Mexicans went to the polls Sunday to elect a new president, after a long campaign marred by corruption and violence. The election turnout is predicted to be one of the largest in Mexico’s history, with 89 million people eligible to vote, according to The New York Times. Voters will also cast ballots for scores of non-presidential […]
Memorial services are scheduled Monday for two of the five journalists killed last week when a gunman opened fire in the newsroom of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland. According to The Baltimore Sun, a “celebration of life” for assistant editor and columnist Rob Hiaasen, who was 59, will be held at the Irvine Nature […]
Minnesota-based motorcycle company Polaris Industries has announced that, like its larger rival Harley-Davidson, it is considering moving some production overseas, as a result of Europe’s retaliatory tariffs. “Nothing is definitive,” Polaris spokeswoman Jess Rogers told the Associated Press on Friday. “We’re looking at a range of mitigation plans.” She added: “We’re definitely seeing an increase in […]
Bloody street fights erupted in downtown Portland, Oregon late Saturday, when more than 150 marchers with the right-wing protest group Patriot Prayer began beating antifascist protesters with flagpoles and other objects. Heavily armed police were called in to subdue the riot, which broke out after Patriot Prayer supporters arrived in Portland to attend a rally led by Republican candidate for […]
President Trump last month slapped punishing new tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum. On Sunday, Ottawa answered back with tariffs of its own. Canada retaliated with some $12.5 billion in new duties on a variety of U.S. goods, including steel and aluminum, as well as whisky, maple syrup, orange juice, ketchup and lawn mowers. “We will […]
President Trump is unlikely to ask his Supreme Court nominee their position on overturning Roe v. Wade, he told Fox News Sunday morning, but said that abortion rights “could very well end up” being determined by the states following Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement. “But,” he told Maria Bartiromo, “I’m putting conservative people on.” Trump has explicitly […]
Nine people, including six children, were injured after a man went on a stabbing rampage at an apartment complex housing refugee families Saturday night, police in Boise, Idaho said. Authorities responded to a call about a man with a knife at around 8:46 local time. Police say they arrested the suspect, a 30-year-old man just […]
North Korea will dismantle its nuclear program within a year, White House national security adviser John Bolton insisted on Sunday despite recent reports that North Korea’s atomic weapons program is very much alive. Asked how quickly he believes North Korea will turn over its arsenal, Bolton told CBS he believes Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will […]
Nearly 1,800 Puerto Ricans displaced after Hurricane Maria will be forced this week to move from the motels they have called home for 10 months, either taking a one-way ticket back to the island or finding housing of their own on the US mainland. Hurricane survivors were granted a reprieve Saturday night when a federal […]
