WASHINGTON — Former U.S. president George W. Bush on Thursday spoke against the country’s political divisiveness, saying that “at times it can seem like the forces pulling us apart are stronger than the forces binding us together.” Bush, the country’s 43rd president, a Republican who served two terms in office from 2001 to 2009, never mentioned […]
WASHINGTON — During last year’s U.S. election campaign, then candidate Donald Trump vowed to be a disruptive force in Washington if he won the presidency. Trump has made good on that promise of late, but the country remains split on whether his actions help or harm the public good. During a Cabinet meeting earlier this week, […]
Barring any last-minute legal action, Texas’s notorious “Tourniquet Killer,” 55-year-old Anthony Allen Shore will become the seventh Texas inmate to die by lethal injection on Wednesday night. Years after the murder of 21-year-old Maria del Carmen Estrada in 1992, was convicted for her strangulation death and sexual assault, following a DNA match of evidence found […]
WASHINGTON — Aides to the last two U.S. presidents are sharply disputing claims by President Donald Trump that they paid little attention to the families of fallen U.S. military personnel to offer sympathy and pay tribute for their service. Trump claimed Monday that “if you look at President Obama and other presidents, most of them didn’t […]