Michael Flynn’s attempts to have his guilty plea dismissed is now headed for review by the full US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters The full panel of the Washington, DC, Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed to reexamine the legal fight over Michael Flynn’s guilty plea from the Mueller […]
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Sometimes they approach with a smile. Other times, it’s with the rage of angels. About four months ago, Terence Fitzgerald, and his two sons, who are 5 and 3 years old, were on a weekend bike ride in his neighborhood, a quiet suburb in Southern California with picturesque houses situated amid generous lawns. “My oldest […]
Shares in Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. PPC, +0.93% fell 4% in the extended session Wednesday after the chicken producer reported a second-quarter loss and a decline in sales. Fabio Sandri, interim CEO of Pilgrim’s (CEO Jayson Penn began a leave of absence last month after being charged in a federal price-fixing case), cited challenging conditions during […]
It has been a bruising day for tech’s biggest names on Capitol Hill, but they didn’t break. The CEOs of Google parent Alphabet Inc. GOOGL, +1.32% , GOOG, +1.44% , Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, +1.10% , Apple Inc. AAPL, +1.91% , and Facebook Inc. FB, +1.37% endured more than five hours of grueling questions about competition […]
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown on Wednesday announced there was an agreement to begin withdrawing federal officers from Portland, but a top Trump official said there would still be an “augmented” force present in the city. Brown, a Democrat, said the agreement, which goes into effect on Thursday, was struck after discussions with Vice President Mike […]
Kayleigh McEnany had a difficult job even before her boss started retweeting conspiracy theories from a fringe doctor who blames demon sperm and alien DNA for America’s health problems. CBS This Morning co-host Anthony Mason wasted no time getting to that particular story when he invited the White House press secretary on his show Wednesday […]
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Joe Biden was uncharacteristically tight-lipped on Tuesday about the final stretch of his search for a vice president. But the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee seemed prepared to talk about at least one leading contender: California Sen. Kamala Harris. As he took questions from reporters on Tuesday, Biden held notes that were […]
Officers salute outside the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office as an ambulance passes, containing the body of a Chicago Police officer, Tuesday, July 28, 2020, in Chicago. CHICAGO – A newly-promoted Chicago police officer and father of two has died by suicide, city officials said Tuesday – at least the second officer this year to die by suicide […]
MacKenzie Scott said Tuesday she has donated about $1.7 billion of her fortune over the past year since her divorce from Jeff Bezos. The donations largely went to social-justice, public-health and climate-change organizations, Scott, a novelist and philanthropist, wrote in a Medium blog post. Scott — who recently changed her last name back to the […]