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Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street to attend the weekly Prime Ministers’ Questions session on Wednesday. Tim Ireland/AP hide caption toggle caption Tim Ireland/AP Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street to attend the weekly Prime Ministers’ Questions session on Wednesday. Tim Ireland/AP The United Kingdom is embroiled in its biggest political crisis in decades. On Wednesday evening, members of Parliament in Prime Minister Theresa…

DECATUR, Tenn. — A magnitude 4.4 earthquake struck eastern Tennessee early Wednesday morning and could be felt in Cobb and Atlanta. The U.S. Geological Survey says the earthquake occurred at about 4:15 a.m. about 7 miles northeast of Decatur, Tennessee. A 3.3 magnitude aftershock struck about 13 minutes later. Engineers are inspecting the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant in nearby Spring City, Tennessee, as a precaution. The Tennessee…

President Trump faced off against House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., in the Oval Office on Tuesday, pledging to shut down the government over money for his border wall. By publicly and with great drama drawing a line in the sand between the option of a government shutdown or funding the wall, he put on display the antithesis of the fundamental idea of…

Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May faces a vote on her leadership Wednesday, as debate rages over how the U.K. should exit the European Union. She spoke about the vote to the media outside 10 Downing Street in London. Toby Melville/Reuters hide caption toggle caption Toby Melville/Reuters Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May faces a vote on her leadership Wednesday, as debate rages over how the U.K. should exit the European Union….

Video French officials calling market shooting a terror attack A shooting in Strasbourg, France, on Tuesday left three people dead, several others wounded and is being treated as an act of “terror,” police and government officials said, adding that the gunman is on the run. The suspect opened fire in downtown Strasbourg on Orfevre Street around 8 p.m. local time, government authorities Préfet de la région Grand-Est et du Bas-Rhin revealed on Twitter….

The caravan migrants who arrived at the border nearly a month ago don’t have a country. But they do have a government. In the time since the caravan left Honduras in mid-October, the asylum seekers have fashioned a proto-democracy out of their group of some 6,000 migrants overwhelmingly from Central America, most of whom have walked for most of the trip, at times hitching rides in the backs of cars…

Geologist, Dr. Bob Hatcher explains the frequency of regional earthquakes and how they differ from those along West Coast faultlines.

When House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York tried to move their Oval Office debate with President Trump over border wall funding behind closed doors, Trump had the right response. “It’s not bad, Nancy,” he said. “It’s called transparency.” Too often, political leaders in pitched battles will appear before cameras ahead of high-profile meetings and have nothing but kind words to…

<!– –> × MENU SEARCH QUOTES Tech A Vancouver judge set a $10 million CAD bail ($7.5 million U.S.) for Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou Tuesday, capping a week of increasing trade tensions and strong market reactionsaround the dispute between the Department of Justice and one of China’s largest hardware companies. The United States had asked the Vancouver court to deny bail for Meng, whose father is a billionaire…

French emergency services arrive at a Christmas market in Strasbourg, France, after a gunman killed at least two people and wounded several more. AP hide caption toggle caption AP French emergency services arrive at a Christmas market in Strasbourg, France, after a gunman killed at least two people and wounded several more. AP Updated at 6:12 p.m. ET A gunman opened fire at a Christmas market in Strasbourg, France, killing…

Video Judge orders Stormy Daniels to pay Trump almost $300,000 Adult film star Stormy Daniels must pay President Trump $293,000 in legal fees, a judge ruled on Tuesday. “The U.S. District Court today ordered Stormy Daniels (real name Stephanie Clifford) to pay President Trump $292,052.33 to reimburse his attorneys’ fees (75% of his total legal bill), plus an additional $1,000 in sanctions to punish Daniels for having filed a meritless…

In August 2017, Mr. Fields traveled from Ohio to attend the Unite the Right rally, where swastika-toting white supremacists swarmed the streets and clashed with counterprotesters. In an attack that killed a 32-year-old woman, Heather Heyer, Mr. Fields sped down a narrow street packed with counterprotesters, many who were on their way home after the authorities shut down the demonstration. Image James Alex Fields Jr.CreditAlbemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail, via Associated Press…

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A jury recommended life plus 419 years on Tuesday for a man convicted of killing a woman and injuring dozens when he drove his car into counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally in Virginia. James Alex Fields Jr. stood stoically with his hands folded in front of him as a court clerk read the verdict, which now must be taken under advisement by the judge, who…

President Trump kicked off Tuesday morning with a five-tweet discourse oscillating between praise for existing border security, calling for funding for his promised border wall, and blaming Democrats. He topped it off by promising he would simply use the military to build the wall: “If the Democrats do not give us the votes to secure our Country, the Military will build the remaining sections of the Wall.” ….People do not…

The Trump administration wants to limit the scope of a major clean water rule. It says the EPA under President Obama went too far in regulating isolated waters and wetlands far upstream from navigable lakes and rivers. Seth Perlman/AP hide caption toggle caption Seth Perlman/AP The Trump administration wants to limit the scope of a major clean water rule. It says the EPA under President Obama went too far in…

China is furious, the markets are beside themselves, and after a pretty ordinary performance by her lawyers on the second day of a bail hearing, the daughter of one of China’s richest men is waiting in a Canadian jail for what might be a long time. Here’s the latest in the arrest of Huawei’s Meng “Sabrina” Wanzhou. Meng, detained on December 1, while changing flights on her way to Mexico…

(TOKYO) —The U.S. military said Tuesday that five missing crew members have been declared dead after their refueling plane collided with a fighter jet last week off Japan’s southern coast, and that search and recovery operations have been halted. The five were on a KC-130 Hercules refueling aircraft that collided last Thursday with an F/A-18 Hornet during regular training. The warplanes crashed into the sea south of Japan’s Shikoku island….

Time announced its shortlist for this year’s nominees on Monday, which included Trump, “Black Panther” director Ryan Coogler, research psychologist Christine Blasey Ford, March for Our Lives activists, Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, and families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border.

<!– –> × MENU SEARCH QUOTES Politics When President Donald Trump faces Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer on Tuesday, his favorite foils will carry a lot more leverage than they have held at any point in the nearly two years since the president took office. Trump will meet with the Democratic congressional leaders at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday as they try to strike a deal to avoid a partial government shutdown…

Addressing the House of Commons on Monday, British Prime Minister Theresa May delayed a vote on her Brexit withdrawal or transition agreement with the European Union. The vote was originally planned for Tuesday but will now take place at an as yet undetermined date before Jan. 21, 2019. May’s delay of this vote is a big deal. It proves that her plan lacks the support of the House of Commons….