Month: November 2019

A white Fort Worth, Texas, police officer who shot and killed a black woman was criticized in a performance review last year for missing calls for help over the radio and sometimes having “tunnel vision.”  Aaron Dean, 35, faces a murder charge after police said he shot Atatiana Jefferson, 28, through the back window of her home around 2:30…

By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran has stepped up activity at its underground Fordow nuclear plant, state TV said on Wednesday, a move France said showed for the first time that Tehran explicitly planned to quit a deal with world powers that curbed its disputed nuclear work. In another development that could also aggravate…

VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran prepared to enrich uranium at its Fordow site on Wednesday, a move that is already a breach of its nuclear deal with major powers, but it did not carry out enrichment itself, a report by the U.N. nuclear watchdog indicated on Thursday. Iran announced on Thursday that it had resumed enrichment…

NEW YORK (AP) — A Long Island firm sold tens of millions of dollars in Chinese-made surveillance and other sensitive security equipment to customers, including the U.S. military to use on aircraft carriers, by falsely claiming the goods were manufactured in America, federal prosecutors said Thursday. The fraud that prosecutors allege by Aventura Technologies Inc.…

Donald Trump Jr. is throwing caution to the wind at someone else’s expense. Credible mainstream media sources have so far refused to speculate on the name of the whistleblower who launched President Trump’s Ukraine scandal, especially because the whistleblower’s lawyer has warned of possibly violent consequences for their yet-unnamed client. But that didn’t stop the president’s son from tweeting…

As the impeachment inquiry moves out from closed doors and into public view, Republicans have confirmed what they’ve been hinting at for weeks: that their campaign to undermine Democrats’ case to impeach President Trump will center on outing and interrogating the anonymous whistleblower whose account launched the inquiry in the first place. On Thursday, House…

Before his mother died in 2018 at the age of 84, Thomas Plante used some of his time on frequent visits to her home in Rhode Island to help get her estate in order. Early on, he found a life insurance policy that a relative had bought for her in 1933, when she was born.…

Days after a decorated Army lieutenant colonel offered damaging testimony about President Donald Trump’s conduct on a July phone call with Ukraine’s leader, Trump stood on the South Lawn and issued a vague but ominous warning. “You’ll be seeing very soon what comes out,” Trump said Saturday, referring to the officer, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman.…

Mother turns in 13-year-old double murder suspect after he escapes from North Carolina courthouse: Authorities originally appeared on abcnews.go.com Authorities have taken a 13-year-old double murder suspect back into custody a day after he escaped from police following a court appearance in North Carolina, officials said late Wednesday. The boy was turned in to U.S.…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City, is opening the door to a 2020 Democratic presidential campaign, warning that the current field of candidates is ill equipped to defeat President Donald Trump. Bloomberg, who initially ruled out a 2020 run, has not made a final decision on whether to…