Image copyright Reuters Image caption Brett Kavanaugh denies the allegations A number of Republicans have said the vote on US President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, should be paused while allegations of sexual assault are properly heard.It comes after Christine Blasey Ford accused Mr Kavanaugh of attacking her in the early 1980s.Mr Kavanaugh…
Tyson Foods Inc. is getting a new CEO. Tom Hayes, who has been at the helm of the maker of Ball Park hotdogs and Jimmy Dean sausages since late 2016, is “stepping down for personal reasons,” according to a news release published Monday. The Wall Street Journal reports that Hayes’ departure is not related to…
“IT DOESN'T involve me”, said Donald Trump, after his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was convicted by a court in Virginia on eight counts of financial fraud last month. “This had absolutely nothing to do with the president,” said his spokeswoman, Sarah Sanders, on September 14th, after Mr Manafort unexpectedly pleaded guilty in Washington, DC…
Enlarge / Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station, Unit 1 Though economics might not favor nuclear power in the US, policy makers do. Last week, the House passed a bipartisan bill that originated in the Senate called the Nuclear Energy Innovation Capabilities Act (S. 97), which will allow the private sector to partner with US National…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Chinese government may decline to participate in proposed trade talks with the United States later this month if the Trump administration moves forward with additional tariffs on imported Chinese goods, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing Chinese officials. The US had proposed the talks, but at the same time…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionGusts & floods: the impact of the storm There are warnings the worst is still to come from a storm in the US that has already been linked to the deaths of at least 14 people.Storm Florence has been dumping what has been called "epic" rain as…
Hurricane Florence weakened to a tropical depression early Sunday morning, but the storm brought significant damage to affected areas and a death toll of at least 14, the New York Times reported. The deaths include a woman and child who were killed when a tree fell on their home, a mother of two who was…
The interior of a Boeing 777F is probably the most unusual place I've seen a new concept car revealed. The light show was rather good. BMW The Vision iNext concept is a small crossover, which should have more mass appeal than the i3 and i8. BMW It's an attractive thing, but some of the more…
Hurricane Florence, now a tropical storm, is tearing through the Carolinas, bringing heavy rainfall and catastrophic flooding. The storm has already left at least 12 people dead and knocked out power for more than a million residents. As of Saturday evening, Florence was moving west at 2 mph, with winds at a speed of 45…
WASHINGTON, N.C. — As the flat-bottomed fishing boat crept into a swirling river that had once been Summer Haven Lane, Tray Tillman scanned the brown floodwaters and half-submerged houses in search of somebody to save. “Today it’s been women and kids,” Mr. Tillman said. Mr. Tillman, 26, a construction foreman, was part of a makeshift…
