Fugitive who mailed antigovernment manifesto to Trump has been captured, authorities say
A Wisconsin man accused of stealing an arsenal of weapons from a gun shop and sending an anti-government manifesto to President Trump has been arrested after a massive manhunt (Reuters) A man accused of stealing guns in connection with a possible plan for an attack has been captured in Wisconsin following a 10-day manhunt, authorities said. Joseph Jakubowski, 32, was taken into custody early Friday morning after authorities responded to a call about a suspicious person on a farmer’s prope..>> view originalAt Easter, Trump has yet to find a church home in DC
WASHINGTON — Washington churches have long welcomed presidents to their pews. Bill Clinton frequented a Methodist church, Jimmy Carter taught Baptist Sunday school and Barack Obama visited an Episcopal church near the White House. As Easter Sunday arrives, President Donald Trump has not attended a church service in the capital since the worship events of his inauguration weekend. Trump is spending the holiday at his private Palm Beach club, Mar-a-Lago, where he often weekends. The White House w..>> view originalNew law will restrict women's access to health care, experts fear
This is not the end to federal funds for Planned Parenthood, as many Republicans have been calling for, but it is what experts characterize as a first step.The move may embolden states to make additional moves to restrict women's access to abortion, they say, and caught in the middle may be millions of Americans who use Planned Parenthood or other health clinics for other family planning services such as contraceptives, for breast cancer screenings and for sexually transmitted disease screenings..>> view originalStealth caucus gains ground in Trump White House
In President Trump’s White House, it’s better to not be seen or heard — at least in public.A cadre of Trump’s top aides from New York City — economic adviser Gary Cohn, deputy national security adviser Dina Powell and Trump family members Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner — appear to be gaining influence even as they’ve kept low profiles in the media.Meanwhile, Trump’s longtime loyalists and some of the best known names in the media — chief strategist Stephen Bannon, senior adviser Stephen Miller, ..>> view originalNew report alleges decades of sexual abuse at elite Connecticut prep school
(Globalstock/iStockphoto) Choate Rosemary Hall is known for being one of the most prestigious boarding schools in the country, an institution with alumni like President John F. Kennedy, two-time presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson and playwright Edward Albee. The elite Connecticut private school is also a place that has for decades fostered a pattern of sexual abuse and misconduct between teachers and students, according to a troubling new internal investigation initiated by the school to a..>> view originalUtah judge calls ex-Mormon bishop convicted of rape a 'good man'
Judge Thomas Low called Keith Robert Vallejo an "extraordinarily good man" who did something wrong, after he was convicted of rape. (Chris Detrick/The Salt Lake Tribune/via AP). THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Saturday, April 15, 2017, 12:31 AM. PROVO ...>> view originalDemocrats must get serious about the fight over taxes. Here's how.
President Trump is now saying he has to do health-care reform before "phenomenal tax reform," but he's changed course on the order of those priorities before. (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post) I have a tax-day tradition, in which on or about April 15 I write a column (here’s an example) explaining why we should be thankful for what our taxes fund and that we’re taxed at an unusually light rate compared with people in other countries. But this year, with the possibility of a comprehensiv..>> view originalOverbooked flight on Delta? You now could get nearly $10000 to give up your seat
Delta is letting employees offer customers almost $10,000 in compensation to give up seats on overbooked flights, hoping to avoid an uproar like the one that erupted at United after a passenger was dragged off a jet.United is taking steps too. It will require employees seeking a seat on a plane to book it at least an hour before departure, a policy that might have prevented Sunday's confrontation. Those and other changes show airlines are scrambling to respond to a public relations nightmare — ..>> view originalArkansas Judge Moves to Block Executions
Four companies have publicly raised concerns about how the Arkansas Department of Correction came to stockpile the drugs for its lethal injection cocktail — midazolam, vecuronium bromide and potassium chloride — but only the McKesson Corporation, the drug distributor that ranks fifth on the Fortune 500 list of companies, made an explicit allegation of deception. Arkansas, the company said, bought 10 boxes of vecuronium bromide, which the state can use to stop a prisoner’s breathing.But the stat..>> view originalJustice Dept. drops federal lawsuit over North Carolina's 'bathroom bill'
In the face of economic pressure, North Carolina lawmakers voted March 30 to repeal and replace the state's controversial bathroom law. Here's what you need to know. (Monica Akhtar/The Washington Post) The Justice Department on Friday said it was dropping a federal lawsuit filed last year against North Carolina over the state’s “bathroom bill,” which restricted the public bathrooms transgender people were allowed to use. Officials said that they were abandoning the lawsuit because North C..>> view original
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