NEW YORK (AP) -- Nearly a million revelers crowded New York's Time Square to witness the traditional dazzling ball drop, fireworks lit up Australia's Sydney Harbor and communist Vietnam held a rare Western-style countdown to the new year as the world ushered in 2011.
Gold gained 2% to nearly $5,100 an ounce, while silver jumped 6.4% to about $108 per ounce. The value of precious metals has surged in recent months as investors sought relatively safe places to invest.
Sen. Jacky Rosen said Krisiti Noem’s conduct is “deeply shameful” and she “must be impeached and removed from office immediately.”
Federal and state officials offered starkly different messages with both claiming the moral high ground in the wake of another shooting death by federal agents.
Tree branches and power lines snapped under the weight of ice, and about a million homes and businesses in the Southeast were left without electricity.
Widespread snow, sleet and freezing rain threatened nearly 180 million people in a path stretching from the southern Rocky Mountains to New England
Donors include attorneys and gaming industry entities. Some are also tied to well-known figures who have been convicted of crimes.
The police chief appealed for calm, both from the public and and from federal law enforcement.
Trump said, ‘if Carney thinks he is going to make Canada a ‘Drop Off Port’ for China to send goods into the United States, he is sorely mistaken.’
Here’s what to know about the state of the interstate negotiations, with three weeks to go before a major deadline.
Roughly 140 million people, or more than 40% of the U.S. population, were under a winter storm warning from New Mexico to New England.
