Month: March 2017

Oprah for president? Winfrey rethinks a run after Trump win

In this Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015, file photo, Oprah Winfrey attends the premiere of the Oprah Winfrey Network’s documentary series “Belief” at The TimesCenter in New York. Winfrey tod Bloomberg Television for an interview posted online on March 1, 2017, that President Donald Trump’s victory has her rethinking whether she could be elected to the White House.

Trump sends mixed messages on immigration

President Donald Trump on Wednesday appeared to soften his tough stance on immigration, suggesting that he’s open to reforms that would allow millions of undocumented immigrants to stay in the U.S. – only hours later to revert to his hardline rhetoric in a speech to Congress, discussing crimes undocumented immigrants have committed on U.S. soil and making no mention of such sweeping immigration reform. “The time is right for an immigration bill as long as there is compromise on both sides,” said before his televised speech to Congress during a private meeting with TV news anchors at the White House, , saying Trump supports a plan that would grant legal status to undocumented immigrants already in the U.S. without making them citizens.

Mike Pencea s ridiculously repetitive TV interviews

Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events Vice President Mike Pence hit the airwaves on March 1 to support President Trump’s joint address to Congress – and his interviews sounded just a little bit repetitive. Vice President Mike Pence hit the television airwaves on Wednesday morning to support his boss, who less than 12 hours earlier had delivered his first joint address to Congress .

AG Jackley meets with the President, VP and U.S. AG to coordinate fighting crime

On Tuesday, Marty Jackley met with President Trump, Vice President Pence and U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions to discuss strengthening public safety, including addressing violent crime, human trafficking, and controlled substances from our southern borders. “As South Dakota’s Attorney General and the former Chairman of the Nation’s Attorneys General, I am looking forward to working with our federal partners in continuing to strengthen public safety,” Jackley said in a press release.

President Trump speaks before a joint session of Congress

Fact-checking President Trump’s first address to Congress The president distorted the facts on jobs, immigration, health insurance, war spending and more. Check out this story on pal-item.com: http://usat.ly/2lygrDh In his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Trump stuck closely to his prepared remarks, but ran afoul of the facts in some cases.

Chicago mayor slams Trump over remarks about citya s murder rate during congressional address

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel slammed President Trump Tuesday night for his remarks during his joint address to Congress about the Windy City’s murder rate. “We have repeatedly made specific requests of the administration for greater law enforcement integration and resources; a higher priority placed on federal gun prosecutions; and funds restored toward mentoring and after-school and summer jobs programs that have proven to be positive alternatives for our young people,” Emanuel said in a statement following Trump’s address.

Keith Ellison calls on AG to investigate cemetery desecration as hate crime

Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions urging him to investigate the recent desecration of a Jewish cemetery as a hate crime. Ellison, D-Minn., called on Sessions to designate the attack on the Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri, in which more than 150 headstones were overturned and damaged, as a hate crime.

New Trump order on travel and immigration expected Wednesday

The Trump administration plans to announce its revised executive order banning travel from several Muslim-majority countries Wednesday afternoon, multiple government officials tell ABC News. ABC News previously reported that a draft of the new executive order does not automatically reject refugees from Syria, and clarifies that green card holders and dual citizens of the U.S. and the seven previously identified countries – Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen – are exempt.

Together divided

Building “A” at the Mariposa County Fairgrounds was overflowing with concerned constituents Feb. 21 as Representative Tom McClintock faced a large crowd. McClintock generated a similar turnout in Sonora the following night with the Union Democrat reporting Sonora High School’s 569-seat auditorium was filled to capacity with another several hundred left outside.

The Trump who spoke to Congress was a lot less fiery than the Trump who stumped in Maine

Republicans are in celebration mode and Democrats are saying Republican President Donald Trump focused on pandering and not details Tuesday night in his first address to a joint session of Congress. Trump’s speech – which unlike most of his previous public appearances adhered tightly to the script – was remarkable for its departure from Trump’s usual gloom-and-doom characterization of everything from violence in U.S. cities to our country’s role in upheaval in the Middle East.

Thursday, March 2, 2017: Marijuana oversight, Trump’s immigration…

The Feb. 22 Washington Post article that appeared in the BDN online about the discovery of seven Earth-like planets circling Trappist-1 made me think that we’re looking for life in all the wrong places. Indeed, the discovery of planetary systems is wonderful news, yet the one God and creator – Jesus Christ – stooped to our planet to seek us.

Laurel’s EDSA

How a single individual, as president, can change the fortunes of a long-suffering people and gravely alter the destiny of his country, should remain the haunting disquisition of historians, political animals, and millenials on the Edsa One legacy. Salvador Laurel carried the torch for libertarian struggle with Unido after his “kababata” left for the US.

