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The White House just released a transcript of the July 25 call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. <!– The following message will be displayed to users with unsupported browsers: –> Your browser does not support the <code>iframe</code> HTML tag. Try viewing this in a modern browser …

BY: Sallie Dean CHATTANOOGA – Among the latest e-cigarette craze, JUULs are the trendiest in the market and, perhaps, the most dangerous.  The smoking giant is facing criticism for illegally pitching that their product is safer than smoking cigarettes.      Monday, the Federal Food and Drug Administration administered a warning …

“Desperate Housewives” star Felicity Huffman,  gets her sentence after pleading guilty for her role in the college admission scandal. Early this year Huffman along with several high-profile celebrities were involved in the scandal that captured nationwide attention as parents, coaches, and lawyers used their money to bribe universities to attend …

by Alaura Robinson President Donald Trump was told by congressional leaders on September 15 that future gun control proposals must include a House-passed bill expanding background checks for the purchase of a gun. If no bill is included, democrats warn no legislation may be passed.           House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, …

By STEPHEN MCALLISTER Thirty-four years after Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” was published, the author returns to the dystopian world of Gilead in her sequel, “The Testaments.” During a news conference at London’s British Library, Atwood related the extreme control over women in Gilead to recent stricter abortion bans signed …

By DEEPTI HAJELA and DAVID KLEPPER undefined NEW YORK (AP) — New York became the first state to ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes Tuesday, a move that comes as federal health officials investigate a mysterious surge of severe breathing illnesses linked to vaping. The vote by the state Public …

Hurricane Dorian , packing powerful winds and dangerous storm surges, made its first landfall inthe United States over North Carolina’s Outer Banks on Friday morning.The Category 1 storm reached Cape Hatteras at 9 a.m. as it skimmed along North Carolina’s coast at about 14 mph with maximum sustained winds of 90 …

By JIM MUSTIAN, MICHAEL R. SISAK and TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — After five years of investigations and protests, the New York City Police Department on Monday fired an officer involved in the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner, the unarmed man whose dying gasps of “I …

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on the Russia investigation will be sent to Congress by mid-April and will not be shared with the White House beforehand, Attorney General William Barr said. Barr’s timeline, included in …

By KIM CHANDLER and JEFF MARTIN, Associated Press BEAUREGARD, Ala. (AP) — Rescuers searched for victims Monday amid homes smashed to their foundations, shredded metal dangling from trees and dead animals lying in the open after at least one tornado ripped through a rural Alabama community. At least 23 people were …