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Baltimore engineers begin clearing bridge wreckage to reopen channel
The cargo ship Dali sits in the water after running into and collapsing the Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 26, 2024 in Baltimore, Maryland. Kevin Dietsch | Getty ImagesEngineers in Maryland on Saturday began lifting a piece of Francis Scott Key Bridge out of the waterway in Baltimore, the first step in a long process …
Russia, Ukraine agree ceasefire to let people leave Mariupol, Volnovakha
A view shows a residential building, which locals said was damaged by recent shelling, in Mariupol, Ukraine February 26, 2022. Nikolay Ryabchenko | Reuters Russia and Ukraine have agreed to a temporary ceasefire in Ukraine to allow civilians to leave the cities of Mariupol and Volnovakha. The ceasefire was expected to begin at 10 a.m. …
Trump Bible photo not reason cops cleared George Floyd protest, feds claim
President Donald Trump holds up a Bible in front of St John’s Episcopal Church after walking across Lafayette Park from the White House in Washington, DC on June 1, 2020. Brendan Smialowski | AFP via Getty Images The Interior Department’s watchdog claimed in a new report Tuesday that police violently cleared protestors from a park …
Biden orders closer review of Covid origins as U.S. intel weighs Wuhan lab leak theory
Security personnel stand guard outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan as members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 coronavirus make a visit to the institute in Wuhan in China’s central Hubei province on February 3, 2021. Hector Retamal | AFP | Getty Images WASHINGTON – President …
Trump vetoes $740 billion NDAA defense bill
President Donald Trump listens during a White House videoconference with members of military on Nov. 26, 2020. Erin Schaff | The New York Times | Bloomberg | Getty Images WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Wednesday vetoed the sweeping defense bill that authorizes a topline of $740 billion in spending and outlines Pentagon policy. “Unfortunately, the …
Trump says he will veto defense bill, breaking with Republicans
U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the daily coronavirus response briefing flanked by National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien, U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr and U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 1, 2020. Tom Brenner | Reuters WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said Thursday that he would veto the sweeping …
Biden leads Trump in six swing states
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks at a get-out-the-vote drive-in rally at Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport on November 02, 2020 in Cleveland, Ohio. Drew Angerer | Getty Images Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden holds narrow leads over President Donald Trump in six states the president aims to defend Tuesday in his bid for a second …
Trump won’t commit to peaceful transfer of power if he loses the election
President Donald Trump refused Wednesday to commit to a peaceful transition of power if he loses the 2020 election to Democratic nominee Joe Biden. “Well, we’ll have to see what happens. You know that. I’ve been complaining very strongly about the ballots. And the ballots are a disaster,” Trump said at a news conference at …
Murkowski becomes 2nd GOP senator to oppose a vote on Trump Supreme Court nominee before election
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski said on Sunday that she will not support President Donald Trump’s nomination of a replacement to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court left by the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before Election Day. The announcement makes Murkowski the second Republican in the Senate, after Susan Collins of Maine, to …
Justice Department abused power in Trump advisor Michael Flynn case
A former federal judge on Wednesday blasted the U.S. Justice Department for what he called “a gross abuse of prosecutorial power” in seeking to drop its criminal case against Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s first national security advisor. “The Government has engaged in highly irregular conduct to benefit a political ally of the President,” the ex-judge, …
