The plane left Burke Lakefront headed for Ohio State University around 10:57 p.m. Authorities received their last recorded transmission from the plane around 30 seconds after takeoff. “Right now we’re focusing on that area about two miles off of the airport,” said Coast Guard petty officer Christopher Yaw about their search.
Month: December 2016
Learn From The Bible Mr. Kerry
In Philadelphia, the Gold Star Khizr Kahn told Trump t and wondered aloud whether President-Elect Trump had ever read the Constitution, pulling his own pocket-sized copy from his jacket for emphasis. Now I wonder has John Kerry ever read the Bible or Koran? Barack Obama and John Kerry’s stance is unbelievable by not vetoing the resolution.
Bag, debris found along Lake Erie in Ohio where plane vanished with 6 aboard
Debris washed ashore near an airport where a small plane carrying six people took off shortly before it vanished over Lake Erie near Cleveland, the city said Sunday. Authorities received multiple reports of debris washing ashore east of Burke Lakefront Airport, where a plane carrying a family of four and their two neighbors departed late Thursday.
A convoy of vehicles with diplomatic plates drives
Sanctions and the expulsion of Russian diplomats from the United States in response to attempts to influence the U.S. presidential election are a rare physical response to ongoing and growing cyber conflicts between nations. Sanctions mark rare window into cyberwar Sanctions and the expulsion of Russian diplomats from the United States in response to attempts to influence the U.S. presidential election are a rare physical response to ongoing and growing cyber conflicts between nations.
AP New Year’s poll: Americans ready to bid farewell to 2016
Emotionally wrenching politics, foreign conflicts and shootings at home took a toll on Americans in 2016, but they are entering 2017 on an optimistic note, according to a new poll that found that a majority believes things are going to get better for the country next year. Americans weren’t thrilled with the year.
Trump ally who said he wished President Obama would die of ‘cow…
Trump ally who said he wished President Obama would die of ‘cow disease’ and wanted Michelle to ‘return to being a male in the outback’ is told to resign In an email to a magazine, Paladino said he hoped President Obama died of mad cow disease after ‘having relations with a Hereford’ He said he wanted Michelle Obama to ‘return to being a male’ so she could live with a ‘gorilla in the outback of Zimbabwe’ A controversial Trump ally has been told to resign his school board job a week after shocking comments about Barack and Michelle Obama. Carl Paladino said he wished the president would die of mad cow disease while the first lady should ‘return to being a male’ in the ‘Zimbabwean outback’ in an extraordinary outburst.
A lawmaker’s solution for marriage debate: Remove the state
A Missouri Republican saw last year’s debate over a proposed constitutional amendment that would have protected businesses that deny services to same-sex couples bring lawmakers to tears and grind legislative work to a halt. His potential solution: Take state government out of marriage completely.
Obama trying to start WWIII before Jan. 20; feds “probe” Drudge…
Excuse the brevity of this entry, but there’s not enough time to detail all the evil that’s unfolding right now. Suffice it to say that Obama is right now attempting to start a raging war before he leaves office.
Liberal democracies put to the test
A great many writers, people who know what they’re talking about, have warned that liberal democracy is more significantly threatened today than at any time in the recent past. That’s not just because of the election of Donald Trump, but also the Brexit vote in Great Britain, and widespread support for nationalist, authoritarian and exclusionist regimes in Hungary, Poland and elsewhere.
Arthur Cyr: Russia now shapes the Mideast
Just before Christmas, a summit in Moscow brought together the leaders of Iran, Russia and Turkey. President Vladimir Putin of Russia orchestrated this major meeting.
Search underway for missing plane that originated at Burke Lakefront Airport Read Story
Local search and rescue, including the Coast Guard, are currently.looking for a Cessna Citation 525 aircraft that departed Burke Lakefront Airport at 10:50 p.m. on Thursday evening.
With Trump’s victory, GOP hopes to overhaul Medicaid
In this Jan. 13, 2015 file photo, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., left, joined by Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., heads to a meeting of House Republicans on Capitol Hill in Washington. When President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January, Republicans will have the opportunity to do something they have desired for years – overhaul Medicaid, the program that provides health care to millions of lower-income and disabled Americans.
U.S. punishes Russia for hacking campaign
HONOLULU – The U.S. struck back Thursday at Russia for hacking the U.S. presidential campaign with a sweeping set of punishments targeting Russia’s spy agencies and diplomats. The U.S. said Russia must bear costs for its actions, but Moscow called the Obama administration “losers” and threatened retaliation.
Nikkei drops to 3-week low in choppy trade; ekes out small gains for 2016
TOKYO, Dec 30 Japan’s Nikkei share average dropped to a three-week low in choppy trade on Friday as investors took profits from the recent gains on the last trading day of 2016, but the market managed to eke out marginal gains for the year. The Nikkei ended 0.2 percent lower at 19,114.37, the lowest closing level since Dec. 9. After trading in negative territory, the benchmark index turned positive in afternoon trade, with traders citing speculation that the Bank of Japan was buying exchange-traded funds to support the market.
