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A vast expanse of shifting white sand dunes in southern New Mexico would be elevated from a national monument to a national park under legislation proposed Friday by one of the state's senators. U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, a Democrat, made the announcement while visiting the state as part of a multiday tour that also included looking at the potential for more outdoor recreation elsewhere as New Mexico and other western states promote their wide open spaces in hopes of attracting more tourists and more money.
U.S. Sen Joe Manchin told the West Virginia University at Parkersburg Class of 2018 they hit the jackpot living in the United States, but to maintain what lies before them will take work Manchin, D-W.Va., told the graduates they, like many others before them, probably had times when they thought they would not reach their goals of graduating. "How many times did you think you were not going to make it, how many times did you think you could not afford it," "Thinking about those in the back of the room, how many of them made the extra effort, how many of them made a sacrifice and how many times did you take it for granted."
We are so distracted every day by the latest Trump scandal that it becomes hard to recognize the collective damage being done by his presidency. It's not just the breaking of the norms.
Control of the House and Senate won't be determined until November, but this week will point to where both parties go from here. In West Virginia, one Republican primary candidate has waged an all-out racist assault against the Senate leader of his own party.
President Trump and Vice President Pence are moving their post-primary Indiana visit to a venue with more seats, all the bigger to begin their campaign attacks on Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly. The rally is being moved from South Bend to Elkhart to "accommodate more Hoosiers," according to a news release from the Trump-Pence re-election campaign.
The University of Florida is forced to apologize after black and minority graduates were SHOVED off stage by an 'inappropriately aggressive' white faculty member as they celebrated Man, 36, is arrested after he 'dressed as a woman and sexually assaulted a 14-year-old boy at gunpoint while his friend watched' John McCain reveals he regrets choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate and wishes he went with Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman instead Are you drinking yourself FAT? The surprising amount of sugar in your favourite beverages revealed - and why you should only have THREE ingredients in your smoothies Fountains of lava from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano spew up to 230 FEET high, destroying 21 homes after 2,000 residents were forced to evacuate and toxic fumes fill the air Judge who sentenced Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner to just six months for sexual assault faces recall ... (more)
Much has been said and written about President Donald Trump's liberal use of exaggeration and metaphor, and the questionable relationship between what he says and what most people consider the truth. From a philosophical point of view it might be said that he is our first post-modern president, using the term to denote the Nietzschean school of thought that holds that all truth is relative and metaphorical.
Todd Cox, policy director at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, has this notable new commentary in The Hill headlined "Sentencing reform is moving in the wrong direction." Here are excerpts with a bit of additional commentary to follow: In 2015, Senator Chuck Grassley introduced a long awaited bi-partisan criminal justice reform bill designed to address inequities in federal sentencing and promote rehabilitation and re-entry for persons who are incarcerated.
Fountains of lava from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano spew up to 230 FEET high, destroying nine homes after 2,000 residents were forced to evacuate and toxic fumes fill the air Boy, 13, who fractured his skull in seven places is hailed a miracle child for 'coming back to life' after doctors predicted he would be a 'vegetable' and his parents signed papers to donate his organs John McCain reveals he regrets choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate and wishes he went with Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman instead 'You will soon see the historic remorse': Iran's President Hassan Rouhani delivers threat to Trump, declaring the US would regret it 'like never before' if he quits nuclear deal Donald Trump wrote a letter to the UK's David Cameron when he was Prime Minister complaining 'made in China' wind turbines were 'blighting' the Scottish landscape where he owns an 18-hole golf course 'It is ... (more)
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White House press secretary Sarah Sanders added some additional controversy to the confirmation hearings for CIA director nominee Gina Haspel on Saturday with a tweet calling out Democrats who may not support Haspel, but do support "women's empowerment." Sanders said any Democrats who "claims to support women's empowerment and our national security but opposes her nomination is a total hypocrite."
A deadly Legionnaires' disease crisis at a state-run veterans' home, persisting for years, has so flummoxed Illinois officials that they have concluded the best remedy is to start over. Now, rhetoric meets reality.A report last week from Gov. Bruce Rauner's administration recommends a re-do of up to $245 million on the campus of the Quincy veterans home.
NOVEMBER 14: U.S. Sen. John McCain speaks after he was presented with the Outstanding Civilian Service Medal during a special Twilight Tattoo performance November 14, 2017 at Fort Myer in Arlington, Virginia. Sen. McCain was honored for over 63 years of dedicated service to the nation and the U.S. Navy.
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Washington, May 6 - US President Donald Trump has floated a new idea about border security, saying that people might have to think about closing up the country, the media reported. They don't want the wall but we're going to get the wall, even if we have to think about closing up the country for a while, CNN quoted Trump as saying during a tax reform roundtable in Ohio on Saturday.
In 2012, Kansas lawmakers cut income taxes in a bigger, faster, more dramatic way than any other state had done. And revenue from tax collections dropped like a rock, causing Kansas to enter a multi-year period of serious financial trouble.
An anti-Semitic Senate candidate who praised Adolf Hitler has been kicked out of the California Republican Party's convention in San Diego. Little is running against Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who's seeking a fifth full term.
President Donald Trump renewed a threat to close down the federal government when current funding runs out in September if immigration changes and money for a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico aren't forthcoming. "We may have to close up our country to get this straight," Trump said Saturday during an event in Cleveland focused on the benefits of the 2017 Republican tax overhaul.