Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Trump Reinstates New York Times Meeting While Pulling Back on Pursuing Case Against Clinton and other top stories.

  • Trump Reinstates New York Times Meeting While Pulling Back on Pursuing Case Against Clinton

    The Times’s senior vice president for communications, Eileen M. Murphy, responded:“We were unaware that the meeting was canceled until we saw the president-elect’s tweet this morning. We did not change the ground rules at all and made no attempt to. They tried to yesterday — asking for only a private meeting and no on-the-record segment, which we refused to agree to. In the end, we concluded with them that we would go back to the original plan of a small off-the-record session and a larger on-t..
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  • Judges Find Wisconsin Redistricting Unfairly Favored Republicans

    Judges Find Wisconsin Redistricting Unfairly Favored Republicans
    Photo Election Day voting in Altoona, Wis. A panel of judges found the state’s 2011 remapping to be unconstitutional. Credit Marisa Wojcik/The Eau Claire Leader-Telegram, via Associated Press A panel of three federal judges said on Monday that the Wisconsin Legislature’s 2011 redrawing of State Assembly districts to favor Republicans was an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander, the first such ruling in three decades of pitched legal battles over the issue.Federal court..
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  • The Latest: Ohio prosecutor looks to spring 2017 for retrial

    The Latest: Ohio prosecutor looks to spring 2017 for retrial
    FILE – In this Nov. 10, 2016, file photo, former University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing leaves court after the second day of jury deliberations in his murder trial in Cincinnati. Hamilton County, Ohio, Prosecutor Joe Deters scheduled a Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016, news conference to discuss the prosecution of Tensing, after a jury deadlocked and a judge declared a mistrial Nov. 12, 2016, on charges of murder and voluntary manslaughter in the fatal July 2015 shooting of black motorist..
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  • San Antonio police announce arrest in officer's killing

    San Antonio police announce arrest in officer's killing
    Otis Tyrone McKane, 31, was arrested around 4:30 p.m. while riding with a woman and a 2-year-old child in a car on Interstate 10, Chief William McManus said."This is the person's whose image we saw on surveillance," McManus said at a press conference. "This is also the person we believe is responsible for the cold and calculated murder of Detective Marconi."Detective Benjamin Marconi, a 20-year veteran of the department, was shot to death while writing a traffic ticket outside of police headquar..
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  • Trump aide Kellyanne Conway: No plan to pursue charges against Clinton

    Trump aide Kellyanne Conway: No plan to pursue charges against Clinton
    "I think when the President-elect, who's also the head of your party, tells you before he's even inaugurated that he doesn't wish to pursue these charges, it sends a very strong message, tone, and content" to fellow Republicans, Conway said in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."At the second presidential debate in early October, Trump threatened Clinton, saying that "if I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation."Conway said Clint..
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  • Chemical Plant Explodes In Neodesha, Kansas

    Chemical Plant Explodes In Neodesha, Kansas
    Chemical Plant Explodes In Neodesha, Kansas Posted: Tuesday, November 22, 2016 9:09 AM EST Updated: Tuesday, November 22, 2016 10:16 AM EST Image of the scene from Osage SkyNews 6 HD. Closeup image from Osage SkyNews 6 HD. NEODESHA, Kansas - One person was injured in a chemical plant exploded and burned in Neodesha, Kansas Tuesday morning.Neodesha is about 15 miles north of Independence.The explosion and fire happened at Airosol, Inc., a chemical plant that packages aer..
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  • Taser almost certainly caused burns on Michael Slager's uniform, defense expert says

    Taser almost certainly caused burns on Michael Slager's uniform, defense expert says
    A Taser, which can send an electrical jolt four times hotter than the sun, could have burned North Charleston patrolman Michael Slager’s shirt, or was it a meteor?Gunshot residue on Walter Scott’s right hand could indicate that he grabbed Slager’s gun before the policeman shot him to death, or did it get there when the officer handcuffed him after the shooting?Those were the kind of questions posed in front of jurors who on Monday, the 14th day of Slager's murder trial, started seeing evidence ..
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  • Chattanooga school bus driver arrested in crash that killed at least 5 children

    Chattanooga school bus driver arrested in crash that killed at least 5 children
    Shell-shocked students cried as rescuers worked for hours to pull them from the wreckage.This was the horrifying scene Monday afternoon on a street in Chattanooga, Tennessee. And on Tuesday morning, the city was still reeling.At least five children were killed in the crash, school officials said, and six others are hospitalized in an intensive care unit. "Five is a cursed number in our city right now. We are ... dealing with an unimaginable loss," Mayor Andy Berke said. "The most unnatural thing..
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  • Police: Philly Package Contained 'Device' That Targeted Man

    Police: Philly Package Contained 'Device' That Targeted Man
    PHILADELPHIA (AP) – A package that exploded in a downtown apartment early Tuesday included an “actual device” that was meant to injure, officials said, and a man is hospitalized with hand and chest injuries. Agents from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were working with U.S. Postal Inspectors and the city bomb squad on the cause of the blast that injured a 62-year-old Center City man at about 4 a.m. The man received the package Monday evening and opened it early T..
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  • Trump's DOL will target visa programs

    Trump's DOL will target visa programs
    Trump's DOL will target visa programs By Ted Hesson 11/22/16 10:00 AM EST With help from Marianne LeVine, Cogan Schneier, and Timothy Noah TRUMP’S DOL WILL TARGET VISA PROGRAMS: President-elect Donald Trump said Monday in a video message that he will “direct the Department of Labor to investigate all abuses of visa programs that undercut the American worker.” The directive is one of several executive actions that Trump plans to roll out on Day One. The scope of a possible ..
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