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Cory Booker unveils "bold" plan to curb gun violence

Democratic presidential candidate and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker introduced a sweeping gun violence prevention plan. If elected, the campaign announced Monday that on day one of his presidency, Booker will use executive action to close gun sales loopholes and…

Trump taps Obama-era Border Patrol chief as ICE director

Border business: Inside immigration President Trump's latest choice to lead the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is a former Border Patrol chief under the Obama administration who has publicly backed the the president's border wall. Mr. Trump tweeted Sunday…

Durbin: Trump gets "googly eyed" when talking to Putin

Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, the second-highest ranking Democrat in the Senate, slammed President Trump for his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of being "dazzled" by strongmen around the world. "This president is totally dazzled by Vladimir Putin,…

A slice of the pizza business

For one week every year, the center of the known pizza universe isn't Naples, Italy, or New York, or even Chicago; it's Las Vegas, when the International Pizza Expo rolls into town, bringing with it thousands of professional pizza-makers, dough…

Many happy returns

What happens to products you buy that you return? And what about the stuff that brick-and-mortar-stores or online merchandisers can't sell? It may end up in the hands of Curtis Greve, a vice president of Inmar, which has 25 facilities…

In time for Ramadan, Iraqi TV drama returns after 7 years

BAGHDAD (AP) — Every evening at the Muntada al-Masrah theater on Baghdad’s Rashid street, the cast and crew of the first TV drama filmed in Iraq in seven years take their places among the rooms and courtyard of this 19th-century…

Kim oversees missile firing drills, tells troops to be alert

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean state media on Sunday showed leader Kim Jong Un observing live-fire drills of long-range multiple rocket launchers and what appeared to be a new short-range ballistic missile, a day after South Korea expressed…

Israeli man killed by rocket amid massive firing from Gaza

JERUSALEM (AP) — An early morning rocket from the Gaza Strip killed an Israeli man Sunday outside a home in the coastal city of Ashkelon amid a massive wave of attacks, marking the first Israeli casualty from rocket fire since…

Firefighters Respond to Collapsed Walkway

Chattanooga TN (WDEF) – Late Saturday evening, the Chattanooga Fire Department responded to a unit of apartments in Glenwood North neighborhood. Two people were injured at 1101 Arlington Avenue after a walkway collapsed on the first floor of one to…

HCSO promotes motorcycle awareness month

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -May is National Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month. Today the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office kicked off their annual partnership with the Indian of Chattanooga and Erlanger to promote sharing the road and "Looking Twice" for motorcyclists. All month…

UNCC victim will be buried with military honors

Riley Howell, the University of North Carolina-Charlotte student who died while trying to stop an on-campus shooter, will be buried with military honors Sunday, Wells Funeral Home confirmed to CBS News. Howell, 21, was an ROTC participant and has been hailed…

CPD looking for information in Saturday morning shooting

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) - Chattanooga Police are searching for any information relating to a shooting that was reported this morning off Rossville Boulevard. Police say they were called to a local hospital after someone arrived with a gunshot wound. The…

Tyson recalls nearly 12M pounds of chicken

Tyson Foods Inc. is recalling about 11.8 million pounds of frozen, ready-to-eat chicken strips over fears that the products may be contaminated with metal, food safety officials said Saturday. The company is expanding upon a prior recall of more than…

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