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At about 5 a.m. each day — maybe a little later on weekends — an email from the Rev. Bill Shillady arrives in Hillary Clinton's inbox. The contents? A reading from Scripture. A devotional commentary. And a prayer. They're sometimes inspired by the headlines — focusing recently, for example, on ...
... Be the first to tweet us the correct answer using #PoliticsTrivia and you’ll get a Morning Line shout-out. Congratulations to Joni Johnson (@celeste1958) for guessing Wednesday’s trivia: How many current Supreme Court justices are Jewish? The answer: 3- Justices Kagan, Breyer and Ginsburg. 2016 Everyone slow down ...
... Are you as optimistic, Isabel Wilkerson? ISABEL WILKERSON: In the long term, I'm optimistic. In the short term, I think that we're in for a great deal of soul-searching and needing to reach across boundaries to understand our differing perceived and lived experiences. I think that that ...
... the Palestinian teen confessed to the crime today. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu phoned the teen's father and vowed the killers would be brought to justice. Tonight, Hamas fired dozens of rockets into Israel, claiming revenge for Israeli airstrikes overnight which they say killed six of its members. A short ...
... also a nation of laws, and that's what makes tackling the issue of immigration reform so difficult," Cantor will say. "We must balance respect for the rule of law and respect for those waiting to enter this country legally, with care for people and families, most of whom just ...
... today's 9.1 percent (with 14 million out of work), he was far from satisfied. "There are still six million people unemployed and looking for work. Where we've been very successful is in reducing the short-term unemployment. The longer-term unemployment, people who have been searching 15 ...
Photo of Alan Krueger by Ralph Alswang via flickr user Center for American Progress on April 30, 2010. Alan Krueger of Princeton is President Obama's choice for head of the Council of Economic Advisors. That doesn't mean he gets the job, though, as he needs Senate confirmation. "The choice," said Jim Inhofe, a Republican senator...
The question to ask on the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, is whether life today is any better for those with disabilities? The first-ever civil rights law for people with physical and cognitive challenges, signed by President George H.W. Bush in 1990, it prohibited employment discrimination, and imposed requirements on access to...
If unknown DNA evidence can be connected to someone in a genealogical database, it could lead investigators to a suspect in Guthrie's apparent kidnapping in Arizona.
The arrest of a brother of a monarch was an extraordinary development with no precedent in modern times that will no doubt put more pressure on the crown.
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