By the afternoon Sheriff Bill Brown said the death toll was 13 and likely to rise as they searched for people still missing. Any water that hits the surface is coming at us and causing debris and mud to flow. Officials said numerous deaths are believed to be in the coastal Montecito area that is home to a number of celebrities, CNN reported . Heavy rain in Santa Barbara County las... [Full Article...]
President Trump supported the protesters, saying they were, quote, "expressing legitimate grievances". And Trump's policies-from the travel ban to his looming threat to rip up the nuclear deal in mid-January-are the wrong way to deal with it. [Full Article...]
Wanted me to cut ribbon-NO!" the United States president added. Ms May controversially extended the offer of a state visit when she became the first world leader to meet Mr Trump in the White House following his inauguration past year. Earlier, the Daily Mail reported UK Government officials were told by their American counterparts that the U.S. president has gone cold on the idea. [Full Article...]
A Communist Party of India (CPI) leader on Tuesday compared Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump, saying all three treat the media with disdain. "The issue has been settled with this". "For once, we both [CBI and accused] agree", senior advocates Mukul Rohatgi and R Basant, appearing for the other accused, said. [Full Article...]
On Monday, the United States announced that it will end a program that allowed some 200,000 Salvadoran immigrants to remain in the country under temporary protected status (TPS). "The program was never intended to provide a means for long-term residency in the United States", the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a group that supports tighter immigration rules, said in a blog post Mond... [Full Article...]
A report commissioned by the mayor's office and carried out by independent researchers at Cambridge Econometrics claims that should Britain leave the European Union without a deal in place, London stands to lose 6,000 creative industries jobs by 2030, with the country as a whole facing the loss of 27,000 creative jobs. [Full Article...]
Ryland suffered massive injuries November 5 when a gunman stormed the rural First Baptist Church and slaughtered 26 people, including Ryland's stepmother, Joanne, who tried valiantly to shield her kids . "He just - he couldn't believe how many people were there with him", Duncan said. Ward's daughters, Brooke Bryanne Ward, 5, and Emily Garcia, 7, were also killed. [Full Article...]
Trump's comments came as two senators presented details of a bipartisan compromise that would extend protections against deportation for hundreds of thousands of young immigrants - and also strengthen border protections, as Trump has insisted . [Full Article...]