hearing in Brooklyn on Friday, dressed in a black coat with a yellow scarf knotted around her neck.
A Philippine governor says more than 100 workers, including three Japanese, have been injured and at least three are missing in a fire that hit a huge factory south of Manila and sent thousands of employees scampering to safety. Governor Jesus Crispin Remulla said Thursday the fire at the House Technology Industries is under control but has not been fully extinguished nearly 18 hours after it started in General Trias town in Cavite province. Remulla says about 10 of the injured are in critical condition, adding some employees jumped from windows to escape the fire at the three-story building where pre-fabricated house parts are manufactured for export to Japan.
By Karen Lema and Martin Petty MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Thursday he would issue an executive order for military support in his fight against illicit drugs, which he said was a national security threat and he would "kill more" people if he had to. The mercurial leader ruled out declaring martial law and said he did not need extra powers, but wanted to bring the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) into his drugs war because he could no longer trust law enforcement agencies. Duterte has placed an anti-drugs agency in charge of the campaign and has said he wants the armed forces to play a supportive role.
Romanian riot police detain a man, face covered in blood, after minor clashes erupted during a protest in Bucharest, Romania; a detail of designs painted onto a buffalo during the Buffalo Painting Festival (Tich Dien) in Hà Nam Province, Vietnam; waves