Top leaders in the Senate are calling for a Senate Ethics Committee review of Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., who was recently accused of forcibly kissing a woman and appearing to grope her while she slept. The committee has not announced whether it will pursue a preliminary inquiry into the alleged […]
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States ranked by claims for state and local tax deductions
The percentage of federal individual income tax filers claiming a deduction for state and local taxes paid in 2015, ranked by state: 1. Maryland: 45.7 percent 2. Connecticut: 41.3 percent 3. New Jersey: 41.2 percent 4. Virginia: 37.3 percent 5. Massachusetts: 36.9 percent 6. Oregon: 36.0 percent 7. Utah: 35.3 […]
Designer Azzedine Alaia, known for clingy style, dies at 77
Tunisian-born designer Azzedine Alaia, an iconoclast whose clingy dresses marked the 1980s and who dressed famous women from Hollywood to the White House, has died at age 77. The French Haute Couture Federation announced Alaia’s death on Saturday without providing details. Twitter tributes to his influence on fashion poured in […]
Reward climbs to $215K for Baltimore detective’s killer
A reward has climbed to $215,000 in the search for the killer of a veteran Baltimore police detective who was fatally shot in the head while on duty, the FBI said. Det. Sean Suiter, a married father of five and an 18-year veteran with the Baltimore Police, was conducting a […]
Rain, wind likely for much of East this weekend
The weather system which has already brought flooding rains to the Northwest and heavy snow to the Rockies is moving into the Midwest on Saturday with the Northeast to follow. A wind advisory is in effect from Texas to Ohio as wind speeds can be expected from 20 to 30 […]
GOP is ‘toast’ with Trump in control, Republican senator says
Sen. Jeff Flake, a frequent sparring partner of President Donald Trump, continues to make enemies in his own party after calling the GOP “toast” while unaware he was still on a live mic. Flake, R-Ariz., was at a tax reform event in Mesa, Arizona on Friday night when he was […]
Trump family’s hunting history reexamined in light of new elephant trophy policy
Donald Trump Jr. caused an uproar among some when pictures surfaced of him holding the tail of a dead elephant after a big-game hunt in Africa years ago. Now, new policy changes proposed by his father’s administration may allow Americans to bring the carcasses of elephants and lions killed in […]
Trump to keep ban on big game trophies for now
President Donald Trump has announced that his administration’s plan to reverse a ban on big game trophies has been put on hold so he can “review all conservation facts.” On Wednesday, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service official confirmed to ABC News that the Trump administration had planned to allow […]
Argentine Navy loses communication with submarine carrying crew of 44
The Argentine Navy confirmed today that it has lost communication with one of its submarines. According to the Navy, the submarine’s last-known position in the area of operations was near the San Jorge Gulf, about 240 nautical miles from the country’s southern shore. Communications were reportedly knocked out Wednesday because […]
Does hunting elephants help conserve the species?
The Trump administration had planned to start accepting permits Friday for hunters to bring trophies from elephants hunted in Zimbabwe and Zambia into the United States, saying that new information shows that the practice of trophy hunting actually helps the survival of the endangered species in the wild. Late Friday, […]