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Iran quadrupled its uranium-enrichment production capacity amid tensions with the U.S. over Tehran's atomic program, nuclear officials said Monday, just after President Donald Trump and Iran's foreign minister traded threats and taunts on Twitter. Iranian officials made a point to stress that the uranium would be enriched only to the 3.67% limit set under the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, making it usable for a power plant but far below what's needed for an atomic weapon. But by increasing production, Iran soon will exceed the stockpile limitations set by the accord. Tehran has set a July 7 deadline for...

The first couple of reality TV has named their child, wait for it. Psalm West! Psalm was born through a surrogate. He is the second child that Kim and Kanye have had through surrogacy. Kanye had shared the image of their newborn baby sleeping in the cot and nicely tucked and he had written, "Beautiful Mother's day. With the arrival of our fourth child. We are blessed beyond measure. We have everything we need."

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, whose home state of Kentucky was long one of the nation’s leading tobacco producers, introduced bipartisan legislation Monday to raise the minimum age for buying any tobacco products from 18 to 21. The chamber’s top Republican, who said he was making enactment of the bill “one of my highest priorities,” issued his proposal at a time when the use of e-cigarettes is growing and underage vaping has soared, raising concerns by health experts. The measure would apply to all tobacco products, e-cigarettes and vapor products and was co-sponsored by Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., whose state...

<p>Accounts tagged 'hatetrump' and 'ihatetrump' are part of a coordinated campaign to undermine US President Donald Trump that has emerged on social media site Instagram, an independent study has revealed.</p> <p>The photo-sharing app Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, said it was investigating the report and had already removed some of the profiles it highlighted.</p>

President Trump seems itching for a fight against Joe Biden. Monday night he tried out some new jabs. Standing in front of thousands of supporters at a rally in north central Pennsylvania, Trump leveled multiple attacks on Biden, who leads Trump in an early poll in the state. Trump said foreign leaders will get their way with Biden as president and that Pennsylvanians shouldn’t feel a kinship with the former vice president because Biden left the state when he was a child. “Don’t forget: Biden deserted you,” Trump said as he wrapped up his speech to thousands of supporters gathered...

...STRONG LATE SEASON SPRING STORM TO AFFECT COLORADO... .A strong storm system will move across Colorado late tonight and Tuesday, and continue to affect the mountains through Tuesday night. This system will bring heavy, wet snow to the mountains, foothills, and Palmer Divide, impacting travel with snow covered and slushy roads. Some show will also occur along the I-25 corridor from Denver north to Fort Collins. Lower elevations that see the heavier snow totals may see broken tree limbs and scattered power outages. ...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT TUESDAY NIGHT... * WHAT...Heavy snow expected. Total snow...

Reproductive rights activists will gather at Brittlebank Park Tuesday afternoon to protest the spate of partial and near-total abortion bans being enacted across the country. Planned Parenthood Votes! South Atlantic and We Are Family, a Charleston-based LGBTQ youth organization, are calling for "patients, volunteers, supporters, reproductive rights advocates, and concerned citizens" to join them from 6 to 7 p.m. at the park on the Ashley River. The rally is part of a nationwide effort to mobilize activists against abortion restrictions. It comes less than a week after Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed a near-total abortion ban. Under the law, which...

Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., said it is time for impeachment inquiries to be opened if former White House Counsel Don McGahn is a no-show to Tuesday's scheduled congressional hearing. Cicilline, a member of the Democratic-controlled House Judiciary Committee, appeared on MSNBC and offered his reaction that the White House is instructing McGahn to refuse to comply with a subpoena to appear on Capitol Hill and the assurance from the Department of Justice that McGahn has "immunity" which does not legally require him to testify before Congress, something Cicilline believed was "legally incorrect." "Let me be clear; if Don McGahn doesn't...

After news broke that multiple states have passed increasingly extreme abortion restrictions, singer Billie Eilish spoke out against the bills mandating those restrictions, and the idea that anyone can legislate another person's body. In an interview with Variety, Billie called abortion restrictions like those recently passed in Alabama and Georgia "unbelievable," saying they make her beyond angry. “It’s so unbelievable. It makes me, like, red. It makes my ears f*cking steam out of my head," she said to Variety. "Women should say, should do and feel and be exactly what they want. There should be nobody else telling them how...

