• Trumped

    The long torturous campaign of 2016 has come to an end but the result only ensures that the anxiety and fear among many Americans have only increased.
    Subjected to a campaign mired in ugliness with a heavy racial component throughout the campaign, Republican candidate and provocateur Donald Trump confounded the pundits by winning the presidency over his much more qualified opponent Hillary Clinton.
    Trump, who throughout his campaign encouraged White anger, entitlement and sense of victimization
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    What goes into a blog post? Helpful, industry-specific content that: 1) gives readers a useful takeaway, and 2) shows you’re an industry expert.Use your company’s blog posts to opine on current industry topics, humanize your company, and show how your products and services can help people.
  • As Senate hearing set for Kavanaugh, new accuser emerges

    Lisa Macaro andMary Clare Jalonick
    Wire Service Correspondent
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Just as negotiators reached agreement on an extraordinary hearing for Brett Kavanaugh and his accuser, a second allegation of sexual misconduct by the Supreme Court nominee put the White House and Senate Republicans on the defensive and fueled calls from Democrats to postpone further action on his confirmation.
    A dayslong back and forth over the timing and terms of a hearing with Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey
  • Obama tells voters sitting on sidelines in 2018 ‘dangerous’

    By Julie Carr SmythWire Service CorrespondentClick to view video.CLEVELAND (AP) — Former President Barack Obama delivered a simple message Thursday headed into the fall midterm elections: Vote.
    Speaking to an enthusiastic crowd of several thousand in Cleveland, Obama said the consequences of sitting on the sidelines during November’s midterm elections “are far more dangerous” than in the past.
    Without mentioning Republican President Donald Trump by name, Obama said, &ldqu
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  • Trump’s blustery myths on hurricanes, income

    By Hope Yen and
    Calvin WoodwardWire Service Correspondents
    WASHINGTON (AP) — In a stormy week, President Donald Trump blustered and distorted reality, denying massive deaths from a hurricane that scientists believe to be one of the nation’s deadliest and blowing out of proportion U.S. economic growth and his role in spurring it.
    He’s insisting the federal response to Hurricane Maria, which hit Puerto Rico last September, was “incredibly successful,” even though blac
  • Trump comments sting in Puerto Rico amid slow storm recovery

    By Danica Coto and
    Angeliki Kastanis
    Wire Service Correspondents
    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — President Donald Trump’s assertion that the federal government’s response to Hurricane Maria was “an incredible, unsung success” fell flat in Puerto Rico, where islanders are still struggling to recover from the devastating storm a year later.
    “I was indignant,” said Gloria Rosado, a 62-year-old college professor who watched the president’s news conference
  • About that Car: 2019 Kia Forte

    By Frank S. WashingtonContributing ColumnistColumbus Post
    PITTSBURGH – The new Kia Forte flies in the face of the market. It is a compact sedan in a sea of crossovers. However, from 2013 to 2017, Forte sales almost doubled. So there is little choice but to give buyers what they crave — a new Kia Forte.
    Frank S.Washington can be reached at [email protected]. Or, snail mail him at P.O. Box 23167, Detroit, MI 48223.For 2019, the third generation Forte has grown. It is longer, wider
  • ‘NOT ME!’

    Trump officials cry ‘Not me!’ as he fumes over NYT column
    By Zeke Miller andJonathan Lemire
    Wire Service Correspondent
    WASHINGTON (AP) — One after another, President Donald Trump’s top lieutenants stepped forward Thursday to declare, “Not me.”
    They lined up to deny writing an incendiary New York Times opinion piece that was purportedly submitted by a member of an administration “resistance” movement straining to thwart Trump’s most dangerous
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  • McCain, Franklin tributes show 2 Americas and cultures

    By jesse J. Holland
    Wire Service Correspondent
    Two farewells, both reflecting distinct but uniquely American cultures.
    In Detroit, celebrities sat alongside anonymous mourners Friday in joyous remembrance of Aretha Franklin, a funeral that brought together the black church, gospel music, civil rights activism and Detroit civic pride.
    Hundreds of miles away in Washington, D.C., honor guards stood ramrod straight through silent pomp and circumstance while politicians shared stories of battle and f
  • Immigrant parents happy but traumatized after kids returned

    By Julie Watson andNomaan Merchant
    Wire Service CorrespondentsFollow link to view video: https://storage.googleapis.com/afs-prod/media/media:1cdab41e37ad4dca905f4eaac6e05f48/576.mp4
     SAN DIEGO (AP) — Immigrant parents who reveled after joyful reunions with their young children spoke Wednesday of the traumatic impact of being separated from their sons and daughters for months after they were taken from them at the U.S. border.
    The administration has been scrambling to reunify the
  • ‘Everyone is safe’ after daring rescue of 13 in Thai cave

    By Kaweewit Kaewjinda and
    Stephen Wright
    Wire Service Correspondents
    MAE SAI, Thailand (AP) — “Everyone is safe.” With those three words posted on Facebook the daring rescue mission to extricate 12 boys and their soccer coach from the treacherous confines of a flooded cave in Thailand was complete — a grueling 18-day ordeal that claimed the life of an experienced diver and riveted people worldwide.
     
