Wyoming Holds Off on Sale of Land Within National Park Wyoming's governor and other top leaders decided Thursday to hold off on auctioning a big chunk of state-owned land within Grand Teton National Park, choosing instead to continue negotiations with the U.S. government on a purchase or land swap for the pristine and valuable property.
Depending on how those talks go, the state Board of Land Commissioners made up of Governor Mark Gordon and the state's other four statewide elected officials, all of whom are Republicans, might revisit...
Sat, 09 Dec 2023 03:07:28 -0500 US Federal Judge Accepts Settlement in Family Separation Case Following a five-year legal battle, the settlement of a class action lawsuit concerning the practice of separating families at the U.S.-Mexico border has been approved, and, importantly, it bars the use of a similar policy for the next eight years.
The American Civil Liberties Union brought the lawsuit in 2018 to stop the forcible separation of children from their parents after they illegally crossed the border into the United States.
U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw in the Southern...
Fri, 08 Dec 2023 22:24:56 -0500 China's Xi to Visit Vietnam as Hanoi-US Relations Warm Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to Vietnam next week, his third to Hanoi after a six-year break and as Beijing and Washington jostle for influence.
The visit, on Tuesday and Wednesday, will coincide with the 15th anniversary of the establishment of a "comprehensive strategic partnership" between the nominally communist one-party, authoritarian states.
It also will come just three months after Vietnam upgraded its relationship with the United States to that...
Fri, 08 Dec 2023 21:29:24 -0500 Appeals Court Upholds, but Narrows Gag Order on Trump in Washington Case A federal appeals court in Washington largely upheld a gag order on Donald Trump in his 2020 election interference case on Friday, but narrowed the restrictions on his speech to allow the former president to criticize the special counsel who brought the case.
The three-judge panel's ruling modifies the gag order, permitting the Republican 2024 presidential front-runner to make disparaging comments about special counsel Jack Smith, but it reimposes limits on what he can say about known...
Fri, 08 Dec 2023 20:59:17 -0500 For Biden, Son's Indictments Create One More Political Burden Hunter Biden, the son of U.S. President Joe Biden, was named in a nine-count indictment charging him with various tax crimes this week, raising the possibility that he could be on trial in two separate federal jurisdictions during his father's reelection campaign next year.
The indictment, filed in federal court in California, alleges that Biden committed three felonies and six misdemeanors as part of an effort to avoid paying federal taxes between 2016 and 2020. During that time...
Fri, 08 Dec 2023 20:43:58 -0500 Actor Ryan O'Neal, Star of 'Love Story,' 'Paper Moon' Dies at 82 Ryan O'Neal, the heartthrob actor who went from a TV soap opera to an Oscar-nominated role in Love Story and delivered a wry performance opposite his charismatic 9-year-old daughter, Tatum, in Paper Moon, died Friday, his son said.
"My dad passed away peacefully today, with his loving team by his side supporting him and loving him as he would us," Patrick O'Neal, a Los Angeles sportscaster, posted on Instagram.
Attempts to reach O'Neal representatives were not...
Fri, 08 Dec 2023 20:18:09 -0500 White House Seeks Congressional Approval to Sell Tank Shells to Israel The Biden administration has asked Congress to approve the sale of 45,000 shells for Israel’s Merkava tanks in the offensive against Hamas in Gaza, according to a current U.S. official and a former U.S. official.
Washington’s request has added to growing concerns about the supply of U.S. weapons in a war that has killed thousands of civilians in the Palestinian enclave since Hamas’ terror attack on Israel two months ago.
The potential sale is worth more than $500 million and it is under...
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