Today in History: Aug. 8

On Aug. 8, 1974, President Richard Nixon announced his resignation, effective the next day, following damaging new revelations in the Watergate scandal. In 1911, President William Howard Taft signed a measure raising the number of U.S. representatives from 391 to 433, effective with the next Congress, with a proviso to add two more when New Mexico and Arizona became states.

Trump mustrelease returns

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Unanswered questions and mixed messages: making sense of the race for Hong Kong’s top job

Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah and retiring Legislative Council president Jasper Tsang Yok-sing caused a stir when they announced they may run for Chief Executive Hong Kong was taken aback when the two Tsangs - Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah and retiring Legislative Council president Jasper Tsang Yok-sing - declared their intention to run for the city's top job. The immediate question was why the duo would be the first to shed some light on who will throw their hat into the ring for chief executive, instead of incumbent Leung Chun-ying.

The ‘extreme center’ is missing

Many years ago, when Chile was deep into one of Latin America's most profound conflicts between democracy and communism, I became friends with -- and was filled with admiration for -- a Belgian Jesuit priest, Father Roger Vekemans. His brilliance was making citizens out of the masses of poor Chileans who had, until then, played no real part in their own lives and country, and it was a wondrous thing to see.

Our View: Lawsuits underscore need for independent redistricting panel

Redistricting and lawsuits challenging the resulting new maps have gone together in North Carolina politics for what seems to be about as long as anyone can remember. Republican-created congressional districts that were hurriedly crafted earlier this year after a federal court ruled the district maps drawn in 2011 were racial gerrymandering again have been challenged in court.

Suspicious Timing – Iran Gets $400M, Hostages Freed

At the beginning of the year, the Obama administration danced for victory in announcing the implementation of a deal with Iran that rewarded the No. 1 state sponsor of terrorism with the lifting of well-deserved sanctions in return for its purported actions to dismantle its nuclear program.

Campaign 2016: Toomey banking on split-ticketa

Campaign 2016: Toomey banking on split-ticket voting The Pennsylvania Republican hopes voters turned off by Donald Trump will still support his Senate reelection bid. Check out this story on publicopiniononline.com: http://on-ydr.co/2aMxkW3 In this May 9, 2016, file photo, Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa.

Hillary Clinton makes history

In her autobiography, Living History , Hillary Clinton describes herself not as a former senator or first lady, but as a person born in a "fortunate time and place", free to make choices unavailable to many women in the past and inconceivable for many in the world today. It is a point that must not be lightly brushed aside, as Mrs Clinton is confirmed as the first woman to ever to be nominated by a major political party to be the United States president.