WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday to criticize California’s lead role in a multistate lawsuit challenging his emergency declaration to pay for a U.S.-Mexico border wall. Trump sought to link California’s high-speed rail project to his plan for the wall. He claimed the “failed Fast Train project” was beset by…
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By JUANA SUMMERS , Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose insurgent 2016 presidential campaign reshaped Democratic politics, announced Tuesday that he is running for president in 2020. “Our campaign is not only about defeating Donald Trump,” the 77-year-old self-described democratic socialist said in an email to supporters. “Our campaign is about…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) More winter weather is in the forecast for the St. Louis-area. A winter weather advisory has been issued from 5 p.m. Tuesday until 6 a.m. Wednesday. The National Weather Service is calling for snow to move in during the back end of the evening rush and then change to light freezing drizzle.…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) St. Louis University and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency are using technology to address poverty and crime. Saint Louis University (SLU) and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s (NGA) four part series, “Geospatial 101” explores how geospatial data is used to visualize patterns of poverty, crime, and unemployment. During the second part of the series…
Sacramento, CA (AP) Illinois is one of 16 states suing the Trump administration over the President’s emergency declaration to fund a wall on the U.S. – Mexico boarder. California’s attorney general Xavier Becerra released a statement saying the Trump administration’s action violates the Constitution. The states involved in the suit include California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware,…
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Businesses and government offices slowly reopened across Haiti on Monday after more than a week of violent demonstrations by hundreds of thousands of protesters demanding the resignation of President Jovenel Moise over skyrocketing prices that have more than doubled for basic goods amid allegations of government corruption. Public transportation resumed in…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — University of Missouri officials say a student on the Columbia campus has active tuberculosis and may have infected other people. The school announced Monday that the Boone County health department is working with university health officials to determine whether other students and staff need testing. Privacy laws prohibit the release of…
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump is suggesting that key officials involved in the Russia probe were engaged in “treasonous” behavior. Trump is lashing out on Twitter at former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, whose new book details his concerns about potential foreign influence over the president, and current Deputy Attorney General…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The University of Missouri saw an uptick in reports of discrimination and harassment in the 2017-2018 school year from the previous year, according to new data. The university’s Office for Civil Rights and Title IX received 750 reported violations of its anti-discriminatory policy last year, up from 693 reports the previous…