Two US Olympic swimmers prevented from leaving Brazil by ...
RIO DE JANEIRO — Two U.S. Olympic swimmers were prevented from leaving Brazil on Wednesday night as differences emerged in their accounts of an armed robbery they said they endured last weekend. The U.S. Olympic Committee said Wednesday evening that swimmers Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz were removed from their return flight to the United States by Brazilian authorities. Early Thursday morning, the USOC released a statement indicating Conger and Bentz were no longer being detained but were no..>> view originalTrump shakes up campaign, demotes top adviser
The Fix's Chris Cillizza explains why Donald Trump demoted campaign chief Paul Manafort and added two new top advisers – Breitbart News chief Stephen Bannon and pollster Kellyanne Conway. (Peter Stevenson/The Washington Post) Donald Trump, following weeks of gnawing agitation over his advisers’ attempts to temper his style, moved late Tuesday to overhaul his struggling campaign by rebuffing those efforts and elevating two longtime associates who have encouraged his combative populism. Ste..>> view originalAbout Donald Trump's 'black voter' pitch …
Who was he speaking to on Tuesday? (Gerald Herbert/AP) Deep inside the pages of Harvard University professor Leah Wright Rigueur's 2015 book, "The Loneliness of the Black Republican," the author marks a seemingly momentous shift in modern-day Republican thinking about black voters. In 1980, almost all the white men who wanted to become the Republican Party's presidential nominee had moved beyond proclamations of interest in black voters toward specific action aimed at courting black voters...>> view originalThe stunned, bloodied face of a child survivor sums up the horror of ...
Footage released by the Aleppo Media Center on Aug. 17 appears to show a little boy and others being rescued from rubble after an airstrike. (Aleppo Media Center) The video shows a child after he was pulled from rubble in Aleppo, a city that has been devastated by constant bombardment. A man carried the boy away from the rubble after a suspected Russian or Assad regime airstrike in the neighborhood of rebel-held Qaterji. He placed the child in an orange chair. The boy brushes his eye and..>> view originalI've always voted Republican. Until now.
Daniel Akerson was chairman and chief executive of General Motors from 2010 to 2014 and was vice chairman and special adviser to the board of directors for the Carlyle Group from 2014 to 2016. I am the son of a World War II and Korean War veteran. As a young man, the men I respected most were my father and my uncles, who collectively fought in the Battle of the Atlantic and the invasions of North Africa, Sicily, D-Day, Iwo Jima and Inchon. I came of age in the service of our natio..>> view original
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