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WASHINGTON (AP) — Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is promising the new Republican majority will quickly resurrect the Keystone XL pipeline legislation that was killed by Democrats on Tuesday. The bill failed by one vote, and McConnell says the legislation will be on top of the agenda next year.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans and Democrats say the Obama administration is not placing a priority on congressional authorization of the U.S. war against Islamic State extremists. Lawmakers say the White House has yet to outline what it wants from Congress or to send top officials to testify on Capitol Hill. Senators will get a chance to ask questions of a top Obama foreign policy adviser today when Tony Blinken, the president's choice to become the State Department's No. 2 official, testifies at a nomination hearing.
NEW YORK (AP) — Model and TV host Janice Dickinson says she wrote about being sexually assaulted by comedian Bill Cosby in her 2002 autobiography, but that Cosby's lawyers pressured her and the publisher to remove the details. Dickinson makes the claims of sexual assault in an "Entertainment Tonight" interview that aired Tuesday. Several hours later, Netflix decided to postpone the Nov. 27 premiere of Cosby's new standup special. Other women also have accused Cosby of sexual assault. He's never been criminally charged and settled a civil lawsuit in 2006.
BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — Missouri has executed a man who in 1994 shot to death a gas station attendant as the man's 8-year-old stepdaughter watched. Fifty-six-year-old Leon Vincent Taylor was put to death by lethal injection early Wednesday. He apologized to the family of his victim, saying "our lives had to entwine so tragically."
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A new report says American Indian and Alaska Native children are exposed to violence at rates higher than any other social group in the nation. The report released by a U.S. Department of Justice advisory committee urges creation of a Native American affairs office, additional federal funding and other measures to combat the problem. The study says 75 percent of deaths among indigenous children between the ages of 12 and 20 are caused by violence, including homicides and suicides.
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