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04/25/2018 Tri-City Herald Local News
Prosser's city administrator has been placed on paid leave. The Tri-City Herald reports that it's unclear why David Stockdale was placed on leave Tuesday night. Howard Saxton, the city's contracted … Click to Continue »
04/25/2018 Tri-City Herald Local News
The 7,500th environmentally friendly vehicle has been purchased in Washington state, ending the state's tax exemption program for clean-alternative fuel, electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles. The Olympian reported Tuesday that … Click to Continue »
04/25/2018 Tri-City Herald Local News
A man once sworn to protect the public from crime was accused Wednesday of living a double life terrorizing suburban neighborhoods at night, becoming one of California's most feared serial … Click to Continue »
04/25/2018 Tri-City Herald Local News
A Maui police officer has filed a lawsuit against the department claiming it has no psychologists to help police with mental health issues and has a pattern of retaliation, forcing … Click to Continue »
04/25/2018 Tri-City Herald Local News
Deutsche Bank reports that its profit fell to 120 million euros ($146 million) in the first quarter as exchange rates and lower revenues at its investment bank weighed on profits. … Click to Continue »
04/25/2018 Tri-City Herald Local News
An Alaska Native corporation will soon provide support services for the U.S. Navy in Guantanamo Bay, on the island of Cuba. CoastAlaska News reports that Tlingit Haida Tribal Business Corp. … Click to Continue »
04/25/2018 Tri-City Herald Local News
The Latest on a serial killing and rape case in California (all times local): 10:20 p.m. The man charged with being the Golden State Killer, who killed a dozen people … Click to Continue »
04/25/2018 Reuters World News
BANGKOK/PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Thai immigration police have detained the leader of a Cambodian opposition group based in Denmark, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday, while a Cambodian official said the government was in discussion with Thailand on the man's extradition.
04/25/2018 Tri-City Herald Local News
An Australian nun whose missionary visa in the Philippines was revoked after the president complained about her joining opposition rallies says social advocacy and human rights are part of church … Click to Continue »
04/25/2018 Tri-City Herald Local News
Officials at an upstate New York college have confirmed that norovirus sickened over 50 students. Hamilton College said Wednesday that testing confirmed norovirus. The highly contagious bug causes diarrhea, nausea, … Click to Continue »
04/25/2018 Tri-City Herald Local News
A former Cleveland city councilman has been indicted on 26 misdemeanor charges for his votes on legislation awarding money to a design company that employed his wife. Joe Cimperman said … Click to Continue »
04/25/2018 Tri-City Herald Local News
The mayor of a New Jersey city has introduced an order that would make single-occupancy bathrooms gender neutral. Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla signed the order Wednesday at City Hall. The … Click to Continue »
04/25/2018 Tri-City Herald Local News
House lawmakers are set to vote on a bill allowing doctor-assisted suicide in Delaware. The legislation to be voted on Thursday allows an adult diagnosed with a terminal illness and … Click to Continue »
04/25/2018 Tri-City Herald Local News
Officials in an old mill town in Maine hope a new municipal position will help boost their local economy. WABI-TV reports Lincoln officials have proposed an economic development director. Town … Click to Continue »
04/25/2018 Tri-City Herald Local News
Police in New Hampshire are warning residents about possible rabid raccoons. Brentwood police tell WMUR-TV residents have experienced encounters with raccoons that were likely rabid. Police say residents should stay … Click to Continue »
04/25/2018 Tri-City Herald Local News
Police have identified the driver killed in a two-vehicle highway crash in Derby. Investigators say 36-year-old Christopher Etes, of Sandy Hook, crashed into a box truck on Route 34 early … Click to Continue »
04/25/2018 Tri-City Herald Local News
A police dog recovering from wounds suffered in a shooting that killed his handler has stopped by his Massachusetts police department for a visit. The Yarmouth Police Department posted pictures … Click to Continue »
04/25/2018 Tri-City Herald Local News
The Vermont House has failed to override Republican Gov. Phil Scott's veto of a bill that would give the state more power to regulate children's products containing unsafe chemicals. The … Click to Continue »
04/25/2018 Tri-City Herald Local News
A Mississippi delta city is being asked to declare a state of emergency after a sewer line has separated. The Greenwood Commonwealth reports that a 24-inch (61-centimeter) underground sewer line … Click to Continue »
04/25/2018 Tri-City Herald Local News
A Kentucky jury has awarded two former coal miners who filed a civil lawsuit claiming defective dust masks led to their debilitating black-lung disease $67.5 million in damages. The Lexington … Click to Continue »
04/25/2018 Reuters World News
TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - Hundreds of Central American migrants from a caravan through Mexico reunited in Tijuana on Wednesday and planned to cross into the United States together this weekend, in defiance of threats by President Donald Trump to repel them.
