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Boeing Boeing shares were set to drop at least 9% at Monday’s market open, wiping about $21.5 billion off the company’s market capitalization. Questions are being asked about the manufacturer after the second crash in six months involving one of its Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft. The latest crash, of an Ethiopian Airlines flight traveling to Kenya on Sunday morning, killed 157 people. China’s aviation…

Washington — In a move that will likely lead to another tense standoff with congressional Democrats, President Trump is expected to request $8.6 billion in additional funds for the construction of his long-promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, a senior administration official told CBS News. In its annual budget proposal to Congress, to officially be unveiled Monday, the White House will seek congressional approval of $5 billion in funding for…

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said special counsel Robert Mueller would be making a “mistake” if President Trump isn’t brought in to testify under oath for the federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. Speaking to Chuck Todd on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Schiff, D-Calif., said that he hopes Mueller subpoenas Trump or finds a way to…

Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg said on Sunday night he and Vice-President Mike Pence have different views of their Christian faith and he does not understand Pence’s loyalty to Donald Trump. The mayor of South Bend, Indiana, said his feeling “is that the scripture is about protecting the stranger, the prisoner, the poor person, and that idea of welcome. That’s what I get in the Gospel when I’m in church.”…

Victims of crash came from around the world Black body bags were spread across the red sands near Bishoftu, Ethiopia, on Monday as word of the crash traveled to the families of the 157 victims, who were from at least 35 countries. Investigators have yet to locate the flight data recorder, the so-called black box, which they hope will shed light on what brought down a new plane on a…

LOS ANGELES (KABC) — A USC student was shot and killed in a failed robbery attempt about a mile from campus early Sunday morning, police said. USC identified the victim as Victor McElhaney, a student in the university’s Thornton School of Music. McElhaney was the son of Oakland City Council member Lynette Gibson McElhaney. “It is with the utmost sadness that I share with you the tragic news that my…

Elise Viebeck March 10 at 7:01 PM In Minnesota’s Twin Cities, Jews and Somali immigrants have been partners for decades. When Somali refugees arrived in Minnesota starting in 1993, Jewish leaders saw echoes of their forebears who faced virulent anti-Semitism as newcomers to the state more than a century before. The communities developed strong ties, joining to fight hunger and illiteracy and raising money for one another in response to…

<!– –> × SEARCH QUOTES Brexit Brexit could be reversed if lawmakers reject the government’s exit deal, British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt said on Sunday after two major eurosceptic factions in parliament warned that Prime Minister Theresa May was facing a heavy defeat. Just 19 days before the United Kingdom is due to leave the EU on March 29, May is scrambling – so far unsuccessfully – to secure last-minute…

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Capt. Kent Wegener, who oversees the homicide bureau, said that more detectives are being assigned to assist in the investigation, given the volume of information related to the child’s body.

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday will ask the U.S. Congress for an additional $8.6 billion to help pay for the wall he promised to build on the southern border with Mexico to combat illegal immigration and drug trafficking, officials familiar with his 2020 budget request told Reuters. The demand is more than six times what Congress allocated for border projects in each of the past two fiscal years,…

CLOSE President Donald Trump has branded as “disgraceful” the resolution passed after Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s comments suggesting House supporters of Israel have dual allegiances. (March 8) AP Fox News host Jeanine Pirro on Saturday questioned whether Rep. Ilhan Omar’s use of a hijab, a head covering traditionally worn by Muslim women, signaled that she held beliefs that are “antithetical” to the Constitution.   Pirro made the comments during an opening statement for…

Pete Buttigieg said gaining the legal ability to marry his husband gave him a personal view of the importance of policy decisions by politicians “who had power over me and millions of others.” Buttigieg, who came out as gay during his 2015 re-election campaign, said he entered politics “in Mike Pence’s Indiana” at a time that “you could either be out, or you could be in office, but you couldn’t…

The man then turned the tape over to law enforcement, according to attorney Gloria Allred. She and her client, Gary Dennis, would not discuss the specifics of the tape during a news conference in New York. But Allred said it appeared to show a separate incident from the 10 counts of aggravated sexual abuse that Kelly faced in Chicago, though she acknowledged she could not be “100% certain” that the…

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CLOSE Eight prototypes of Donald Trump’s border wall between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico were demolished Wednesday. A large hydraulic jackhammer pounded the concrete and steel panels until the slabs fell into small clouds of dust. (Feb 26) AP Congressional Democrats refused President Donald Trump’s newest request for border wall funding even before the White House officially made it.  In response to media reports Sunday that the president plans to…

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-CortezAlexandria Ocasio-CortezBill Nye comes out in support of Green New Deal: Ocasio-Cortez ‘gets it’ Ocasio-Cortez on moderates: ‘We view cynicism as an intellectually superior attitude’ Klobuchar says she’ll ‘use humor’ in campaigning against Trump MORE (D-N.Y.) said Saturday that in the United States, “if you don’t have a job, you are left to die.” Ocasio-Cortez, who made the remark at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, added that…

White House national security adviser John Bolton said Sunday that “momentum” is on the side of the U.S.-backed National Assembly in Venezuela and that President Nicolas Maduro “fears” that if he orders the arrest of opposition leader Juan Guaido, “it would not be obeyed.” “I think momentum is on Guaido’s side. Reports in the press that stress that the military hasn’t shifted [from Maduro to Guaido] miss the point…

Senior GOP officials are warning that the president’s popularity has taken a hit in Texas, and a Beto O’Rourke nomination in 2020 could put the state in play for the first time in decades. | Tom Fox-Pool/Getty Images 2020 Elections The Club for Growth sees the ex-Texas congressman as a serious threat to Donald Trump, and they’re treating him accordingly. By ALEX ISENSTADT 03/10/2019 04:00 PM EDT A prominent conservative…

Wreckage lies at the scene of an Ethiopian Airlines flight that crashed shortly after takeoff at Hejere near Bishoftu, or Debre Zeit, some 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of Addis Ababa, in Ethiopia Sunday, March 10, 2019. The Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed shortly after takeoff from Ethiopia’s capital on Sunday morning, killing all 157 on board, authorities said, as grieving families rushed to airports in Addis Ababa and the destination,…