Month: October 2019

An American F-16 fighter jet crashed Tuesday near the city of Trier in western Germany, the German air force told AFP, with the pilot surviving after using the ejector seat. After multiple emergency calls around 3:15 pm local time, emergency services reached the scene near the village of Zemmer, police said in a statement. The airman was taken…

WASHINGTON — The White House counsel, Pat Cipollone, sent a letter Tuesday afternoon to House Democrats calling the impeachment inquiry into President Trump “constitutionally invalid” and indicating that the White House would not cooperate with the congressional committees pursuing it. “President Trump and his administration cannot participate in your unconstitutional inquiry,” the letter said. The…

Hours after announcing his decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria — provoking alarm and outrage among foreign policy experts, Republican officials and right-wing commentators who warn it could empower ISIS in the region — President Trump on Monday defended the move as an expression of his “great and unmatched wisdom.” He coupled it with a warning…

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff blasted President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for blocking Gordon Sondland, U.S. ambassador to the European Union and a central player in the Ukraine controversy, from testifying Tuesday in the ongoing impeachment inquiry into the president. Schiff told reporters that Sondland had turned text messages or emails “deeply relevant”…

White House official told whistleblower Trump Ukraine call was ‘frightening’ originally appeared on abcnews.go.com A White House official listening to President Donald Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukraine’s president described the call as “crazy” and “frightening” and was “visibly shaken,” according to notes taken by the intelligence official who filed a formal whistleblower complaint…

As the standoff intensified Tuesday between House Democrats and President Trump over evidence sought for the impeachment inquiry, attention turned to a crucial phone call between Trump and Gordon Sondland, U.S. ambassador to the European Union, about the president’s efforts to coerce Ukraine into investigating former Vice President Joe Biden. Two news organizations have now…

The 360 shows you diverse perspectives on the day’s top stories. What’s happening: Drug overdoses are a major public health crisis in the United States. More than 70,000 people in the U.S. died of drug overdoses in 2017, with most of those deaths related to opioids. In response to the crisis, a number of cities have considered…

‘Cannot be expected to participate in’ impeachment inquiry: White House to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi originally appeared on abcnews.go.com The White House sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday calling into question what it referred to as “points of irregularity in the investigation.” In the letter, attorneys for the White House write…

Share 10th Oct 2019 You could argue that all of beauty is about filtering reality. That’s definitely what Max Factor was thinking with his Pan Stik foundation all those years ago. Blurring, veiling, diffusing — they’re still words that are the mainstay of the beauty world. The phrase ‘complexion enhancing’ has become a category of…

Share 10th Oct 2019 on’t mention the ‘m’ word. At least to anyone who lived through the 70s and in a certain type of suburbia, one that was coloured by none other than mission brown. It is no accident, however, that this shade coloured everything from the walls, to the slub curtains and sunken lounges…