President Obama delivered his farewell speech on Tuesday night to an appreciative crowd at McCormick Place in Chicago. First lady Michelle Obama and daughter Malia, 18, were front and center for the special moment. However, the Obamas’ younger daughter, 15-year-old Sasha, was nowhere to be found. Sasha’s absence became even more noticeable when President Obama […]
WASHINGTON — Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., had a pacemaker installed Tuesday, just hours after questioning President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee. Feinstein, 83, is the oldest member of the Senate and the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which held its first day of confirmation hearings on Trump’s nominee, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., on
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USADonald Trump’s first press conference since the summer was one of the more unusual spectacles that we’ve seen in the wake of perhaps the most unusual election in American history. Typically, press conferences with presidents can be tense but they hardly ever reach, the intensity of Trump’s first meeting. Obama has adapted a sort of
In an eleventh-hour attempt to cement his legacy on climate change and dissuade his successor from scrapping his policies, President Barack Obama published an article in a top academic journal, Science, this week. Science editors say, according to their records, he is the first sitting US president to author an article in the peer-reviewed journal.
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAATLANTA — Former President Jimmy Carter said Wednesday that his health is good enough that he hopes he will live to see the end of Guinea worm, a parasitical disease he has led the fight against since the 1980s. He was at the Carter Center to talk about the opening of a new exhibit at
“Patriots Day,” Peter Berg’s film about the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, lands with all the subtlety of one of the deadly explosions that claimed three lives and injured 264 others. Terrorism, bad. Law enforcement, first responders, marathon runners and onlookers — as embodied by the fictional, Boston-proud composite character played by Mark Wahlberg who just
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAPresident-elect Donald Trump, under fire for his business conflicts, said Wednesday that he will turn his company over to his sons — but he won’t sell his network of properties and deals. Trump will create a trust and turn it over to his sons Donald Jr. and Eric along with another business executive, Trump lawyer
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USAPresident-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday dismissed recent reports that Russia holds compromising information on him as “nonsense,” “fake news” and “phony stuff.” His highly anticipated press conference at Trump Tower in New York City—Trump’s first since July 27—took on a significant new weight after some media outlets published bombshell allegations on Tuesday night that the
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International, USAIt was a rowdy start for the confirmation hearing for Senator Jeff Sessions who is Donald Trump’s nominee for the job of attorney general. Several protesters heckled him while others dressed up as members of the anti-black Ku Klux Klan. For many, Sessions is a highly controversial candidate with critics accusing him of being racist,
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USAADL: Roof verdict underscores need for anti-hate crime law in South Carolina NEW YORK (Press Release) –The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Wednesday, Jan. 11, welcomed closure of the federal trial in the Charleston massacre case, which resulted in hate crime convictions against white supremacist Dylann Storm Roof for the murders of parishioners at Emanuel AME
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USANews that President-elect Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. met on Tuesday rang alarm bells throughout the scientific community, because both have aggressively promoted discredited anti-vaccination theories. Here are the debunked theories they espouse, and what the science actually says. THE CLAIM: That the high number of vaccines given to young children can overwhelm
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USACHICAGO (Press Release) — Following is the official White House transcript of the farewell speech President Obama delivered on Tuesday, Jan. 10, in the city where his political career had begun: THE PRESIDENT: Hello, Chicago! (Applause.) It’s good to be home! (Applause.) Thank you, everybody. Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you so much. Thank you. (Applause.)
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International, USAWASHINGTON, January 10, 2017 – After pleading guilty to killing nine parishioners of Emanuel AME church on the night of June 17, 2015, Dylann Roof told jurors he could ask for life in prison for the slayings, but that he is not sure “what good that would do”: “From what I’ve been told, I have
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USAFBI Director James B. Comey, in his first public comments since the presidential election, said the bureau requested but was denied direct access to the Democratic National Committee’s servers and other hacked devices as part of its probe of Russian hacking. Providing details Tuesday to the Senate Intelligence Committee about the bureau’s investigation into Russian
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