04/25/2018 Tri-City Herald Local News
Kentucky State Police are teaming with federal drug enforcement officials to urge people to remove potentially dangerous medicines from their homes and dispose of them safely. State police say collection … Click to Continue »
04/25/2018 USA Today - Nation
A new technique that relies on genetics is revolutionizing food poisoning investigation and identifying common causes in scattered and seemingly unrelated illnesses. (April 26)
04/25/2018 Reuters Top News
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence experts are trying to build a profile of Kim Jong Un to give President Donald Trump a competitive edge in one of the most consequential summits since the Cold War, but they face a huge challenge – figuring out a secretive North Korean ruler few people know much about.
04/25/2018 Reuters World News
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence experts are trying to build a profile of Kim Jong Un to give President Donald Trump a competitive edge in one of the most consequential summits since the Cold War, but they face a huge challenge – figuring out a secretive North Korean ruler few people know much about.
04/25/2018 New York Times Top News
The West is not in a new Cold War. It’s an old-fashioned fight with China and Russia for power and influence.
04/25/2018 Reuters World News
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Thirteen children were killed on Thursday when a school van collided with a train at an unmanned railway crossing in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, a police official said.
04/25/2018 USA Today - Nation
Highlights of this day in history: The Chernobyl nuclear accident; John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln's assassin, killed; Guernica bombed in the Spanish Civil War; Vermont enacts same-sex civil unions; TV star Lucille Ball dies. (April 26)
04/25/2018 New York Times Top News
Here’s what you need to know to start your day.
04/25/2018 Reuters World News
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Moon Jae-in will greet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Friday as the latter crosses a military demarcation line to enter the South for the first summit between the two sides in more than a decade, South Korea said.
04/25/2018 New York Times Top News
Three years of fighting ended when North Korea, China and the United States reached an armistice in 1953. But no formal peace treaty was ever brokered.
04/25/2018 Reuters Top News
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority appeared poised to hand President Donald Trump a huge legal victory, signaling on Wednesday it was likely to uphold his contentious travel ban targeting several Muslim-majority countries.
04/25/2018 USA Today - Nation
Parents are trading viewpoints on the teacher walkout, but they also must juggle practical matters such as who will watch the kids.
04/25/2018 New York Times Top News
An engineer is the latest Hamas figure to be targeted abroad by Israel’s Mossad spy agency, officials say, as another conspiracy plays out in Kuala Lumpur.
04/25/2018 Reuters Top News
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's physician Ronny Jackson, nominated to head the Veterans Affairs Department, met with White House officials on Wednesday night following a new round of allegations about questionable drug prescriptions and on-the-job drunkenness, a source familiar with the situation told Reuters.
04/25/2018 New York Times Top News
The author devoted years to identifying the Golden State Killer, but she didn’t live to see the arrest of a suspect, or her book about the cold case published.
04/25/2018 New York Times Top News
The administration is fine with taking children away from their parents.
04/25/2018 New York Times Top News
The young undocumented immigrants have seen their hopes alternately elevated and dashed, sometimes in a single week.
