Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Donald Trump, meet your toughest hurdle: the US Senate and other top stories.

  • Donald Trump, meet your toughest hurdle: the US Senate

    Donald Trump, meet your toughest hurdle: the US Senate
    Almost every new president has hit Washington with a sense of swagger and talk of barnstorming the town in the first 100 days. Then they met the United States Senate. Now, it’s President-elect Donald Trump’s turn to acquaint himself with a place of strange rules and rituals, amazing ego and ambition, where friends become enemies in a matter of hours — and where many previous administrations have perished. As the 115th Congress prepares to be sworn into office Tuesday, talk of fundamentally t..
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  • Politics|Day Arrives (Maybe) for Trump's Promised Revelation on Hacking

    Politics|Day Arrives (Maybe) for Trump's Promised Revelation on Hacking
    Mr. Trump, who has dismissed as “ridiculous” the intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia carried out cyberattacks in order to meddle in the election, told reporters on New Year’s Eve that he would divulge “things that other people don’t know” about the hacking, promising the revelations on Tuesday or Wednesday. He gave no clues about the kind of information he claims to have about the computer breaches, but he said last week that despite his desire to “move on” from the issue, he would ..
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  • Four Dead In Apparent Murder-Suicide On New Year's Day In South Carolina

    Four Dead In Apparent Murder-Suicide On New Year's Day In South Carolina
    Four people were found dead in a South Carolina home on New Year’s Day in what authorities believe was a murder-suicide. The Lexington County Sheriff’s Department initially released a photo of 25-year-old Jorge Luis Chavez on Sunday night, confirming an “active search” in connection to the shooting. But the local coroner later said that Chavez was among the dead, WLOX reports. We're actively searching for Jorge Luis Chavez in connection to the incident on Old Barnwell Rd. Send all tips to Crim..
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  • With No Warning, House Republicans Vote to Gut Independent Ethics Office

    With No Warning, House Republicans Vote to Gut Independent Ethics Office
    Speaker Paul D. Ryan and Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the majority leader, spoke out during the meeting to oppose the measure, aides said on Monday night. The full House is scheduled to vote on Tuesday on the rules, which would last for two years, until the next congressional elections. In place of the office, Republicans would create a new Office of Congressional Complaint Review that would report to the House Ethics Committee, which has been accused of ignoring credible allega..
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  • Dylann Roof ruled competent for sentencing phase

    Dylann Roof ruled competent for sentencing phase
    The accused Charleston church shooter had a troubled past even before he was arrested for killing nine people at Emanuel AME Church in June 2015. USA TODAY NETWORKIn a self-portrait taken shortly before his June 2015 attack on Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., Dylann Roof poses in front of the Angel Oak near Charleston, a tree believed to be hundreds of years old. The patches on his jacket are flags of the defunct states of Rhodesia and apartheid South Afri..
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  • String of severe storms sweep across Southern states leaving at least 5 dead

    String of severe storms sweep across Southern states leaving at least 5 dead
    Five people were killed Monday night as a powerful storm system swept across the Southern states, leaving a trail of destruction, officials said. The line of severe thunderstorms spawned several possible tornadoes, and the threat remained early Tuesday for southern Alabama, southwest Georgia and the Florida Panhandle. Four were killed Monday when a tree fell on their mobile home in Rehobeth, Alabama, Dothan Houston County Emergency Management Agency spokeswoman Kris Ware said. FOX NEWS SEVERE W..
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  • 762 murders. 12 months. 1 American city.

    762 murders. 12 months. 1 American city.
    There were 762 murders in Chicago in 2016. It was the deadliest year in nearly two decades.Here's how we got to this point, what it means for the city and those whose lives have been changed forever.The number alone doesn't tell the entire story of Chicago's bloodshed. There's another statistic that points to a disturbing trend the city is facing: a surge. Five police districts on the south and west sides of the city accounted for nearly two-thirds of the increase in murders, according to Chicag..
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  • 5 Education Stories To Watch In 2017

    5 Education Stories To Watch In 2017
    Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin. Every year for the past few years, I’ve dusted off my crystal ball and offered a few predictions for the new year. Back on November 9 though, I threw out the ones I had been working on and started over. The election of Donald Trump altered the landscape for K-12 and higher education and created greater political uncertainty in the debate over how to improve..
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  • Missing 6-Year-Old Colorado Boy Focus of Amber Alert, Reward

    Missing 6-Year-Old Colorado Boy Focus of Amber Alert, Reward
    Police are searching for a 6-year-old boy who is believed to have wandered away from his home in suburban Denver on New Year's Eve, authorities said. The FBI and other law enforcement agencies helped in the hunt for David Puckett on Monday, going door-to-door within 2.5 miles of his home in Aurora. Bloodhounds and a helicopter have also been used. An Amber Alert was issued and police said a $10,000 reward was offered. Aurora police appealed for help to find David as quickly as possible par..
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  • Pesticide horror in Texas home kills four children

    Pesticide horror in Texas home kills four children
    Four children in Texas were killed after a deadly chemical reacton with a pesticide in their home. (ABC 7 Chicago). THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Tuesday, January 3, 2017, 1:58 AM. AMARILLO, Tex. — A poisonous gas believed to have been released when ...
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Meet Indiana's new head coach, Tom Allen, who's replacing Kevin Wilson .Washington Post automatically inserts Trump fact-checks into Twitter .
Obama vows retaliation for suspected Russian hacking .Christmas Block Party in the Leah Presented by Jameson .

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