A new Democratic member, Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, will get the petition over the finish line Wednesday. Still, if the bill clears the House, it's unlikely to pass the GOP-controlled Senate. read more
In a message obtained by Congress, the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Donald J. Trump spent hours at his house with one of Mr. Epstein's victims. read more
After surging through the Pacific Ocean, a massive tsunami crashed into Hawaii in 1946, killing 159 people and destroying hundreds of buildings. It was the deadliest such event in modern U.S. history " and it sparked a reckoning. The wave was caused by a distant underwater earthquake near Alaska's Aleutian Islands. Few in Hawaii knew the deadly tremor had occurred, or that a massive wall of water that reached as high as 130 feet, was on its way, moving as fast as a commercial jet. The disaster, along with another earthquake-caused tsunami in 1964, pushed the United States to beef up its alert systems in part through the National Tsunami Warning Center, operated under National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. After NOAA ceased funding to the lab that's been monitoring seismic activity for more than 25 years, nine stations tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes for the agency will go offline by the end of the month.
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. read more
Plaques commemorating African American soldiers fighting against Nazi Germany in Europe have been removed from a U.S. military cemetery in the Netherlands. read more
#2,
The House will vote on it, maybe today, but it'll never get through the Senate. As long as Trump has a stranglehold on the GOP we'll never see those files.