Wednesday, September 20, 2017

March of white supremacists at University of Virginia ends in ... and other top stories.

  • March of white supremacists at University of Virginia ends in ...

    March of white supremacists at University of Virginia ends in ...
    Several hundred white nationalists and white supremacists were met by a small group of counterprotesters at the base of a statue of Thomas Jefferson on Friday night at the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville. (Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post) Chanting “White lives matter!” “You will not replace us!” and “Jews will not replace us!” several hundred white nationalists and white supremacists carrying torches marched in a parade through the University of Virginia campu..
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  • Beijing warns Pyongyang: You're on your own if you go after the ...

    Beijing warns Pyongyang: You're on your own if you go after the ...
    BEIJING — China won’t come to North Korea’s aid if it launches missiles threatening U.S. soil and there is retaliation, a state-owned newspaper warned Friday — but it would intervene if Washington strikes first.  The Global Times newspaper is not an official mouthpiece of the Communist Party, but in this case its editorial probably does reflect government policy, experts said. The stern Chinese warning came as government leaders and politicians around the world urged calm after a series of thr..
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  • Religion events around the Washington area

    Religion events around the Washington area
    Saturday, 2 p.m.: Gargoyle tour. Walking tour on the ground level presents an overview of the history and function of these carved wonders, which include raccoons, rattlesnakes and ghouls. Binoculars are recommended and cameras welcome. $22; ages 12 and younger, students, seniors and military $18. Reservations suggested. Washington National Cathedral, 3101 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-537-2228. cathedral.org. Sunday, 10 to 11 a.m.: Guest preacher the Rev. Drew Ensz, director for Arise Campus Minis..
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  • Judge throws out radio DJ's case against Taylor Swift in groping trial

    Judge throws out radio DJ's case against Taylor Swift in groping trial
    Taylor Swift (by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File) One day after Taylor Swift took the stand in court to defend herself against allegations that she got a Denver country radio DJ fired after false accusations that he groped her, a judge has thrown out the DJ’s claims, citing insufficient evidence. Nearly two years ago, former KYGO radio host David Mueller sued Swift, claiming he lost his job when she and her team accused him of lifting her skirt and touching her buttocks during a meet-and-gr..
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  • Port Angeles Pastor Returns After 1376 Miles Prayer Tour

    Port Angeles Pastor Returns After 1376 Miles Prayer Tour
    The Rev. Joe DeScala, director of Mended church, is greeted by his wife, Makayla DeScala, at the completion of his 1,376-mile trek around Washington state on Thursday, July 27, 2017, in Port Angeles, Wash. DeScala made his running, bicycling and kayaking journey to raise funds for orphans and widows. (Keith Thorpe /The Peninsula Daily News via AP) The Associated Press By JESSE MAJOR, Peninsula Daily News PORT ANGELES, Wash. (AP) — A pastor who traveled more than 1,300 miles via b..
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  • Trump says he's open to military intervention in Venezuela

    Trump says he's open to military intervention in Venezuela
    President Donald Trump walks out with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley and national security adviser H.R. McMaster to speak to members of the media following their meeting at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., Friday, Aug. 11, 2017. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press) By Jill Colvin and Joshua Goodman | AP By Jill Colvin and Joshua Goodman | AP August 12 at 2:58 AM WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is expressing c..
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  • Keith Ellison: 'Irresponsible' Trump could bring about first strike by ...

    Keith Ellison: 'Irresponsible' Trump could bring about first strike by ...
    Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) speaks in Phoenix in January. (David Wallace/Arizona Republic via AP) ATLANTA — Rep. Keith Ellison, the vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, told activists at the progressive Netroots Nation conference that President Trump was acting less responsibly than North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and that antiwar activism needs to ramp up as the president’s rhetoric has. “You have this guy making bellicose threats against somebody else who has very little to l..
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  • A sleeping mother suffocated her newborn in the maternity ward ...

    A sleeping mother suffocated her newborn in the maternity ward ...
    Jacob Thompson. (Thompson family/Diego Conde) Monica Thompson had given birth to her first child, a baby boy, and was almost ready to take him home from the hospital. It was nearly midnight one Sunday in the summer of 2012 when Thompson, who had undergone a Caesarean section a few days earlier, was given a cocktail of narcotic painkillers and sleep aids. A nurse took the newborn to his mother for breast-feeding and put the child next to her in her hospital bed at Adventist Medical Center in ..
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  • Despite Trump's threats to North Korea, the US military doesn't ...

    Despite Trump's threats to North Korea, the US military doesn't ...
    Defense Secretary Jim Mattis answers questions while speaking in Mountain View, Calif., on Thursday. (Jeff Chiu/AP) The U.S. military does not appear to be moving toward a wartime footing with North Korea despite President Trump’s repeated threats this week of military action against Pyongyang, with few if any additional military forces moving into the region and the Pentagon chief emphasizing diplomacy over bloodshed. The military posture has effectively remained the same even as Trump said..
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  • White House aide Omarosa Manigault-Newman roils police violence ...

    White House aide Omarosa Manigault-Newman roils police violence ...
    White House Director of Communications for the Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs Omarosa Manigault-Newman  is interviewed during “Regional Media Day” at the White House on July 25 in Washington. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) NEW ORLEANS — Less than 10 minutes into White House aide Omarosa Manigault-Newman’s appearance on the stage at the National Association of Black Journalists convention here, things got tense. Manigault-Newman was on her feet, microphone in hand,..
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