The US Report

A New York City train derailed at a downtown Brooklyn terminal during Wednesday's morning rush hour, injuring more than 100 commuters in the metropolitan area's second major rail accident since late September. Emergency crews swarmed Atlantic Terminal after the Long Island Rail Road train went off the tracks inside the busy transportation hub at 8:20 a.m. local time (1320 GMT), the New York City Fire Department said.

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A British Victim In Syria: A young man's died while fighting with Kurdish forces

A British chef who flew to Syria to fight ISIS was killed during a gun battle just before Christmas, Kurdish activists claim.

Ryan Lock, from Chichester, died during an offensive by anti-Islamic State forces near Raqqa in northern Syria on December 21.

The 20-year-old, who had no military background, flew to Rojava to join the Kurdish People’s Defence Units (YPG) last August.

Brexit Turmoil: Britain's top man in the EU has quit just before formal talks begin

Britain's ambassador to Brussels took a swipe at ministers' 'muddled thinking' as he quit his post without warning today.

Sir Ivan Rogers shocked staff this afternoon by announcing his decision to step down from his post early - only three months before Britain's talks on leaving the EU are due to begin.

Racist & Unhappy: A depressing snapshot of the UK in January 2017

Sky News unveiled a data poll suggesting that Britain is “more racist and less happy” than a year ago, with the supposedly worsening mood framed as a direct consequence of the country voting to leave the European Union (EU) last June.  The findings were reported by Sky News by the broadcaster’s Head of Data, Harry Carr, who previously managed the political polling for Ipsos MORI, a polling organisation which suffered a severe blow to its credibility after putting the probability of Britain voting to Remain in the EU at 74 per cent.

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Hundreds of quakes near the California - Mexico Border

The California Institute of Technology is reporting approximately 100 earthquakes were detected near the California-Mexico border on New Year’s Eve. The quakes were centered about Brawley, CA, “which is about 125 miles east of San Diego and 20 miles north of the border.” According to ABC 7, the largest of the quakes was about 3.9 magnitude. They report that scientists say larger quakes in the region are possible and “the shaking may continue for several days.”

Pres. Obama could try to force his nominee onto the supreme court

President Obama could use his recess appointment power to put Judge Merrick Garland on the Supreme Court tomorrow. In the five-minute break tomorrow when the Senate gavels out of the 114th Congress and then into the 115th Congress the outgoing president could use his recess appointment powers to place Garland onto the bench.  The move would be highly controversial and Garland's tenure would have an expiration date, as recess appointments only last until the conclusion of the congressional session, in this case December 2017.

SpaceX plans to fly again next week

Elon Musk’s SpaceX said Monday that it has discovered the cause of a September rocket explosion and plans to return to flight as soon as Sunday. The conclusions of the company’s investigation have yet to be approved by the Federal Aviation Administration, and the agency has yet to provide it a license to launch. But SpaceX’s statement means that it has confidence that federal agencies will approve its remedies for the problem and that it will soon receive the green light.

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The Obama administration is under intense pressure to release evidence confirming Russian interference in the presidential election before leaving office. The administration up until now has provided little documentation to back up its official October assessment that the Russian government was attempting to interfere in the U.S. election.

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Congress is already setting the stage to cut off U.S. funding to the United Nations in the wake of a contested vote last week in which the Obama administration permitted an anti-Israel resolution to win overwhelming approval, according to congressional leaders, who told the Washington Free Beacon that the current administration is already plotting to take further action against the Jewish state before vacating office.

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According to the New York post, President Obama’s ‘reign of error’ has left his party smaller, weaker and ricketier than it has been since at least the 1940s. It states that Obama has supervised the net loss of 959 such Democratic positions, down 23.5 percent, according to Ballotpedia, which generated most of the data cited here. This far outpaces the 843 net seats that Republicans yielded under President Dwight Eisenhower.

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A police officer has been shot and a suspect is dead following a shooting in Saraland, Alabama. It happened just before 11 a.m. on Wednesday. The female officer, identified as Jackie Tucker, is a member of the Saraland Police Department. She shot while responding to a domestic call and is in critical condition, but stable.

