Friday, December 9, 2016

Chattanooga school bus driver arrested in crash that killed at least 5 children and other top stories.

  • Chattanooga school bus driver arrested in crash that killed at least 5 children

    Chattanooga school bus driver arrested in crash that killed at least 5 children
    Shell-shocked students cried as rescuers worked for hours to pull them from the wreckage.This was the horrifying scene Monday afternoon on a street in Chattanooga, Tennessee. And on Tuesday morning, the city was still reeling.At least five children were killed in the crash, school officials said, and six others are hospitalized in an intensive care unit. "Five is a cursed number in our city right now. ... We are ... dealing with an unimaginable loss," Mayor Andy Berke said. "The most unnatural t..
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  • In Dealings With UN Diplomats, Mayor Giuliani Pulled No Punches

    In Dealings With UN Diplomats, Mayor Giuliani Pulled No Punches
    New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani (from left) gives a tour of the World Trade Center site to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and New York Gov. George Pataki a week after the Sept. 11 attacks. Timothy Clary/AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Timothy Clary/AFP/Getty Images New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani (from left) gives a..
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  • Judges Find Wisconsin Redistricting Unfairly Favored Republicans

    Judges Find Wisconsin Redistricting Unfairly Favored Republicans
    Photo Election Day voting in Altoona, Wis. A panel of judges found the state’s 2011 remapping to be unconstitutional. Credit Marisa Wojcik/The Eau Claire Leader-Telegram, via Associated Press A panel of three federal judges said on Monday that the Wisconsin Legislature’s 2011 redrawing of State Assembly districts to favor Republicans was an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander, the first such ruling in three decades of pitched legal battles over the issue.Federal court..
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  • Howard student named university's fourth Rhodes Scholar

    Howard student named university's fourth Rhodes Scholar
    The Founder’s Library at Howard University. (Photo by Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post) Howard University senior Cameron Clarke has been selected as the fourth Rhodes Scholar in the school’s history and the first in more than a decade. Clarke, a Richmond native, was one of 32 students to receive the prestigious Rhodes scholarship, established in 1902, out of the more than 850 students who applied from 300 U.S. colleges. Clarke, a double major in community health education and biolog..
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  • Alt-right leader: 'Hail Trump! Hail our people! Hail victory!'

    Alt-right leader: 'Hail Trump! Hail our people! Hail victory!'
    The president of the alt-right National Policy Institute Richard Spencer's remarks were posted Sunday on YouTube by "Red Ice Radio," which describes itself as "covering politics and social issues from a pro-European perspective." The Atlantic magazine, which is recording footage of Spencer for a documentary they're working on, also published a video of the same event showing audience members apparently giving the Nazi salute."Hail Trump! Hail our people! Hail victory!" he declared. His remarks w..
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  • Democratic presidential electors revolt against Trump

    Democratic presidential electors revolt against Trump
    At least a half-dozen Democratic electors have signed onto an attempt to block Donald Trump from winning an Electoral College majority, an effort designed not only to deny Trump the presidency but also to undermine the legitimacy of the institution. The presidential electors, mostly former Bernie Sanders supporters who hail from Washington state and Colorado, are now lobbying their Republican counterparts in other states to reject their oaths — and in some cases, state law — to vote against Tr..
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  • The Latest: Philly police say exploding package was 'device'

    The Latest: Philly police say exploding package was 'device'
    By Associated Press November 22 at 8:19 AM PHILADELPHIA — The Latest on the explosion of a package in a Philadelphia apartment (all times local): 7:45 a.m. Police Commissioner Richard Ross says a package that exploded in a Philadelphia apartment included an “actual device” that was meant to injure. Federal agents early Tuesday were helping the city’s bomb squad investigate the package that injured the 62-year-old Center City man about 4 a.m. He had received the package Monday evening and ope..
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  • Donald Trump Cancels New York Times Meeting and Pursues Battles With the Press

    Donald Trump Cancels New York Times Meeting and Pursues Battles With the Press
    Meeting with The Times is abruptly canceled.With reporters and editors set to go, the president-elect announced via Twitter around 6 a.m. that he would not be taking questions from The New York Times, which were to be mostly on the record, unlike his meeting with television news executives on Monday. I cancelled today's meeting with the failing @nytimes when the terms and conditions of the meeting were changed at the last moment. Not nice — Donald J. Trump (@realDo..
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  • What will the White House be like with first lady Melania Trump living in New York?

    What will the White House be like with first lady Melania Trump living in New York?
    Melanie Trump, right, with her son Barron, who will stay in Manhattan rather than move to the White House, at least until he finishes the school year. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) It’s one of the most enduring rituals of the presidential transition: On Inauguration Day, one first family returns to its home town, while the next moves into the White House. But come January, this tradition will be dramatically upended, as Donald Trump’s wife, Melania, plans to continue living in Manhattan ..
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  • San Antonio police announce arrest in officer's killing

    San Antonio police announce arrest in officer's killing
    Otis Tyrone McKane, 31, was arrested around 4:30 p.m. while riding with a woman and a 2-year-old child in a car on Interstate 10, Chief William McManus said."This is the person's whose image we saw on surveillance," McManus said at a press conference. "This is also the person we believe is responsible for the cold and calculated murder of Detective Marconi."Detective Benjamin Marconi, a 20-year veteran of the department, was shot to death while writing a traffic ticket outside of police headquar..
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Donald Trump, Barack Obama to rally thousands in Jacksonville five ... .Jacksonville Sharks to create new league .
Man accused of kidnapping SC woman confesses to 2003 murders, sheriff says .GameDay Final: Crimson Tide are in a league of their own .

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