Month: October 2019

NEW CASTLE COUNTY, Del. — Three teens are dead, a 6-year-old boy is missing and a 16-year-old girl is being called the sole survivor after a vehicle crashed into a Delaware canal the Sunday morning, Delaware State Police said. At about 9:40 a.m., the vehicle, a Chevy HHR, went into the water on the south side…

WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Tuesday he would like to invite Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, to discuss what he learned during his controversial investigation into Ukraine, former Vice President Joe Biden and Biden’s son Hunter.  Trump and Giuliani alleged that Biden used his role as vice president to oust a Ukrainian…

(Bloomberg) — One of Donald Trump’s biggest defenders in Congress rebuked the president’s decision to step aside from Kurdish allies in Syria while Turkey’s military advances, saying it would result in the re-emergence of ISIS. “ISIS is not defeated, my friend. The biggest lie being told by the administration is that ISIS is defeated,” Senator…

With the Syrian Democratic Forces preparing for attacks by Turkish troops in northern Syria, fighters are being moved to the border, leaving a limited number of guards to keep watch over thousands of Islamic State prisoners, a commander told NBC News. The Syrian Democratic Forces are the United States’ Kurdish allies in the region, and…

Senator Kamala Harris on Monday released a paid family leave proposal that is significantly more generous than those embraced by the rest of the Democratic presidential field. As she campaigns in Iowa, the California Democrat detailed her plan to give workers up to six months of taxpayer-funded paid family and medical leave, twice the length…

Boris Johnson today appealed to a US diplomat’s wife to return to Britain after she was allegedly involved in a car crash in which a teenage motorcyclist died. The Prime Minister also vowed to raise the case with Donald Trump if she does not come back. Mr Johnson intervened in the growing trans-Atlantic row over…

London (AFP) – Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged the United States on Monday to reconsider granting immunity to a diplomat’s wife suspected of killing a teenager in a British road crash. Johnson said he was prepared to intervene with President Donald Trump to secure the woman’s return to Britain to face investigation over the…

The U.S. attorney overseeing the case against “Full House” actor Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli issued a very public warning to the couple about the college bribery scandal.  Andrew Lelling, the U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts, indicated that their best chance for a lighter sentence would be to plead guilty now.    “I don’t think…

REUTERS/Brian Snyder Andrew Lelling, the US attorney for the District of Massachusetts, told Boston station WCVB  that Lori Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, should plead guilty in the college admissions scandal.  Loughlin and Giannulli are accused of paying the college admission scandal’s ringleader, William “Rick” Singer, $500,000 to guarantee their daughters’ admissions to the…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A left-wing party leader in Poland has rescued a 2-year-old boy and his father from a burning car, winning praise across the political spectrum days before a national election. The car collided with a truck and began to burn Monday evening in Tabor, south of Warsaw. Robert Biedron witnessed the crash…