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Donald Trump today won the Electoral College vote to secure his election as the US’ 45th president, easily staving off a long-shot bid by opponents to turn Republican electors against him. The Electoral College affirmed Trump as the president about six weeks after his stunning victory over Hillary Clinton, pushing him past the 270-vote threshold for election, with scant evidence of the anti-Trump revolt among electors that some of his critics had hoped would occur.

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The Electoral College formalized Donald Trump's election victory on Monday despite protests around the country to encourage GOP electors to abandon the Republican. The president-elect easily racked up the 270 electoral votes needed to send him to the White House.

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Another round of unspeakably cold air, courtesy of the Polar Vortex, is ready for an assault on much of the central and eastern U.S. by midweek. It will bring "dangerously" cold temperatures and howling winds to millions of Americans.

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President-elect Donald Trump has chosen ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson to serve as secretary of state, the transition team announced Tuesday, setting up a heated Senate confirmation battle and signaling a desire to ease Washington's estrangement with Russia. Like Trump, Tillerson, 64, has no formal foreign policy experience, but has built close relationships with many world leaders by closing massive deals across Eurasia and the Middle East on behalf of the world's largest energy company.

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National Action movement is to become the first extreme right-wing group banned as a terrorist organisation. An order laid in Parliament on Monday to proscribe National Action under the Terrorism Act 2000 is due to come into effect on Friday morning.

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Extreme winter weather this weekend has spread from Minnesota to New York, causing treacherous driving conditions and the cancellation of over 1,500 flights. Authorities are calling for drivers to stay home instead of battling the slick roads.

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The life expectancy of Americans decreased in 2015, compared to 2014 – the first drop in over two decades. The newly-released report also shows mortality rates were up for most of the 10 leading causes of death. The data released by the National Centre for Health Statistics on Thursday shows that life expectancy in the United States dropped last year for the first time since 1993.

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Former Utah governor Jon Huntsman, Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson and former Nato commander James Stavridis added to Trump Tower invitation list.

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The temporary budget bill, scheduled to be unveiled Tuesday, would keep federal agencies functioning into next spring, giving the new Congress and the incoming Trump administration time to approve more than $1 trillion to fund federal agencies through the Sept. 30 end of the current government budget year.

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President-elect Donald Trump named Dr Ben Carson as his nominee for housing and urban development secretary. Trump said Monday that Carson "has a brilliant mind and is passionate about strengthening communities and families within those communities. We have talked at length about my urban renewal agenda and our message of economic revival, very much including our inner cities."

The man accused of killing nine people during a bible study in Charleston, S.C. last year has rehired his defense attorneys to represent him in the first phase of his federal murder trial.

Soaring prices for prescription medicines for impotence and other problems have put the remedies out of reach for some. Without insurance coverage, Viagra and Cialis cost about $50 a pill, triple their 2010 list prices. The new “female Viagra,” a daily pill for low sex drive called Addyi, costs $800 per month. Older products for women also have seen huge price run-ups, Truven Health Analytics data show.

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President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday again threatened to punish companies that move their operations overseas even as he defended directly negotiating a $7 million incentive package to keep one factory here open.

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Mecklenburg District Attorney Andrew Murray said Wednesday he found no legal wrongdoing in the shooting death of a Charlotte man by police, and denounced pervasive rumors spread by social media about the case. Murray laid out in painstaking detail the evidence gathered in the Sept. 20 fatal shooting of Keith Lamont Scott, 43, by officer Brentley Vinson.

All year, engineers have been pumping up Cassini’s orbit around in the planet to increase its tilt so that it can glance through the unexplored regions at the outer edge of the main rings.

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As a strong storm system approached some of the largest wildfires burning in the South, the rain signalled new hope for firefighters working to extinguish the blazes. Experts predicted that the Tuesday rains from one storm system would not be enough to end the relentless drought that’s spread across several states and provided fuel for the fires.

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Trump's Democratic rival Hillary Clinton joins Green Party's push for a recount in three pivotal US states. President-elect Donald Trump, who called the presidential elections "rigged" for most of his campaign, branded the recount effort aimed at revisiting the vote in three pivotal battleground states a "scam".

