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Experts: No duty for laughing teens to rescue drowning man

Posted 7/22/2017 in National

It may be reprehensible and morally outrageous, but legal experts say a group of Florida teens had no obligation to rescue a drowning disabled man they instead mocked, laughed at and recorded on a video that was later posted online.

Honorably discharged veterans will soon get to shop tax-free

Posted 7/21/2017 in National

Hey veterans, you can soon shop tax free.

Even with Trump warning, Mueller likely to probe finances

Posted 7/21/2017 in National

President Donald Trump's growing anxiety about the federal Russia probe has spilled into public view with his warning that special counsel Robert Mueller would be out of bounds if he dug into the Trump family's finances.

Publicly assailed by Trump, Sessions says he's staying on

Posted 7/21/2017 in National

Attorney General Jeff Sessions, publicly skewered by his boss for stepping clear of the Russia-Trump investigations, declared Thursday he still loves his job and plans to stay on.

Cops wage psychological warfare against online drug bazaars

Posted 7/21/2017 in National

In an innovative blow to illicit internet commerce, cyberpolice shut down the world's leading "darknet" marketplace -- then quietly seized a second bazaar to amass intelligence on illicit drug merchants and buyers.

9 Legionnaires' disease cases connected to Graceland hotel

Posted 7/21/2017 in National

Health officials say the number of people diagnosed with Legionnaires' disease in an outbreak at the hotel at Graceland has risen to nine.

Trump rages at Sessions in interview

Posted 7/20/2017 in National

President Donald Trump told The New York Times in an interview Wednesday that he never would have appointed Jeff Sessions as attorney general had he known Sessions would recuse himself from overseeing the Russia investigation.

Trump campaign inner circle called before Senate committees

Posted 7/20/2017 in National

Members of the Trump campaign's inner circle, including his eldest son and son-in-law, are being called before Senate committees next week to talk about the 2016 election.

Trump exhorts Senate anew to rid US of Obamacare

Posted 7/20/2017 in National

Lecturing fellow Republicans, President Donald Trump summoned GOP senators to the White House Wednesday and told them face-to-face they must not leave town for their August recess without sending him an "Obamacare" repeal bill to sign.

Poll: Most say federal government should ensure health coverage

Posted 7/20/2017 in National

Americans aren't enthralled with "Obamacare" and they definitely don't like the Republican plans offered in Congress, so what does the public want the government to do about health care?

Trump says he wants voter fraud commission to have open mind

Posted 7/20/2017 in National

President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged members of his new voter fraud commission to approach their task with "a very open mind," despite having spent months making unfounded claims, without evidence, that millions of fraudulent ballots had been cast against him.

Sen. McCain diagnosed with brain tumor after clot removed

Posted 7/20/2017 in National

Sen. John McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, Vietnam prisoner of war and political maverick in Congress for more than three decades, has been diagnosed with an aggressive type of brain tumor.

House panel approves budget with hopes for tax reform

Posted 7/20/2017 in National

A key House panel on Wednesday approved a Republican fiscal plan that probably won't deliver on its promises to balance the budget, but would begin to clear a path for a GOP effort to overhaul the tax code this fall.

Will a sugar deal with Mexico affect US treat prices?

Posted 7/20/2017 in National

Are Americans getting a raw deal on sugar prices?

US restoring asset seizures -- with safeguards

Posted 7/19/2017 in National

The Trump administration will soon restore the ability of police to seize suspects' money and property with federal help, but The Associated Press has learned the policy will come with a series of new provisions aimed at preventing the types of abuse that led the Obama Justice Department to severely curtail the practice.

Trump making last-ditch effort after Republican health bill collapse

Posted 7/19/2017 in National

President Donald Trump says it's probably time to "just let Obamacare fail" after the latest humiliating heath bill collapse in the Senate. Still, he's making a last-ditch effort to find some way to revive his party's seemingly failed efforts on the bill.