Ted Cruz: Trumpa s speech a a positive, unifying vision for the countrya

Sen. Ted Cruz said Wednesday that President Trump delivered a “positive, unifying vision for the country” Tuesday and that the president spoke to the working-class people who put Mr. Trump into office. “This president was elected by the Reagan Democrats – by working-class voters, by truck drivers and mechanics and men and women with calluses on their hand and he spoke to them last night,” Mr. Cruz, Texas Republican, said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

Story from NorthCountryNow.com

Following the president’s address to congress North Country politician Elisa Stefanik says she is pleased with some of Donald Trump’s actions while Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand remains more skeptical. Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, R-Willsboro, says she is pleased with steps President Donald Trump is taking to grow the economy and address issues with the Affordable Care Act.

Oprah for president? Winfrey rethinks a run after Trump win

In this Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015, file photo, Oprah Winfrey attends the premiere of the Oprah Winfrey Network’s documentary series “Belief” at The TimesCenter in New York. Winfrey tod Bloomberg Television for an interview posted online on March 1, 2017, that President Donald Trump’s victory has her rethinking whether she could be elected to the White House.

Today in History: March 1

Photographers close in on some souvenirs of a busy day in Congress, spread out at police headquarters on a flag of Puerto Rico, on March 1, 1954. It was a time of routine business, transacted peacefully, in the House chamber when cries of ‘Free Puerto Rico’ broke the calm, this flag was waved from the spectators gallery and pistol volleys felled five Congressmen.

Ap Fact Check: Trump takes credit he hasna t earned

President Donald Trump boasted Tuesday night about corporate job expansion and military cost-savings that actually took root under his predecessor and gave a one-sided account of the costs and benefits to the economy from immigration – ignoring the upside. TRUMP: “According to the National Academy of Sciences, our current immigration system costs America’s taxpayers many billions of dollars a year.”

Agency delays plan for keeping Asian carp from Great Lakes

The Trump administration has delayed indefinitely a plan for strengthening defenses on a crucial Chicago-area waterway to prevent Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes, where scientists say they could cause severe harm to native fish populations, officials said Tuesday. The US Army Corps of Engineers had been scheduled to release draft results of a study begun in April 2015 on possible structural or technological upgrades at the Brandon Road Lock and Dam near Joliet, Illinois, a few miles downstream of a network of electrical barriers intended to repel the carp.

SEAL Raid Has Yielded No Significant Intel

Last month’s deadly commando raid in Yemen, which cost the lives of a U.S. Navy SEAL and a number of children, has so far yielded no significant intelligence, U.S. officials told NBC News. Although Pentagon officials have said the raid produced “actionable intelligence,” senior officials who spoke to NBC News said they were unaware of any, even as the father of the dead SEAL questioned the premise of the raid in an interview with the Miami Herald published Sunday.

Trump lays out his vision for America in speech to Congress

President Donald Trump sought to repackage his hard-line campaign promises with a moderate sheen Tuesday night, declaring what he termed “a new chapter of American greatness” of economic renewal and military might in his first joint address to Congress. Seeking to steady his presidency after a tumultuous first 40 days, Trump had an air of seriousness and revealed flashes of compassion as he broadly outlined a sweeping agenda to rebuild a country he described as ravaged by crime and drugs, deteriorating infrastructure, and failing bureaucracies.

Trump salutes widow of slain SEAL in emotional moment

Carryn Owens, widow of widow of Chief Special Warfare Operator William “Ryan” Owens, is applauded on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, as she was acknowledged by President Donald Trump during his address to a joint session of Congress. Carryn Owens, widow of widow of Chief Special Warfare Operator William “Ryan” Owens, looks upward on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, as she was acknowledged by President Donald Trump during his address to a joint session of Congress.

Democrats in speech rebuttal say Trump will ‘rip’ away care

In this Dec. 1, 2015 file photo, then-Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear speaks in Louisville, Ky. Beshear took a populist tenor in Democrats’ formal response to President Donald Trump’s speech to Congress on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, accusing him of planning to “rip affordable health insurance” from Americans and being “Wall Street’s champion.”

NH listed at No. 2 in ranking of U.S. states

President Donald Trump talked tough about illegal immigration, Obamacare and the need to lower federal taxes, but also tried to strike a more conciliatory tone during his one-hour speech to the joint… The University of New Hampshire men’s basketball team, seeded No.

Ap Fact Check: Trump claims credit for jobs that predate him

TRUMP: “Since my election, Ford, Fiat-Chrysler, General Motors, Sprint, Softbank, Lockheed, Intel, Walmart and many others have announced that they will invest billions of dollars in the United States and will create tens of thousands of new American jobs.” THE FACTS: Many of the announcements reflect corporate decisions that predate Trump’s presidential election, making it unlikely that his administration is the sole or even the primary reason for the expected hiring.

Which insiders are selling Viavi Solutions Inc. (VIAV)?

Viavi Solutions Inc. opened the session with a $10.48 price tag, later ranging from $9.98 to $10.5, the range at which the stock has traded at throughout the day. Craig Hallum upgraded shares of Viavi Solutions from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and upped their target price for the stock from $7.00 to $10.00 in a research note on Thursday, December 8th.