04/25/2018 Reuters Top News
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Wednesday that good progress has been made at the NAFTA trade talks on the key issue of auto rules, though the threat of proposed U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs coming into force next week clouded the mood.
04/25/2018 Reuters World News
WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron called on the United States on Wednesday not to abandon the Iran nuclear deal as Western envoys said Britain, France and Germany were nearing a package that seeks to persuade U.S. President Donald Trump to save the pact.
04/25/2018 Reuters Top News
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - An elderly former policeman has been arrested and charged with eight murders attributed to the Golden State Killer, a serial criminal responsible for dozens of rapes and slayings that terrorized parts of California during the 1970s and 1980s, authorities said on Wednesday.
04/25/2018 New York Times Top News
Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, is the suspect in the case of a serial killer and rapist who terrorized communities in California in the 1970s and 1980s.
04/25/2018 New York Times Top News
Developments on the president’s travel ban and efforts to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program signal that he could find a new way to counter the legal resistance to his crackdown.
04/25/2018 USA Today - Nation
Computer repair shop releases audio of a phone conversation the suspect in the Waffle House shooting had with an employee about problems with his laptop. (April 25)
04/25/2018 USA Today - Nation
Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, has been arrested in Sacramento in a decades-long search for the Golden State Killer who terrorized California communities in the 1970s and 1980s with a series of murders and rapes.
04/25/2018 USA Today - Nation
Sacramento police believe they have caught the 'Golden State Killer'. The serial killer is blamed for 12 murders and 45 rapes over 30 years.
04/25/2018 USA Today - Nation
A Pennsylvania woman says 'I felt like I had a target on my back' after she said she and a group of black women golfers were run off a course when a white man claimed they were playing too slowly. (April 25)
04/25/2018 New York Times Top News
A community has formed around Chinese opera in Thailand, preserving one of the oldest dramatic art forms in the world.
04/25/2018 New York Times Top News
Accusations that Dr. Jackson, the president’s pick to lead the V.A., mishandled an opioid and wrecked a car while intoxicated surfaced in a document compiled by the Democratic staff of a Senate panel.
04/25/2018 New York Times Top News
But Ben Carson, the HUD secretary, said it was intended to start a conversation and should not be regarded as final.
04/25/2018 New York Times Top News
The world’s excited to know Mitt Romney’s still around.
04/25/2018 New York Times Top News
A day before a hearing in his federal investigation in New York, Mr. Cohen said he would not testify if called as a witness in the civi lawsuit in California.
04/25/2018 New York Times Top News
After an assault against an Israeli wearing a skullcap, hundreds of Berliners donned skullcaps in support. But Jews say discrimination remains a part of daily life.
04/25/2018 New York Times Top News
What a cast of characters this White House has managed to recruit.
04/25/2018 New York Times Top News
James Joseph DeAngelo, 72, was arrested at his home in Citrus Heights, Calif. The so-called Golden State Killer is thought to have killed 12 people, raped at least 45 people and burglarized more than 120 homes in the 1970s and ’80s.
04/25/2018 USA Today - Nation
USA Today's Richard Wolf reports from the Supreme Court after the case of Trump v. Hawaii oral arguments were heard before the court. It seems likely but not certain that the court will side with President Trump on the constitutionality of the ban.
04/25/2018 Reuters Top News
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A day after flaunting his friendship with Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron forcefully challenged many of the U.S. president's policies on Wednesday, urging the United States to engage more with the world, step up the fight against climate change and stay in the Iran nuclear pact for now.
04/25/2018 Reuters World News
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A day after flaunting his friendship with Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron forcefully challenged many of the U.S. president's policies on Wednesday, urging the United States to engage more with the world, step up the fight against climate change and stay in the Iran nuclear pact for now.
04/25/2018 USA Today - Nation
LGBT advocacy group PFLAG rescinded MSNBC host Joy Reid’s award after old homophobic blog posts resurfaced, multiple news outlets report. Veuer's Sam Berman has the full story.
