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It's that time of year again when we celebrate all things Irish but there is a lot more to Irish achievement than shamrocks, Guinness and Jedward. Ireland has been making a positive impact around the globe for centuries and there's no better time to celebrate some of those real Irish accomplishments than just ahead of St Patrick's Day.
In this Jan. 25, 2011, file photo, part of a cache of seized weapons displayed at a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ATF news conference in Phoenix. After six years of legal wrangling, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has reached a settlement with the Department of Justice in their dispute over the release of documents related to the controversial "gun-walking" program known as Operation Fast and Furious.
Travelers line up at a checkpoint at Los Angeles International Airport in May 2016. The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit to demand documents related to the Transportation Security Administration's search of electronic devices on domestic flights.
U.S. Senator Jeff Flake walks past journalists after announcing he will not run for reelection on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, October 24, 2017. Senator Jeff Flake threw shade on his own political party Thursday, saying the GOP "might not deserve to lead" given its support of President Trump.
Rep. Ted Deutch, D-FL, who represents the district where Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is located, said that Sen. Marco Rubio's bill focusing on daylight saving time is not what Congress should be focusing on right now.
President Obama congratulates Senator Christopher Dodd and Rep. Barney Frank after signing the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in Washington, July 21, 2010. he Senate on Wednesday passed a bill that would roll back parts of Dodd-Frank.
The Cook Political Report, a renowned nonpartisan election forecaster, shifted its projections of nine House races in favor of Democrats Friday, days after political novice Conor Lamb bested his Republican challenger in the special election to represent a Pennsylvania district President Trump carried by 20 points against Hillary Clinton. Among the notable ratings changes were three races affected by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's recent move to redraw the state's congressional districts, ostensibly as a counterweight to the effects of partisan gerrymandering.
Workers wait next to a crushed car and yellow tarp under a section of a collapsed pedestrian bridge, Friday, March 16, 2018 near Florida International University in the Miami area. The new pedestrian bridge that was under construction collapsed onto a busy Miami highway Thursday afternoon, crushing vehicles beneath massive slabs of concrete and steel, killing and injuring several people, authorities said.
It takes much to make a figure like Rex Tillerson seem not merely sane but competent. The Trump administration, with its almost paranormal sense of revisionism and fantasy, has managed to make old Rex seem mildly credible.
Officials say they arrested, Michael B. Hari, 47, Joe Morris, 22, Michael McWhorter, 29, and, Ellis Mack, 18, all of Clarence, Ill. That's just 35 miles north of Champaign-Urbana.
A mural depicting Alton Sterling and teddy bears at a memorial near where he was killed during an incident with Baton Rouge Police almost a year ago, on July 5, 2016, outside the Triple S Food Mart on North Foster Drive. Photographed June 28, 2017.
For every immigrant, speaking about his or her home country can be somewhat emotional and personal. For us immigrants, the experiences of leaving former identities framed in memories of the land, people, smells, tastes, smiles, laughter, tears and other feelings wrapped in the native tongues and rebuilding our own personhoods in foreign words, foreign-scapes, foreign frameworks held together with the values, beliefs and norms of others gives us a special opportunity to see our world dimensionally.
Jeff Flake has a direct message for the Republicans of New Hampshire: Someone needs to stop Donald Trump. And Flake, a Republican senator from Arizona, may stand up against the Republican president in 2020 -- either as a Republican or an independent -- if no one else does.
Tony Seskus is senior producer with CBC's Western Business unit in Calgary. He has written for newspapers and wire services for more than 25 years on three continents.
Tadesse is a 28-year-old Ethiopian from the capital, Addis Ababa. Like thousands of others he took part in demonstrations over the last three years, and together with family members, refused to pledge support for the Ethiopian government.
Democrat Conor Lamb narrowly defeated Republican Rick Saccone - by 627 votes out of 228,378 counted - in a district held by Republican Tim Murphy since 2003. More to the point, the district was carried by a 20-point margin by Republican Donald Trump in 2016 and by a 58-41 percent margin by Republican Mitt Romney in 2012.
State Rep. Nickie Antonio, a Lakewood Democrat, has said that support from the Ohio Chamber of Commerce has given new momentum to her Ohio House Bill 160 that would prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender idenity in Ohio. The U.S. Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell decision protected a person's right to enter into a same-sex marriage.
President Donald Trump said in a Thursday tweet that he would beat up former Vice President Joe Biden in a fight. "Crazy Joe Biden is trying to act like a tough guy," said the president on Twitter.