Thursday, October 27, 2016

At charity roast, Donald Trump delivered what might as well be a campaign eulogy and other top stories.

  • At charity roast, Donald Trump delivered what might as well be a campaign eulogy

    Watch Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump make jokes at the annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in New York, Oct. 20. (The Washington Post) NEW YORK — It was supposed to be his opening joke, but it landed with such heavy bitterness that it prompted scattered, uncomfortable laughter. “A special hello to all of you in this room who have known and loved me for many, many years. It's true,” Trump said as he took command of the dais at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Founda..
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  • Women who sexted with Justin Ross Harris testify in murder trial

    Women who sexted with Justin Ross Harris testify in murder trial
    A group of women took turns testifying in court that Justin Ross Harris, the Georgia man facing murder charges in the hot car death of his 22-month son, sexted them repeatedly in the weeks before the toddler died—and two of the women were teens at the ...
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  • Former pastor charged with choking stranger's baby in Walmart checkout line

    Former pastor charged with choking stranger's baby in Walmart checkout line
    OVERLAND PARK, Kan. -- A former pastor is accused of trying to choke a 4-month-old baby he didn’t know at a Kansas City-area WalMart.The Kansas City Star reports prosecutors in Kansas’ Johnson County charged 54-year-old Oleh Zhownirovych of Clinton, New Jersey, with felony aggravated battery and misdemeanor battery. It was not immediately clear if Zhownirovych has an attorney.Overland Park police say a man walked up to a woman who was in a checkout lane early Wednesday and began choking her bab..
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  • Discussing race in the classroom: 'Are all white people racist'?

    Discussing race in the classroom: 'Are all white people racist'?
    One high school teacher’s bold premise – that "all white people are racist, period" – is reigniting discussion about how difficult it is to talk about race in school classrooms.One offended student in the philosophy elective at Norman North High School in Oklahoma recorded the remark, part of a lecture about how to heal racial divides, on her cellphone last week. The student, who wished to remain anonymous, told the local NBC-affiliate KFOR that she felt the teacher was encouraging the class "t..
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  • 'My son is not breathing': Harrowing video shows hero cop saving toddler in distress

    'My son is not breathing': Harrowing video shows hero cop saving toddler in distress
    Dashcam footage shows a police officer in Grandview, Tex., giving a toddler CPR after he stopped breathing. The boy has a made a full recovery. (Grandview Police Department) “My son is not breathing.” Seconds after a distraught Texas father uttered those chilling words to a 911 operator, Officer Chase Miller was on his way. He didn’t have to respond; the emergency dispatcher was already sending paramedics to the KFC in Granbury, Tex., where a 3-year-old boy was unresponsive and his sobbin..
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  • The best physical reactions to the jokes at the Al Smith dinner

    The best physical reactions to the jokes at the Al Smith dinner
    The barbs that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump traded at the Al Smith charity dinner were pretty cringe-inducing to the viewers at home. Turns out some of the jokes were even more awkward for people who were at the event. Advertisement One man, for example, distinctly widened his eyes in shock when Trump declared that Hillary Clinton was so corrupt, she was “kicked off the Watergate Commission.” check out the expression of this guy when Trump called Hillary corrupt #AlSmithDinner pic.twit..
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  • Former top Christie aide set to testify in Bridgegate trial

    Former top Christie aide set to testify in Bridgegate trial
    USA Today Network Dustin Racioppi, The (Bergen County, N.J.) Record 6:57 a.m. EDT October 21, 2016Bridget Anne Kelly arrives at federal court in Newark on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016. Kelly, the former deputy chief of staff to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is scheduled to take the stand Friday, Oct. 21, 2016, in her trial over lane closures on the George Washington Bridge.(Photo: Jennifer Brown, The (Bergen County, N.J.) Record)NEWARK — After three years of virtual silence since sending ..
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  • Officials: Daughters confess to burying father, 94, in yard

    Officials: Daughters confess to burying father, 94, in yard
    EUSTIS, Fla. –  Investigators say two women panicked when they found their 94-year-old father dead in his central Florida home and buried him in the yard. Lake County Sheriff's spokesman Fred Jones said Thursday that Melvin Kort's daughters confessed to burying him. Their secret started unraveling in September after deputies received a tip about a body buried near the home. Authorities were conducting a DNA test to confirm Kort's identity. An autopsy showed no signs of trauma. Jones says Kort d..
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  • WikiLeaks poisons Hillary's relationship with left

    WikiLeaks poisons Hillary's relationship with left
    LAS VEGAS — Donald Trump is pointing to a stream of hacked emails as proof that Hillary Clinton would be a compromised president, but a surprising number of progressives are drawing similar conclusions — albeit for a totally different reasons. Some of the left’s most influential voices and groups are taking offense at the way they and their causes were discussed behind their backs by Clinton and some of her closest advisers in the emails, which swipe liberal heroes and causes as “puritanical,”..
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  • Ex-NSA Contractor Stole at Least 500 Million Pages of Records and Secrets, US Says

    Ex-NSA Contractor Stole at Least 500 Million Pages of Records and Secrets, US Says
    WASHINGTON—A former National Security Agency contractor amassed at least 500 million pages of government records, including top-secret information about military operations, by stealing documents bit by bit over two decades, the Justice Department alleged in a court filing submitted Thursday. Prosecutors in August arrested and charged Harold “Hal” Martin III, of Glen Burnie, Md., with theft of government property and unauthorized...
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