Archives: 2018

Arizona, Texas prepare to send National Guard members to border

AUSTIN, Texas — Arizona and Texas announced Friday that they were preparing to deploy National Guard members to the U.S.-Mexico border in response to President Donald Trump’s call for more border security. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey said about 150 Guard members would deploy next week. And the Texas Military Department, the umbrella agency over the Texas’ National Guard branches, said…

Hiker who went missing for days reveals what kept him going

MALIBU, Calif. — A man went out for a hike last Sunday in the rugged hills along Southern California’s Malibu coast. Then, he disappeared.  He turned up days later with a serious injury and quite a story. Marcelo Santos did just about everything you’re not supposed to do if you get lost on a remote trail. “I didn’t have any survival…

Homeland Security to compile database of journalists, media influencers

The Department of Homeland Security posted a contract request this week for “Media Monitoring Services,” which will compile a database of hundreds of thousands of journalists, bloggers and “media influencers” for the federal government. After an outcry on social media, a Department of Homeland Security spokesman tweeted “this is nothing more than the standard practice of monitoring current events in…

Governors could be powerless to deny Trump troop request

SALEM, Ore. — President Donald Trump’s plan to deploy National Guard troops to the border with Mexico has drawn resistance from some governors, most of them Democrats. But they could be powerless to deny the commander in chief’s request for soldiers. Governors have some leeway to say no to presidents, but depending on which federal law Mr. Trump uses to…

Rep. Blake Farenthold resigns

Rep. Blake Farenthold, the Texas Republican under scrutiny for using $84,000 in taxpayer funds to settle a sexual harassment claim, officially resigned on Friday. Farenthold had already announced he wouldn’t run for reelection, after initially saying he would run. His resignation became effective 5 p.m. Friday. “While I planned on serving out the remainder of my term in Congress, I…

Baby delivered after pregnant woman is shot in head in Ohio

Police at the scene in Springfield, Ohio where a pregnant woman was shot in the head WHIO SPRINGFIELD, Ohio – Authorities in western Ohio say hospital staffers delivered a pregnant woman’s baby after the mother was shot in the head. The Springfield News-Sun reports the woman who was shot and critically wounded in Springfield was at least 30 weeks pregnant….

Sessions orders “zero tolerance” policy on illegal border crossings

Last Updated Apr 6, 2018 4:07 PM EDT Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered a “zero tolerance” policy aimed at people entering the United States illegally for the first time on the Mexican border. His directive Friday tells federal prosecutors in border states to put more emphasis on charging people with illegal entry, which has historically been treated as a…

6 questions Mark Zuckerberg still needs to answer

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg did something this week he hardly ever does: He took questions from reporters on a call and invited others to listen in. The call on Wednesday came more than two weeks after news broke about Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm that harvested data of up to 87 million Facebook users without their permission. Zuckerberg’s company has been in…

Protests after University of Chicago student shot by officer

Charles Thomas, 21, is seen in Morocco, while studying abroad Elijah Wolter via CBS Chicago CHICAGO — Bond has been set at $15,000 for a University of Chicago student who was shot after rushing at campus police officers brandishing a long metal pipe. Twenty-one-year-old Charles Thomas is charged with aggravated assault on an officer with a weapon and property damage….

Assault weapons ban doesn’t violate 2nd Amendment, judge says

BOSTON — A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit challenging Massachusetts’ ban on assault weapons and large-capacity magazines, saying in a ruling released Friday that the weapons fall beyond the reach of the Second Amendment. U.S. District Judge William Young said assault weapons are military firearms and aren’t protected by the constitutional right to “bear arms.” Regulation of the weapons is…