04/25/2018 USA Today - Nation
The Federal Air Marshal service is under a government investigation, The New York Times reported. Veuer's Sam Berman has the full story.
04/25/2018 USA Today - Nation
Former White House Press Secretary, Sean Spicer shared details about the first lady during the event. Rough cut (no reporter narration)
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04/25/2018 USA Today - Nation
Officers involved in a dispute with an irate Port Authority official were polite and professional and are getting compliments from around the nation.
04/25/2018 USA Today - Nation
A Delaware woman fatally shot a woman she believed was her husband’s mistress before turning the gun on herself in what police say was a murder-suicide, PEOPLE confirms
04/25/2018 New York Times Top News
The former White House press secretary made an appearance to promote the Madame Tussauds version of the first lady. He has a book coming out in July.
04/25/2018 USA Today - Nation
A chilling Facebook message posted before a van plowed into a crowded Toronto sidewalk has raised the possibility the suspect in the attack nursed grudges against women. (April 25)
04/25/2018 USA Today - Nation
04/25/2018 USA Today - Nation
Cakes are a great gift for birthdays, welcome-home parties, and after getting tased.. Apparently. Buzz60's Sam Berman has the full story.
04/25/2018 New York Times Top News
By the end of the argument, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority seemed ready to defer to the president’s national security judgments and discount his campaign promises to impose a “Muslim ban.”
04/25/2018 New York Times Top News
The president and the rapper share a history of unpredictable behavior — and a delight in dividing the public.
04/25/2018 Reuters World News
TORONTO (Reuters) - The van that killed 10 in Toronto on Monday plowed through the heart of a vibrant Korean community in Canada's largest city, barreling past a cluster of Korean restaurants, a grocery store and a popular street vendor that sells red bean waffles shaped like fish and other Korean treats.
04/25/2018 Reuters Top News
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Questions about President Donald Trump and the investigation into whether his 2016 election campaign colluded with Russia overshadowed a Senate hearing on Wednesday with U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who has been a frequent target of Trump's wrath.
04/25/2018 USA Today - Nation
President Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen says he will assert his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination in the case brought by adult film star Stormy Daniels.
04/25/2018 USA Today - Nation
The university demanded that Spencer sign the university’s standard rental agreement and pay security and rental fees totaling over $11,000.
04/25/2018 USA Today - Nation
04/25/2018 USA Today - Nation
French President Emmanuel Macron visited George Washington University Wednesday for a town hall with students as his visit to the United States ended. (April 25)
04/25/2018 Reuters Top News
(Reuters) - U.S. oil major Chevron Corp has evacuated executives from Venezuela after two of its workers were imprisoned over a contract dispute with state-owned oil company PDVSA, according to four sources familiar with the matter.
04/25/2018 Reuters Top News
WASHINGTON/COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - The U.S. government is conducting an intensive examination of alleged atrocities against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims, documenting accusations of murder, rape, beatings and other possible offenses in an investigation that could be used to prosecute Myanmar's military for crimes against humanity, U.S. officials told Reuters.
04/25/2018 Reuters World News
WASHINGTON/COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - The U.S. government is conducting an intensive examination of alleged atrocities against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims, documenting accusations of murder, rape, beatings and other possible offenses in an investigation that could be used to prosecute Myanmar's military for crimes against humanity, U.S. officials told Reuters.
04/25/2018 Reuters Top News
YANGON (Reuters) - A judge in Myanmar will rule next week on whether a police captain was credible when he testified that two Reuters reporters were framed, after prosecutors argued on Wednesday that the officer should be declared an unreliable witness.
04/25/2018 Reuters World News
YANGON (Reuters) - A judge in Myanmar will rule next week on whether a police captain was credible when he testified that two Reuters reporters were framed, after prosecutors argued on Wednesday that the officer should be declared an unreliable witness.
