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A top Clinton Foundation official defended its "lifesaving work" Sunday amid new criticism and pay-to-play accusations over Hillary Clinton's connections to its top donors. "None of the Clintons have ever taken a salary and don't profit from the foundation," Craig Minassian, the Clinton Foundation's chief communications officer, told MSNBC.
Seeking to forever tie Donald Trump to the "alt-right" and its media icons, Hillary Clinton on Thursday delivered a stemwinding indictment of Trump and his embrace of extreme conservative media, rhetoric and conspiracy theories. The speech, in Reno, Nev., used Trump's connections to outlets like Breitbart, InfoWars and the National Enquirer to portray him as a dangerous man living in a "paranoid fever dream."
Hillary Clinton issued a blistering takedown of Donald Trump Thursday, accusing him of racism and arguing that "fringe" elements have taken over the Republican Party. "From the start, Donald Trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia," Clinton said at a campaign rally here.
An "intercultural" event held Thursday at Virginia Tech University asked participants to follow a blistering array of rules and expectations to make sure nobody has their feelings hurt. The Virginia Tech Intercultural Engagement Center is holding a special kick-off event for the new school year.
Flowers and a Confederate flag lay at the base of a marker at Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania in 2013. The Civil War has been over for 151 years, and Department of Veterans Affairs cemeteries, which began three years prior, have finally decided to restrict flags representing the killers of U.S. government soldiers.
The Department of Veterans' Affairs announced yesterday that it will ban the flying of Confederate flags in national cemeteries. The announcement comes exactly two months after House Republicans voted to remove legislation sponsored by Representative Jared Huffman that would accomplish similar a similar end from a VA appropriations bill.
More than half the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state gave money - either personally or through companies or groups - to the Clinton Foundation. It's an extraordinary proportion indicating her possible ethics challenges if elected president.
By Michael HowellThe Stevensville Airport has been closed since August 1 for runway improvements that are expected to be completed by the end of October.
There is way too much cheese in America, so the US Department of Agriculture is buying a massive amount of it. According to a release from the USDA, it will purchase 11 million pounds and distribute it to food banks around the country.
I was in the grocery store and started wondering, what am I really getting when I buy organic fruits and vegetables? What makes one onion organic, and another not? The United States Department of Agriculture answers your question this way: "Organic agriculture produces products using methods that preserve the environment and avoid most synthetic materials, such as pesticides and antibiotics," and "a are grown and processed according to federal guidelines addressing, among many factors, soil quality, animal raising practices, pest and weed control, and use of additives." The key words in that rather long definition are "according to federal guidelines."
From local residents collecting donations for flood victims in Louisiana to a large donation of school supply kits to a local school, there was no shortage of good news throughout Northeast Mississippi last week. Before we prepare for the week ahead, let's take a look back at some of the highlights from last week: a Several groups and individuals in Northeast Mississippi worked to collect and deliver donations to the victims of flooding in Louisiana and south Mississippi.
DEMOCRATIC presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has been lampooned on social media as "missing in action", with the hashtag #WheresHillary trending number one globally. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who visited flood-ravaged Louisiana on Friday to deliver supplies and meet with locals, gave the hashtag a boost over the weekend.
The cliche about the American diet being mostly meat and potatoes has seemed less true over recent years, with vegetarianism going mainstream and veganism gaining popularity. But old dietary habits die hard- possibly because of their clogged arteries.
At least that's what the hope has been since 1992, when Family Circle magazine began collecting cookie recipes from the wives of presidential candidates for their Presidential Cookie Poll. Clinton submitted the same recipe that his wife, current Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, submitted during the 1992 and 1996 campaigns.
Facing criticism for some of the donations given to his family's philanthropy, Bill Clinton said Thursday that the Clinton Foundation would no longer accept foreign or corporate funds and that he would resign from the board should Hillary Clinton win the presidency. Clinton's announcement, which he relayed to foundation employees in a meeting Thursday, followed the recent release of State Department emails mentioning several donors to the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation who had contacts with aides to Clinton while she was secretary of state.
Battling post-traumatic stress disorder, the Vietnam War veteran had received counseling at a Corpus Christi VA clinic for a couple of years near his Rockport home. But early last year, he said, the in-person appointments with his psychiatrist suddenly stopped.
This photo from the Alpine Community Network shows the toucan that has been spotted several times flying around Alpine. - Alpine Community Network People in Alpine are on the lookout for a wayward toucan who has been spotted several times flying around the town and other areas of East County.
Born in 1843 in Niles, Ohio, William McKinley volunteered for the Civil War in 1861. He slowly rose in the war, rising to be a captain and on the staff of General George Crook.
Organizers of the event say the salute to military veterans is a unique, and different, way to start the festival. "Someone made the suggestion of a veterans observance and it kind of just grew from there," said Event Organizer Paul Nellis.