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After Franken, Democrats struggle for steady harassment message

Democrats in Congress are struggling with how to calibrate their response to sexual harassment claims against two prominent lawmakers while trying to maintain the party’s standing with femal...

DATE: Nov 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Buyers back out of deal for idled Colorado mine

PAONIA – The owner of an idled Colorado coal mine says financial market conditions have forced investors to back out of a deal to buy the company. The Grand Junction Daily Sentine...

DATE: Nov 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Flags lowered in Colorado for Fort Carson Green Beret

COLORADO SPRINGS – Flags were lowered around Colorado Tuesday to honor a Green Beret from Fort Carson killed in Afghanistan earlier this month. A funeral service was held for 33...

DATE: Nov 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

EPA hears worries about climate in heart of coal country

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – After more than four decades as a coal miner, Stanley Sturgill ambled into an ornate room at West Virginia’s state capitol Tuesday to deliver a stark message to the Trump...

DATE: Nov 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Replacing lymph nodes to ease painful legacy of cancer care

WASHINGTON – Breast cancer treatment left Susan Wolfe-Tank with an arm too painfully swollen to lift anything heavy or even fit into her usual clothing – a debilitating condition that gets l...

DATE: Nov 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Beaked baby boomers: Record year for puffin chicks in Maine

PORTLAND, Maine – Puffins face existential challenges, but the little birds found a new role in Maine this summer: baby boomers. The 2017 nesting season was the most productive on...

DATE: Nov 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

How Powell could differ from Yellen: Nominee faces hearing

WASHINGTON – Jerome Powell’s confirmation to be chairman of the Federal Reserve is considered all but certain. Yet when a Senate committee holds a hearing Tuesday on Powell’s nomination, one...

DATE: Nov 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

CNN’s Blitzer fights back against Trump’s attack

NEW YORK – CNN fought back against President Donald Trump on Monday with a lengthy video showing its reporters in dangerous situations and Wolf Blitzer saying that despite the insults, “even...

DATE: Nov 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Facebook turns to AI to help prevent suicides

NEW YORK – Facebook is turning to artificial intelligence to detect if someone might be contemplating suicide. Facebook already has mechanisms for flagging posts from people think...

DATE: Nov 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Actress sues Weinstein, accusing him of sex trafficking

NEW YORK – Harvey Weinstein engaged in sex trafficking by traveling to Europe and luring an aspiring actress from London to a hotel room where he sexually assaulted her, according to a new l...

DATE: Nov 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

2 fight for control of consumer watchdog; judge yet to rule

WASHINGTON – With emails, tweets and doughnuts, the two dueling acting directors battled for control of the nation’s top financial watchdog agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, ...

DATE: Nov 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

At Capitol, Franken apologizes and sees long fight for trust

WASHINGTON – Sen. Al Franken apologized Monday to “everyone who has counted on me to be a champion for women” as the Minnesota Democrat fought to bolster his support with his first Capitol p...

DATE: Nov 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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