Sep 19 2019 — Associated Press — Gunmaker Colt says it is suspending its production of rifles for the civilian market including the popular AR-15. Colt’s CEO, Dennis Veilleux, says it is not permanently ending production but believes there is already an adequate supply of sporting rifles on the market. He said in a statement Thursday the company will concentrate on fulfilling […]
Sep 18 2019 — Associated Press — President Donald Trump said Wednesday he plans to name hostage negotiator Robert O’Brien to be his new national security adviser. Trump’s announcement about O’Brien comes a week after the departure of John Bolton from the national security adviser’s post, citing policy disagreements. Trump and Bolton offered differing views on whether the longtime Republican policy adviser […]
Sep 18 2019 — Associated Press — The Trump administration is poised to revoke California’s authority to set auto mileage standards, asserting that only the federal government has the power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fuel economy.
Sep 18 2019 — Associated Press — Iran warned the U.S. that any action taken against it following an attack on Saudi oil installations will “immediately” be met with a response from Tehran, its state-run news agency reported Wednesday, further raising Mideast tensions.
Sep 16 2019 — Associated Press — More than 49,000 members of the United Auto Workers walked off General Motors factory floors or set up picket lines early Monday as contract talks with the company deteriorated into a strike. Workers shut down 33 manufacturing plants in nine states across the U.S., as well as 22 parts distribution warehouses. It wasn’t clear how […]
Sep 16 2019 — Associated Press — Global energy prices spiked on Monday after a weekend attack on key oil facilities in Saudi Arabia caused the worst disruption to world supplies on record, an assault for which U.S. President Donald Trump warned that the U.S. was “locked and loaded” to respond. U.S. officials offered satellite images of the damage at the heart […]
Sep 15 2019 — Associated Press — The United Auto Workers union announced that its roughly 49,000 members at General Motors plants in the U.S. will go on strike Sunday night because contract negotiations with the automaker had broken down.
Sep 15 2019 — Associated Press — Iran denied on Sunday it was involved in Yemen rebel drone attacks the previous day that hit the world’s biggest oil processing facility and an oil field in Saudi Arabia, just hours after America’s top diplomat alleged that Tehran was behind the “unprecedented attack on the world’s energy supply.”
Sep 14 2019 — Associated Press — The British prime minister who called the Brexit referendum and then saw the public vote to leave the European Union says he is sorry for the divisions it has caused. David Cameron said in an interview published Saturday that he thinks about the consequences of the Brexit referendum “every single day” and worries “desperately” about […]
Sep 13 2019 — Associated Press — The three leading Democratic presidential candidates clashed over health care, immigration and President Barack Obama’s legacy on Thursday in a fierce debate that pitted an aggressive Joe Biden against liberal rivals Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.
Sep 10 2019 — Associated Press — President Donald Trump said Tuesday via Twitter that he had fired national security adviser John Bolton and will name a replacement next week. “I disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions, as did others in the Administration,” said Trump, without getting into specifics. Bolton, in his own tweet, contradicted the president’s version of events. He […]
Sep 10 2019 — Associated Press — Prime Minister Boris Johnson has succeeded in his plan to suspend Britain’s rebellious Parliament for five weeks, but he has achieved little else in his first prolonged jousting with legislators determined to prevent a no-deal Brexit. The simmering showdown between Johnson and Parliament over Brexit came to a head as lawmakers delivered three defeats to […]
Sep 10 2019 — Associated Press — Seven-time Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher has been admitted under great secrecy to a Paris hospital to be treated Tuesday with a cutting-edge stem-cell therapy, according to a French newspaper. The Paris hospitals authority, citing France’s strict medical privacy rules, said it could not comment on the report in Le Parisien that Schumacher was […]
Sep 9 2019 — Associated Press — Britain’s Queen Elizabeth on Monday gave final approval to a piece of legislation which seeks to prevent Prime Minister Boris Johnson from taking the country out of the European Union without an exit deal on Oct. 31. The step, known as Royal Assent, is effectively a rubber-stamp from the monarch for the law which passed […]
Sep 9 2019 — Associated Press — The party of Russian President Vladimir Putin has suffered big losses in Moscow elections as candidates endorsed by his arch-rival won almost half the seats, authorities said Monday. Elections to the Moscow City Duma are usually low-key affairs but Sunday’s vote grew in prominence when election authorities refused to register a dozen independent candidates, including […]