U.S ‘surprised’ over British PM Theresa May’s criticism of John Kerry Israel speech1 hour ago
London, Dec. 30: British Prime Minister Theresa May has distanced the United Kingdom from the United States over John Kerry’s condemnation of Israel. This move is being assessed as an attempt to build bridges with the incoming Trump administration, reports the Guardian.
Triumphs and challenges : 2016 in policing
The offenders were responsible for an increase in the number of car thefts , theft from cars, vandalism and property based dishonesty and damage offences. Superintendent Margetts said police were in the process of gathering intelligence to identify factors behind the 2016 increase in repeat youth offending and were actively working to prevent re-offending.
Opposition always dreams about PM’s resignation: Shivraj Singh Chouhan16 min ago
Bhopal , Dec. 30 : Condemning the opposition for its stand on demonetisation, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday said it always dreams about the prime minister’s resignation. “The opposition has nothing else to do.
Trump Dismisses Russia Sanctions: – Time for Our Country to Move On’
President-elect Donald Trump appeared to dismiss the sanctions imposed against Russia for its alleged cyberattack on the U.S., saying it was “time for our country to move on” and still not acknowledging the Kremlin’s role in meddling in the presidential election. “It’s time for our country to move on to bigger and better things,” Trump said in a statement.
McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office hires chief investigator, misdemeanor prosecutor
Laura King, named chief investigator for the office, retired as a division commander in 2016 from the McHenry Police Department after more than 20 years of work. WOODSTOCK – The McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office has hired a new chief investigator and a misdemeanor prosecutor, the office announced this week.
Countdown to Inauguration Day: What you need to know today
Obama retaliated for suspected Russian inteference in the U.S. presidential campaign by imposing sanctions and expelling Russian government officials in the U.S. Trump then issued a statement saying it’s “time for our country to move on to bigger and better things.” Senior White House leadership team , listed on Donald Trump’s official presidential transition website : Vice President-Elect Mike Pence as team chair, with Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Newt Gingrich, Michael T. Flynn, Rudy Giuliani, Jeff Sessions as vice chairs.
New slate of officials sworn in
New Douglas County Commission Chairwoman Romona Jackson Jones is sworn in by Probate Judge Hal Hamrick as her mother looks on holding the Bible. New Douglas County Sheriff Tim Pounds, right, is sworn in Thursday night by Superior Court Judge Beau McClain at the courthouse.
States face off over Clean Power Plan
Two weeks after officials in two dozen states asked Republican President-elect Donald Trump to kill one of Democratic President Barack Obama’s signature plans to curb global warming, another group of state officials is urging Trump to save it. Democratic attorneys general in 15 states plus four cities and counties sent a letter to Trump asking him to preserve Obama’s Clean Power Plan, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, the lead author, announced Thursday.
After Obama sanctions Russia, Trump says it’s time ‘to move on to …
Republicans offered a wide range of responses Thursday, from praise for the administration to praise for the hackers for revealing the inner workings of the Hillary Clinton campaign. Many Republicans limned their praise for the sanctions with criticism of the Obama-era foreign policy.
UPDATE 1-FBI analysis fingers Russian spy agencies for U.S. election hacks
Dec 29 The FBI squarely blamed Russian intelligence services on Thursday for meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, releasing the most definitive report yet on the issue, including samples of malicious computer code said to have been used in a broad hacking campaign. Starting in mid-2015, Russia’s foreign intelligence agency, the FSB, emailed a malicious link to more than 1,000 recipients, including U.S. government targets, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said in a 13-page report co-authored with the Department of Homeland Security.
Carjacking turned to Kidnappinga Child found safe
A 6-year-old girl was found safe today after a suspect stole the running car in which she was left waiting while her mother went into a South Los Angeles laundromat. The vehicle was taken just after 2 p.m. in the 7800 block of Broadway, according to Officer Aareon Jefferson of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Media Relations Section.
Tribes get say in land management but worry about Trump
In this July 14, 2016, file photo, the Newspaper Rock featuring a rock panel of petroglyphs in the Indian Creek Area is shown to U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell near Monticello, Utah, during a tour to meet with proponents and opponents to the “Bears Ears” monument proposal. President Barack Obama on Wednesday, Dec. 28, designated two new national monuments in Utah and Nevada.
Sanders’ bid, Hardwood tragedy top stories
Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential bid exposed a streak of progressivism in a swath of the American electorate, and the Vermont independent’s performance in the Democratic presidential primaries was voted the top story of 2016 in his adopted home state by Associated Press member editors and broadcasters. The AP gathered nominations from Vermont news organizations that belong to the news cooperative, developed a list and asked journalists to rank the top 10 stories, using a point system in which each ballot’s top-ranked story got 10, the second-ranking story 9 and so on.