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Thanksgiving Day traditionally kicks off the 'holiday season' in the United States. The day was set in stone by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 and approved by Congress in 1941. FDR changed it from Abraham Lincoln's designation as the last Thursday in November (because there are sometimes five Thursdays in the month).

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President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday selected two prominent Republican women for Cabinet-level positions, adding diversity to an inner circle that was already coming under fire for being composed mostly of white men. In a potentially controversial choice, Trump intends to nominate billionaire philanthropist Betsy DeVos for education secretary, turning to a conservative activist who has forcefully pushed for private school voucher programs.

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 Donald Trump made a lot of promises on the campaign trail that have left many Democrats afraid of what him being in office entails for America's future.

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There are claim that the Trump transition is dragging its feet. Politico stated that “Trump was caught flat-footed by winning,” offering as evidence that “his transition team has been slow to engage with the outgoing administration.”

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Donald Trump met with Mitt Romney, once a fierce critic of the president-elect who is now being floated as a potential pick for secretary of state, on Saturday afternoon, setting aside the friction between the two men and signaling a willingness by Trump to entertain different points of view on foreign policy. Romney appeared to warmly shake hands with Trump, each man gripping the arm of the other, as he arrived at Trump’s New Jersey golf course. The two exchanged pleasantries, with Trump placing his hand on Romney’s back, and disappeared behind a large brown door with Vice President-elect Mike Pence.

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Mike Pence, who usurped leadership of the transition team from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Friday, would “move to get rid of lobbyists in key roles,” according to Fox News. A source told Fox that the purge “makes good on [Trump’s] vision of how he wants his government constructed.”

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So far, the president-elect has only made two appointments, the first being Reince Priebus as White House Chief of Staff. This is the highest ranking employee in the White House, and this person essentially serves as the assistant to the president. The current Chief of Staff is Denis McDonough, and Priebus will replace him in January 2017. Priebus is the current chair of the Republican National Committee, having served in that role since January 2011.

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In a wide-ranging interview, his first televised sit-down since his election win last week, Trump softened on his stance to secure the border with a much-ballyhooed wall, but he renewed his campaign pledge to kick out undocumented immigrants — starting with those who have committed crimes.

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Donald Trump won the key swing states of Florida, North Carolina and Ohio early this morning, as he marched towards the White House. The Republican surpassed expectations and confounded pollsters in Florida, where Hillary Clinton had been expected to win following a surge in the Hispanic vote.

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The US presidential campaign neared its end last night in the same angry tone it began, with Republican Donald Trump calling Democrat Hillary Clinton a "phony" and Clinton accusing him of splitting the country. Clinton and Trump raced through several battleground states in a last-ditch attempt to encourage their supporters to show up and vote on Tuesday.

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The FBI has determined that a new batch of emails linked to Hillary Clinton’s private email server “have not changed our conclusion” that she committed no criminal wrongdoing, FBI director James Comey told congressional leaders in a letter on Sunday. The Democratic nominee’s opponent, Donald Trump, reacted with anger at the news, and cast doubt on whether the FBI had even carried out its work.

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In a grim preview of the discontent that may cloud at least the outset of the next president’s term, Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump are viewed unfavorably by a majority of voters to bring the country back together after this bitter election season.

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Polls are tightening as the race to become the 45th President of the United States enters its last week, with Donald Trump attempting to capitalise on Hillary Clinton's latest email scandal.

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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump held a non-stop series of rallies this week, with polls showing the race tightening slightly in the home stretch even as Clinton maintained a clear lead. The big late-October surprise came when the FBI announced Friday — just a week and a half before the election — that it was opening a new inquiry into the e-mails and private server used by the Democratic candidate.

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White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the Administration will neither defend nor criticize Comey's decision to inform Congress about the new Hillary Clinton-related emails. He added that the White House has no recommendations for Comey over what information to give to the public, regarding the Clinton-related email probe.

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The FBI has announced it is investigating new emails sent by Hillary Clinton on a private server during her time as Secretary of State, sending her campaign into panic mode just 11 days before the presidential election. The emails were found during an investigation into illicit text messages between Anthony Weiner, a former congressman, and a 15-year-old girl, according to The New York Times.

