Democrats Make Long-Shot Effort To Win Louisiana Senate Seat
Vice President-elect Mike Pence campaigns with John Neely Kennedy, the Republican Senate candidate in Louisiana. Kennedy faces Democrat Foster Campbell in a runoff election on Dec. 10. Ryan Kailath/WWNO hide caption toggle caption Ryan Kailath/WWNO Vice President-elect Mike Pence campaigns with John Neely Kennedy, the Republi..>> view originalDonald Trump is (finally) named Time's 'Person of the Year'
Less than a month after his presidential victory, Time Magazine is naming President-elect Donald Trump "Person of the Year." Trump told NBC, Dec. 7, that being recognized by Time "means a lot." (Reuters) Donald Trump has finally been named Time’s “Person of the Year.” “It's a great honor,” the president-elect said on NBC's “Today” show on Wednesday morning. “It means a lot, especially me growing up reading Time magazine. And it's a very important magazine, and I've been lucky enough to be..>> view originalSandy Hook denier arrested after death threats made to parent of victim
In this Jan. 14, 2013 file photo, white roses with the faces of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting are attached to a telephone pole near the school on the one-month anniversary of the shooting that left 26 dead in Newtown, Conn.(Photo: Jessica Hill, AP)A Florida woman who believes the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting was a hoax was arrested Monday on charges she threatened the parent of a child killed in the 2012 school shooting.Lucy Richards, 57, of Tampa, Fla., was indic..>> view originalOhio Moves To Ban Abortion 6 Weeks After Conception
WASHINGTON― Ohio’s Republican-led House and Senate passed legislation Tuesday night that would ban abortions as soon as a fetal heartbeat can be detected― as early as six weeks after conception. The measure was attached at the last minute as an amendment to an unrelated child abuse bill. It has no exceptions for rape or incest. If it’s passed into law, physicians could face a year in prison if they perform an abortion after a heartbeat is detected or if they fail to check for one before a proce..>> view originalPolitics|Trump Fires Adviser's Son From Transition for Spreading Fake News
Photo Michael G. Flynn, left, and his father, Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, at Trump Tower in Manhattan last month. Credit Sam Hodgson for The New York Times WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump on Tuesday fired one of his transition team’s staff members, Michael G. Flynn, the son of Mr. Trump’s choice for national security adviser, for using Twitter to spread a fake news story about Hillary Clinton that led to an armed confrontation in a pizza restaurant in Washin..>> view originalTrump follows Obama's political blueprint
I’ll protect your livelihoods, the newly elected president promised factory employees whose jobs were in danger. I’ll save you money by rejecting a costly overhaul of my own aircraft, he told taxpayers a couple of weeks later.Story Continued Below I’ll spend billions to repair the country’s crumbling roads and bridges, creating jobs in the process, he told Congress. I’ll sell my agenda by using the bully pulpit, he told the press, holding rallies around the country and shaming corporate greed ..>> view originalBiden Urges Americans to Heal Divisions as They Did Before
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, feted in Manhattan Tuesday night for his lifetime of public service, urged Americans in the aftermath of a contentious presidential election to remember the example set by a candidate decades ago.Photographer: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images“If we ever needed the spirit of a single political leader at this moment in history, those characteristics are almost unique to Bobby Kennedy,” Biden told the crowd assembled at the New York Hilton Midtown for the Robert F. Kennedy H..>> view originalControversial firearms-only hunt in New Jersey bags record 607 bears so far
TRENTON, N.J. - Hunters have killed a record 607 bears in New Jersey.The number was reached Tuesday when hunters bagged 18 bruins during the second day of the second part of this year’s hunt. The previous record was 592 bears killed in 2010.The firearms-only New Jersey bear hunt, which began Monday, followed October’s six-day hunt, which was limited to bows and arrows and muzzle-loading guns. In October, hunters killed 562 bears.The hunt is scheduled to last through Saturday, but officials say ..>> view original'Never forget' takes on urgency as Pearl Harbor survivors dwindle
Of the few still left, their hair has turned white, thin and wispy, their walk unsteady. There isn’t much more time for their words, for the message that has guided them now for three-quarters of a century.Earl Schaeffer Jr. uses a walker and tells people to speak up, to speak slowly.Seventy-five years ago – on Dec. 7, 1941 – he was a 19-year-old private in the U.S. Army Air Corps, working the switchboard in the communications shack at Hickam Field near Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.He was working the..>> view original75 years ago, what if Japan never attacked Pearl Harbor?
The USS Arizona afire and sinking after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. The Arizona went down entombing 1,177 crewmembers. (U.S. Navy via AFP) Few events in World War II were as defining as the Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. The "date which shall live in infamy" — as President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously put it — prompted the American entry into the war, subdued an entrenched isolationist faction in the country's politics and, in the long run, prefi..>> view original
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