Another royal wedding! Prince Harry leaves new mum Meghan at home with baby Archie to join The Queen, Philip and Pippa for third royal wedding in a year as Her Majesty's cousin Lady Gabriella Windsor marries in Windsor Lady Gabriella Windsor is 52nd in line to the throne and daughter of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent Royal bride marries 40-year-old financier Thomas Kingston at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle today It's the third royal wedding in the 15th-century venue in less than a year after Harry & Meghan and Eugenie Foreign royalty included King Constantine II of Greece...

According to poll results, IrishCentral readers believe President Donald Trump should be banned from Ireland. Almost three in four IrishCentral readers believe that US President Donald Trump should be banned from Ireland because of hate speech, according to the result of a poll conducted on the site. When faced with the question "Does President Trump deserve to be banned from Ireland for hate speech?" 73.87% of readers voted 'yes' while only 24.32% voted against. The remaining 1.81% were uncertain. The total number of those polled reached 551 readers. "We here in America have to listen to enough of it. There’s...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Protestors will gather in Public Square on Tuesday to rally against the “heartbeat” abortion ban signed by Gov. Mike DeWine in April. The protest is part of the #StoptheBans movement, a nationwide day of rallies advocating against efforts to undo Roe v. Wade. The Ohio law — which prohibits abortion after 6 weeks, before many women know they are pregnant — is being challenged by the ACLU and others. The law has no exceptions for rape or incest. Abortion rights opponents hope the legal challenge to the law triggers a U.S. Supreme Court battle that overturns Roe...

Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch has flatly accused former FBI Director James Comey of mischaracterizing her statements by repeatedly alleging, under oath, that Lynch privately instructed him to call the Hillary Clinton email probe a "matter" instead of an "investigation."

Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton’s office is blaming a rogue staffer for tweeting a mocking abortion meme over the weekend deemed offensive by current and past state lawmakers who saw it and retweeted it before it was deleted a short time later. The meme, issued from Tipton’s official congressional Twitter account, showed female protestors with the caption “We want government controlled healthcare!” Then below that the meme reads, “*State government Bans abortions*” followed by a picture of a surprised Pikachu — the popular Pokémon character. ***IMAGE ON LINK GOING TO MAKE YOU LOOK** The meme is an apparent reference to...

Earlier this year, with less fanfare, Colorado lawmakers debated a bill to ban elective abortions that appears more severe than the controversial new limits approved in other states. The Colorado measure would have allowed an abortion only if the mother’s life was at risk and offered no exceptions for rape or incest — much like the law in Alabama, the nation’s most restrictive. But here, the legislation went much further to define the start of human life at fertlization — and even allow for the death penalty for a doctor who performs an illegal abortion. The measure’s failure in the...

DENVER (KWCH) Some in Colorado are worried a controversial billboard advertising abortion may give their state a bad name. The billboard is located along I-70, and it's visible to those coming into the state from Utah. It reads "Welcome to Colorado, where you can get a safe, legal abortion." Abortion supporters tell CBS Denver the billboard is meant to let those in neighboring states know that Colorado supports their reproductive medical needs. **VIDEO ON LINK***

I guarantee you any woman who has ever had an abortion will forever remember it for the rest of her life. It’s not something you do lightly. Ever since I was little, my mom told me she almost aborted me. I know that sounds a little hypocritical coming from me, but with that being said, my mom had a total of five children—none of whom she could provide for. I don’t mean this to be negative towards my mom. It’s just a fact. My mom was sexually abused by a relative and beaten to a bloody pulp so many times...

A charity run by the wife of Rep. Elijah Cummings received millions from special interest groups and corporations that had business before her husband’s committee and could have been used illegally, according to an IRS complaint filed by an ethics watchdog group. Cummings, 68, a Maryland Democrat, is chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. His wife, Maya Rockeymoore, 48, is the chairman of the Maryland Democratic Party and briefly ran in the state's gubernatorial race last year. The couple married in 2008. Cummings was once heavily in debt — in part due to hefty child support...

Demands new powers be transferred to international authority that ‘manages’ interests of nations Pope Francis recently called for global governance to fight climate change, asserting, “The nation state cannot be considered as an absolute.” During an address to the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, the Pope condemned “growing nationalism that neglects the common good” and called for more globalism. “The nation state cannot be considered as an absolute, as an island with respect to the surrounding context,” he said, adding, “The nation state is no longer able to procure the common good of its populations alone.” Pope Francis said that...

During a rally in Philadelphia, Democrat candidate Joe Biden stated that Obama gave Trump this wonderful economy. Video of Joe Biden discrediting Trump located on source.