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When financial analysts crow about the low U.S. unemployment rate and, in the next breath, say the Social Security Disability program needs a fix, I have to laugh. Those analysts fail to account for the 8.8 million workers who dropped out of the work force and qualified for the disability program.
There's support for the Trump administration's offshore drilling proposal among South Carolina's mostly Republican congressional delegation, but not from the ones who represent the state's coast. The Associated Press surveyed South Carolina lawmakers last week following Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's announcement that the administration would vastly expand offshore drilling from the Atlantic to the Arctic oceans and open up federal waters off the California coast for the first time in more than three decades.
It inflamed rumors that she may run for president and lit up the internet. The stirring ovation, amid a night in which the entire female contingent in the audience wore black to highlight the "Time's Up" movement, began with Winfrey reminiscing about watching Sidney Poitier win an Oscar in 1964, sitting "on the linoleum floor of her house in Milwaukee."
Vermont's largest city is considering making a downtown mural depicting famous people associated with Burlington and Vermont more inclusive after an activist defaced it and called the art racist.
Law enforcement officials are looking for the suspects who stole around 13 firearms from an armory in Hanover, Maryland, on Sunday. Around 6:19 a.m. Sunday in Hanover Armory at 1327 Ashton Road, four people stole firearms, including handguns and rifles, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Baltimore Field Division said in a news release.
Migration is a common story throughout the world. Immigrants move from Poland to the United Kingdom, or India to Singapore, or the Philippines to Japan in search of better prospects.
Ottawa Public Works employee Terry Bell adds another Christmas tree to a wood chipper Saturday at the Riordan Pool parking lot, as the city of Ottawa once again offers to take the trees and return the mulch to those who may want it. The service runs through this Saturday.
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon released a statement Sunday expressing regret for not responding sooner to comments attributed to him that were critical of Donald Trump Jr. in "Fire and Fury," an explosive new book on President Donald Trump's first year in office. CNN obtained the statement from a source close to Bannon.
Madrid's 2018 Three Kings Parade featured a gay themed float to encourage LGBT normalization on the eve of Epiphany, stirring outrage among the country's Catholic faithful. The controversial float in Friday's parade featured a female stripper, a female hip-hop artist, and a drag queen, according to Crux Now.
Sarah Silverman may be known for her biting comedy, but her recent exchange with a Twitter troll is being held up as a model of compassion. A few days ago, Silverman sent out a tweet, and a total stranger replied cruelly with nothing but the C word.
Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon is apologizing for comments made in the new Fire and Fury book by Michael Wolff. Bannon issued a statement to Axios this morning, while also publishing it over at Breitbart.
Faced with a growing backlash, President Donald Trump's former chief strategist released a statement Sunday reaffirming his support for the commander in chief and praising Trump's eldest son as "both a patriot and a good man." Bannon infuriated Trump with comments to author Michael Wolff describing a June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower in New York between Donald Trump Jr., Trump campaign aides and a Russian lawyer as "treasonous" and "unpatriotic."
Florida Republican leaders Saturday talked of the need to drown out media chatter amid predictions of Democratic gains in this year's mid-term elections and attacks on the GOP's unconventional president.
Brave protestors in Iran continue to stand up to the dictatorship that oppresses them and fight for their rights and freedoms. Unfortunately, the world is for the most part treating them the same way they they treat their counterparts in Cuba.
Sen. Rand Paul says he's recovering well from the November assault that left him with six broken ribs, and says violence against political figures is a concern among his colleagues. The Kentucky Republican tells CBS' "Face the Nation" that fellow lawmakers don't want to think it's open season on elected officials.
Lupe Valdez, the former Dallas County Sheriff, formally launched her Democratic bid for governor on Sunday, touting a campaign aimed at representing all Texans and listing a broad range of topics she plans to address as election season gets underway. "Together, we need to build something new - a new Texas," Valdez told a crowd of supporters here.
With people across the country dying at the rate of 53 a day from overdoses of fentanyl and similar compounds - now the leading killers in the opioid epidemic - efforts to stop this scourge ought to come from every corner of the federal government. But even as President Trump has declared the opioid epidemic a national emergency , some agencies have failed to act as if it is one.
Suspected leaker and high ranking member of the House Intel Committee Adam Schiff called President Trump a "seriously flawed human being" on CNN Sunday. Adam Schiff actually quoted Michael Wolff's new book full of lies, 'Fire and Fury' as his source.
Israel has finally had enough and banned from entering the country foreign groups that support the anti-Israel BDS movement including the Obama-Hamas terrorist allied American group Code Pink. Code Pink was one of six US groups banned.