LOS ANGELES — Allergies are no joke, and the filmmakers of “Peter Rabbit” are learning that the hard way. The filmmakers and studio behind the children’s movie are apologizing for insensitively depicting a character’s allergy in the film that has prompted backlash online. Sony Pictures says Sunday in a joint […]
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VA watchdog says chief wrongly accepted airfare and Wimbledon tickets, but lawyers blast findings
Department of Veterans Affairs investigators are poised to claim Secretary David Shulkin improperly accepted Wimbledon tickets and used taxpayers’ money to pay his wife’s airfare during a European trip last summer — findings Shulkin’s lawyers are blasting as questionable and unfair. The report by the VA inspector general is scheduled […]
The FBI headquarters will likely stay in Washington after all
The federal government has decided that the FBI’s headquarters should stay in Washington, D.C., after all. The General Services Administration (GSA) had worked with the FBI throughout the Bush and Obama administrations to push for funding to move the FBI out of its current site on Pennsylvania Avenue and into […]
Agency-by-agency highlights of Trump’s 2019 budget
WASHINGTON – Highlights from President Donald Trump’s budget for fiscal year 2019, released Monday. Continue Reading Below ___ DEFENSE Trump’s budget for 2019 shows the administration’s concern about the threat from North Korea and its missile program. The Pentagon is proposing to spend hundreds of millions more in 2019 on […]
Trump says ‘OK with me’ if plan to rebuild roads founders
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump sent Congress a sweeping plan Monday to rebuild the nation’s depleted roads and bridges — then immediately raised doubts about how committed he was to delivering on that campaign promise. Continue Reading Below “If you want it badly, you’re going to get it,” Trump told […]
3 simple habits linked to weight loss
People looking to shrink their waistlines may want to adopt three simple eating habits to help them get there, new research suggests. The study tracked nearly 60,000 people and discovered that how fast they ate and the timing of their evening meal and snacks appeared to be significant factors in […]
Woman who kidnapped baby and raised girl as her own for 18 years pleads guilty
Nearly two decades after she walked into a Florida hospital posing as a nurse and walked out with a newborn, Gloria Williams stood in a courtroom today and admitted she acted alone in the 1998 abduction of the baby she raised as her own in South Carolina. Williams entered guilty […]
Venerable B-52 may outlive snazzier, younger bombers
WASHINGTON – The B-52, which people have called “aging” seemingly for ages, is now likely to outlive its younger, snazzier brother bombers, the swing-wing B-1 and the stealthy B-2. Continue Reading Below Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson announced Monday that her service will begin retiring the B-1 and B-2 fleets […]
Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show 2018
An Old English sheepdog waits in the benching area on the first day of competition at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New York on February 12, 2018. More than 2,880 dogs from all 50 states are taking part in the 142nd annual competition. Credit: Timothy A. Clary / […]
Ex-Israeli intelligence chief warns of “delicate” situation with Iran
TEL AVIV — Cockpit video from an Israeli helicopter shows what could be a new front in the Syrian civil war. Israel shot down a drone that it said the Israeli border from Syria Saturday, accusing Iran of using a base inside Syria to launch the attack. Israel retaliated with […]