CLAREMONT, N.H. (AP) – A Planned Parenthood clinic in New Hampshire has reopened nearly six weeks after police say it was badly damaged by a hatchet-wielding juvenile. The Claremont clinic reopened Monday, three days after police in Colorado Springs, Colorado, said a man opened fire on a Planned Parenthood clinic there, killing a police officer…
WASHINGTON (AP) – State Department calendars obtained by The Associated Press show that Hillary Rodham Clinton opened her office to dozens of Democratic Party fundraisers, political loyalists and corporate donors to her family’s charity while she was secretary of state. Clinton met nearly 100 donors, executives and political heavyweights. Many led organizations that lobbied or…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Federal Reserve officials have moved to prevent the central bank from bailing out failing companies, a power it exercised during the 2008 financial crisis. The Fed governors voted 5-0 Monday to downsize the Fed’s emergency lending powers. Only broad lending programs designed to revive frozen markets – not loans to individual firms…
NEW YORK (AP) – Retailers are rolling out online deals today, the so-called “Cyber Monday.” But since shoppers these days are online all the time anyway, the shopping holiday is losing some of its luster. Still, today is expected to be the biggest online shopping day ever, with estimates that it will rack up over…
CHICAGO (AP) – A white Chicago police officer charged with murder after a squad car video caught him fatally shooting a black Chicago teenager 16 times returns to court to learn whether he’ll be offered bond. A Monday hearing for Officer Jason Van Dyke comes after days of protests in Chicago over the killing of…
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The mayor of Colorado Springs says authorities aren’t ready to discuss a possible motive of the gunman who attacked a Planned Parenthood clinic there but says people can make “inferences from where it took place.” John Suthers says investigators have interviewed 57-year-old Robert Lewis Dear of North Carolina but says…
HANNIBAL, Mo. (AP) — Mark Twain’s 180th birthday is being celebrated this weekend in his boyhood hometown. The Hannibal Courier-Post reports that a mustache competition and a masquerade mask art show are among the activities planned for Saturday at the Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum. The attraction is located in the northeast Missouri town…
