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..>> view originalMississippi, Alabama marking Confederate Memorial Day Monday
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Guillermo: Ann Coulter No Free Speech Saint April 23, 2017 | : I believe in free speech, the First Amendment and all that. That’s our starting point on campus, and in America. It’s free speech for me and thee, as the saying goes, in a healthy democracy. Ann Coulter So let’s not make Ann Coulter into a free speech martyr just yet because the University of California, Berkeley switched her speech dates from this coming Thursday, April 27, to a time and place that could assure her safety. That w..>> view originalRare copy of Declaration of Independence found in England
CHICHESTER, England -- One historian called it the discovery of a lifetime: a priceless handwritten parchment copy of the Declaration of Independence. Beyond rare, the only one like it is the 1776 copy kept under glass at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.“We certainly weren’t looking for a copy of the declaration like this,” Harvard researcher Emily Sneff said. She and Harvard professor Danielle Allen came upon it while searching the globe for every known edition of the declaration, rep..>> view originalABC's Jon Karl: In First 100 Days, Trump Has 'Fallen Dramatically Short' of the Standard He Set
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Instead of rehashing debates on Bernie or Clinton or whatever other leader, I’d rather focus on the state of progressive organizing at the grassroots that can ideally produce the political strength to elect whatever leader we want in the future—and the mass organization to build real change. So I’m going to focus in this post on the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), which I rejoined last December after many years and I finally made a branch meeting last Wednesday. And I’d say the future..>> view originalObama Steps Back Into Public Life, Trying to Avoid One Word: Trump
Photo President Barack Obama in 2016 in Tampa, Fla. On Monday, Mr. Obama will begin a series of public appearances in the United States and Europe. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times WASHINGTON — Former President Barack Obama will return to his adopted home on Monday for his first public event since leaving the White House, holding a conversation with six young people in front of an audience at the University of Chicago.Mr. Obama has spent the three months since Inaug..>> view original'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..>> view originalBorder wall fight looms as White House, Capitol Hill scramble for deal to avert shutdown
Bipartisan negotiators have spent weeks methodically working through hundreds of issues to set spending across all federal agencies for the rest of the fiscal year, with White House officials largely on the sidelines being briefed on various issues. But Democrats are warning that the White House, which stayed out of the fray during much of these talks, is ratcheting up demands, insisting on including border wall money in exchange for continuing to pay insurance companies subsidies to bolster the..>> view originalNYC 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 7:41 AM NEW YORK — Investi..>> view original
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