Pregnant wife of Indianapolis pastor fatally shot during apparent...
Amanda Blackburn and her husband Davey moved from South Carolina to Indianapolis in 2012 with a dream, they wrote. They wanted to start “a life-giving church that would connect with people who normally wouldn’t connect with church,” reads theabout page for Resonate Indianapolis, the church they went on to establish.By 2015, they had their church and a growing family: a toddler, and a baby on the way,the Indianapolis Star reported.Then on Tuesday morning, Amanda Blackburn was inside her home when..>> view originalPentagon chief Ashton Carter just fired his top military aide over...
Then-Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter, left, meets with then-Army Brig. Gen. Ron Lewis at Forward Operating Base Gamberi in May 2013. (Staff Sgt. Richard Andrade/ U.S. Army)Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter has fired his top military aide for allegations of “misconduct,” a highly unusual move prior to a formal investigation into possible misbehavior by the Army general.In a statement, Carter said that he had removed Lt. Gen. Ron Lewis from his position as senior military assistant. As ..>> view originalMillion Student March fights for debt-free college
Erika Civitarese, a junior at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, rallies students at the campus’ Million Student March on Nov. 12, 2015. (Photo by Olivia Servaes)Students at 110 college campuses across the country planned to walk out of class Thursday to march for an affordable education.The aptly named Million Student March has been months in the making, inspired by national campaigns to boost minimum wages, explained Beth Huang, a coordinator for the Student Labor Action Project (SLAP..>> view originalTeen convicted in attacks on Washington Post, food delivery men - The Washington Post
A D.C. teenager was convicted Thursday of severely beating a Washington Post delivery man, then stabbing a Chinese food delivery man four days later.Cephus Hollis, who is now 18, stole cars from both men and caused serious injuries to both, a jury found on Thursday.Prosecutors said during Hollis’s trial, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, that Hollis and another person first stole a car on Sept. 7, 2014, in the Riggs Park neighborhood of Northeast Washington. That same nig..>> view originalWhy would the Braves trade Andrelton Simmons?
One of the best defensive short stops in the majors, Andrelton Simmons was traded by the Braves to the Angels. (Jon Barash/AP Photo)His offensive numbers might not look impressive, and we know the Atlanta Braves aren’t preparing to contend for anything in 2016. But Andrelton Simmons is just 26, perhaps the best defensive player at the most important defensive position in the game. And more than that: He is under contract through 2020, when he will make $15 million – a figure that, by then, could..>> view originalUniformed Secret Service officer charged with soliciting minor for sex
Lee Robert Moore, according to the criminal complaint, admitted he once texted the undercover trooper from a guard booth where he was checking in visitors to the White House. (Uncredited/Delaware Department of Justice via AP)A Secret Service officer has been charged with soliciting a minor for sex after he allegedly texted an undercover detective who was posing as a 14-year-old girl. Court documents say he admitted to sending some of the texts from his job at the White House.Lee Robert Moore, 37..>> view originalLooking at the Nationals' plans for the 2016 infield
Anthony Rendon is moving back to third base in 2016. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)BOCA RATON, Fla. — This offseason marks a changing of the guard for the Washington Nationals, from homegrown stars to younger, lesser-known faces. That changeover will be most apparent in the infield. Longtime shortstop Ian Desmond has until 5 p.m. Friday to accept or reject a $15.8-million qualifying offer, but is expected to turn it down. So who will man the middle infield in 2016?The Nationals prepared for this, especial..>> view originalTour bus caught fire near George Washington University - The Washington Post
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Less than three months before the kickoff Iowa caucuses, there is growing anxiety bordering on panic among Republican elites about the dominance and durability of Donald Trump and Ben Carson and widespread bewilderment over how to defeat them.Party leaders and donors fear that nominating either man would have negative ramifications for the GOP ticket up and down the ballot, virtually ensuring a Hillary Rodham Clinton presidency and increasing the odds that the Senate falls into Democratic hands...>> view originalJacqueline Berrien, former EEOC chairwoman, dies at 53
Jacqueline A. Berrien, the former chairwoman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and a veteran civil rights lawyer who had earlier served five years as associate director-counsel of the NAACP’s Legal Defense and Educational Fund, died Nov. 9 at a hospital in Baltimore. She was 53.The cause of was cancer, said her husband, Peter M. Williams, the NAACP’s executive vice president for programs. They had homes in Washington and Brooklyn.Ms. Berrien led the EEOC from 2010 to 2014, when her ..>> view original
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