Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Jurors to hear closing arguments in New Jersey bridge case and other top stories.

  • Jurors to hear closing arguments in New Jersey bridge case

    Jurors to hear closing arguments in New Jersey bridge case
    FILE- In this Oct. 19, 2016 file photo, Gov. Chris Christie’s former Deputy Chief of Staff, Bridget Kelly, center, arrives at Martin Luther King Jr. Courthouse in Newark, N.J., with her attorneys Michael Critchley Jr., right, and Michael Critchley, back second left. Kelly talked to Christie about the September 2013 Fort Lee lane closures twice while they were underway, including once in which she passed along that the city’s mayor, Mark Sokolich, had asked whether the lanes were closed for “..
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  • Why McCain Wants to Leave the Supreme Court Hanging

    Why McCain Wants to Leave the Supreme Court Hanging
    This article first appeared in The Washington Spectator.“I promise you that we will be united against any Supreme Court nominee that Hillary Clinton, if she were president, would put up,” Senator John McCain said in a radio interview in Pennsylvania on Monday. “I promise you. This is where we need the majority.”So John McCain, in his 28th year in the Senate, is promising an even more extreme version of the nihilistic politics practiced by congressional Republicans since Barack Obama took the o..
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  • 1 Man Dead, 12 People Injured as Fire Overtakes Apartment Buildings on the Upper East Side

    1 Man Dead, 12 People Injured as Fire Overtakes Apartment Buildings on the Upper East Side
    What to KnowOne man was killed and another person was critically injured after a fire broke out at three buildings on the Upper East Side on ThursdaySeven firefighters and four civilians also suffered minor injuries Residents fled their homes and some were still in their pajamas when the Red Cross arrived at the sceneOne man was killed and 12 people were injured, one man critically, in a fire that overtook three Upper East Side apartment buildings and sent flames shooting 20 feet into the air on..
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  • Foreign-Policy Debate Scrambled by 2016 Election

    Foreign-Policy Debate Scrambled by 2016 Election
    The 2016 presidential campaign has thoroughly scrambled traditional positions on foreign policy and international intervention, obliterating many of the usual partisan distinctions and presenting political challenges for whoever wins in November. Hillary Clinton, if elected president, would take a more aggressive posture than President Barack Obama on the international stage, according to her public statements and top aides. That would set her apart from the liberal wing of Democrats led by Se..
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  • Inside 'Bill Clinton Inc.': Hacked memo reveals intersection of charity and personal income

    Inside 'Bill Clinton Inc.': Hacked memo reveals intersection of charity and personal income
    When top Bill Clinton aide Douglas Band wrote the memo, he was a central player at the Clinton Foundation and president of his own corporate consulting firm. Over the course of 13 pages, he made a case that his multiple roles had served the interests of the Clinton family and its charity. In doing so, Band also detailed a circle of enrichment in which he raised money for the Clinton Foundation from top-tier corporations such as Dow Chemical and Coca-Cola that were clients of his firm, Teneo..
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  • University Of Wisconsin Student Accused Of Multiple Sexual Assaults

    University Of Wisconsin Student Accused Of Multiple Sexual Assaults
    Dozens of women have come forward about business student Alec Cook since his arrest last week. 10/26/2016 09:44 pm ET. Michael McLaughlin Reporter, The Huffington Post. A University of Wisconsin-Madison student faces charges in a series of sexual ...
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  • Michelle Obama to Join Hillary Clinton at North Carolina Rally

    Michelle Obama to Join Hillary Clinton at North Carolina Rally
    Photo A campaign rally for Hillary Clinton in Lake Worth, Fla., on Wednesday. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times Michelle Obama will make her first appearance with Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail on Thursday, attending a rally to try to encourage early voting in North Carolina.Eight years ago, the thought of Mrs. Obama being Mrs. Clinton’s most powerful campaigner would have been unimaginable. The Democratic primary in 2008 between Mrs. Clinton and Barack Obama ..
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  • Another parent's overdose, another child in the back seat: A 'new norm' for drug users?

    Another parent's overdose, another child in the back seat: A 'new norm' for drug users?
    Erika Hurt was found unconscious, with her 10-month-old son in the back seat, police said. (Town of Hope Police Department) When police officers found Erika Hurt, she was sitting in the driver's seat of her car, still holding a syringe in her left hand. Her mouth was open and her head was tilted back, the police photo shows. And her 10-month-old son was restrained in a car seat in the back, according to police. The car was parked outside a Dollar General store in rural Indiana on Saturday af..
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  • Tech privacy ally Feingold leads in Wisconsin Senate race

    Tech privacy ally Feingold leads in Wisconsin Senate race
    By Dustin Volz | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON Next month's Senate election in Wisconsin could gain Silicon Valley a key ally in Washington in the high-tech industry's battle against the U.S. government's growing appetite for more access to private data. Democrat Russ Feingold, 63, the only lawmaker to vote against the USA Patriot Act in 2001, leads incumbent Republican Senator Ron Johnson in the state in opinion polls ahead of the Nov. 8 election.Johnson, 61, rode a wave of support from conservativ..
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  • A man cast a message in a bottle into the Atlantic. Decades later, it came back to his daughter.

    A man cast a message in a bottle into the Atlantic. Decades later, it came back to his daughter.
    Clint Buffington and the bottle he found in 2011. (Courtesy of Clint Buffington) Clint Buffington discovered the bottle in 2011, when it was nestled in the sand. It was an overcast day in the Turks and Caicos, Buffington recalled. The ground was dotted with trash — “just a zillion empty bottles,” Buffington wrote in an email — and the glass bottle was flat on its side, partially buried in the dunes. “I’m kind of surprised I even saw it,” Buffington said in an interview. But he did. And Buffi..
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Police identify man found dead in a Fort Wayne ditch .'The Ivory Game' Telluride Review: Urgent Documentary About Elephant Killing Is a Roar for Action .
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