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Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky could be removed from the bench in a recall effort prompted by the six-month sentence he handed down in the Stanford sexual assault case. (Gillian Brockell/The Washington Post) The six-month sentence handed down to a former Stanford University student in a high-profile sexual assault case has been met with outrage — much of it aimed at the judge. Prosecutors argued that Brock Turner’s three felony convictions should have landed him in st..>> view originalPro-Clinton super PAC to launch a 'Trump Lies' campaign
(Chris Carlson/Associated Press) Donald Trump succeeded in branding his chief rival in the Republican primaries a liar, and Democrats are taking a page out of his playbook by using Trump’s own legacy of misstatements and falsehoods to try to define the presumptive GOP presidential nominee as a pathological liar. Correct the Record, a super PAC supporting Hillary Clinton, is launching a “Trump Lies” campaign on Thursday that catalogs the business mogul’s lies and inaccuracies, dating from th..>> view originalAbout 12 released Guantanamo detainees implicated in attacks on ...
The Obama administration believes that about 12 detainees released from the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have launched attacks against U.S. or allied forces in Afghanistan, killing about a half-dozen Americans, according to current and former U.S. officials. In March, a senior Pentagon official made a startling admission to lawmakers when he acknowledged that former Guantanamo inmates were responsible for the deaths of Americans overseas. The official, Paul Lewis, who oversees Guantanamo iss..>> view originalPolice: 4 Shot in Northwest DC; Officer Hit by Car
Four men have been shot at the intersection of North Capitol Street and New York Avenue NW Wednesday afternoon and an officer on a bike was struck by a car near the scene, police say.D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier said a gunman at first opened fire on one man, shooting him multiple times before shooting three additional men outside the Big Ben liquor store on New York Ave. The suspect then ran away and is still at large, Lanier said.Police released the following surveillance photo of the suspect..>> view originalDonald Trump's got (political) money problems
Donald Trump in October. (John Taggart/Bloomberg) During the course of his campaign, Donald Trump's estimates of how much it will cost him to run for president have varied. He kicked everything off last June by bragging about his $10 billion net worth (per himself) and how he didn't need to raise money because he could pay his own way. He might spend a billion of his own money to run, he said, though he'd need to sell some buildings. Once he got the nomination, though, he figured he might a..>> view originalWashington National Cathedral to remove Confederate battle flags ...
A window in Washington National Cathedral features the Confederate battle flag. (Photo by John Kelly / The Washington Post) Washington National Cathedral, one of the country’s most visible houses of worship, announced Wednesday that it would remove Confederate battle flags that are part of two large stained-glass windows honoring Confederate generals Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee. Cathedral leaders said they would leave up the rest of the windows — for now — and use them as a centerpi..>> view originalModi to Congress: India, US can anchor stability in Asia
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, gestures with the traditional Indian greeting as he applauded during his address to a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 8, 2016. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/Associated Press) By Matthew Pennington | AP June 8 at 4:10 PM WASHINGTON — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the U.S. Congress on Wednesday that the world’s two largest democracies can anchor stability and prosperity from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific in a..>> view originalPeriodic table elements named for Moscow, Japan, Tennessee
ADDS HAMILTON WAS PART OF A TEAM - Physics professor Joe Hamilton poses by his license plate 117 TN outside his office at Vanderbilt University Wednesday, June 8, 2016, in Nashville, Tenn. Hamilton picked the numbers and letters for the plate while he and a team was working on the discovery of a new element named tennessine after Tennessee. Tennessine, element 117, was given the abbreviation Ts rather than Tn in the periodic table of the elements. (Mark Humphrey/Associated Press) By Malcol..>> view originalMcGraw, Underwood win big at CMT Awards; Pharrell performs
Tim McGraw ended Carrie Underwood’s four-year-winning streak for the top prize at the 2016 CMT Music Awards with his music video for “Humble and Kind” — which features footage provided by Oprah Winfrey — while stars from outside the country music world performed onstage, including Pharrell, Cheap Trick and Pitbull. McGraw thanked Winfrey, Tyler Perry, video director Wes Edwards and others onstage Wednesday night at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee. “When we make a footprint as an arti..>> view original'Loved it': Players and managers applaud Manny Machado's mound ...
Manny Machado and Yordano Ventura trade punches Tuesday night. (Patrick McDermott/Getty Images) PHILADELPHIA – We are now past the time, apparently, when baseball “brawls” were semi-choreographed slow dances. The haymakers are coming. They flew from Texas’s Rougned Odor to the jaw of Toronto slugger Jose Bautista for a slide gone bad earlier this year, then Tuesday night from Baltimore’s Manny Machado to the head of Kansas City right-hander Yordano Ventura for a pitch directly at him. The re..>> view original
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