Business Leaders Quit Trump Panel; He Hits Back HardPresident Donald Trump on Tuesday ripped into the four business leaders who resigned from his White House jobs panel—the latest sign that corporate America's romance with Trump is faltering—after his equivocal response to violence by white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Trump Comments Please, Anger, Then Please Hate Group LeadersWhite nationalists have been parsing President Donald Trump's words since a deadly attack at a Virginia rally over the weekend. A day after the president called them "criminals and thugs," some seemed quite pleased Tuesday when Trump angrily pivoted back …
AG Hood Settles $2.5 Million Epps Scandal ClaimAttorney General Jim Hood settled his office's claims against Global Tel*Link Corp. for $2.5 million today. The corporation is one of 12 that Hood has pursued legally in connection to the former Commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Corrections Christopher …
Debra Mays-JacksonJackson State University named Debra Mays-Jackson its chief of staff for JSU President William Bynum Jr. on July 24.
Alabama Senate Race Tests Trump, McConnell ReachAlabama's Republicans and Democrats were casting ballots Tuesday to select party nominees in the closely watched race for the Senate seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Korean Leaders, US Open Door to Diplomacy in Nuclear CrisisNorth Korea's military on Tuesday presented leader Kim Jong Un with plans to launch missiles into waters near Guam and "wring the windpipes of the Yankees," even as both Koreas and the United States signaled their willingness to avert a …
Furor Over Charlottesville Follows Trump Home to ManhattanPresident Donald Trump is back in the New York skyscraper that bears his name as the furor over his reaction to race-fueled clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend shows few signs of dying down.
Deadly Rally Accelerates Removal of Confederate StatuesThe deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, is fueling another re-evaluation of Confederate statues in cities across the nation, accelerating their removal in much the same way that a 2015 mass shooting by a white supremacist renewed pressure to …
Asked to Serve, Some CEOs Say No More to TrumpFirst it was the leader of a major U.S. pharmaceutical, then the CEO of an athletic gear company, and before the day had ended, the chief executive of a $170 billion tech giant. Three of the nation's top executives resigned …
Trump Names Hate Groups, Denouncing Charlottesville ViolenceUnder relentless pressure, President Donald Trump on Monday named and condemned "repugnant" hate groups and declared that "racism is evil" in a far more forceful statement than he'd made earlier after deadly, race-fueled weekend clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia.