Visine eye drops were murder weapon North Carolina man used to kill wife, cops say
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A paramedic from Gaston County is accused of using Visine eye drops to kill his wife last year for a hefty life insurance payout, according to the North Carolina Department of Insurance. The eye drops can cause heart failure when ingested in large quantity, which is what...
House committee raises prospect of more impeachment articles
WASHINGTON — The House Judiciary Committee held open the possibility Monday of recommending additional articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump as it pressed anew for the testimony of former White House counsel Don McGahn. The committee wants a federal appeals court to order McGahn to testify as it examines...
Report looks at impact of coal mining on ‘neighbors on the surface’
Pennsylvania’s coal mining industry has more active mines than five years ago but is causing less damage to water supplies and surface structures a new report on the industry shows. The report, which covers the years 2013 to 2018, is required by the Bituminous Mine Subsidence and Land Conservation Act...
Trump signs measure to preserve Native languages
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — President Donald Trump has signed a measure that extends federal grant programs aimed at preserving indigenous languages and expands eligibility so more tribes can participate. The president’s signature came Friday, after the measure cleared the U.S. House with bipartisan support. Senate approval came earlier this year. The...
Joe Biden’s new endorsement reflects battle for Latino support
Joe Biden’s presidential bid got a boost Monday from one of the leading Latinos in Congress, with the chairman of the Hispanic Caucus’ political arm endorsing the former vice president as Democrats’ best hope to defeat President Donald Trump. “People realize it’s a matter of life and death for certain...
Report: Popular United Arab Emirates chat app ToTok a government spy tool
NEW YORK — A chat app that quickly became popular in the United Arab Emirates for communicating with friends and family is actually a spying tool used by the government to track its users, according to a newspaper report. The government uses ToTok to track conversations, locations, images and other...
Pacific seashell washes up on Outer Banks shores, stumping park service
A lot of crazy things have washed up on the shores of the Outer Banks. But it’s rare to have something show up that baffles the locals. What’s this strange object? A 3½-inch-long yellowish seashell. Of course, it’s not just any seashell. Turns out, it’s one that the National Park...
Pentagon says New Jersey soldier killed in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan — A 33-year-old American soldier was killed in combat Monday in Afghanistan, the U.S. military said. The Taliban claimed they were behind a fatal roadside bombing in northern Kunduz province. In a statement Monday night, the Pentagon identified the casualty as Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Goble of...
Mitch McConnell not ruling out witnesses in impeachment trial
PALM BEACH, Fla. — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Monday that he was not ruling out calling witnesses in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial — but indicated he was in no hurry to seek new testimony either — as lawmakers remain at an impasse over the form of the...
Ukraine, rebels agree on prisoner exchange before year’s end
MOSCOW — Russia’s envoy at talks between Ukraine and Russia-backed separatists said Monday that they agreed on conditions for a prisoner exchange following a deal reached by the two nations’ presidents. Boris Gryzlov, who represents Russia in the so-called Contact Group on the conflict in eastern Ukraine, said after Monday’s...
Why Trump’s steel tariff didn’t save U.S. Steel workers from layoffs
President Donald Trump told an audience of Pennsylvania union workers last August that his 25% tariff on steel imports was reinvigorating the country’s steel industry, and leading companies such as U.S. Steel to expand. That upbeat assessment is now in question following United States Steel Corp.’s announcement last week that...
Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg to step down immediately
Boeing’s CEO is resigning amid ongoing problems at the company over the troubled Max 737 aircraft. The board of directors said Monday that Dennis Muilenburg is stepping down immediately. The board’s current chairman David Calhoun will become president and CEO on January 13. The board said a change in leadership...
To battle opioid crisis, some track overdoses in real time
ALBANY, N.Y. — Drug overdose patients rushed to some emergency rooms in New York’s Hudson Valley are asked a series of questions: Do you have stable housing? Do you have food? Times and location of overdoses are noted, too. The information is entered into a new overdose-tracking system that provides...