GOP readies swift Obamacare repealwith no replacement in place
The first major act of the unified Republican government in 2017 will be a vote in Congress to begin tearing down Obamacare. But the euphoria of finally acting on a long-sought goal will quickly give way to the reality that Republicans – and President-elect Donald Trump – have no agreement thus far on how to replace coverage for about 20 million people who gained insurance under the health-care law.
Israel and the damage done by Obama
In this Nov. 9, 2015, file photo, President Barack Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House. The audience – overwhelmingly Jewish, passionately pro-Israel and supremely gullible – applauded wildly.
2 hurt as helicopter makes hard landing on Mount Baldy
The San Bernardino County Fire Department says the chopper went down Thursday about 1,000 feet below the 10,000-foot summit. Video shows the battered craft lying in the snow on the mountain northeast of Los Angeles.
Abe’s Popularity Hits Three-Year High After Pearl Harbor Visit 18 minutes ago
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s public approval rating has risen to a three-year high following his visit to Pearl Harbor, according to a survey by the Nikkei newspaper and TV Tokyo. The rating rose six points from a month earlier to 64 percent, the highest level since October 2013, according to the poll taken on Dec. 28 to Dec. 29. Most Japanese supported Abe’s trip to the site of the nation’s 1941 attack, with 84 percent in agreement and 9 percent opposed, the survey showed.
Matt Drudge suggests U.S. government could be attacking Drudge Report website
Via the Twitter account for his Drudge Report, he said his news-aggregation site is the victim of the “biggest DDoS since site’s inception,” referring to a Direct Denial of Service attack. Mr. Drudge’s news-aggregation site was one of the highest-profile sites to take a favorable tack on Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign.
John Kerry’s practiced betrayal of friends
In 1971, when he was a young lieutenant just back from Vietnam, where he was a decorated skipper of a Swift Boat patrolling the Mekong River, he appeared before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee to pay his “respects” to the American soldiers, sailors and Marines he fought a war with. Representing all those veterans, he told the senators, he wanted to talk about war crimes he said “were committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command.”
Final step of Indiana income tax cut effective Jan. 1
Indiana’s personal income tax rate will drop slightly beginning New Year’s Day, completing a phased-in reduction that’s half of the 10 percent cut Republican Gov. Mike Pence pushed during his 2012 campaign. The state income tax rate will become 3.23 percent for 2017, down from the 3.3 percent rate that’s been in place the past two years.
Trump on Russia sanctions: Time to move on, but I’ll meet…
President-elect Donald Trump responded Thursday to President Barack Obama’s fresh sanctions against Russia, saying that it’s “time to move on,” but that he’ll meet with intelligence officials to discuss Russian involvement in election hacks anyway. “It’s time for our country to move on to bigger and better things,” Trump said in a brief evening statement.
Russia expert: New US sanctions ‘clearly meant to throw a…
New US sanctions on Russia could complicate the Trump administration’s relations with the Kremlin, as the president-elect seeks to warm relations while other US officials insist on harsh punishments for election meddling. Boris Zilberman, a Russia expert at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, said increased sanctions from the US are “clearly … meant to throw a wrench into next [administration’s] dealings with Moscow.”
AFP corrects misleading story that suggested Russia tampered…
The Agence France-Presse on Thursday updated a misleading headline that suggested that Russia manipulated US vote totals on Election Day through hacking. The Obama administration leveled sanctions against Russia on Thursday for election-related hacking.
Petrobangla Signs $950mln Deal with Petronet for LNG Terminal
Bangladesh Oil, Gas and Mineral Corporation signed an initial agreement with India’s energy company Petronet LNG Limited to set up an LNG re-gasification terminal on Kutubdia Island and a pipeline at an estimated cost of $950 million . Prabhat Singh, managing director and chief executive officer, Petonet and Syed Ashfaquzzaman, secretary, Petrobangla, sign an agreement at Petrobangla Bhaban in Dakka.
a Faithless electorsa in Washington face $1,000 fines
Democratic electors Phillip Tyler, left, and Esther John fill out their ballots with ceremonial plastic “quill” pens during a meeting of Washington state’s Electoral College Monday, Dec. 19, 2016, in Olympia, Wash. For the first time in four decades, members of the Electoral College in Washington state broke from the state’s popular vote for president, with four electors casting their votes for candidates other than Democrat Hillary Clinton.
US punishes Russia for hacking presidential campaign
The United States struck back Thursday at Russia for hacking the U.S. presidential campaign with a sweeping set of punishments targeting Russia’s spy agencies and diplomats. The U.S. said Russia must bear costs for its actions, but Moscow called the Obama administration “losers” and threatened retaliation.