Democratic critics of President Donald Trump are skeptical of real progress on the question of North Korea’s nuclear ambitions despite Trump’s history-making visit to the North.
Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met for about an hour Sunday on the South Korean side of the Demilitarized Zone after Trump became the first U.S. president to step into the North.
They say they’ve agreed to renew their stalled nuclear talks.
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The Transportation Department is poised to relax the federal regulations that govern how many hours a day truckers can be behind the wheel, a long sought goal of the trucking industry.
Interest groups representing motor carriers and drivers have lobbied for revisions that they say would make the rigid “hours of service” rules more flexible.
But highway safety advocates are warning the contemplated changes represent a weakening of the regulations that risk making the nation’s roads less safe.
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Authorities and witnesses say all ten people on board were killed in a fiery crash when a small airplane struggled to gain altitude after taking off from a suburban Dallas airport Sunday morning, veering to one side and plunging into a hangar. Federal officials say two crew members and eight passengers were killed when the twin-engine plane headed to St. Petersburg, Florida, crashed at the Addison Municipal Airport at 9:11 a.m. The identities of those killed were not immediately released.
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The Austin City Council may have ruled that homeless people can pitch a tent and sleep virtually any place in the city, but that rule does not apply to City Hall.
As the Statesman reports, the city council doesn’t mind homeless people sleeping at the foot of a business’ front door, just as long as it’s not in front of their business at City Hall.
Mayor Steve Adler says the City Hall camping ban should not be rescinded.
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A defiant mother uses whatever she can to fend of a man who she was was trying to kidnap her 3-year-old child.
Elgin police say the man tried to take the child, and the mother fought back, eventually sinking her teeth deep into his arm.
The man was unable to wrestle the child away and now police are on the lookout for him. The mother says she did not recognize him.
