Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Victim's family on Arkansas execution: 'Ready for it to be done' and other top stories.

  • 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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  • NYC house fire kills 5, including children

    NYC house fire kills 5, including 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 ...
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  • Lube, Cialis & $4500Inside a Teachers Alleged Kidnapping of a 15-Year-Old

    Lube, Cialis & $4500Inside a Teachers Alleged Kidnapping of a 15-Year-Old
    Police have revealed a scandalous web of plans Tennessee high school teacher Tad Cummins allegedly had for his 15-year-old student.Before he allegedly kidnapped a 15-year-old student, former Tennessee teacher Tad Cummins was under police investigation for his relationship with the girl, a new criminal complaint reveals.Cummins, 50, was arrested Thursday in Siskiyou County, California, nearly 2,500 miles from the Tennessee town where he allegedly kidnapped 15-year-old Elizabeth Thomas on March 13..
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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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  • Rare copy of Declaration of Independence found in England

    Rare 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..
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  • What's Old is New Again: Is Democratic Socialists of America the Future of the Left?

    What's Old is New Again: Is Democratic Socialists of America the Future of the Left?
    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..
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  • Struggling to walk, Burt Reynolds makes rare public appearance at film festival

    Struggling to walk, Burt Reynolds makes rare public appearance at film festival
    John Carucci, The Associated Press NEW YORK — Robert De Niro helped Burt Reynolds onto the red carpet for the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of his new movie "Dog Years" Saturday night in New York. It was a rare appearance for the 81-year old actor, who at times struggled to walk. Reynolds was given a chair on the red carpet, so that he could speak to a limited number of press outlets about the film. He was overjoyed at the turnout. "Great to see Mr. De Niro, who I love, and ... you..
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  • Alabama, Mississippi marking Confederate Memorial Day

    Alabama, Mississippi marking Confederate Memorial Day
    State government offices are closing Monday in Mississippi and Alabama for Confederate Memorial Day. Georgia used to mark the holiday, but removed the Confederate reference in 2015. Now, the last Monday in April there is simply called State Holiday. Confederate Memorial Day in Mississippi and Alabama commemorates those who died during the Civil War while fighting for Southern states that tried to secede from the U.S. The Confederate military surrendered in April 1865. South Carolina holds a Con..
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  • Border wall fight looms as White House, Capitol Hill scramble for deal to avert shutdown

    Border 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..
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  • Obama Steps Back Into Public Life, Trying to Avoid One Word: Trump

    Obama 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..
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