BOSTON (AP) — As Americans sit down for Thanksgiving dinner, they should give thanks to one of the original Pilgrims for their very existence. John Howland may not be as famous as William Bradford, John Carver or Myles Standish, yet he probably had a greater impact. And he almost never made it. Howland fell off…
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama says there’s currently no specific, credible intelligence that would indicate a potential terrorist plot in the U.S. during the holidays. Obama says his administration is taking “every possible step” to keep the country safe. He says that if there were to be a credible threat, the public will be…
WASHINGTON (AP) – When Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio staked out a hard-line position on abortion in the first GOP debate, Hillary Rodham Clinton took notice. The Democratic front-runner quickly blasted Rubio’s assertion that he did not support abortion exceptions for victims of rape and incest as “offensive and troubling.” At Clinton’s Brooklyn campaign headquarters,…
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn approval of a controversial new weed killer to be used on genetically modified corn and soybeans. The EPA announced the decision after receiving new information from manufacturer Dow AgroSciences that a weed killer called Enlist Duo, a combination of two popular older herbicides, is probably more…
Businesses are holding onto their staffs and adding jobs at a solid pace as steady consumer spending has bolstered the economy
( KTRS ) A small crowd of protesters is snaking through streets near Chicago’s downtown early Wednesday. The demonstrations started hours earlier after police released a dash-cam video showing the shooting death of a black teen by a white police officer. The officer was charged with murder Tuesday. The protesters tried to block traffic on…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Hillary Rodham Clinton and husband Bill Clinton have made $35 million from 164 paid speeches to financial services, real estate and insurance companies since leaving the White House in 2001. That’s according to an Associated Press analysis of public disclosure forms and records released by her campaign. The long and lucrative relationship…
The judge says Hoyt will live initially with his father while receiving treatment and monitoring that he is taking his medication
