Ludington told the New York Times in a statement Sunday that Kavanaugh played down “the degree and frequency” of his drinking to the Senate Judiciary Committee last week. Ludington called Kavanaugh’s answers about drinking a “blatant mischaracterization” based on his experiences around the judge when they attended Yale University together.
Some of the largest known mosquitoes�in the world are creating a buzz across parts of North Carolina, and residents have Hurricane Florence to thank for it. An outbreak of blood-sucking mosquitoes called Psorophora ciliata, or “gallinippers,” which can grow three times larger than regular mosquitos, is being reported in parts of the state flooded by the storm, creating a public nuisance, health concerns as well as jokes that North Carolina has a new state bird. “They’re not wasps, baby, they’re mosquitoes,” the woman filming answers as the insects cover her car’s windows.
Investigators returned to the scene Monday of a car explosion that killed three people in downtown Allentown, trying to get to the bottom of the deadly blast that authorities were treating as a crime. About 30 investigators combed the scene, most of them from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Three males were found dead after the 9:30 p.m. Saturday blast, according to Lehigh County Coroner Scott Grim.
Iran said it struck jihadists on Monday in Syria with ballistic missiles and combat drones in retaliation for a deadly attack on an Iranian military parade, warning the "real punishment" was still to come. Last month's shooting in the Iranian city of Ahvaz killed 24 people and was claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group. The pre-dawn strike by Iran, which has vowed to boost its ballistic missile capabilities despite Western concerns, targeted the town of Hajin, about 24 kilometres (15 miles) north of Albu Kamal near Syria's eastern border with Iraq, state TV reported.
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey aims to secure control of the region of northern Syria east of the Euphrates river, removing the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia from the area, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday. Speaking at the opening of parliament
An early warning system that might have prevented some deaths in the tsunami that hit an Indonesian island on Friday has been stalled in the testing phase for years. The high-tech system of seafloor sensors, data-laden sound waves and fiber-optic cable was meant to replace a system set up after an earthquake and tsunami killed nearly 250,000 people in the region in 2004. It is too late for central Sulawesi, where walls of water up to 6 meters (20 feet) high and a magnitude 7.5 earthquake killed at least 832 people in the cities of Palu and Donggala, tragically highlighting the weaknesses of the existing warning system and low public awareness about how to respond to warnings.
California has become the first state in the US to require publicly traded companies to include women on their board of directors. Governor Jerry Brown signed the new measure – which necessitates at least one female director on the board of each California-based public operation by the end of 2019 – into law on Sunday. A fourth of publicly held corporations with headquarters in California do not have any women on their boards of directors.
Tech giant Elon Musk is resigning as Tesla’s chairman but will remain as CEO after he settled charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to documents. Musk will have to pay a civil penalty of $20 million after he made a series of “false and misleading” tweets about potentially taking his car company private, according to the SEC.�Tesla will also have to pay an additional $20 million. In its court filings earlier this month, the SEC argued that Musk was attempting to impress his girlfriend, the singer�Grimes, when he tweeted to his more than 20 million followers he might take Tesla private at $420 per share.
A 13-year-old boy was expected to recover after a shark attacked him while he dived for lobsters in Southern California, hospital officials said Sunday. The teen, who was not identified, was in serious condition a day after he was bitten off the coast of Encinitas, a city north of San Diego, Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego said in a statement. “The boy’s parents want to inform family, friends and the entire community that he is expected to make a full recovery,” the hospital statement said.
Judge Brett Kavanaugh is sworn in to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 27, 2018. The FBI appears to be preparing to bring the limited investigation of Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to a rapid conclusion, limiting the delay negotiated Friday by Sen. Jeff Flake and setting the stage for a confirmation vote on Kavanaugh’s nomination this week. Don Stewart, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, said that a floor vote on Kavanaugh would not take place on Monday even if the FBI investigation concludes Monday morning because the Senate’s rules for invoking cloture require several days’ delay.
Trump on Kim Jong Un: "I like him, he likes me. Trump says this -- earnestly! -- about Kim Jong Un: "We went back and forth, then we fell in love. Trump has insisted the due to his relationship with Kim, North Korea has been moving toward denuclearization.
Dennis Dickey, 37, a Border Patrol agent from Tucson, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor violation of U.S. Forest Service regulations for his role in triggering the 45,000-acre Sawmill fire in April 2017,�the Arizona U.S. Attorney’s Office�said in a statement. It contained colored powder to reveal the gender of their baby — blue for a boy or pink for a girl — Dickey’s attorney, Sean Chapman, told the Arizona Daily Star. As part of his sentence, Dickey will also make a public service announcement about fire safety with the U.S. Forest Service.
Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev has described a referendum on changing the small European country's name to North Macedonia and thereby pave the way to NATO membership as a clear success, despite lower than hoped for voter turnout. Zaev said he had no intention of resigning as the "vast majority" of those who voted Sunday approved the name change, part of a deal with Greece to end a nearly three-decade-long dispute over what the country is called. Before the referendum was held, he had said he would resign if a vast majority said no the deal.
H. Lawrence Culp assumed the helm of General Electric on Monday in a surprise move meant to stem a two-year decline that has humbled the once-mighty conglomerate and roiled investors. The ouster of John Flannery gave GE its third chief executive in about 14 months. GE also announced a massive asset-write down but its shares surged on Wall Street on Monday's news.
Ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee Rep. Jerry Nadler is interviewed on "This Week."
Britain's Brexit minister warned the European Union on Monday against trying to bully the United Kingdom into signing a divorce deal that would undermine the unity of the country. "If the only offer from the EU threatens the integrity of our Union then we will be left with no choice but to leave with no deal," Raab told the Conservative Party conference in the English city of Birmingham. "What is unthinkable is that this government, or any British government, could be bullied by the threat of some kind of economic embargo, into signing a one-sided deal against our country's interests," Raab said.
A cat was rescued by Michigan authorities after taking a ride in the engine compartment of a car.Troy Police said the cat slipped into the a garage and made his way under the hood of a Ford Mustang.The car’s owner didn’t notice the animal
The announcement on Monday of the Nobel Medicine Prize opens this year's amputated awards season, with no Literature Prize for the first time in 70 years because of a #MeToo scandal. Like every year, Nobel aficionados have speculated wildly about possible winners, given the number of worthy candidates in the fields of medicine, physics, chemistry, peace and economics. The medicine prize committee at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute is the first to reveal its choice of laureates, on Monday at 11:30 am (0930 GMT).
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman�Chuck Grassley�is asking the FBI to investigate now-retracted sexual misconduct allegations leveled against Supreme Court nominee�Brett Kavanaugh. Amid an ongoing probe into separate allegations against Kavanaugh, the Iowa Republican asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions and FBI Director Christopher Wray on Saturday to look into what he described as “materially false statements” provided to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) last week.
More than 400 people were confirmed killed, many swept away as tsunami waves triggered by a massive earthquake crashed into the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, and authorities expected the toll to rise sharply on Sunday as news arrives from remote areas. TheÂ?Head of the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB), Willem Rampangilei, told reporters in Sulawesi late on Saturday the death toll from Palu hadÂ?reached 420 people, according to news website Kompas. "It's estimatedÂ?that 10,000 refugees are scattered in 50 points in Palu city," he was quoted by Kompas as saying.
Declaring that victory over "terrorism" is almost at hand after more than seven years of civil war, Syria's foreign minister took to the world stage Saturday and demanded that "occupation" forces from the U.S., France and Turkey leave the country immediately. Syrian government forces, backed by Russia and Iran, have retaken most of the territory rebels seized during the war that has killed over 400,000 people and driven millions from their homes. President Bashar Assad's government refers to all armed opposition and rebel groups fighting Syrian forces as "terrorists," not just Islamic State or al-Qaida militants.
President Donald Trump said he and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “fell in love” over the course of their on-again off-again detente, hours after Pyongyang’s top diplomat said there was “ no way” the country would disarm under current conditions. “He wrote me beautiful letters,” Trump said of Kim Saturday during a rally in Wheeling, West Virginia. Trump has made repeated efforts to flatter Kim, even as talks aimed at ending Pyongyang’s nuclear program sputtered following the two leaders’ landmark June summit in Singapore.
A revolutionary cancer treatment pioneered by the winners of the 2018 Nobel Prize for Medicine has been hailed as the future of the fight against the disease -- and it has far less devastating side effects than chemotherapy. While chemotherapy destroys cancerous cells along with normal cells -- often with toxic and debilitating effects on a patient -- immunotherapy unleashes the body's immune system to target tumour cells. James Allison of the US and Tasuku Honjo of Japan won the Nobel on Monday for identifying two different brakes on the immune system which, when turned off, allow the defence system to attack cancerous cells faster and more effectively.
Keith Kozak says he was fired by the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland for "liking" a post about a friend's gay marriage on Facebook.
U.S. planemaker Boeing and Brazil's Embraer are in talks to set up an assembly line to build KC-390 military cargo jets in the United States, Brazilian newspaper Valor Economico reported on Monday. In July, the two planemakers announced a deal to give Boeing an 80 percent stake in Embraer's commercial aircraft arm, marking the biggest realignment in the global aerospace market in decades. At the time, the companies also announced a deeper sales and services partnership on the new KC-390 military cargo jet through a separate defense venture that they said was likely to eventually receive a joint investment.