Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Rand Paul suspends presidential campaign and other top stories.

  • Rand Paul suspends presidential campaign

    Rand Paul suspends presidential campaign
    Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) attends the New Hampshire Republican Party summit in Nashua, N.H., on Jan. 23. (Matt Rourke/AP) Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) announced Wednesday that he is suspending his presidential campaign, bringing an end to a bid that began with aspirations of expanding the libertarian base that his father, Ron Paul, built into a powerful national coalition. "It's been an incredible honor to run a principled campaign for the White House," Paul said in a statement. "Today, I will end wher..
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  • Former NFL great Ken Stabler was suffering from CTE

    Former NFL great Ken Stabler was suffering from CTE
    Ken Stabler in a Dec. 27, 1976, photo taken during the AFC championship game. (AP Photo/File) This is an updated version of an earlier post. Ken Stabler, the former Oakland Raiders quarterback who died last summer of colon cancer, was found to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy during a postmortem examination of his brain. Stabler, who was 69 when he died, had the degenerative brain disease that has been found in the brains of many former football players and is believed to be caused by ..
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  • Toyota discontinues Scion after years of slumping sales

    Toyota discontinues Scion after years of slumping sales
    In this Saturday, April 16, 2005, file photo, a solar yellow Scion limited-production xB Release Series 2.0 is parked in Manhattan as part of a corporate promotion in New York. Toyota announced Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016, that it is discontinuing its Scion brand, aimed at younger car buyers, after years of slumping sales. (Mark Lennihan/AP) By Dee-Ann Durbin | AP February 3 at 11:35 AM DETROIT — Toyota is killing its Scion brand after years of slumping sales. Beginning in August, 2017 model..
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  • Loved ones reeling from murder of Fort Washington mother, toddler

    Loved ones reeling from murder of Fort Washington mother, toddler
    WASHINGTON — Friends and relatives, reeling from an unthinkable crime, gathered Tuesday night at Community Temple Bibleway Church in Cheverly, Maryland, to comfort each other. Earlier in the day, NeShante Davis and her 2-year old daughter, Chloe Davis-Green, were shot and killed outside their home in Fort Washington. “It’s just a shock,” Melonie Parker, a family friend, told NBC Washington. “How could you look a child in their face and shoot a child?” Investigators spent hours at the crime sce..
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  • Scot McCloughan gives injury updates on Chris Culliver, Kyshoen ...

    Scot McCloughan gives injury updates on Chris Culliver, Kyshoen ...
    Redskins cornerback Chris Culliver is making progress in his rehab from a torn ACL. (Bill Kostroun/Associated Press) The Washington Redskins have two key injuries in the secondary to monitor during the offseason. One is ahead of schedule, the other is improving at a slower rate. General manager Scot McCloughan said last week at the Senior Bowl that cornerback Chris Culliver is healing faster than expected after tearing ligaments in his right knee on Thanksgiving during practice. Culliver wa..
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  • Cellphone video shows Somalia flight after explosion

    Cellphone video shows Somalia flight after explosion
    In this photo taken Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016, a hole is seen in a plane operated by Daallo Airlines as it sits on the runway of the airport in Mogadishu, Somalia. A gaping hole in the commercial airliner forced it to make an emergency landing at Mogadishu’s international airport late Tuesday officials and witnesses said. (Associated Press) By Christopher Torchia | AP February 3 at 9:36 AM JOHANNESBURG — The cellphone video pans from passengers, some wearing oxygen masks, in seats toward the..
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  • Jeb Bush supporter Pete Sessions's brutal quote about Jeb Bush

    Jeb Bush supporter Pete Sessions's brutal quote about Jeb Bush
    Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Tex.) (Win McNamee/Getty Images) To see just how far the once-odds-on favorite in the Republican presidential race has fallen, let's look back last year, when Rep. Pete Sessions (Tex.), a senior House Republican, endorsed Jeb Bush for president: “What we’ve got to do is find someone who can rally us together,” said Sessions in an interview for Lone Star Politics. “Jeb Bush is my answer.” At the time, Sessions said that Bush had some "frailties," such as that "he's a li..
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  • Donald Trump accuses Ted Cruz of stealing Iowa — and demands a ...

    Donald Trump accuses Ted Cruz of stealing Iowa — and demands a ...
    Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz participate in the Fox Business Network Republican presidential debate at the North Charleston Coliseum and Performing Arts Center on January 14, 2016. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) This post has been updated. The unexpected sense of generosity that marked Donald Trump's concession speech in Iowa on Monday night began to fray during his speech in New Hampshire on Tuesday -- and appears to have evaporated completely, given what Trump tweeted Wednesday mor..
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  • Even Kate Winslet thinks Rose let Jack die in 'Titanic'

    Even Kate Winslet thinks Rose let Jack die in 'Titanic'
    Did her heart really go on and on? (Photo by Paramount Pictures) It’s considered one of the greatest love stories of the past century. A young man and woman of vastly different means meet in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean aboard a ship bound for a tragic end. One dies to save the other, he, sinking into the freezing deep, while she, wistfully promising that she’ll never let him go. “Titanic” did a lot of things for people alive in the 1990s. It made us weep. It pushed us to rethink boundar..
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  • The Latest: Prosecutor talks about heir's proposed sentence

    The Latest: Prosecutor talks about heir's proposed sentence
    FILE - In this Tuesday, March 17, 2015 file photo, Robert Durst is transported from Orleans Parish Criminal District Court to the Orleans Parish Prison after his arraignment on murder charges in New Orleans. U.S. District Judge Kurt Engelhardt has scheduled Durst’s re-arraignment for Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016, on a charge of illegally carrying a .38-caliber revolver after a felony conviction. (Gerald Herbert, File/Associated Press) By Associated Press February 3 at 12:54 PM NEW ORLEANS — T..
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