Tornadoes roar across southern Plains
Twisters overturned cars on an Oklahoma City interstate and destroyed dozens of homes.Read More ...
Clinton event funded by controversial mining firm
A Moroccan government-owned firm is paying $1M to host the Clinton Global Initiative.Read More ...
Brady's likely not innocent in deflate-gate, but no proof of guilt
The
conclusion in the NFL's "Investigative Report Concerning Footballs Used
During the AFC Championship Game on January 18, 2015" is damning for
Tom Brady, very damning.Read More ...
Baltimore asks Justice Department to investigate police practices
Baltimore
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake asked the U.S. Justice Department on
Wednesday to investigate the city's police department for civil rights
violations after the death of a black man from injuries sustained in
police custody. The investigation will look into police practices such
as frisks, street stops of suspects and arrests to see if they violate
the U.S. Constitution, Rawlings-Blake said at a news conference. The
request follows the April 19 death of Freddie Gray, 25, who sustained
spinal injuries after being arrested. Maryland Governor Larry Hogan
lifted a state of emergency for Baltimore on Wednesday.Read More ...
Tornadoes, severe flooding hit Oklahoma City area, injuries reported
By Heide Brandes OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - A series of tornadoes, including a major twister, touched down southwest of Oklahoma City on Wednesday, injuring several residents of a trailer park, causing severe flooding and the escape of bears from a wildlife park, officials said. No deaths were reported, but some residents of a south Oklahoma City trailer park were injured during the storm and treated at local hospitals, said Dee Patty, a police spokeswoman. Bears briefly escaped from enclosures at an animal park after a tornado struck the city of Tuttle, about 30 miles (48 km) southwest of Oklahoma City, the Grady County Sheriff's Office said. A storm system brought severe weather to several Great Plains states, and the National Weather Service issued a tornado watch for an area stretching from central Texas to central Nebraska.
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New York governor proposes Wage Board to raise minimum wage
(Reuters)
- New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Wednesday he would create a
so-called Wage Board, a move apparently designed to allow him to raise
the minimum wage without the approval of state lawmakers. Cuomo in his
January budget recommended raising the minimum wage to $11.50 an hour in
New York City and $10.50 elsewhere in the state, only to see that
proposal rejected by the state legislature. "On Thursday, I am directing
the commissioner to impanel such a board, to examine the minimum wage
in the fast-food industry," Cuomo said in the editorial. "The board will
return in about three months with its recommendations, which do not
require legislative approval." Cuomo said the Wage Board could "set
fast-food workers on a path out of poverty" as well as ease the
financial burden on taxpayers and create a new national standard.Read More ...
Dana Perino on giving White House press peacocks ‘the bird’
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From zombies to Jade Helm 15, some conspiracy theories just never die
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Report: 1,580 IRS workers evaded taxes over 10-year period
WASHINGTON
(AP) — Nearly 1,600 IRS workers were found to have willfully evaded
taxes over a 10-year period, including some who were responsible for
enforcing the nation's tax laws, a government watchdog said Wednesday.Read More ...
Final polls show dead heat ahead of British election
The
final polls released on the eve of Britain's general election on
Thursday showed main rivals Labour and the Conservatives locked in a
dead heat. Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative party and the
Labour party led by Ed Miliband have been neck-and-neck for much of the
campaign. The last survey data released before a ban on the publishing
of opinion polls comes into force indicated that a flurry of last-minute
campaigning to win over undecided voters had failed to sway the race
one way or another.Read More ...
Israel's Netanyahu completes formation of government
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finished the deal less than an hour before a midnight deadline.Read More ...
Bill Clinton on 'Clinton Cash': 'It won't fly'
Bill
Clinton continued his defense of the Clinton Foundation Wednesday, with
the former president dismissing suggestions made by “Clinton Cash”
author Peter Schweizer that donations taken from foreign governments
during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state influenced
American policy.Read More ...
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