Editor Brian Harrod Provides Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, with aggregated news from sources all over the world from the Roundup Newswires Network
The Democrat in one New York swing district is pushing a debate that for years was one of the party's biggest election-year liabilities: gun control. In her challenge to Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin in the 1st District, Anna Throne-Holst is placing the issue at the core of her campaign, airing two television ads focused solely on the issue.
"Hi! How's everybody doin'?" McGinty said, as she entered the Western Learning Center, an early childhood program for local families. McGinty stopped here Tuesday to tout her economic agenda with a small group of local parents, but first, it was story time.
It was a jarring transition. At the Democratic National Convention last Wednesday, a video by James Cameron depicted the impacts of climate change against a dramatic score - global warming as disaster movie, essentially.
Many Northeast Mississippi residents joined millions of other Americans during the last few days in seeking to regain emotional and personal equilibrium after the early Sunday mass murder of 49 people in an Orlando night club. A sizable group, organized through social media, gathered in front of Tupelo's City Hall on Monday night to express grief and memorialize those killed in the club, whose clientele was predominantly gay and young.
Retired astronaut Scott Kelly, right, speaks while standing next to his astronaut twin brother Mark Kelly during an event renaming the elementary school they attended, Thursday, May 19, 2016, in West Orange, N.J. Pleasantdale Elementary School was renamed the Kelly Elementary School during the ceremony.