Month: October 2019

It didn’t take long for President Trump to criticize Chicago during his first ever presidential visit to the city Monday. Trump, who was speaking at the annual gathering of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, bashed the Midwestern metropolis and the superintendent of its police department, Eddie Johnson. Despite hosting the event, Johnson did not attend Trump’s speech because he said he…

Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson scoffed Monday at President Donald Trump’s repeated tale about meeting a “powerful, strong-looking” cop on a motorcycle in Chicago who could clean up the city’s crime in a single day. Trump claimed that he met the officer three years ago and sent his name to Chicago officials. But they have no idea what he’s talking about, the…

President Trump used his first trip to Chicago as president to publicly disparage the city and its police chief, who had boycotted his appearance. “It’s embarrassing to us as a nation, all over the world they’re talking about Chicago,” Trump said Monday in a speech at the International Association of Chiefs of Police Annual Conference.…

A 6.6-magnitude quake struck the southern Philippines Tuesday, authorities said, causing injuries and damaging buildings in a region still reeling from a previous deadly tremor. Terrified locals fled into the streets after the shallow quake, which the US Geological Survey said hit the island of Mindanao as schools and offices opened for the day. USGS…

(Bloomberg) — Vietnamese customs discovered and seized about $4.3 billion of Chinese aluminum falsely labeled “Made-in-Vietnam” before being shipped mostly to the U.S., the Dan Tri news website reported, citing Nguyen Van Can, head of the General Department of Vietnam Customs. The aluminum was imported from China by a company based in the southern province…

Authorities in the Mexican capital are carrying out DNA tests on 42 human skulls and other remains discovered during a raid on a drug trafficking bolthole in the inner-city neighbourhood of Tepito. Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum told reporters that the results will be checked against the lists of missing people both in the capital and across…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico City authorities are running DNA tests to determine the identity and origin of 42 human skulls found at an altar in a drug gang hideout. The mound of skulls was piled around what appeared to be an altar of an Afro-Caribbean religion. Mexico City prosecutors said Monday that another 40…

JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images NRA leaders ripped into NRATV content as “distasteful and racist” in a new court filing linked to a lawsuit with the ad firm that created the now-defunct TV station.  “One particularly damaging segment featured children’s cartoon characters adorned in Ku Klux Klan hoods,” the court filing stated.  “Tellingly, when NRATV finally shut…

By Prak Chan Thul PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Cambodian police said they had questioned at least 20 people but made no arrests as they continued the search for a 21-year-old British woman who went missing last week, as her brother urged renewed efforts to try to find her. Divers, land-based teams and police drones have…

Koh Rong (Cambodia) (AFP) – Six Cambodians have been held for questioning in connection with the disappearance of a 21-year-old British woman who went missing on an island popular with backpackers, as police on Tuesday said hopes were fading of finding her alive. Nearly 200 army, navy and police personnel scoured Koh Rong island in…