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 Donald Trump’s campaign manager has admitted “we are behind,” but the candidate himself is not making any such concession. Instead Trump this morning is grabbing hold of a “phony polls” conspiracy theory floated on Zero Hedge, a financial analysis site that also specializes in screwball politics headlines. The Drudge Report has a prominent link this morning to a Zero Hedge piece claiming that Wikileaks has revealed a Clinton campaign plot to rig the polls

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The Chicago Cubs announced the lineup for Game 1 of the World Series Tuesday afternoon. Slugger Kyle Schwarber is on it, listed as designated hitter. Game 2 of the series has been moved up one hour to start at 6:08 p.m CST due to weather concerns, Major League Baseball said.

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Hillary Clinton moved aggressively on Sunday to press her advantage in the presidential race, urging black voters in North Carolina to vote early and punish Republican officeholders for supporting Donald J. Trump, even as Mr. Trump’s party increasingly concedes he is unlikely to recover in the polls.

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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump faced off at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, for the third and final presidential debate of the 2016 general election. While Donald Trump's proclamation that he may not recognize the results of the presidential election has grabbed the most headlines, it wasn't the hottest topic on social media following the final debate between the Republican nominee and Hillary Clinton.

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Democratic presidential nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton debated with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump during the third U.S. presidential debate at the Thomas & Mack Center on October 19, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada. This was the final debate ahead of Election Day on November 8.

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President Barack Obama on Tuesday cast Donald Trump's claims of a rigged election as potentially corrosive to American democracy, insisting that the Republican presidential nominee was griping about an invented conspiracy. "You start whining before the game's even over?" Obama said during a news conference in the White House Rose Garden, adding that Trump's claim is "not based on facts."

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Hillary Clinton is advancing into states the Democrats haven't won in decades, confidently expanding her offensive against Donald Trump and aiming to help her party win back control of Congress. At the same time Clinton is showing new signs of confidence, she faced fresh revelations about her use of a private server as secretary of state and hacked emails from a top campaign official's personal account. 

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With early voting already underway in many of the states that will decide the presidency, Hillary Clinton is beginning to reap the benefits of years of Democratic efforts to target and register voters, even as Republicans steadily close their disadvantage in party registration.

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Paul Ryan has thrown in the towel as he signalled that the Republican Party might lose the presidential race. He suggested the GOP to focus to ensure Clinton doesn't get a blank check with a Democrat-controlled Congress.

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Minnesota's Democratic governor said Wednesday that the Affordable Care Act is "no longer affordable," a stinging critique from a state leader who strongly embraced the law just a few years ago. Gov. Mark Dayton made the comments while addressing questions about Minnesota's fragile health insurance market, where individual plans are facing double-digit increases after all insurers threatened to exit the market entirely in 2017.

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British foreign secretary says Russia risks becoming 'pariah nation' over role in destruction of Aleppo and says UK is 'doing what we can'. British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson on Tuesday said that Russia risked becoming a "pariah nation" over its bombing of Aleppo but rejected calls from MPs for the UK to push for a no-fly zone to stop the air strikes killing civilians in besieged rebel-held areas of the Syrian city.

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The storm’s death toll in the United States has climbed to more than two dozen. Gov. Pat McCrory of North Carolina said Tuesday that the state had recorded 14 fatalities. At least six people died in Florida, and the authorities in Georgia and South Carolina reported three deaths in each state. More than 650,000 customers remain without electricity, according to local utilities, with about half of those in North Carolina and Virginia.

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According to multiple reports, House Speaker, Paul Ryan told his colleagues that with regard to Trump, they should do whatever they believe will work best for them, be that an endorsement or a repudiation of the GOP nominee. For his part, Ryan said that he would neither defend Trump nor campaign for him for the remainder of the election.

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The gloves came off in the second US presidential debate as Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton clashed in ugly exchanges over the leaked tape showing the Republican bragging about sexually assaulting women.

