Saturday, September 2, 2017

Teens Detained for Selling Water on the National Mall and other top stories.

  • Teens Detained for Selling Water on the National Mall

    Teens Detained for Selling Water on the National Mall
    A Washington, D.C., council member is asking for the U.S. Park Police to clarify why teenagers were handcuffed on Thursday for selling bottled water on the National Mall.According to Sgt. Anna Rose of the U.S. Park Police, shortly after 5 p.m., officers detained the three teens at 12th Street and Jefferson Drive, Northwest, for illegally vending.A witness took photos of the three teens -- all of whom are black -- being handcuffed by the plainclothes police officers, which were shared widely on s..
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  • A doctor prescribed so many painkillers, she's been charged with ...

    A doctor prescribed so many painkillers, she's been charged with ...
    Regan Nichols is charged with five counts of second-degree murder after investigators say she overprescribed powerful opioids to her patients. (Oklahoma County Jail). On Nov.  21, 2012, Sheila Bartels walked out of the Sunshine Medical Center in Oklahoma with a prescription for a "horrifyingly excessive" cocktail of drugs capable of killing her several times over. A short time later, she was at a pharmacy, receiving what drug addicts call “the holy trinity” of prescription drugs: the powerfu..
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  • Trump lashes out at Obama over latest report on Russian election ...

    Trump lashes out at Obama over latest report on Russian election ...
    President Trump on Saturday called out Obama administration officials for not taking stronger actions against Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, contradicting his past statements and suggesting without proof that they were trying to help Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. His tweets came after The Post revealed Friday that the Obama White House had received reports as early as August 2016 regarding Russian President Vladimir Putin’s direct involvement in the cyber campai..
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  • Senate health-care bill faces serious resistance from GOP moderates

    Senate health-care bill faces serious resistance from GOP moderates
    A small group of moderate Republican senators, worried that their leaders’ health-care bill could damage the nation’s social safety net, may pose at least as significant an obstacle to the measure’s passage as their colleagues on the right. The vast changes the legislation would make to Medicaid, the country’s broadest source of public health insurance, would represent the largest single step the government has ever taken toward conservatives’ long-held goal of reining in federal spending on he..
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  • The grim video of a Venezuelan protester being shot on live TV

    The grim video of a Venezuelan protester being shot on live TV
    El momento preciso en que un GNB dispara contra joven manifestante #EnVIVOplay por: https://t.co/AyLxbCohdr pic.twitter.com/M4MM5LS8S7 — VIVOplay (@vivoplaynet) June 22, 2017 As people watched on live TV, a protester hurled rocks over the fence of La Carlota air base in Caracas. His face was covered by a bandanna, and a knapsack was strapped to his chest. Two soldiers approached, standing just feet away from the riots. Then, one of the officers pulled out a rifle and fired, striking the activ..
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  • An Air Force fighter jet skids off runway, flips over and traps two inside

    An Air Force fighter jet skids off runway, flips over and traps two inside
    A military jet is attended to after flipping over Friday at Dayton International Airport in Ohio. (Ty Greenlees /Dayton Daily News via AP) While landing at a rain-soaked airport in Dayton, Ohio, on Friday, an Air Force fighter jet skidded off the runway and flipped upside down, trapping two men inside for more than an hour. A pilot took the F-16D Fighting Falcon out from Dayton International Airport in the morning to prepare for an air show this weekend, the commander of the Air Force Thunde..
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  • Michael A. Taylor is back in the Nationals' lineup

    Michael A. Taylor is back in the Nationals' lineup
    Michael A. Taylor will play Saturday after being left out of the lineup in the previous two games. (Jasen Vinlove/USA Today Sports) Michael A. Taylor hit in the cage during Friday’s game, more than Dusty Baker wanted him to but enough to convince the Nationals manager that his center fielder was healthy enough to play. After pinch-hitting in Friday’s extra-inning win over Cincinnati, Taylor is back in the starting lineup Saturday against Homer Bailey and the Reds. Baker never disclosed the ..
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  • Stephen Colbert went to Russia to 'announce' his 2020 run for ...

    Stephen Colbert went to Russia to 'announce' his 2020 run for ...
    VIDEO For Russian ears only: Stephen Colbert is running for president of the United States in 2020. In an appearance Friday on the Russian late-night show “Evening Urgant,” “The Late Show” host sat on the other side of the desk for once, bantering with host Ivan Urgant through an interpreter and playing “Russian roulette” with a tray of vodka-filled shot glasses and pickles. Midway through their game, the American comedian interrupted Urgant to say he had something to disclose — but only if he..
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  • The Vikings are all in on Michael Floyd's kombucha defense

    The Vikings are all in on Michael Floyd's kombucha defense
    Michael Floyd blames the kombucha. (Rick Scuteri, AP File) Earlier this month, Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Michael Floyd reportedly failed three blood-alcohol tests and skipped another entirely while serving his 96-day house arrest over an extreme DUI case in Arizona. His excuse for allegedly violating a judge’s order to abstain from alcohol: He had been drinking kombucha, the fermented tea that can contain a low level of alcohol. Floyd will go before a judge in Arizona on Monday to exp..
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  • Mavericks owner Mark Cuban threatened staff's job security if draft ...

    Mavericks owner Mark Cuban threatened staff's job security if draft ...
    By Mark Selig By Mark Selig June 24 at 5:48 PM Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban treated the identity of his team’s first-round draft pick like a matter of national security. (Joe Raedle/EPA) For those following the NBA draft on both Twitter and television, ESPN’s telecast seemed tape delayed. As has happened in the past few years, well-connected reporters — with Yahoo’s Adrian Wojnarowski, or “Woj,” the king among them — identified which player each team would pick several minutes bef..
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