Saudi Arabia sentences 5 to death for journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s killing
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia sentenced five people to death on Monday for the killing of Washington Post columnist and royal family critic Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul last year by a team of Saudi agents. The killing of Khashoggi stunned the international...
Editor with conservative magazine National Review calls for Trump to be removed from office
An editor for the conservative National Review magazine is calling for President Trump to be removed from office. Senior editor Ramesh Ponnuru wrote an opinion piece over the weekend called “Four Tests for Impeachment” that said Trump exceeded each tenet to be removed from office. Ponnuru’s piece comes days after...
Police: Texas barbershop worker shot over child’s haircut
KATY, Texas — A dispute over a child’s haircut ended with gunfire Saturday at a Texas barbershop, according to authorities. Deputies are looking for a man who shot an employee of a barbershop in the Houston suburb of Katy during an argument, the Harris County Sheriff’s office said in a...
Trump impeachment trial: Squaring off in the SenateVideo
WASHINGTON — A senior White House official and leading Senate Republicans predicted Sunday that congressional Democrats would fail in their bid to force the Senate to summon witnesses in President Trump’s impeachment trial. Democrats countered by asking why, if Trump were innocent, he would block the testimony of top aides...
State College man charged in alleged murder plot targeting ex-prosecutor
STATE COLLEGE — A man has been charged in an alleged murder-for-hire plot against a former Pennsylvania prosecutor that involved two current or former prison inmates authorities said. Dana Elroy Smith, 56, of State College, faces charges in Luzerne County of criminal solicitation of criminal homicide and criminal conspiracy, state...
Christian editor doubles down on Trump as being ‘morally unfit’Video
WASHINGTON — The editor-in-chief of evangelical magazine “Christianity Today” doubled down Sunday on his rebuke of Donald Trump. Mark Galli appeared on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” days after arguing in an editorial that Trump should be removed from office because the nation’s trust was betrayed by his attempts to “use...
Police: 69-vehicle pileup in Virginia leaves dozens injuredVideo
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — A pileup involving more than 60 cars on a major interstate in Virginia on Sunday morning injured dozens of people, according to state police. The accident happened just before 8 a.m. Sunday on westbound Interstate 64 in York County near Williamsburg, Virginia State Police Sgt. Michelle Anaya...
GOP governors grapple with whether to accept refugees or not
LINCOLN, Neb. — An executive order by President Donald Trump giving states the right to refuse to take refugees is putting Republican governors in an uncomfortable position. They’re caught between immigration hardliners who want to shut the door and some Christian evangelicals who believe helping refugees is a moral obligation....
Us vs. them: Trump aiming to use impeachment to rev up base
NEW YORK — Using stark “us vs. them” language, President Donald Trump and his reelection campaign have begun framing his impeachment not as a judgment on his conduct but as a referendum on how Democrats regard him and his supporters. Mere days from the start of an election year, the...
Boeing capsule returns to Earth after aborted space mission
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Boeing safely landed its crew capsule in the New Mexico desert Sunday after an aborted flight to the International Space Station that threatened to set back the company’s effort to launch astronauts for NASA next year. The Starliner descended into the Army’s White Sands Missile Range...
Chicago police: 13 wounded in shooting at memorial party
CHICAGO — A shooting early Sunday at a house party held in honor of someone who was killed in April left 13 people wounded, four of them critically, Chicago police said. The shooting stemmed from a dispute at the memorial party, Chief of Patrol Fred Waller said at an early...
Bracelet worth thousands dropped into Salvation Army red kettle in Maryland
A donor who gave off the aura of a “quiet spirit” donated thousands of dollars worth of jewelry into a Salvation Army red kettle in Annapolis, Md. on Tuesday. According to the Capital Gazette, one of the bracelets, a yellow-and-gold piece created by Tiffany & Co., was valued at more...
