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Republican-leaning South Carolina probably won't be a major factor in the presidential race, so attention is turning to the 2018 campaign for governor. Incumbent Nikki Haley is constitutionally prevented from seeking a third term, but lots of Republicans are jockeying to succeed her, even with the filing period still 18 months away.
Like a lot of policies intended to help women and minorities, barring employers from asking job applicants about their salary histories sounds like a good idea. This proposal has proved popular among liberals, and legislation is set to be introduced in the House by three Democrats this week.
The remains of Jacob Wetterling, a Minnesota boy abducted from a rural road 27 years ago, have been found, the Stearns County Sheriff's Office said Saturday in a news release. "The Ramsey County Medical Examiner and a forensic odontologist identified the remains as Wetterling's earlier today," the release said.
The remains of Jacob Wetterling, an 11-year-old boy kidnapped from a rural Minnesota road nearly 27 years ago, were identified Saturday, authorities said, providing long-awaited answers to a mystery that has captivated... The first hurricane to hit Florida in more than a decade wiped away beachside buildings and toppled trees onto homes Friday before plowing inland on a path that could send it rolling up the densely populated East... By JESSICA GRESKO The Associated Press The once-and-future Hurricane Hermine regained strength Saturday as it moved slowly up the Eastern Seaboard and made a mess of the holiday weekend.
Only the naive have ever believed that democracy is solely a noble contest over competing ideas, proposals and solutions. Emotion looms large in every human decision, including how we cast our ballots, and smart politicians have always blended appeals to the heart and the gut with their entreaties to reason.
Police struggled to hold back protesters Saturday outside a Detroit church hosting a visit by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who is on a charm offensive to allay skepticism of wary African American voters. "The devil's in the pulpit," shouted Wyoman Mitchell, one of about 150 protesters who charged police barricades outside the black Great Faith Ministries International church.
A South Carolina pastor who has been hitting the campaign trail for Donald Trump is coming under fire for misrepresenting his background in numerous ways. Trump is scheduled to visit an African-American church in Detroit on Saturday.
Vladimir Putin said the hacking of thousands of Democratic National Committee emails and documents was a service to the public, but denied U.S. accusations that Russia's government had anything to do with it. "Listen, does it even matter who hacked this data?'' Putin said in an interview at the Pacific port city of Vladivostok on Thursday.
Shorter version of Brian Feldman's Wednesday article for New York magazine: Sure, Mark Zuckerberg's a genius, but he still hasn't come up with a foolproof way to keep Facebook from promoting right-wing propaganda. "Facebook's problem isn't that it suppresses 'conservative news' or allows 'fake news,'" wrote Feldman.
THUMBS UP: Good news for Minnesota on the health front came Friday from the Center for Disease Control. The state's adult obesity rate took a drop between 2014 and 2015.
Summary : The Florida Democratic Senate candidate vying for Marco Rubio's seat has been given full donations by two known Colombo crime members. Senator Marco Rubio's competition is getting help from known Colombo organized crime members.
Hillary Clinton, under questioning by federal investigators over whether she had been briefed on how to preserve government records as she was about to leave the State Department, said she had suffered a concussion, was working part-time and could not recall every briefing she received. Clinton, the Democratic Party's presidential candidate, raised the health scare during her 3-1/2-hour interview with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Justice Department prosecutors on July 2, according to an FBI summary released on Friday.
Herdsman Denny Holz marks cows with chalk to see which ones are in heat at Eaglemill Farms, the DeJong family's 1,300-head dairy farm east of Lynden, Wash. Congress came up with a novel way to reduce the nation's milk supply in 1985, paying farmers $1.5 billion to slaughter their cows .
From left, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, U.S. Sen. Harry Reid and President Barack Obama participate in the 20th annual Tahoe Summit in Stateline, Nev., on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016.
Hillary Clinton told the FBI she relied on the judgments of her staff not to send emails containing classified information to the private email account she relied on as secretary of state, adding that she was unclear about a classification marking on official government documents. The revelation came Friday as the FBI, in a rare step, published scores of pages summarizing interviews with Clinton and her top aides from the recently closed criminal investigation into her use of a private email server in the basement her Chappaqua, New York, home.
In the heady atmosphere leading up to the 2008 presidential election, a messianic Senator Barack Obama proclaimed he was "five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America." That transformation, echoed by Michelle Obama, was to change the conversation, change our traditions, change our history, and move the nation to a different place.
Russian President Vladimir Putin publicly denied that Russia hacked the Democratic National Committee's data and questioned if it even matters who is responsible. "Listen, does it even matter who hacked this data?" Putin asked during an interview with Bloomberg on Thursday.