Tuesday, June 13, 2017

NYC house fire kills 5, including 3 children and other top stories.

  • NYC house fire kills 5, including 3 children

    NYC house fire kills 5, including 3 children
    New York Fire Department personnel stand outside the scene of a deadly fire Sunday, April 23, 2017, in Queens Village in New York that killed multiple people, including children. The fire broke out Sunday afternoon on a street full of single-family homes in the middle class neighborhood of Queens Village. (Michael Appleton/Office of the Mayor via AP) (Associated Press) By Colleen Long and Jennifer Peltz | AP By Colleen Long and Jennifer Peltz | AP April 24 at 3:32 AM NEW YORK — Investi..
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  • Victim's family on Arkansas execution: 'Ready for it to be done'

    Victim's family on Arkansas execution: 'Ready for it to be done'
    She believes that after Jack Harold Jones is put to death, a feeling of anticipation among her family members may likely give way to a mixture of relief and sadness over a loved one lost.Jack Harold Jones -- no relation to Darla Jones -- was convicted of rape and murder in 1996 for the death of Mary Phillips, 34, a year earlier in Bald Knob, Arkansas. Jones' pending death will bring closure for the family of Mary Phillips. They have trudged to clemency hearings over the years, crying and pleadin..
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  • Top Trump officials push border wall as government shutdown looms

    Top Trump officials push border wall as government shutdown looms
    President Trump and top administration officials emphasized the necessity of funding the president's proposed wall along the country's southern border on Sunday, as talk of a possible government shutdown ramps up.Members of the president's administration said they expect the government to remain open — and are skeptical that lawmakers would shut down the government over the proposed construction.Trump administration officials and GOP lawmakers warned of the consequences of a government shutdown ..
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  • DHS secretary says "threat against aviation" keeps him up at night

    DHS secretary says
    Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said that the “threat against aviation” keeps him awake at night.“We know that would be the Super Bowl for the terrorists, to knock down an airplane in flight, particularly if it was full of Americans,” he said on Sunday’s broadcast of “Face the Nation.”“We have taken measures overseas to reduce that threat,” he said. “But it’s something I watch every day, ask four or five times a day. Because there are a number of plots that we’re watching v..
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  • Wheaton College freshman volunteering at a track meet killed in hammer-throw accident

    Wheaton College freshman volunteering at a track meet killed in hammer-throw accident
    A Wheaton College student who had hoped to become a minister was killed Saturday when he was accidentally struck by a hammer during a hammer-throw competition at a track meet in suburban Chicago. Ethan Roser, a 19-year-old freshman from the Cincinnati area, was volunteering at the Wheaton, Ill., meet when he was struck at about 4:15 p.m. Central time. Wheaton College Public Safety and paramedics were on the scene, the Chicago Tribune reported, and Roser was pronounced dead at Advocate Good Sama..
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  • Obama meets with at-risk youth ahead of first major speech since presidency

    Obama meets with at-risk youth ahead of first major speech since presidency
    WASHINGTON –  Former President Barack Obama met Sunday with at-risk young men and boys in his hometown of Chicago before his first major post-presidency speech. The former president spent time at a roundtable with youth from the organization Chicago Create Real Economic Destiny located in the Roseland/Pullman neighborhood in South Side Chicago where Obama started as a community organizer at age 25. The CRED program provides job skills and employment opportunities for at-risk young adults. Spoke..
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  • Bernie Sanders stands by anti-abortion mayoral candidate

    Bernie Sanders stands by anti-abortion mayoral candidate
    Late last week, Sanders joined Omaha mayoral candidate Heath Mello for a rally supporting his bid to oust Republican incumbent Jean Stothert as leader of the largest city in Nebraska.Many Democrats expressed outrage over the endorsement, but in an interview Sunday on CBS's "Face the Nation," the Vermont senator and 2016 presidential hopeful made a case for pragmatism in a state with significant GOP control, saying it was the kind of thing Democrats needed to do "if we're going to become a 50-sta..
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  • 'Everyone tunes in': Inside Trump's obsession with cable TV

    'Everyone tunes in': Inside Trump's obsession with cable TV
    During a small working lunch at the White House last month, the question of job security in President Trump’s tumultuous White House came up, and one of the attendees wondered whether press secretary Sean Spicer might be the first to go. The president’s response was swift and unequivocal. “I’m not firing Sean Spicer,” he said, according to someone familiar with the encounter. “That guy gets great ratings. Everyone tunes in.”  Trump even likened Spicer’s daily news briefings to a daytime soap op..
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  • ABC's Jon Karl: In First 100 Days, Trump Has 'Fallen Dramatically Short' of the Standard He Set

    ABC's Jon Karl: In First 100 Days, Trump Has 'Fallen Dramatically Short' of the Standard He Set
    SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jon Karl said President Donald Trump had “fallen dramatically short” of the standard he set for his first 100 days during the 2016 presidential campaign. Remarks as follows: Well, on one hand, George, Donald Trump has truly shaken up Washington and he has big plans for the rest of the year. But by the standards that he set for himself during the campaign, there is no question that he has fallen dram..
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  • These states are celebrating Confederate Memorial Day on Monday

    These states are celebrating Confederate Memorial Day on Monday
    Some Southern states still commemorate those who died fighting for secession from the United States over slavery and states' rights. State government offices are closed Monday in Mississippi and Alabama for Confederate Memorial Day. In Georgia the day has been called "State Holiday" since 2015, when Confederate Memorial Day and Robert E. Lee's birthday were struck from the state calendar. The state holiday list says the official holiday is April 26 but will be observed this year on Monday, April..
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