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CONGRESSIONAL aide Donald "Ducky" Birts serves a tour of duty as Santa Claus at Laborers' Local 332's holiday party for children in West Poplar. Photo by Wendell Douglas But in the hinterlands of Pennsylvania, there is no peace on the Wyoming Valley, the Dutch Country or Southwestern Pennsylvania.
Bitter cold weather has taken hold of much of the northern United States and is expected to stay put for days to come as two Minnesota cities already have set record low temperatures and a city in Pennsylvania continues to dig out from a record snowfall. The National Weather Service reported International Falls, Minnesota, the self-proclaimed Icebox of the Nation, plunged to 37 degrees below zero, breaking the old record of 32 below set in 1924.
President Donald Trump signed the tax cuts bill into law just before Christmas, making the Christmas holiday weekend a little brighter and cheerier for the vast majority of Americans who live paycheck to paycheck. The new law's positive effects have already begun.
Freezing temperatures and below-zero wind chills socked much of the northern United States on Wednesday, even setting a record in a Minnesota city so cold it's called the Icebox of the Nation, and will stay put for days to come as snow-hardened Erie digs out from a record snowfall. The National Weather Service reported International Falls and Hibbing, Minnesota, set record low temperatures on Wednesday morning.
As we close out 2017 and prepare to welcome in 2018, Americans should ask themselves this basic question: Are you better off than you were a year ago, and more importantly, do you expect to be in an even better place at this time next year? That's because while extremists of both major political parties continue to engage in a struggle of ideas, most of us just want to feel we have greater control over our lives. It usually begins with a sense of economic security.
A cold week of more of the same is projected for the ... A Utah sheriff's deputy says he was desperate and numb from the cold as he punched and stomped his way into a frozen pond to pull out an 8-year-old boy who had fallen through the ice while chasing his dog. A Utah sheriff's deputy says he was desperate and numb from the cold as he punched and stomped his way into a frozen pond to pull out an 8-year-old boy who had fallen through the ice while chasing his dog.
A New York jury that found two former South American soccer officials guilty of bribery charges is set to continue deliberations against a third official. A New York jury that found two former South American soccer officials guilty of bribery charges is set to continue deliberations against a third official.
In what has been a nightmare at Christmas, the plight of refugees relocated to other sites on Manus Island after the closure of the facility at Lombrum Naval Base has worsened. The latest scenes at East Lorengau Transit Centre, where 300 men have been since December 19, have been ugly and pitiable.
After Hollywood leftist Rosie O'Donnell tweeted to House Speaker Paul Ryan , "u will go straight to hell u screwed up fake altar boy," Reverend Franklin Graham remarked that O'Donnell does not "hold the keys to hell," and added that "Hell is going to be filled with people who rejected God's offer of salvation" and who rejected "His laws." On Dec. 23, Speaker Ryan tweeted , "At the end of each year, no matter how short -- or long -- it may feel, there is always Christmas.
How I got the shot of the 'fab four' they all wanted... and I hope it will pay for my girl to go to university: Fan tells how she scooped the world's photographers to get best snap of Meghan and Kate Minneapolis police remove 'disgusting' candle-lit memorial created by white nationalists honoring Australian yoga instructor shot dead in pajamas outside her home by Somali-American cop China will overtake the US economy in 15 YEARS and India will leapfrog the UK and France in 2018, global report says Revealed: The FIVE trendy dental fads that are wreaking havoc on your teeth Is Noah's Ark buried on a Turkish mountain ? Experts claim they have 'new evidence' that suggests the Biblical ship ended up on Mount Ararat Will Harry and Meghan's wedding invitation to the Obamas sour Special Relationship with Trump? Fears royal couple will snub The Donald in favor of predecessor he hates ... (more)
President Donald Trump speaks on the phone with children as they track Santa Claus' movements with the North American Aerospace Defense Command Santa Tracker on Christmas Eve at the president's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., Sunday, Dec. 24, 2017. less President Donald Trump speaks on the phone with children as they track Santa Claus' movements with the North American Aerospace Defense Command Santa Tracker on Christmas Eve at the president's ... more PALM BEACH, Fla.
