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The fiercest primary election battle in Nevada this year is a race... LAS VEGAS - The fiercest primary election battle in Nevada this year is a race between two Democrats vying to become the swing state's first Democratic governor in almost two decades. The contentious primary has seen longtime Clark County Commissioners Steve Sisolak and Christina Giunchigliani spar over their response to the October mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip while pledging to be champions for women and resist President Donald Trump and the National Rifle Association.
In just his first six months in office, President Donald Trump undertook a range of actions that gravely undermined common-sense stewardship of America's oceans-enough for the Center for American Progress to conclude that he had launched a "War on Oceans." His attacks included withdrawing from the Paris Agreement on climate change; signing executive orders aimed at reckless expansion of offshore oil drilling; direct attacks on the spectacular wildlife protected within national marine sanctuaries and marine national monuments; and proposing draconian cuts to the budget of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration .
Governor Dannel P. Malloy, along with Senator Richard Blumenthal, Congressman Joe Courtney, New London Mayor Michael Passero and Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Commissioner Robert Klee last week celebrated completion of a project that provides transient dockage for larger recreational vessels at Thamesport Marina in New London. The project, which used a $1.4 million grant from the Federal Boating Infrastructure Grant Program, is intended to encourage people to enjoy boating on the state's waterways while stimulating tourism and economic development.
As of May 30, statewide snowpack at SNOTEL sites is 29 percent of average. Seventy-eight percent of the state is in some level of drought classification with 33 percent in Extreme Drought and almost 8 percent in the worst classification of Exceptional Drought in the southwest corner of Colorado and the Sangre de Cristo Range.
A young pilot who some sources say is a student ducked power lines, dodged cars, buildings and pedestrians and put her Cessna 172 down... Virginia's Leesburg Executive Airport will once again be testing its remote air traffic control system this summer. The remote... Modern navigation requires no knowledge of anything beyond an on-off switch and a memory for step through menus.
A young pilot who some sources say is a student ducked power lines, dodged cars, buildings and pedestrians and put her Cessna 172 down... Virginia's Leesburg Executive Airport will once again be testing its remote air traffic control system this summer. The remote... Modern navigation requires no knowledge of anything beyond an on-off switch and a memory for step through menus.
President Donald Trump speaks at a rally at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium, Tuesday in Nashville, Tenn. The midterm elections are voters first chance to block Trump by ensuring Democrats capture at least one house of Congress.
A 68-year-old woman was killed in a skydiving accident in Chester County Thursday afternoon during an annual "CarolinaFest" skydiving event. The coroner was requested when a hard landing was reported in a skydiving incident.
Zimbabwe's wildlife agency said on Tuesday it was investigating allegations that a South African national bribed officials to allow a Colorado-based tourist to take the ivory tusks of an elephant illegally shot in a Zimbabwe game park. Their inquiry comes after US prosecutors accused the South African, who was with a hunting party in Gonarezhou National Park in southern Zimbabwe, of paying up to $8 000 in bribes to Zimbabwean government officials to kill the elephant inside the park and to have the animal's ivory released.
Survivors of the Parkland school shooting lay down in "die ins" at two Publix supermarkets Friday to protest the chain's support for a gubernatorial candidate aligned with the National Rifle Association, as the company announced a suspension of political contributions. The students from Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School shouted "USA, not NRA!" and caused brief delays at the checkout as customers navigated carts around them on the floor.
Survivors of the Parkland school shooting lay down in "die ins" at two Publix supermarkets Friday to protest the chain's support for a gubernatorial candidate aligned with the National Rifle Association, as the company announced a suspension of political contributions. The students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shouted "USA, not NRA!" and caused brief delays at the checkout as customers navigated carts around them on the floor.
President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he walks to the Marine One helicopter Friday, May 25, 2018, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. Trump is traveling to Annapolis, Md., to address the U.S. Naval Academy graduation ceremonies.
From "Little Rocket Man" to the scheduling of a historic peace summit and back again, President Donald Trump's dizzying back-and-forth on North Korea is par for the course for a president who likes to keep his audience guessing. As Trump himself said Friday, "Everybody plays games."
The National Rifle Association's media outlet sent a pro-censorship message on social media and then went ballistic when people called it pro-censorship NRATV, the National Rifle Association's media operation, caused a stir on Twitter Thursday afternoon after sending a tweet that read, "It's time to put an end to this glorification of carnage in pursuit of ratings because it's killing our kids. It's time for Congress to step up and pass legislation putting common sense limitations on #MSM's ability to report on these school shootings."
TALLAHASSEE - Social media continued Wednesday to drive gun control supporters to boycott Publix stores this Memorial Day weekend to protest the company's bankrolling of an NRA-backing candidate for Florida governor.
In this May 4, 2018, photo, Gov. Greg Abbott speaks at the National Rifle Association-Institute for Legislative Action Leadership Forum in Dallas. Texas' primary runoff will test whether the national Democratic Party's establishment can overcome an insurgent wing more openly hostile to President Donald Trump.
Son of Boston police captain who 'bragged to undercover FBI agent about his plan to bomb a university' pleads GUILTY to marathon-inspired ISIS terror plot Ciccolo's father is Boston police Captain Robert Ciccolo, who was one of the first responders to the 2013 Marathon bombing FBI affidavit states the younger Ciccolo was inspired by Boston Marathon attack and praised recent massacre on a beach in Tunisia He now faces up to 20 years in jail after entering a guilty plea at a federal court in Springfield on Monday Alexander Ciccolo, 25, was arrested in July 2015 after allegedly plotting an atrocity, inspired by the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013.
Parkland gun control activist David Hogg blasted incoming NRA President Oliver North's comments attributing pharmaceutical drugs for school shootings. North argued on Fox News Sunday that a "culture of violence" and Ritalin are the root cause for school shootings such as the one in Santa Fe Friday North, not the proliferation of weapons.
Young People Keep Marching After Parkland, This Time to Register to Vote - WASHINGTON - The pace of new voter registrations among young people in crucial states is accelerating, a signal that school shootings this year - and the anger and political organizing in their wake - may prove to be more than ephemeral displays of activism. Texas school shooter killed girl who turned down his advances and embarrassed him in class, mother says - As he heard the gunshots approaching down the hall Friday morning, Santa Fe High School student Abel San Miguel, 15, hid with a handful of classmates in the art class storage closet.
Theodore Roosevelt IV, right, chats with John Turner and Emy diGrappa before his talk Monday evening at the National Museum of Wildlife Art. Roosevelt spoke about a decadeslong shift in the Republican Party.