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SPARTANBURG, South — Kamala Harris railed on Tuesday night against President Donald Trump’s derogatory tweets about former Vice President Joe Biden over the weekend, calling them “contrary to the best interests of our country and the integrity of our country.” At an MSNBC town hall, Harris said the tweets, including one in which Trump referenced smiling when North Korea’s Kim Jong Un “called Swampman Joe Biden a low IQ individual,…

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Dressbarn, CVS, Pier 1 and Topshop shuttering stores, pushing… The retail store closures just keep coming, from Dressbarn, CVS, Party City, Pier 1 Imports and more. Retailread more

Doctors in Missouri may only have a few more days to perform abortions, but they insist their care for patients who want to terminate a pregnancy won’t end anytime soon. “Despite what happens on Friday, we will continue to help our patients access care when they need it,” Dr. Colleen McNicholas, an obstetrician and gynecologist at Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region, said on a call with reporters today….

A large and dangerous tornado was reported on the western edge of Kansas City, Kansas, the National Weather Service said. The NWS issued a “tornado emergency” for the area known as the Legends Outlets near where the Kansas Speedway hosts NASCAR races.  Damage reports were not immediately available.  The NWS later expanded the tornado warning to include all of the Kansas City area including the Missouri side of the city. …

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Video Supreme Court issues rulings on abortion, bathrooms and the border The Supreme Court strikes a compromise on an Indiana abortion law, staying out of the broader fight for now; senior political correspondent Mike Emanuel reports. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, speaking at a luncheon on Tuesday, made clear what would happen if a Supreme Court vacancy should materialize in the midst of the 2020 election season: “Uh, we’d fill…

Earlier in the day, Kate Bedingfield, a deputy campaign manager for Mr. Biden, issued a statement calling Mr. Trump’s remarks “beneath the dignity of the office.” “To be on foreign soil, on Memorial Day, and to side repeatedly with a murderous dictator against a fellow American and former vice president speaks for itself,” Ms. Bedingfield said. After her statement was released, Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter that he was “actually…

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld Indiana’s law requiring abortion providers to bury or cremate fetal remains, but left lower court rulings intact that invalidated a broader measure that would prevent a woman from having an abortion based on a fetus’s gender, race or genetic disorder. Passed in 2016 and signed by then-Gov. Mike Pence, the law prohibited what the state called discriminatory abortions — those sought because…

Last week, a member of Congress exercised his right to have a vote. Based on the media reaction, you would have thought D.C. was burning down. But if you care about fiscal responsibility, believe members of Congress should vote on billion-dollar bills before they pass, or even think that reading and debating legislation is a useful exercise, meet your new hero: freshman Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas. After sending members of…

The realities of a recent string of abortion restrictions may become even clearer in Missouri on Friday as the state threatens to close its last remaining abortion clinic. Planned Parenthood officials announced they are filing a lawsuit Tuesday for a restraining order to stop the state from closing their one clinic in the state, which is located in St. Louis. “This is not a drill. This is not a warning….

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MIAMI VALLEY — Severe storms and suspected tornadoes hit the Miami Valley Monday night, leaving many in the area without power, access to drinkable water or safe shelter. >> Widespread damage reported in Montgomery, Greene, Mercer counties To help those affected by severe weather, The Foodbank in Dayton is asking for bottled water donations and volunteers to help sort food. Bottled water donations can be dropped off at the warehouse at 56…

St. Louis, Missouri — The last remaining abortion clinic in Missouri says it expects to be shut down this week, effectively ending legal abortion in the state. In a statement Tuesday, Planned Parenthood said Missouri’s health department is “refusing to renew” its annual license to provide abortion in the state. If the license is not renewed by May 31, Missouri would become the first state without a functioning abortion clinic since…

John Wagner May 28 at 9:47 AM Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the fifth-ranking Democrat in the House, derided President Trump on Tuesday as the “fake leader of the free world” as Trump traveled back to the United States from a trip to Japan. The comment by Jeffries (N.Y.) came in a tweet in which he sought to highlight the silence of many Republicans in response to President Trump saying over the…

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Prosecutors say the firm created a public nuisance in Oklahoma costing billions of dollars, a claim which Johnson & Johnson denies Johnson & Johnson, one of the world’s largest drug manufacturers, has gone on trial in a multi-billion dollar lawsuit by the US state of Oklahoma. Prosecutors accuse the firm of deceptively marketing painkillers and downplaying addiction risks, fuelling a so-called “opioid epidemic”. Johnson &…

Residents walk toward their Westbrooke Village Apartment building that was heavily damaged by a tornado Tuesday morning, May 28, 2019, in Dayton, Ohio. The Ohio Department of Transportation is using snow plows to remove debris off an Ohio highway after a “large and dangerous” tornado hit the area late Monday. (Doral Chenoweth III/Columbus Dispatch via AP) BROOKVILLE, Ohio – A rapid-fire line of apparent tornadoes tore across Indiana and Ohio…

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TOKYO (AP) – NHK TV in Japan is quoting police as saying the suspect in a knife attack that wounded at least 19 people at a bus stop just outside Tokyo has died. Police wouldn’t publicly confirm the reports and it wasn’t clear how many had died in Tuesday’s attack. The local fire department told The Associated Press that one person had died. Some Japanese media…