How I got the shot of the 'fab four' they all wanted... and I hope it will pay for my girl to go to university: Fan tells how she scooped the world's photographers to get best snap of Meghan and Kate NBC 'tightens sexual harassment policies and urges employees to report their own FRIENDS for inappropriate behavior or risk being fired' in the wake of the Matt Lauer scandal 'You are going straight to hell you screwed-up altar boy': Rosie O'Donnell unleashes bizarre attack on Paul Ryan in Twitter tirade in the early hours of Christmas Day Heart-breaking loss of life, strike operations on ISIS and patrolling tense waters off China to touching rescues, snow angels at base and emotional homecomings: The US Navy reveals their most powerful images of 2017 'The generosity of American people will not be taken advantage of': US envoy Nikki Haley announces $285m cut to UN following vote against ... (more)
President Donald Trump is probably right: he doesn't get due credit for the volume of achievements he's stacked up during a tumultuous political year. But to judge his presidency so far simply on bills passed, regulations slashed, executive orders signed and campaign promises kept would be to paint a skewed picture of the most divisive and controversial new administration in generations.
PICTURE EXCLUSIVE: A Christmas visit to see mom, her lesbian lover and dad in jail: Suitcase murderers Heather Mack and Tommy Schaefer dote over their two-year-old daughter Stella in Bali prison NBC 'tightens sexual harassment policies and urges employees to report their own FRIENDS for inappropriate behavior or risk being fired' in the wake of the Matt Lauer scandal 'You are going straight to hell you screwed-up altar boy': Rosie O'Donnell unleashes bizarre attack on Paul Ryan in Twitter tirade in the early hours of Christmas Day Heart-breaking loss of life, strike operations on ISIS and patrolling tense waters off China to touching rescues, snow angels at base and emotional homecomings: The US Navy reveals their most powerful images of 2017 'The generosity of American people will not be taken advantage of': US envoy Nikki Haley announces $285m cut to UN following vote against Trump ... (more)
Inocencia Rivera, mother of Eduardo Gonzalez, a man who committed suicide three weeks after the passage of Hurricane Maria, stood on her balcony, surrounded by small, solar powered Christmas lights and a Puerto Rican flag in Morovis, Puerto Rico. MOROVIS, Puerto Rico>> Three days before Christmas, Doris Martinez and daughter Miriam Narvaez joined their neighbors in a line outside city hall in Morovis, a town of 30,000 people still living without electricity in the mountains of central Puerto Rico more than three months after Hurricane Maria battered the U.S. island.
Kremlin trolls burned across the Internet as Washington debated options The first email arrived in the inbox of CounterPunch, a left-leaning American news and opinion website, at 3:26 a.m. - the middle of the day in Moscow. - "Hello, my name is Alice Donovan and I'm a beginner freelance journalist Tribune Editorial: Why Orrin Hatch is Utahn of the Year - These things are often misunderstood.
Kevin Ramos, left, of Brooklyn, N.Y., and about fifty other U.S. Navy enlisted recruits from the Naval Station Great Lakes, joined parishioners and volunteers who served a holiday meal during U.S. Navy Recruit Training Command's 2017 Christmas Adopt-A-Sailor at Bristol United Methodist Church on Christmas, Dec. 25, 2017. "We're basically doing it as family," said Ralph Myers and his wife, Joyce Myers, right, as they help put on the 10th annual Adopt-A-Sailor event at Bristol United Methodist Church.
President Trump and first lady Melania Trump, escorted by the Rev. James R. Harlan, arrive for Christmas Eve service at the Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea in West Palm Beach, Fla.
George Washington and his troops will be making their annual Christmas Day trip across the Delaware River between Pennsylvania and New Jersey. If you live in the Northeast or Midwest, you're not dreaming: It's probably going to be a white Christmas.
If I could have anything I want for Christmas, this is what would be on my list for Santa Claus. First of all, I don't ever want to hear the left and complicit left-leaning media whine again about how much they hate President Trump.