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Six dead including two children as Mexico's biggest earthquake in a century triggers a tsunami 'which could reach three meters high' and leaves a million without power Miami faces a DIRECT HIT: Hurricane and life-threatening storm surge warnings are issued for the first time for South Florida after eye of Irma shifts on its way towards the US 'Armed' man is shot by police at Miami Airport prompting evacuation of the terminal while travelers rush to evacuate Florida ahead of Hurricane Irma College student films her horror as she wakes up in an abandoned train and has to call 911 after falling asleep on the train following epic day of travel to flee her Florida school before Irma hit 'Hunker down, stay where you are': Irma pummels Turks and Caicos with 175mph winds - as Caribbean islands already torn apart rush against the clock before Category 3 Jose arrives for round two Sea of red: ... (more)
An 11-4 season-ending win against Portland on Monday, giving the Fisher Cats nine wins over the final 14 games, wasn't enough to prevent the team from posting its worst win total and winning... "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two" was the title of an article by George Miller whose premise was that most people can keep a seven-digit number ... (more)
Hillary Clinton's book is due out next week. And judging by a page that was just tweeted by one of her staunchest supporters - not to mention plenty of other evidence - it's likely to include a heaping dose of score-settling.
An 11-4 season-ending win against Portland on Monday, giving the Fisher Cats nine wins over the final 14 games, wasn't enough to prevent the team from posting its worst win total and winning... "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two" was the title of an article by George Miller whose premise was that most people can keep a seven-digit number ... (more)
President Donald Trump is expected to end a program that protected undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children -- so-called "Dreamers" -- from deportation, four sources familiar with the decision told CNN. Two of the sources said the plan is to have a six-month delay in any action regarding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to allow Congress time to pass a fix through legislation that would allow the undocumented immigrants to stay in the country.
In this Feb. 9, 2016, photo, provided by Bill Phillips, of Nashua, N.H., Phillips takes a selfie with his marked election ballot. The secrecy of the voting booth may soon be a thing of the past.
All three members of Vermont 's congressional delegation are opposed to President Donald Trump's suggestion he will shut down the federal government if Congress does not include money to construct a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico. Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Appropriations committee, calls the suggestion "juvenile," saying it would cost billions of dollars every day to shut down the government.
Is the West Virginia senator's centrism an anachronism or a way forward for the Democratic Party in Trump's America? At a recent town hall at the West Virginia state fair, Joe Manchin lamented how divided the country has become. "You saw what happened in Charlottesville," the Democratic senator told the assembled crowd, referring to the white nationalist rally in support of a Confederate statue that led to violent clashes, and the death of 32-year-old counterprotester Heather Heyer.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont inspired millions of loyal supporters, some of whom chose not to support Hillary Clinton in the general election in 2016. Fully 12 percent of people who voted for Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries voted for President Trump in the general election.
Labor leaders, once courted by President Donald Trump, are stepping up their campaign to turn workers against the White House if it does not deliver more on jobs and trade - and if it does not stop undoing Obama-era regulations.
A suite of new NBC News/Marist polls has found that majorities in three key states that helped tip the election for President Donald Trump now say they feel "embarrassed" by his conduct in office. The polls released Sunday show that nearly two-thirds of registered voters in Pennsylvania , Wisconsin and Michigan said they are embarrassed by Trump's conduct as President, while only about a quarter of registered voters in those states said they are "proud" of it.
The death of comedian and activist Dick Gregory at age 84 on Saturday prompted a flood of tributes on Twitter from celebrities, activists and others. Jane Sanders recalled how her husband -- Bernie Sanders, Democratic senator from Vermont and former presidential candidate -- once spent a night in jail with Gregory after protesting segregation in Chicago.
Not long ago, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's calls for economic redistribution were seen by many within his own party as a liability. But today a decisive shift to the left seems possible, even probable in a bastion of Anglo-Saxon capitalism.
In 2001, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott got a dozen Democrats to vote for tax cuts sought by President George W. Bush. Now, for the tax plan backed by President Trump, the most Democratic votes Sen. Mitch McConnell could hope for is three.
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events For decades, it seemed like the world was on an unstoppable march toward closer integration. The world was flat and getting flatter, thanks to the spread of multinational corporations, new technologies like the internet and international migration, all of which knit together far-flung countries around the world.
" A story alleging that a Vermont senator has been arrested by the FBI and will face charges of illegal gambling and drug possession is untrue. Several websites ran the story about Sen. Warren Sherman and his arrest at Sanders Field in Burlington.
In this Oct. 17, 2016, photo, supporters applaud Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who spoke at a rally in support of Colorado Amendment 69, a ballot measure to set up the nation's first universal health care system, on the campus of the University of Colorado, in Boulder. Progressives are riled up with renewed seize-the-day determination to turn Congress' failure to gut Obamacare and Medicaid into a push for nationwide universal health care.
The 3,700 employees at Nissan's factory in Mississippi have seen the anti-union company videos. They've been lobbied by their supervisors, lectured by politicians and visited at home by union organizers.
Henry Louis Gates Jr., the host of "Finding Your Roots" on PBS, says the show "couldn't have scripted" the discovery that actor, comedian Larry David and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders are related. An episode in which the two learn they're distant relatives will air on the show's upcoming fourth season, premiering Oct. 3. David has impersonated Sanders on "Saturday Night Live."
Henry Louis Gates Jr., the host of "Finding Your Roots" on PBS, says the show "couldn't have scripted" the discovery that actor, comedian Larry David and Senator Bernie Sanders are related. An episode where the two learn they're distant relatives will air on the show's upcoming fourth season, premiering Oct. 3. Gates spoke about the discovery Monday during a panel about his show as part of the Television Critics Association's annual summer press gathering.