A man rushed the stage and ripped a microphone out of Sen. Kamala Harris' hand at a San Francisco presidential forum on Saturday, interrupting the Democratic presidential candidate to tell the audience he had a "much bigger idea." "I'm asking your attention to a much bigger idea," he said, before the hosts interrupted him and…
LATE LAST year mysterious trucks started dumping industrial waste at a precolonial archaeological site in Duque de Caxias, an industrial city of 900,000 people some 24km (15 miles) north of Rio de Janeiro. Environmental activists thought they knew who was behind it. Over the past decade, their battle to protect local nature reserves and the…
VIRGINIA BEACH — Eleven of them were civil servants, the kind of people who worked on construction projects and water quality and right of way issues. Another was a local contractor who had come by to talk about a permit. Between them, they had more than 150 years of experience helping to make Virginia’s largest…
President Donald Trump made clear that he’s prepared to impose tariffs on Mexico over a surge of migrants at the southern U.S. border. What he didn’t specify was what he wants Mexico to do to avoid the penalties. Nonetheless, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador he’s optimistic of achieving “good results” from a high-level meeting…
The Justice Department (DOJ) is preparing a potential antitrust investigation involving Google, according to a Wall Street Journal report on Friday. According to the report, Google is facing the possibility of investigation by the Justice Department over its search and other businesses. Per the Journal, the Justice Department has already been in touch with third-party…
SEVERAL ADVISERS to Mexico’s secretary for foreign affairs, Marcelo Ebrard, receive phone notifications each time President Donald Trump sends a tweet. Phones—and alarm bells—were surely ringing on May 30th, when Mr Trump delivered his threat to apply a 5% tariff on all imports from Mexico. Unless the Mexican government takes action “to dramatically reduce or…
One patient at Sentara Princess Anne Hospital was being picked up by helicopter and transferred to a trauma center at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, he said. Details on their conditions were not immediately available. “This day will not define Virginia Beach,” a City Council member, Aaron Rouse, said at the news conference. “We will show…
FDA may ramp up CBD oil regulation. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may soon take a more restrictive approach to cannabis-derived CBD products now commonly sold in retail and corner stores. The products’ rapid explosion has raised questions about safety and inflated claims, prompting an upcoming (and inaugural) hearing on the issue. (NBC News)…
President Donald Trump on Thursday announced a 5% tariff on imports from Mexico — another tactic in his efforts to curb an influx of migrants coming across the US border. "On June 10th, the United States will impose a 5% Tariff on all goods coming into our Country from Mexico, until such time as illegal…
BRITONS PRIDE themselves on their “unwritten” constitution. America, France and Germany need rules to be set down in black and white. In the Mother of Parliaments democracy has blossomed for over 300 years without coups, revolution or civil war, Irish independence aside. Its politics are governed by an evolving set of traditions, conventions and laws…
