Friday, June 3, 2016

Blue Angels pilot killed in Tennessee crash and other top stories.

  • Blue Angels pilot killed in Tennessee crash

    Blue Angels pilot killed in Tennessee crash
    The Navy said the Blue Angels pilot died from injuries suffered in the crash in Tennessee.The Thunderbirds pilot safely ejected before the plane went down in Colorado, officials said."I looked up and saw it coming down, and I thought maybe they were doing dips," Burgess told the Nashville station. "Then I saw a huge ball of orange fire, and I'm like, 'Oh my God, he's crashed. I cried. I mean, the first thought was fear for the pilot."A Navy statement said the service was in the process of notify..
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  • Protesters Assault Trump Supporters With Eggs, Bottles, Punches After Rally

    Protesters Assault Trump Supporters With Eggs, Bottles, Punches After Rally
    SAN JOSE, Calif. — Donald Trump supporters were mobbed and assaulted by protesters on Thursday night after the candidate's campaign rally in California. The violence broke out after the event in San Jose wrapped up just before 8 p.m. local time (11 p.m. ET). Some Trump supporters were punched. One woman wearing a "Trump" jersey was cornered, spit at, and pelted with eggs and water bottles. Police held back at first but eventually moved in. San Jose Police Sgt. Enrique Garcia told NBC News ..
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  • Speaker Paul Ryan, After an Awkward Courtship, Endorses Donald Trump

    Speaker Paul Ryan, After an Awkward Courtship, Endorses Donald Trump
    Video Ryan Explains Trump Endorsement Paul D. Ryan, the House speaker, explained how he came to endorse Donald J. Trump for president, saying they had begun to find common ground on policies. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS on Publish Date June 2, 2016. Photo by Zach Gibson/The New York Times. Watch..
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  • Obama's solicitor general departs after 5 years

    Obama's solicitor general departs after 5 years
    Obama announced Verrilli's resignation in a statement Thursday. He'll be replaced by his principal deputy, Ian Gershengorn, who will take over as acting solicitor general on June 25, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said. "For five years, Solicitor General Don Verrilli has fought in our nation's highest court for a better future, winning landmark cases that moved America forward," Obama said in his statement. He successfully defended the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, as well as arg..
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  • Small business owners in Charlotte call for HB2 repeal

    Small business owners in Charlotte call for HB2 repeal
    A half-dozen small business owners in Charlotte called on state legislators to repeal House Bill 2 Thursday at Advent Coworking.Debra Bost, co-owner of Southland Parking, said her business is suffering because of HB2, the state’s controversial new LGBT law.“If concerts continue to be canceled, and sporting events move away,” she said, “we can’t rely on a steady amount of business to provide income for our family and cover taxes and maintenance.”Southland Parking, next to Time Warner Cable arena..
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  • Hillary Clinton's evisceration of Donald Trump

    Hillary Clinton's evisceration of Donald Trump
    A speech that was billed as a major foreign policy address instead unfolded as a savage, mocking evisceration of Donald Trump Thursday as the former secretary of state adopted an aggressive new campaign persona designed to repel the unpredictable challenge posed by the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.In one of the most striking speeches of her political career, Clinton dispensed with the sober diplo-speak that has characterized her previous national security addresses and went straig..
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  • UCLA Gunman May Have Targeted 2nd Professor and Killed Woman

    UCLA Gunman May Have Targeted 2nd Professor and Killed Woman
    New laws in Texas and other states allowing people to carry concealed weapons on college campuses have heightened concerns about gun violence, though concealed carry is still prohibited on most campuses around the country, including those in California. Two prominent faculty members have left the University of Texas at Austin, citing the change, and a third has said he will try to defy the law and bar guns in his classroom.“You never want to have to think about something like this, and now I’m ..
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  • Activists in Henderson wore orange, demonstrated against gun violence - Las Vegas Review

    Activists in Henderson wore orange, demonstrated against gun violence - Las Vegas Review
    Henderson’s Cornerstone Park was bathed in orange Thursday evening as several dozen members of Moms Demand Action and other Las Vegas Valley residents donned the color to promote gun safety and commemorate gun violence victims and survivors.Thursday was National Gun Violence Awareness Day, and the chapter met in the park to promote its Be Smart Campaign, created to encourage parents to ask about the presence of loaded firearms in a house. Be SMART aims to reduce the number of unintentional shoo..
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  • Ronald Reagan was Donald Trump, until he was president

    Ronald Reagan was Donald Trump, until he was president
    Though there are important differences, the parallels between Reagan's political life and Trump's are downright chilling, from their media careers to the way that the press and their own party establishment viewed them. Both positioned themselves as outsiders (Reagan, absurdly, ran successfully as a political outsider while he was the sitting president of the USA, and painted his opponent as the Beltway insider). Both offered economic platforms that didn't hold up to even the most cursor..
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