Tim Pearce

VENEZUELA - Looters have all but emptied stores and warehouses across western Venezuela as large parts of the country remain without power more than a week after a mass blackout. The mobs overwhelmed Venezuela’s security forces and…

UTAH - Dozens of people died after getting lost in Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument because federal regulations prohibited officials from putting directional signs in place, a Utah county commissioner said. Leland…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOFNHCJo71I WASHINGTON - Pilots flying in the U.S. have filed at least five complaints on planes of the same model that crashed in Ethiopia on Sunday, killing all 157 people on board. Federal…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdz3cPuLKww PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron is planning a sweeping energy and climate legislative package months after “yellow vest” protests ignited across the country over a proposed gas tax…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmFXTfX6fCc WASHINGTON - An oil executive that supported Robert “Beto” O’Rourke’s 2018 U.S. Senate bid also helped produce a documentary of O’Rourke’s campaign. The documentary “Running with…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xDxAA_Psns CALIFORNIA - Tesla is hiking the cost of its more expensive vehicle models to retain about half of the physical stores the company had planned to close, according to a Sunday blog post. …

ETHIOPIA - An Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed soon after taking off from Ethiopia’s capital Sunday morning, killing all 157 passengers and crew members on board. The passengers included eight Americans, Fox News reported. The…

WASHINGTON - The Department of the Interior (DOI) is expected to propose rolling back federal protections on gray wolf populations in the contiguous United States in the coming days, The Associated Press reports. Acting Interior…

WASHINGTON - Retired coal miners from three states traveled to Washington, D.C., to lobby lawmakers and put in place a federal safety net in case the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) pension fund fails. Coal industry veterans…

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration is preparing more sanctions on Venezuela as Nicolas Maduro refuses to step down as president of the South American country, sources told S&P Global Platts. President Donald…

NEW YORK - The U.S. economy added 20,000 jobs in February while the unemployment rate fell slightly to 3.8 percent, making February the 101st month of consecutive U.S. job growth. Economists surveyed by The Wall Street…

WASHINGTON- The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) placed CNN on a “special media monitoring list” Tuesday for lacking diversity at the network’s most senior positions, the NABJ announced. The NABJ made the decision…

SOUTH CAROLINA - The anonymous South Carolina winner of a $1.5 billion Mega Millions jackpot claimed the prize two months before it timed out, The Washington Post reports. The winner opted for a one-time cash payout of…

FLORIDA - Jeffrey Epstein’s 2007 plea deal that cost the New York financier a stint in county jail and forced him to register as a sex offender was “fair,” Epstein’s legal team wrote in The New York Times. Epstein’s legal team, made…

WASHINGTON - Nearly 30 percent of Americans believe couples should consider the effects of climate change before deciding to have a child, according to a Business Insider (BI) poll. BI conducted the poll from March 1-2, after…

A landscape view of the Mojave Desert where an aquifer beneath the ground is believed to have the ability to provide water to 100,000 households for the next half-century, according to The Washington Post. CALIFORNIA - An aquifer…

NEW YORK - Amazon is planning to open a new string of grocery stores separate from its Whole Foods Market brand to offer a wider and cheaper selection of goods, sources told The Wall Street Journal. The company is planning dozens of…

TEXAS - Barbers are earning as much as $180,000 a year cutting hair in West Texas, one of the hottest job markets in the country, The Wall Street Journal reports. An oil boom that has taken hold over the Permian Basin is leading to…

LOS ANGELES - U.S. companies purchased 35,880 robots in 2018 in what amounted to a 7 percent increase over the year before, according to the Robotics Industry Association. Factories and businesses in industries such as…

OHIO - Residents of Toledo, Ohio, passed an amendment to the city charter Tuesday guaranteeing a “bill of rights” to nearby Lake Erie, granting the body of water rights that can be defended in court, the Sandusky Register reports. A…

WASHINGTON - GOP Rep. Jody Hice of Georgia said former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen is the first person to testify in front of Congress after being convicted of lying to Congress. Cohen appeared in front of the House Oversight…

WASHINGTON - A lengthy lands package passed the House on Tuesday and just needs President Donald Trump’s signature before becoming law. The package, roughly 660 pages and composed of 118 different bills, passed the House in a…

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB), run by officials appointed by former President Barack Obama, is attempting to fill a vacancy in one of the agency’s top career positions. Board members Manuel Ehrlich, Rick Engler…

BOGOTA - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence reinforced the Trump administration’s commitment to ousting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to make way for Juan Guaido, the opposition party leader who claimed the presidency last month,…

WASHINGTON - A lengthy public lands package sitting in Congress adds hundreds of thousands of acres of federally protected wilderness without securing funding to manage it. The House is preparing to vote on a bipartisan land package…

MIAMI - A federal judge ruled Thursday that a team of federal prosecutors that included Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta broke federal law when they brokered a plea deal with child molester and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein,…

WASHINGTON - Negotiators with the United States and China continue to haggle over the terms of a potential trade deal as President Donald Trump’s deadline of March 1 creeps closer. If no deal is reached by the deadline, Trump may…

NEW YORK - Southwest Airlines saw an unusual spike in maintenance issues on its aircraft “just days after our last negotiations session” with the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA). Southwest first noticed maintenance…

PALO ALTO - Tesla’s general counsel Dane Butswinkas is leaving his post in the electric car company after just two months on the job, Reuters reported. The former general counsel is one of dozens of top Tesla executives…