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"There is nothing more important to me and to our future than an end to the violence that we have experienced this past year," said Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh, in a New Year's Eve statement reported by Patch aimed at soothing angst over the city's A-Number One 2017 Nationwide Homicide Rate, at 343. And that was after residents started calling their home "Bodymore" rather than Baltimore, a tongue-in-cheek way of saying, hey, we've got a murder problem over here.
Former Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen -- no fan of Donald Trump -- nevertheless agrees with President Trump's support for the Iranian people who are protesting against their hardline rulers. Mullen, who served under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, told ABC's "This Week" on Sunday that President Obama was not as supportive as he could have been in 2009, when the Iranian people waged similar anti-government protests.
The glamour of his holiday break behind him, President Donald Trump returned to the White House on Monday night to face a hefty legislative to-do list, critical midterm elections and perilous threats abroad. Trump started his second year in Washington after a lengthy sojourn at his private club in Palm Beach, Florida, capped by a New Year's Eve bash.
Donald Trump infamously spearheaded the birther conspiracy theory up until the very end of his presidential campaign. After years of claiming Barack Obama wasn't born in the United States, Trump was forced to admit that Obama is in fact a natural-born citizen.
Sixty-three years after serving in the Korean War, a Sioux Falls, South Dakota man is getting the recognition he deserves. Thanks to family, friends and fellow soldiers, 91-year-old Army Pvt.
In his latest book, "The Thin Light of Freedom," Edward Ayers reveals the Civil War through the Franklin County people who lived it. The Burning: 1864 The Ransoming, Burning and Rebirth, a reenactment of the burning of Chambersburg during the Civil War, saw downtown Chambersburg in "flames" the night of July 15, 2017.
That's something he's getting ready to do when he ships out to Kuwait with the 38th Sustainment Brigade for his third international deployment. But Weeks' departure from his family was made a little easier Tuesday evening after receiving a rousing sendoff from family, friends and elected officials wishing him well before the mission.
A slew of letters have been published by The Brownsville Herald stating that liquefied natural gas terminals, to be built at the Port of Brownsville, will bring lots of jobs. We are forgetting that those jobs will be mainly jobs during construction, and then they will need janitors.
In this Jan. 23, 2014 file photo, James Holleran, father of Madison Holleran, a University of Pennsylvania freshman who took her own life, talks about his daughter while sitting next to a favorite photo of her at his home in Allendale, N.J. Nearly half of the largest U.S. public universities do not track suicides among their students, despite making investments in prevention at a time of surging demand for mental health services. After her 2014 suicide, one of her former teachers in New Jersey was surprised to learn learn many universities don't report suicide statistics.
The Houston Chronicle reports the University of Houston students had spent nearly two weeks maneuvering, and crashing, the cheaper ones that frequently go awry and will not hover in one spot. The GoPro Karma and DJI Phantom 4, however, promised all the bells and whistles.
Reports that the U2 frontman proclaimed during an interview that "Donald Trump is destroying America, [and] we must stop him" are fake news. During a 'Rolling Stone' interview, U2 singer Bono proclaimed that "Donald Trump is destroying America, [and] we must stop him."
Bill de Blasio began his second term as mayor on Monday at a swearing-in ceremony outdoors in freezing temperatures, taking the oath of office administered by Brooklyn native and Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders. De Blasio won re-election handily in November, becoming the first Democrat to return to City Hall in New York since Edward Koch won a third term in 1985.
When Doug Jones defeated Judge Roy Moore down in Alabama, Democrats picked up a seat in the U.S. Senate and Republicans dodged a bullet. Because the cheers from most Democrats and progressives were so loud, they drowned out the sighs of relief many Republicans and conservatives exhaled when Moore toppled.
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters Sunday as he arrives for a New Year's Eve gala at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla. WASHINGTON – The glamour of his holiday break behind him, President Donald Trump returned to the White House on Monday night to face a hefty legislative to-do list, critical midterm elections and perilous threats abroad.
Thank you for the recent coverage the flurry of Volusia County Council late-year activity regarding county employee pay increases and "wish list" expenditures that may burden taxpayers this year, and potentially for years to come if the local economy sours. Raises exceeding the cost of living adjustment and proposed multi-million-dollar expenditures for upgrades and new government facilities suggest County Manager Jim Dinneen and the County Council expect growth and revenue to continue to "flood" into Volusia County in 2018 and for years to come.
The US Coast Guard says the Coast Guard Cutter Marlin's crew saw an 89-year-old man's car go into the water at a marina in Panama City, Florida on Saturday. The crew immediately launched a rescue boat, broke a car window and pulled the man out.
The Trump administration - reversing guidelines put in place under President Barack Obama - is scaling back the use of fines against nursing homes that harm residents or place them in grave risk of injury. The shift in the Medicare program's penalty protocols was requested by the nursing home industry.
Washington: The United States has suspended its $ 255 million military aid to Pakistan for now, the White House has confirmed, saying the fate of such assistance will depend on Islamabad's response to terrorism on its soil. The confirmation comes on the same day when US President Donald Trump accused Pakistan of giving nothing to the US but "lies and deceit" and providing "safe haven" to terrorists in return for $ 33 billion aid over the last 15 years.
Fake news evolved from seedy internet sideshow to serious electoral threat so quickly that behavioral scientists had little time to answer basic questions about it, like who was reading what, how much real news they also consumed and whether targeted fact-checking efforts ever hit a target. Sure, surveys abound, asking people what they remember reading.