Sunday, February 19, 2017

Celebrities on the move in Women's March 2017 and other top stories.

  • Celebrities on the move in Women's March 2017

    None Protesters make their way through the streets of London during the Women's March on Jan. 21, 2017, in England. The Women's March originated in Washington DC but soon spread to be a global march, calling on all concerned citizens to stand up for equality, diversity and inclusion and for women's rights to be recognized around the world as human rights. Global marches are now being held, on the same d..
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  • Trump White House ringed by 'swamp' denizens despite pledge

    Trump White House ringed by 'swamp' denizens despite pledge
    WASHINGTON — Mike Pence has returned to Washington. So has his closest political ally, Bill Smith. Smith spent a dozen years as Pence’s chief of staff while the current vice president was a congressman and later Indiana governor. He’s expanding his lobbying practice into the nation’s capital now that Donald Trump and Pence hold the White House. In a photo on his firm’s website, Smith and Pence are seen huddling in close consultation on an airplane. “It’s a new world,” the site declares. The “ne..
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  • Massive turnout in Los Angeles for women's march

    Massive turnout in Los Angeles for women's march
    They came in cars, trains and buses. Others biked or hitchhiked.A day after Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 45th president, several hundred thousand people gathered in Los Angeles to protest in a historic women’s march. It was a peaceful and massive counter-inauguration movement, the first act of resistance to a conservative administration.  Beneath sunny skies, a group of women on motorcycles kicked off the march. Many protesters wore a symbol of feminism in the age of Trump: a bright pin..
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  • Trump Hotel Starts 'Inaugural Tradition' Amid Ethics Concern

    Trump Hotel Starts 'Inaugural Tradition' Amid Ethics Concern
    "I think it's a simple matter of amending the lease," said Patrick Keogh, a real estate investor in Austin, Texas, who has developed projects for the GSA and other federal agencies. He said Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter and chief negotiator on the hotel, should ask the GSA to exempt her father from that provision of the contract. The GSA should make the process public and transparent, Keogh said. Others say Trump must relinquish ownership of the hotel. More broadly, they argue, Trump s..
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  • Sean Spicer delivers on Trump's brand promise

    Sean Spicer delivers on Trump's brand promise
    White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer makes a statement to members of the media at the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on Jan. 21. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) If only White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer had stuck with his strong material. In the beginning of his appearance at the White House briefing room on Saturday afternoon, Spicer took aim at Time magazine White House correspondent Zeke Miller. On duty on Inauguration Day as a pool reporter, Miller concluded that th..
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  • Trump accuses media of lying about size of inauguration crowds

    Trump accuses media of lying about size of inauguration crowds
    LANGLEY, Va. — President Donald Trump moved to mend his tumultuous relationship with America’s spy agencies Saturday, traveling to CIA headquarters on his first full day in office and assuring officials, ‘‘I am so behind you.’’But the president quickly shifted from praise for the CIA to criticism of media coverage of Inauguration Day, in an unscripted address that overstated the size of the crowd that gathered on the National Mall as he took the oath of office. Trump said throngs ‘‘went all the..
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  • 6 Dead as Severe Outbreak Pounds South; Damage Reported in Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, Texas

    6 Dead as Severe Outbreak Pounds South; Damage Reported in Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, Texas
    Story HighlightsTwo people were killed by a possible tornado in southern Georgia early Sunday morning.Four people were killed by a tornado in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Saturday morning.Homes and buildings were damaged or destroyed in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia and Texas Saturday.Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant declared a state of emergency following the storms.At least 6 people have died as an outbreak of severe storms and tornadoes spread across the South Saturday and Sunday morning...
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  • Police officer shot, killed after stopping to offer help during apparent traffic accident

    Police officer shot, killed after stopping to offer help during apparent traffic accident
    The man whom investigators say shot and killed a Westwego, Louisiana, police officer has died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office said Saturday. Westwego, Louisiana, police officer Michael Louviere, 26, died after being shot when he stopped during his drive home to check on what he thought was a car accident. The officer was shot Friday after he stopped to check on what he thought was a car accident. Officer Michael Louviere, 26, observed the apparent traffic ..
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