When the El Paso Walmart where 22 people were killed reopens in three to four months, the renovated property will have a memorial to the shooting victims, a company spokesman said Wednesday. The memorial is in the early planning stages and the company is seeking input from the community on the design, Randy Hargrove, Walmart’s…… MORE
Democratic Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Wednesday announced he is suspending his presidential campaign. “It’s become clear I’m not going to be carrying the ball — I’m not going to be president, so I’m withdrawing tonight from the race,” Inslee told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. “But I have to tell you, look, I’ve been fighting climate…… MORE
There’s been a change in President Donald Trump. He used to say he had accomplished more than any other President, a debatable claim. But now he’s using messianic language about himself. “I’m the chosen one,” he said Wednesday about what he claims is a singular, and still only hoped-for, trade deal with China. That was…… MORE
A Texas death row inmate continued to maintain his innocence up until he was executed Wednesday. Larry Ray Swearingen was executed at 6:47 p.m. for the death of 19-year-old Melissa Trotter. “Lord forgive them. They don’t know what they are doing,” he said in his last words. Swearingen was sentenced to death in July 2000…… MORE
Major League Baseball reportedly has warned its players that over-the-counter sex supplements could contain banned ingredients that would result in failed performance enhancing drugs tests. ESPN obtained a memo sent by the league officer to its 30 clubs. The memo states in part that “these products are often contaminated with prohibited and unsafe ingredients,” ESPN…… MORE
Chicago’s favorite basketball-loving nun reached a milestone birthday and the community is giving her the party of a lifetime. Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt reached peak TV fame when the Loyola University Chicago Ramblers became the Cinderella story at last year’s NCAA basketball tournament. Fans grew accustomed to seeing the nun, who is the team’s chaplain,…… MORE
As federal indictments stack up against dozens of undocumented immigrants rounded up in workplace raids in Mississippi, no charges have been filed against employers who immigration officials believe knowingly hired them, according to online court documents. Two of the raided chicken processing plants say they followed local and federal law and participated in E-Verify. Officials…… MORE
They may be in our oceans, rivers and ice but there’s little evidence to suggest that microplastics in the water we drink pose a risk to our health. In its first review on the health risks of plastic in tap and bottled water, the World Health Organization said that microplastics “don’t appear to pose a…… MORE
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said Wednesday that ISIS was not “in a resurgent state in Syria” despite a Pentagon inspector general report saying the terror group is re-surging in that country. “I don’t agree that ISIS is in a resurgent state in Syria, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t seen them spring up in…… MORE
The whispers began within minutes of the release of CNN’s new national poll on the 2020 field: Is something wrong with Sen. Kamala Harris’ campaign? The poll showed the California Democrat dropping from 17% (and in second place) in a June CNN survey to 5% (and tied for fourth) now. Which is not good! And…… MORE
