Tag: USA
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Trump-connected lobbyists reap windfall in COVID-19 boom
Forty lobbyists with ties to President Donald Trump helped clients secure more than $10 billion in federal coronavirus aid, among them five former administration officials whose ... -
Resigned to House loss, Trump still sees midterms success
WASHINGTON (AP) — Resigned to the loss of one-party control over Washington in Tuesday’s elections, President Donald Trump stared down the prospect of endless House investigations, ... -
USD1.6 billion Powerball jackpot goes to 3 winners in 3 states
MUNFORD, Tennessee (AP) — An unprecedented USD1.6 billion Powerball jackpot that became a national fascination will be split three ways, by mystery winners in Florida, Tennessee ... -
USA | Blizzard wasn’t a bust, but it was a miss for many
In the wild world of winter weather, location is everything. So small last minute changes in the air morphed what was supposed to be crippling deep snow into ... -
USA | Millions hunker down as snowstorm totals downgraded
Tens of millions of people along the U.S. East Coast hunkered down for a storm that for most failed to live up to predictions that it ... -
USA | Obama calls for closing income gap
U.S. President Barack Obama declared the U.S. economy healed and said the nation now must begin work to close the gap between the well-off and ... -
USA | Obama aims to influence debate in State of the Union speech
President Barack Obama planned to use his second-to-last State of the Union address to Congress to maintain his influence in American politics as the unofficial campaign to ... -
USA | FBI: Man planned to bomb Capitol, kill officials
A 20-year-old man’s Twitter posts sympathizing with Islamic terrorists led to an undercover FBI operation and the man’s arrest on charges that he plotted to blow ... -
USA | 2 gunmen open fire on Los Angeles police car
Two men opened fire on a police car patrolling a tough part of Los Angeles, but the two officers inside were not injured and one ... -
USA | 2 New York police officers killed in ambush shooting
The two New York City police officers who were ambushed and shot to death in their vehicle yesterday (Macau time) were “quite simply, assassinated,” and ... -
USA | Jeb Bush all but declares presidential candidacy
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush all but declared his candidacy for president, an early move that opens the possibility of a 2016 showdown between America’s two most ... -
Ebola | 2nd US health care worker tests positive
A second health care worker at a Dallas hospital who provided care for the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the U.S. has tested positive for the ... -
USA | Police shooting protests continue in St. Louis
A weekend of peaceful daytime protests and nightly police standoffs was expected to continue yesterday as organizers prepared for a wave of resistance they anticipate will ... -
US AIRSTRIKES | Obama: US ‘underestimated’ Islamic State threat
President Barack Obama acknowledged that U.S. intelligence agencies underestimated the threat from Islamic State militants in the Middle East and overestimated the ability and will of ... -
US AIRSTRIKES | ISIS oil sites hit in Syria
U.S.-led airstrikes targeted Syrian oil installations held by the militant Islamic State group overnight and early yesterday, killing nearly 20 people as the militants released ... -
KHORASAN GROUP | Obama opens a new front against al-Qaida
The U.S. decision to strike the Khorasan Group to stop a possible terror attack represents a significant expansion of the largely secret war against core al-Qaida, ... -
USA | Ammunition and machete found on White House intruder
Investigators found more than 800 rounds of ammunition, a machete and two hatchets in the car of the former soldier accused of scaling the White House fence and sprinting ... -
USA | Man with knife jumps White House fence
The Secret Service chief has stepped-up security outside the White House after a man with a knife who jumped the fence made it into the presidential ... -
USA | Obama relying on Mideast allies to counter Islamic State
President Barack Obama is relying on Middle East allies including Saudi Arabia as linchpins in escalating the offensive against Islamic State extremists with airstrikes on both ... -
USA | Obama outlining mission to fight Islamic militants
President Barack Obama plans to outline in an address to Americans an expanded military and political effort to combat Islamic militants in Syria and Iraq, and ...
