RALEIGH, N.C. — A Forest City man portraying St. Nicholas in the town’s Santa House who apparently told a child to “lay off” the burgers and fries has resigned amid backlash from the community. Nine-year-old Anthony Mayse visited the Santa on Saturday and asked for an iPod Touch and a drone for Christmas, but left […]
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USAThe nominee has extensive ties to fossil fuel companies Gage Skidmore Scott Pruitt The current nominee to head the EPA. Also, someone who is currently suing the EPA. Scott Pruitt, currently the Oklahoma Attorney General, has been nominated by President-elect Trump to be the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Environmental groups have
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USACHICAGO — In the list of potential risk factors that companies include in their regulatory filings, a new one has surfaced: Donald Trump. Methode Electronics, a Chicago-based designer and maker of parts for automotive, appliance and other industries, on Thursday added the president-elect to its list of potential “risk factors.” Disclosures of a wide range
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USAJohn Glenn, who became an American hero as the first U.S. citizen to orbit the Earth and then relived that glory 36 years later as the oldest man to go into space, has died. He was 95. Glenn, who also served for 24 years as a U.S. senator from Ohio, died after being hospitalized in
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Obituaries & memorials, Science, Medicine, & Education, USALinda McMahon, who co-founded the World Wrestling Entertainment franchise and spent a fortune on two unsuccessful runs for the U.S. Senate, was named Wednesday as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the Small Business Administration. “Linda is going to be a phenomenal leader and champion for small businesses and unleash America’s entrepreneurial spirit all across
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USAHundreds of protesters face off with supporters of Richard Spencer, self-styled leader of the so-called ‘alt-right,’ during talk at A&M University By Ricky Ben-David Richard Spencer, the self-styled leader of the so-called alt-right movement, speaks at Texas A&M University on December 6, 2016. (Screenshot) Protesters at Texas A&M University demonstrate against a speech on December
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USAHe’s ruggedly handsome with his trademark cleft in his square chin, a Hollywood film legend: Issur Danielovitch Demsky. Who? The world knows him as Kirk Douglas. And on Friday he turns 100 years old. A look at Kirk Douglas and his only-in-America career Los Angeles (dpa) – At Thanksgiving, Kirk Douglas’s daughter-in-law Catherine Zeta-Jones posted
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAWith little notice and stunning quickness, anti-abortion legislators in Ohio stand one signature away from enacting the nation’s most stringent abortion law in the hopes of sparking a nationwide reversal of the legal right of women to terminate their pregnancies. With a day left in their annual session, lawmakers Wednesday delivered to Gov. John Kasich
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USAAt New York’s Central Synagogue, five female ‘firsts’ discuss their experiences pioneering the clergy in ‘Breaking Bounds’ panel By Cathryn J. Prince NEW YORK — They’d never be able to lift and carry the Torah. They’d look strange standing there on the bima (pulpit) wearing a yarmulke and prayer shawl. They don’t know how, or
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Jewish Religion, USAThe shock, grief and spotlight glare endured by Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, in the days following her husband’s 1963 assassination, was there for all to see. Yet who knows what she was truly thinking, feeling, screaming inside while wiping her husband’s dried blood off her famous pink dress, or watching Lyndon B. Johnson taking the oath
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USARobert Reich, who served as secretary of labor during the administration of President Bill Clinton, appeared on CNN Wednesday night to deliver a message to Republican presidential-elect Donald Trump. Robert Reich: “Lemme just say, because Donald Trump is probably watching right now…” https://t.co/bD5Iskq7br — Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) December 8, 2016 Reich, who also served in
Washington (dpa) – Donald Trump felt he should have been Time magazine’s 2015 Person of the Year, even before the first votes were cast in the Republican Party’s nominating process. Instead, the magazine named German Chancellor Angela Merkel last year for her leadership in Europe’s refugee crisis. “I told you @TIME Magazine would never pick
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USAWASHINGTON – It took nearly three years for Congress to pass the 21st Century Cures Act. The next question is: How long will it take the Food and Drug Administration to implement it? The legislation, designed to accelerate the introduction of new medical treatments by speeding up some FDA approval processes and boosting federal funding,
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump has made many promises on immigration, including a new one Wednesday to “work something out” for the so-called Dreamers — young immigrants brought to the country illegally as children. “We’re going to work something out that’s going to make people happy and proud,” Trump said in a Time magazine interview.
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