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Officials urged residents along Florida’s east coast to rush emergency preparations to completion late on Wednesday as deadly Hurricane Matthew, one of the most powerful storms in recent history, bore down on the state from the Caribbean and threatened a direct hit. Hundreds of thousands of people were evacuating from vulnerable coastal areas ranging from Fort Lauderdale north to Cape Canaveral as the category 3 storm, which claimed at least 16 lives as it passed across Haiti and the Dominican Republic on Tuesday, drew closer.

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Tim Kaine and Mike Pence have faced off in the only vice presidential debate in the run-up to the US election, clashing over national security, immigration and other issues. Hurricane Matthew, a Category Four storm, has led to a number of deaths in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Southern Haiti has effectively been cut off after the bridge linking it to the capital, Port-au-Prince, collapsed.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday suspended a treaty with Washington on cleaning up weapons-grade plutonium, signaling he is willing to use nuclear disarmament as a new bargaining chip in disputes with the United States over Ukraine and Syria. Starting in the last years of the Cold War, Russia and the United States signed a series of accords to reduce the size of their nuclear arsenals, agreements that have so far survived intact despite a souring of U.S.-Russian relations under Putin.

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Haiti and Jamaica urged residents in vulnerable coastal areas to evacuate and Cuba suspended flights on Sunday as bands of rain from Hurricane Matthew, the strongest storm to menace Caribbean nations since 2007, drenched the Jamaican capital. Matthew's slow-moving center was expected to come near southwestern Haiti and Jamaica on Monday as a major storm bringing winds of 145 miles per hour (230 kph) and life-threatening rain, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

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A New Jersey commuter train crashed into a busy railroad terminal Thursday morning, killing one person, the latest in a series of fatal passenger train accidents around the country. Four people died in 2013 when the engineer of another New York City-area commuter train fell asleep at the controls and sped through a tight curve, derailing the train. Eight people died in Philadelphia last year when an Amtrak train derailed after speeding through a sharp turn. Both crashes could have been prevented by automatic braking systems that were planned but not yet deployed.

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US Congress, first the Senate and then the House, humiliated the president when it voted on Wednesday to override Obama for the first time in his eight-year tenure, as the House rejected a veto of legislation allowing families of terrorist victims to sue Saudi Arabia. The House easily cleared the two-thirds threshold with a 348-77 vote to push back against the veto. The Senate voted 97-1 in favor of the override earlier in the day, with only Democratic Leader Harry Reid voting to sustain the president’s veto.

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Temporary barriers appeared to prevent serious flooding Tuesday in Iowa's second-largest city, but officials are warning thousands of evacuated Cedar Rapids residents to stay away for a couple more days. "It's not time yet to go back to life as usual, but we're getting close," City Manager Jeff Pomeranz told reporters late Tuesday morning after the Cedar River crested there just above 22 feet -- 6 feet above what is considered major flood stage.

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The two US presidential candidates have clashed over jobs, terrorism and race in a bitter television debate. The attacks turned personal as Republican Donald Trump accused his rival Hillary Clinton of not having the right temperament to be president. Meanwhile, Mrs Clinton baited Mr Trump by pointing out that he refuses to release his tax returns. The New York showdown could be the most watched debate in TV history, with up to 100 million viewers.

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Arnold Palmer, known as "the King" for his transformative legacy in golf, has died at the age of 87. He died Sunday evening at a Pittsburgh hospital while awaiting cardiac surgery, according to a statement from his company. With his dominance in golf and distinctive style, Palmer helped turn the sport from a country club pursuit to one that became accessible to the masses.

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Harley Carnes reports that US authorities are whether the New York bomb attacks were an Islamist terror plot.  Its emerged the alleged perpetrator had travelled to Afghanistan and Pakistan several times and showed signs of having been radicalised. Ahmad Rahami, 28, was captured on Monday in a gunfight with police in the city of Linden, New Jersey, after an intense manhunt. Also the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General has released a memo showing how rhe U.S. government mistakenly granted citizenship to at least 858 immigrants from countries of concern to national security.

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Harley Carnes reports on American fishermen deeply fearful that the White House could cut them off as early as this week from major fishing areas of the U.S. continental shelf on both coasts. Also Samsung recalls it’s Note7 phone.

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Hillary Clinton is "healthy and fit to serve" as US president, says her doctor, as her campaign released updated medical information.The statement said the Democratic presidential nominee "continues to improve" after a pneumonia diagnosis.

