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Microsoft to help expand rural broadband in 6 states

FARGO, N.D. – Microsoft announced Thursday it is teaming up with communities in six states to to invest in technology and related jobs in rural and smaller metropolitan areas. Com...

DATE: Oct 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

President Trump talks of ‘calm before the storm’

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump delivered a foreboding message Thursday night, telling reporters as he posed for photos with his senior military leaders that this might be “the calm befo...

DATE: Oct 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

‘It was almost automatic’: Off-duty cops saved Vegas victims

SANTA ANA, Calif. – Fred Rowbotham’s plan was to leave job stress behind with a trip to Las Vegas to celebrate his 45th birthday at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival. Bu...

DATE: Oct 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

A senior Democrat says Pelosi should step down

WASHINGTON – A senior House Democrat said Thursday that it’s time for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and two top lieutenants to prepare to step down and make way for the next ...

DATE: Oct 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

White House, NRA, Congress agree on regulating bump stocks

WASHINGTON – The National Rifle Association announced its support Thursday for regulating “bump stocks,” devices that can effectively convert semi-automatic rifles into fully automated weapo...

DATE: Oct 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Las Vegas gunman may have scoped out other music festivals

LAS VEGAS – Investigators are looking into whether gunman Stephen Paddock scoped out bigger music festivals in Las Vegas and Chicago – and perhaps Boston’s Fenway Park – before setting up hi...

DATE: Oct 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Speaker Ryan: Congress must look at gun device used in Vegas

WASHINGTON – House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday that Congress needs to take a look at “bump stocks” that can effectively convert semi-automatic rifles into fully automated weapons. The Wi...

DATE: Oct 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

House passes GOP budget in key step for upcoming tax debate

WASHINGTON – The House on Thursday passed a $4.1 trillion budget plan that promises deep cuts to social programs while paving the way for Republicans to rewrite the tax code later this year....

DATE: Oct 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Will your job be automated? 70 percent of Americans say no

WASHINGTON – Most Americans believe their jobs are safe from the spread of automation and robotics, at least during their lifetimes, and only a handful says automation has cost them a job or...

DATE: Oct 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Some Republicans open to banning ‘bump stocks’ used in Vegas

WASHINGTON – Senior congressional Republicans said Wednesday they are open to considering legislation banning “bump stocks” like the shooter in Las Vegas apparently used to effectively conve...

DATE: Oct 4, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Girlfriend of Las Vegas killer says he left her in the dark

LAS VEGAS – The girlfriend of the Las Vegas gunman said Wednesday that she had no inkling of the massacre he was plotting when he sent her on a trip abroad to see her family. Mari...

DATE: Oct 4, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

White House seeks $29B for disaster aid, flood insurance

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration on Wednesday asked Congress for $29 billion in disaster aid to cover ongoing hurricane relief and recovery efforts and to pay federal flood insurance cl...

DATE: Oct 4, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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