Doomsday closer? Scientists move clock hands

Doomsday closer? Scientists move clock hands

WASHINGTON— It may not be time to head for the fallout shelters, but the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists thinks it’s at least time to pre-emptively sound an apocalyptic alarm. The Bulletin on Tuesday moved its Doomsday Clock, a symbolic measure of the world’s...

Landry to author bill to curb recess appointments

WASHINGTON— A freshman lawmaker, angered by President Barack Obama’s recess appointment of Richard Cordray as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is drafting a bill  to strip funding for salaries of presidential appointments made during a Senate...