off politicians and buy their votes and help with political campaigns.

But as the tentacles of the investigation dubbed Operation Car Wash fanned out, other scandals emerged.

Also on Wednesday, CNN initially reported that another suspicious package with a device was addressed to the White House

the explosive devices were sent to former secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former president Barack Obama, and Representative Maxine Waters; Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz also had one sent to her,

“He should have been removed from the flight and handed over to the police,” MP Karl Turner tweeted. “We assume the aircraft was in the UK. If it was, he definitely committed criminal offenses.”

The flight staff has come under criticism for not kicking the man off the flight and for responding to the situation by allowing the woman to move seats instead of him.

“The officers didn’t have their weapons drawn or anything at that point,” Sgt. Jake Smith of the Gwinnett County Police Department said at a news conference.

An 18-year-old who had been charged in the fatal shooting of a police officer in Georgia was shot and killed on Monday as he was pursued by the police,

, which affected Puerto Rico in 2017, cost $90bn.

PEOPLE living on opposite sides of the planet have in recent days felt the disastrous consequences of distant rumblings in the deep ocean

employee fell to the ground and both subjects continued to kick the employee in the head before they ran off.

The first suspect also picked up a bowling ball and smashed it on the back of the employee’s head.

Khabib maintaining possession of his title?: The assumption by many coming out of the UFC 229 chaos was that when the final punishments were handed out to all parties, that would likely include Nurmagomedov being stripped of the lightweight championship he retained over McGregor.

UFC 229 on Saturday night in Las Vegas was one of the most anticipated events in company history. Conor McGregor was returning to the cage following nearly a two-year layoff to challenge Khabib Nurmagomedov for the lightweight championship

And the damage extends far beyond Palu. Donggala, a town to the north (see map), was closer to the epicentre of the quake and was struck by the tsunami too.

Most of this is the work of the tsunami that struck the city on September 28th. It was triggered by an earthquake of magnitude 7.5,

"Kavanaugh believes in a very vigorous Second Amendment right to bear arms,"

Kavanaugh answered cautiously when asked about it during his confirmation hearings, saying the decades-old ruling "was settled as a precedent of the Supreme Court." Asked about Planned Parenthood v. Casey

The timing of the staggered increase will partially reduce the toll of price increases for holiday shoppers buying Chinese imports in the coming months.

President Trump, emboldened by America’s economic strength and China’s economic slowdown, escalated his trade war with Beijing on Monday, saying the United States would impose tariffs on $200 billion worth of goods and was prepared to tax all imports.

An investigation that included showing witnesses photos of various kinds of sharks determined that it was not a species that is considered a threat to people.

“The shark was behind the kayak,” he told reporters. “He didn’t want to give up yet.”

"I think this design is probably on par with the other one," Musk said during Monday night's event. "It might be better. It's slightly riskier technically, because of coupling legs and sort of the actuating wing-fin flaps. But I think it's the right decision overall. I think it looks beautiful."

Those two rear "actuated" fins will also serve as landing pads, as will a leg back there that's styled to look like a fin for symmetry and aesthetic purposes, Musk said.

We urge Colorado Sens. Cory Gardner and Michael Bennet to refuse to vote for Kavanaugh until they are able to hear all the evidence and weigh whether a man who is innocent until proven guilty is also fit for an appointment to a position so elite and sacred only 109 men and four women have served in the history of the United States.

Christine Blasey Ford, a professor at Palo Alto University teaching clinical psychology, told The Washington Post that roughly 36 years ago, when they both were high school students at private preparatory schools, Kavanaugh, in an inebriated state, sexually assaulted her.

• The 12 storm-related deaths include a mother and child who were killed after a tree fell on their home in Wilmington; Amber Dawn Lee, 61, a mother of two who was driving in Union County, S.C., when her vehicle hit a tree in the road; three people in Duplin County, N.C., who died because of flash flooding on the roadways; and a couple who died in a house fire in Cumberland County, N.C.

Florence, the powerful storm that has already left at least 12 people dead and about a million without power on the East Coast,

Floodwaters lapped at doorsteps of some homes in the town of Bennettsville on Sunday, where firefighters used an inflatable boat to get some residents to dry ground. South Carolina rivers may begin cresting Monday evening into Tuesday. 

The hurricane center said the saturation created by Florence's torrential rains will produce "life-threatening flash flooding and significant river flooding'' on parts of the Eastern Seaboard.

McCain knew this. On his last visit to the Munich Security Conference in 2017, shortly before his cancer diagnosis, he spoke of his own mounting sense of alarm. Alarm, he said, at “the hardening of resentment we see toward immigrants” and “the growing inability, and even unwillingness, to separate truth from lies.”

McCain would have called it the honor — of keeping faith in circumstances as dire as the ones he faced.

Mr. Kim did not speak on Sunday,

“This is a big and very positive statement from North Korea. Thank you To Chairman Kim.”

but not Donald Trump, who was barred by McCain from his funeral events

This is one of the bravest souls our country ever produced’.”

Police and child services investigate mom for letting 8-year-old daughter walk dog around the block.