Hearst Connecticut Media Political Reporter Neil Vigdor will participate – via Skype – at the White House daily press briefing on Thursday. Introduced by White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer eariler this month, the initiative allows reporters outside Washington, D.C., to pose a question via Skype during formal briefings held in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room .
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Air Forces grants honorable discharge to 91-year-old gay vet
” A 91-year-old veteran who was dismissed from the U.S. Air Force as “undesirable” in 1948 because he is gay has had that discharge status changed to “honorable.” The move by the Air Force comes in response to a lawsuit filed in November by H. Edward Spires of Norwalk, Connecticut, who served from 1946 to 1948 as a chaplain’s assistant, earning the rank of sergeant.