Tag: National News
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Deal to end war will be signed Sunday, Trump says
DUBAI/WASHINGTON • President Donald Trump and mediator Pakistan said on Saturday an initial deal to end the war in the Middle East would be signed on Sunday, although Iran denied the signing would take place so soon. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said the two sides had agreed on a framework for a peace deal…
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Tim Cook will step down as Apple CEO and hand reins over to the iPhone maker’s hardware leader
Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down from the job that he inherited from the late Steve Jobs, ending a nearly 15-year reign that saw the company’s market value soar by more than $3.6 trillion during an iPhone-fueled era of prosperity. Cook, 65, will turn the CEO duties over to Apple’s head of hardware engineering,…
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Justice Department’s use of military lawyers against civilians in Minnesota courts put to the legal test
MINNEAPOLIS • After a wave of resignations decimated the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s office, the federal government has tried to offset the staffing crunch with a novel strategy: deploying military lawyers to temporarily serve as assistant prosecutors. That method now faces a legal test over whether these lawyers can prosecute civilians in court cases that have…
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Utah woman, author of book on grief after husband’s death, found guilty of murdering him
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — A Utah woman who wrote a children’s book about coping with grief after her husband’s death was convicted Monday of aggravated murder in his death by poisoning him with fentanyl. Prosecutors say Kouri Richins slipped five times the lethal dose of the synthetic opioid into a cocktail that Eric Richins…
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Minneapolis grapples with lingering trauma after ICE surge
Few federal agents are seen on the streets of Minneapolis these days. While many of the city’s residents still wear red whistles around their necks, used to sound an alert if they spot U.S. immigration agents, there has been little need to raise the alarm lately. Although parents dutifully patrol the perimeters of school grounds…
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Raucous bird tornado touches down as snow geese make flight to Arctic
KLEINFELTERSVILLE, Pa. — A few dozen birdwatchers gathered in the predawn darkness to wait for the moment when thousands of migrating snow geese stopped honking and preening to suddenly take flight from a Pennsylvania reservoir. The mesmerizing display, about an hour after sunrise, was over almost as soon as it began. The birds circled a…
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What happened to that “one nation”, “indivisible”?| Eric Sondermann
Remember when the nation would pull together in times of tragedy? Flash back to how we united in grief when the crew of the space shuttle Challenger met their sudden demise. Think of how we came together in both tears and resolve when America was attacked using hijacked domestic aircraft 24 years ago this month.…