    Thailand’s Navy SEALs, who were central to the rescue effort,
  • Trump picks Kavanaugh, a GOP favorite, for Supreme Court

    By Chatherine Lucey, Zeke Miller andMark Sherman
    Wire Service Correspondents
     
    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump chose Brett Kavanaugh, a solidly conservative, politically connected judge, for the Supreme Court, setting up a ferocious confirmation battle with Democrats as he seeks to shift the nation’s highest court ever further to the right.
    A favorite of the Republican legal establishment in Washington, Kavanaugh, 53, is a former law clerk for retiring Justice Anthony K
  • The Latest: More rescued from flooded Thai cave

    MAE SAI, Thailand (AP) — The Latest on the rescue of a youth soccer team from a flooded cave in Thailand (all times local in Thailand)
    5:10 p.m.
    Thailand’s navy SEALs say a ninth boy has been brought out of a flooded cave in the country’s far north.
    The SEALs said on their Facebook page that “the 9th Wild Boar was out of the cave at 4:06 p.m.” Tuesday, referring to the name of the trapped boys’ soccer team.
    Rescuers hope to complete their mission Tuesday after
  • The Latest: Official: Cave rescue going better than expected

    (all times local EST):
     Rescuer arrive near cave where 12 boys and their soccer coach have been trapped since June 23, in Mae Sai, Chiang Rai province, in northern Thailand Sunday, July 8, 2018. Thai authorities are racing to pump out water from the flooded cave before more rains are forecast to hit the northern region. (AP Photo) 
    The operation began at 10 a.m. Shortly before 8 p.m., the SEALs reported on their official Facebook page that four had been rescued.
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  • Q&A on next steps for GOP in Congress’ immigration fight

    By Alan Fram
    Wire Service Correspondent
    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican effort to push broad, election-year immigration legislation through Congress has collapsed, but their ordeal over the politically searing issue is far from finished.
    The government still holds more than 2,000 children taken from their detained migrant families, an exasperating public relations nightmare for many in the GOP. Nearly 700,000 young immigrants don’t know if the courts will uphold President Donald Tru
  • High court OKs Trump’s travel ban, rejects Muslim bias claim

    Protesters hold up signs and call out against the Supreme Court ruling upholding President Donald Trump’s travel ban outside the the Supreme Court in Washington, Tuesday, June 26, 2018. (AP Photo) 
    By Mark ShermanWire Service Correspondent
    WASHINGTON (AP) – A sharply divided Supreme Court upheld President Donald Trump’s ban on travel from several mostly Muslim countries Tuesday, the conservative majority taking his side in a major ruling supporting his presidential power.
  • Arizona police under scrutiny after beating video surfaces

    By Astrid GalvanWire Service Correspondent
    PHOENIX (AP) — The attorneys and a pastor for a suburban Phoenix man seen on video being beaten by police while standing against a wall said Thursday that the officer’s claim that their client posed a threat “doesn’t pass the smell test.”
    Pastor Andre Miller said the Mesa Police Department description of why they struck the unarmed Robert Johnson doesn’t hold up.This image made from a body camera video on Wednesday, M
  • Bailing Out the Coal Industry Will Hurt Consumers

    President Trump wants to subsidize money-losing coal and nuclear plants under the fiction that they are essential to national security.
  • The Not-So-Subtle Racism of Trump-Era ‘Welfare Reform’

    By redefining welfare to include more federal assistance programs, Trump finds new ways to punish black people.
  • Gunman opens fire in Texas high school, killing 10 people

    By Juan A. Lozano
    Wire Service Correspondent
    SANTA FE, Texas (AP) — A 17-year-old boy carrying a shotgun and a revolver opened fire at a Houston-area high school Friday, killing 10 people, most of them students, authorities said. It was the nation’s deadliest such attack since the massacre in Florida that gave rise to a campaign by teens for gun control.
    The suspected shooter, who was in custody, also had explosive devices, including a Molotov cocktail, that were found in the school
  • Trump thrusts abortion fight into crucial midterm elections

    By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and
    Jill ColvinWire Service Correspondents
    “I cannot imagine a scenario in which public health groups would allow this effort to go unchallenged,” Marcella said.
    But abortion opponents said Trump is merely reaffirming the core mission of the family planning program.
    “The new regulations will draw a bright line between abortion centers and family planning programs, just as…federal law requires and the Supreme Court has upheld,” said Tony P
  • Democrats in Rust Belt: Stay Close to Trump, but Not Too Close

    After primaries in prime Trump territory Tuesday, Republicans were eager to embrace the president while Democrats had a more delicate balancing act.
  • Trump and the Mosquito Wars

    What the nation needs now is clearly more lobbyists.
  • An Ohio Special Election Shapes Up as a Big Test of the ‘Blue Wave’

    The House special election in August in the suburbs of Columbus could indicate how Democrats will perform in November with college-educated, affluent voters.
  • Rachel Crooks, Who Accused Trump of Sexual Assault, Wins Legislative Primary

    Ms. Crooks, the Democratic nominee for an Ohio House seat, says Mr. Trump forcibly kissed her at Trump Tower in 2005.
  • 6 Takeaways From Tuesday’s Primary Elections

    Richard Cordray won in Ohio. Don Blankenship lost in West Virginia. And Congress is very unpopular.
  • Richard Cordray Defeats Dennis Kucinich in Ohio Democratic Primary

    The victory by Mr. Cordray, who was endorsed by Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, came as a relief to many Democrats who saw Mr. Kucinich as unelectable.
  • Cordray Defeats Kucinich in Ohio; Blankenship Loses in West Virginia

    The victory by Richard Cordray, who was endorsed by Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, came as a relief to many Democrats who saw Dennis Kucinich as unelectable.
  • Blankenship Loses West Virginia Primary; Cordray Defeats Kucinich in Ohio

    The victory by Richard Cordray, who was endorsed by Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, came as a relief to many Democrats who saw Dennis Kucinich as unelectable.
  • Meet the Pro-Trade, Pro-Immigration Economist Running for Congress. As a Republican. In Ohio.

    Tim Kane would seem to have the right stuff to be a G.O.P. candidate for Congress in any other year. But in 2018, he seems out of step with his party.
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