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According to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau, last year saw poverty in the U.S. decline the most in 16 years. The report released on Tuesday morning shows the official poverty rate in the United States declined to 13.5 percent in 2015, a 1.2 percentage drop from 2014. That is the largest drop seen on a year-over-year basis since 1998 and 1999. 

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President Barack Obama and the top four congressional leaders met at the White House on Monday as Congress neared an interim spending plan that seemingly everyone on Capitol Hill can endorse except one critical faction: conservative House Republicans.

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Obama Threatens to Wage A Cyber War against Russia. Accuses Moscow of Intervening in US Elections. Following the G20 conference in Hangzhou, President Obama said that the issue of Russian hackers invading America’s cyberspace was a critical issue he raised during the summit amid a bout of anti-Russia hysteria in the United States provoked by claims that Putin has converted Republican nominee Donald Trump into an agent of the Kremlin in addition to concerns regarding the DNC Leaks.

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A cure for type 1 diabetes is closer than ever after scientists showed they can switch off the disease for six months in animals – which would equate to several years in humans. In 2014, researchers at Harvard University discovered how to make huge quantities of insulin-producing cells, in a breakthrough hailed as significant as antibiotics.
 

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For nearly 27 years, one man knew where Jacob Wetterling was. Late last month, Danny Heinrich agreed to confess to killing the 11-year-old boy — setting in motion a flurry of difficult negotiations between defense attorneys, investigators and prosecutors that would put him behind bars for decades and finally unlock the secrets to a mystery that has long haunted the state of Minnesota.

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This Labor Day, the AFL-CIO’s Tefere Gebre believes we must recognize the important role immigrant workers play in our country.

Working people are a force in this election year and our activism is poised to move America forward. They realize the promise of the historic Civil Rights movement and the labor movement with its commitment to empowering voters. 

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Theresa May has had a difficult start to the G20 summit as President Barack Obama said the UK would not be the priority for a US trade deal and Japan issued an unprecedented 15-page warning about the consequences of Brexit.

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Hurricane Hermine was rotating ever closer to Florida's northwest coast early Friday, flooding streets, toppling trees and knocking down power lines, authorities and forecasters said.

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Donald Trump flew into a nation he has constantly berated during his campaign to meet President Enrique Peña Nieto and said they discussed a wall Trump has vowed to build on the US southern border, but not his demand that Mexico pay for it -- an assertion the Mexican president later disputed.

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A hurricane watch has been issued for the Florida Gulf Coast from the Anclote River Indian Pass. A tropical storm watch has been issued for the Florida Gulf Coast west of Indian Pass to the Walton/Bay County line.

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Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin is done playing the good wife to Anthony Weiner, announcing Monday she is leaving the serially sexting ex-congressman after he was accused of sending raunchy photos and messages to yet another woman.

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Presidential contenders Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump delivered searing indictments of one another Thursday, trading charges of racism and corruption, and setting the tone for a bitter fight until the November election.

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At least two tornadoes struck cities in central Indiana on Wednesday, tearing the roof off apartment buildings, sending air conditioners falling onto parked cars and cutting power to thousands of people.

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In a Tuesday interview with Yahoo News, the head of conservative legal watchdog group Judicial Watch said that Clinton Foundation’s move to shut down funding was an admission of error. “Even the Clintons are admitting there’s something wrong,”

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Students returned to school on Monday in Miami amid a new concern: the threat of Zika. Nine schools in Miami-Dade County are in or near a zone where nearly a month ago health officials confirmed that mosquitoes are spreading the virus.

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In the aftermath of a wildfire, somebody has to figure out exactly what burned. It's painstaking and important work that helps evacuated residents know if they lost everything or have something waiting for them when they return home.

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Ryan Lochte sparked an international spectacle full of chaos and confusion this week when he claimed that he and three other U.S. Olympic swimmers were robbed at gunpoint in Rio — a crime Brazilian authorities say the athletes made up.

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A wildfire continued raging through rural communities Wednesday in Southern California, triggering a state of emergency and evacuation orders for more than 82,000 residents in the San Bernardino area.

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