Sixteen days after Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico, Maria de Lourdes Sandoval heard helicopters over her village of Bajura. She ran to signal them, forcefully waving her arms and crying for help as they touched down on a nearby soccer field. “I’m helpless. I don’t have a home, don’t have […]
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Hernandez lawyers pull CTE suit against NFL, plan to refile
Lawyers for former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez say they are moving their lawsuit against the NFL from federal to state court because they can make more claims there. The attorneys sued the league last month after Hernandez was diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy. They accused the NFL […]
California resident says wildfire-destroyed neighborhood ‘looks like WWII’
An 85-year-old Santa Rosa, California, woman said her wildfire-destroyed neighborhood “looks like WWII.” “It looks like the pictures I saw when I was kid — when England and Germany were being bombed out,” Jean Welch told ABC News. She said at the end of WWII, a school friend in Germany […]
Tensions rise about return as families of freed hostages Coleman and Boyle rejoice
As American Caitlan Coleman flies to Toronto today with her Canadian husband Joshua Boyle and their three children after five years in Taliban captivity, tensions between the couple’s families surrounding circumstances of their abduction and the decisions about their journey home have already begun to flare. Coleman, 31, and Boyle, […]
FCC chairman silent amid Trump’s attacks on press
President Trump continued his assault on NBC News Friday, retweeting former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly’s assertion that “the President will not be able to impact licenses, but he is doing major damage to the NBC brand.” Trump added, “Sadly, they and others are Fake News, and the public is […]
Trump takes hard line on Iran, but keeps Obama deal in place
President Donald Trump slammed Iran Friday, called the country a “menace” and announced new sanctions against the regime — but didn’t do anything that would alter the Obama-era deal that he has denounced since his presidential campaign. The deal, Trump said, is no longer in the national security interest of […]
Trump says he will ‘always be’ with ‘wonderful people of Puerto Rico’
A day after suggesting he would pull federal aid from hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico, President Donald Trump tried Friday to provide assurance that he will “always be with” the Puerto Rican people. Trump also suggested that Puerto Ricans “know how bad things were before” Hurricane Maria hit the island in September. […]
Trump touts First Amendment rights for religious groups
President Donald Trump fervently advocated for religious liberty in a speech before a group of conservative Christian voters Friday, citing the protection of religious freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment, even as his critics pointed to that same amendment earlier in the week as he suggested blocking freedom of the […]
WATCH: Truck driver puts an end to attempted carjacking
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High alert amid fear of war in Iraq a looming minefield for US-led coalition
About 6,000 Kurdish Peshmerga reinforcements have been moved into defensive positions around the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, Iraq, amid fear of attack from Iraqi troops, officials from the semi-autonomous region of northern Iraq say. Kurdistan Vice PresidentKosrat Rasul told Rudaw News the reinforcements were sent to Kirkuk late Thursday night […]