US affirms its prohibition on medical marijuana
Marijuana plants growing at a Minnesota Medical Solutions greenhouse in Otsego, Minn., last year. The crop is part of the state's medical marijuana supply. (Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune/AP) This post has been updated. The government refused again Thursday to allow the use of marijuana for medical purposes, reaffirming its conclusion that the drug’s therapeutic value has not been proved scientifically and defying a growing clamor to legalize it for the treatment of a variety of conditions. In an..>> view originalMacy's to close 100 stores
Macy’s Herald Square store in New York. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images) Department store giant Macy’s said Thursday that it plans to close 100 stores, a dramatic step that is aimed at helping the chain get ahead of a potentially crippling problem: America, they say, has too many stores for the online shopping era. Macy’s regularly prunes its store portfolio, often moving to close several dozen underperforming stores right after the annual holiday rush. But in dropping a summertime announcement..>> view original2 Dead, Others Missing After Explosion at Maryland Apartment ...
Two people are dead and others are still unaccounted for after an explosion sparked a massive fire at an apartment building in Silver Spring, Maryland, police officials say. Firefighters at a station about a mile away felt the explosion at the Flower Branch Apartments just before midnight Wednesday, Montgomery County Fire Chief Scott Goldstein said.More than 160 fire and rescue workers were called to the Piney Branch Road complex to help battle the blaze. The early morning fire tore through the ..>> view originalWhy Arianna Huffington is leaving the Huffington Post
Co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Arianna Huffington has decided to step down (Photo by Brian Ach/Getty Images for AOL) Arianna Huffington, the former conservative commentator who co-founded and built the Huffington Post into one of the Web’s most prominent liberal media giants, said Thursday she will step down to focus on a new health-and-wellness start-up. Saying on Twitter she thought “HuffPost would be my last act,” Huffington, 66, said she would instead focus on new ..>> view originalToo good to check: Sean Hannity's tale of a Trump rescue
“The Trump campaign has confirmed to Hannity.com that Mr. Trump did indeed send his plane to make two trips from North Carolina to Miami, Florida to transport over 200 Gulf War Marines back home.” — quote in article titled “200 Stranded Marines Needed A Plane Ride Home, Here’s How Donald Trump Responded,” Sean Hannity Show website, May 19, 2016 It seemed like such a sweet story — Donald Trump sending his personal plane down to Camp Lejeune, N.C., when 200 Marines were stranded after fighting in..>> view originalU.S. military chiefs scrubbed reports on ISIS's strength: GOP task force
A House Republican task force has concluded that senior military commanders gave the Pentagon and the White House rosier assessments of the U.S.-led battle against the Islamic State than was warranted by facts on the ground in Iraq and Syria.The task force said reports from U.S. Central Command, or CENTCOM, which oversees military operations in the Middle East, “were consistently more positive than analysis produced by other elements of the Intelligence Community.”The development comes as Republ..>> view originalDonald Trump doubles down: Obama was 'absolutely' the founder of ...
Donald Trump doubled down Thursday morning, saying President Obama was “absolutely” the founder of the Islamic State terrorist group and Hillary Clinton was a co-founder.“He was the founder of ISIS, absolutely,” Mr. Trump said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” reiterating a line he had delivered at a rally in Florida Wednesday evening. “The way he removed our troops - [we] shouldn’t have gone in.”He repeated his stated contention that the war in Iraq was a mistake.“But he was the founder, absolutely the f..>> view originalThe Donald Trump interview that should terrify national Republicans ...
VIDEO Over the course of the interview, Trump unapologetically said he's going to win or lose doing much the same thing he's doing now -- even as he's currently losing badly. And for any Republicans hoping he'll clean up his act going forward, there was plenty to be concerned about. He even turned decades of Republican Party orthodoxy on his head and suggested the United States should borrow more money while rates are low. Below, we annotate the transcript. A note: The top half includes lots o..>> view originalRacially charged confrontation over Trump T-shirt ends in apparent ...
Peter Yankowski. (GIF via WABC) The encounter apparently began after a passing motorist spotted Peter Yankowski’s T-shirt. The shirt showed a picture of Donald Trump’s face over an American flag. “Trump for President,” the shirt read. “Make America Great Again.” The motorist aggressively questioned the Trump supporter about the shirt, “directing profanities at him,” according to a spokesman for the Bloomfield, N.J., police force. During the argument last week, Yankowski, who is white, shoute..>> view originalShould US Olympic winners have to pay a 'victory tax?'
Michael Phelps earns a $25,000 bonus for every gold medal he wins — but the government considers it taxable income. (Photo by Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post) The taxman cometh, even when you’re overseas winning for him at the Olympic games. As Jonathan Berr, writing for CBS Moneywatch, reported that the U.S. Olympic Committee awards athletes bonuses for landing at the top; $25,000 for a gold medal, $15,000 for silver and $10,000 for bronze. But with victory comes an IRS bill. “Under IRS..>> view original
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