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Trump calling him a “showboat” isn’t exactly off the mark.

It’s hard to overstate the historic significance of what’s going to take place on Capitol Hill on Thursday: A recently fired FBI director will accuse a sitting US president of trying to scuttle an investigation into one of his aides.

The Senate Intelligence Committee has released the testimony that former FBI Director James Comey will be giving at Thursday’s hearing, and it has big, troubling implications for the crisis-laden Trump presidency. Читать дальше...

Kansas Governor Sam Brownback pushed through a permanent tax cut for the rich in 2012.
But after five years of massive deficits and a destroyed state economy, Brownback's policy turned out so bad even many Kansas Republicans voted to over-ride his veto of a tax increase.

Is The Invisible Man any match for Iron Man at the box office?

The 34-year-old is due to appear before magistrates today.

Police hunting two men involved in a violent robbery have issued an e-fit of one of the suspects.

Gazette columnist Harry Bell watched Saturday's hospital protest march this week thinking "we've been here before".

Officers investigating an attack in which the victim's hand was nearly sliced off have released a photo of a man they want to speak to.

Hundreds of residents have signed a petition challenging changes to council bin collections

The number of motorists that have been caught speeding by average speed cameras on Sheppey Crossing have been revealed.

The club is pushing ahead with ambitious proposals as it dreams of rising up through the leagues.

Tyres, trolleys and other rubbish have been thrown into a river - after travellers left a field ahead of a funfair.

The vote to leave the EU cost a Kent winemaker dearly but he remains optimistic about the future of fizz production in the county.

Six-year-old boy racer Ethan Sparks is a serious talent.

New signing Danny Mills believes Ebbsfleet can challenge in the top half of the National League next season.

Captain Sam Northeast says Kent's overseas signings are boosting their promotion push.

Dartford's Deren Ibrahim is set to win his fourth cap in a World Cup qualifier on Friday night.

Sean Paul Mills, the artistic director of the Willamette Valley Symphony, is a cellist by training, so he doesn't need much encouragement to talk about Dvorak's Cello Concerto, which the orchestra will perform this weekend.

The door flings open and six high school students rush into a small, dark room, their blue guns pointed straight ahead.

The Galactic Cowboy Orchestra has serious cred in the jazz world, with a nice writeup in DownBeat magazine in April and its second consecutive nomination in the “Beyond” category for the DownBeat Critics Poll this year.

Brianna D. Tande, Matthew L. Talley, and Everett J. Barr were taken into custody and charged with several counts of manufacturing and possessing methamphetamine. Tande was also charged with child neglect as reportedly three children were living at the house.

YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) - A nearly $20 million combined heat and power system project is expected to allow Eastern Michigan University to produce most of the electricity and heat for the school's Ypsilanti campus.

(AP) — A nearly $20 million combined heat and power system project is expected to allow Eastern Michigan University to produce most of the electricity and heat for the school's Ypsilanti campus. The school says the system will use natural gas to simultaneously produce electricity and steam heat.

Naturalist. History buff. Beachcomber. Family man. Born Jan. 26, 1947, in Victoria, B.C.; died Dec. 29, 2016, in Tofino, B.C., of cancer, aged 69

Bay Area political events: candidate fundraiser, health care film Hosted by Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto, from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at Foothill Community College’s Smithwick Theatre, 12345 El Monte Road in Los Altos. The Syrian American Council, the International Rescue Committee and National Geographic premiere Hell on Earth: The Sister District Project holds a fundraiser with drinks and music to support Cheryl Turpin, Democratic candidate for the Virginia House of Delegates in the 85th District (Virginia Beach). Читать дальше...

Subway delays, noisy neighbors, possible obstruction of justice. Normal New York stuff.