Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Chelsea Manning on Hunger Strike Citing Lack of Medical Treatment and other top stories.

  • Chelsea Manning on Hunger Strike Citing Lack of Medical Treatment

    Chelsea Manning on Hunger Strike Citing Lack of Medical Treatment
    In this undated file photo provided by the U.S. Army, Chelsea Manning poses for a photo. 0 Shares. Email · Chelsea Manning began a hunger strike today at the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where she is serving a 35-year sentence for the ...
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  • Green light, red light for Dakota Access Pipeline

    Green light, red light for Dakota Access Pipeline
    First, a federal judge rejected the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's efforts to stop construction of the crude oil pipeline that would run from North Dakota to Illinois, saying the tribe failed to show "it will suffer injury that would be prevented by any injunction the court could issue." But later in the day, the Army and US Justice and Interior departments jointly announced they would stop -- at least temporarily -- pipeline work under a lake the tribe considers a crucial water source.They asked t..
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  • Victim in San Bernardino terror attack asked colleague to say bye to mom

    Victim in San Bernardino terror attack asked colleague to say bye to mom
    LOS ANGELES –  A woman who lay among the wounded moaning in pain and others cowering in fear during the San Bernardino terror attack tasted blood and sensed death was near. When she called out to a colleague and asked her to say goodbye to her mother, the other woman tried to assure her she was going to make it. "I'm not, I'm bleeding from the mouth," she said before closing her eyes a final time. The woman's story emerged in a lengthy review of the police response to the Dec. 2 attack by a hu..
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  • President Reagan's would-be assassin is set to be released Saturday

    President Reagan's would-be assassin is set to be released Saturday
    John Hinckley was 25 years old he when shot and wounded President Reagan outside of a hotel in Northwest Washington. Here's how Hinckley's release from a mental institution will work. (Claritza Jimenez/The Washington Post) The man who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan 35 years ago is going home — this time it seems, for good. John W. Hinckley Jr. is scheduled to be released from St. Elizabeths Hospital on Saturday morning, the culmination of his decades-long rehabilitation in ..
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  • For Rudy Giuliani, Embrace of Donald Trump Puts Legacy at Risk

    For Rudy Giuliani, Embrace of Donald Trump Puts Legacy at Risk
    It has been a startling next — and perhaps last — act for a 72-year-old politician once nicknamed America’s Mayor, and noteworthy enough for a handful of editorial pages to call him “unhinged.”But the Trump campaign has given Mr. Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor, the chance to mold a potential president, and to do battle with an old rival he deeply dislikes, one who he bitterly insists received special treatment from the F.B.I.A Trump victory could open the door for Mr. Giuliani to return ..
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  • Ohio city shares shocking photos of adults who overdosed with a small child in the car

    Ohio city shares shocking photos of adults who overdosed with a small child in the car
    Police said they found 47-year-old James Lee Acord and 50-year-old Rhonda L. Pasek overdosing in a Ford Explorer in East Liverpool, Ohio, on Wednesday, with a 4-year-old boy in the back seat. His face has been digitally altered to protect his identity. (courtesy of the City of East Liverpool) This story has been updated. On Wednesday afternoon, a police officer in East Liverpool, Ohio, stopped a vehicle for driving erratically and made a shocking discovery: The driver was barely conscious. A..
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  • After 15 years, last artifacts of 9/11 have been given away

    NEW YORK –  Behind the barbed wire, the minivan's busted windows and crumpled roof hint at its story. But forklifted to this windblown spot on the John F. Kennedy International Airport tarmac, between a decommissioned 727 and an aircraft hangar, it's doubtful passing drivers notice it at all. In the long struggle with the memories of 9/11, though, the van's solitary presence here marks a small but significant transition point. Tons of wreckage — twisted steel beams, chunks of concrete smelling ..
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  • Full text: Trump Values Voter Summit remarks

    Full text: Trump Values Voter Summit remarks
    A transcript of Donald Trump's Friday address. | Getty Full text: Trump Values Voter Summit remarks By POLITICO Staff 09/09/16 06:00 PM EDT A transcript of Donald Trump's remarks at the Family Research Council's 11th Annual Values Voter Summit: Thank you. Thank you very much. Oh, Jon. Jon is such a great actor and such a great person. He is such a great person. And he’s really been with me a long time in a lot of different ways. He..
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  • 7 officers to be criminally charged in Bay Area police sex scandal, DA says

    7 officers to be criminally charged in Bay Area police sex scandal, DA says
    Seven Bay Area law enforcement officers will be charged with sex offenses and other crimes in a scandal that has rocked the Oakland Police Department, threatening its hopes of ending 13 years of federal oversight and causing a major shake-up in its command staff.The plan to charge the officers was announced Friday by Alameda County Dist. Atty. Nancy E. O’Malley, who said she could not file the charges until the teenage woman at the center of the scandal returns to California after being sent to..
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  • Clinton: Half of Trump supporters are in 'basket of deplorables'

    Clinton: Half of Trump supporters are in 'basket of deplorables'
    In an effort to explain the support behind Trump, Clinton went on to describe the rest of Trump supporters as people who are looking for change in any form because of economic anxiety and urged her supporters to empathize with them."To just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables," Clinton said. "Right? Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, you name it." She added, "And unfortunately, there are people like that and ..
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