Sunday, November 13, 2016

Obama tries to get inside Trump's head and other top stories.

  • Obama tries to get inside Trump's head

    Obama tries to get inside Trump's head
    White House Obama tries to get inside Trump’s head The president is using his status and stature to emasculate the beleaguered Republican nominee. By Sarah Wheaton 10/18/16 06:22 PM EDT President Barack Obama has some advice for Donald Trump: Man up. Obama has been building on this latest bit of psy-ops over the past week, with a combination of infantilization and emasculation that contrasts with the “broad-shouldered” imagery ..
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  • AP Explains: Etan Patz, missing boy who fueled movement

    AP Explains: Etan Patz, missing boy who fueled movement
    NEW YORK –  The 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz helped catalyze a national missing-children's movement. Six-year-old Etan was one of the first children whose disappearance was publicized in what became a high-profile way: on milk cartons. His case also helped usher in an age of parental anxiety. The suspect in Etan's disappearance, Pedro Hernandez, of Maple Shade, New Jersey, is now about to be retried on murder and kidnapping charges, after a jury deadlocked last year. Hernandez confessed in 2..
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  • Illegal Immigration Hurts Young Americans The Most

    Illegal Immigration Hurts Young Americans The Most
    5279878Every year about 4 million American youngsters move on from high school.  On average just over 80% of them graduate and the others, around 760,000 each and every year, just move on.  Unfortunately the economic futures of those who don’t obtain a high school diploma are rather bleak.  They are made bleaker in that they will in all likelihood be competing for jobs against millions of illegal immigrants who are willing to work for far below market wages. Of those who do graduate high schoo..
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  • Study Urges Tougher Oversight for Police Use of Facial Recognition

    Study Urges Tougher Oversight for Police Use of Facial Recognition
    Photo The report found that 16 states allow law enforcement officials to compare the faces of suspects to photos on driver’s licenses and other IDs without a warrant. Credit Caspar Benson/Getty Images A new report by a think tank at Georgetown University calls for greater oversight in the use of emerging facial recognition software that makes the images of more than 117 million Americans — a disproportionate number of them black — searchable by law enforcement agencies...
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  • 2 divers found dead in Florida cave system

    2 divers found dead in Florida cave system
    Ten people, including two who were found Monday, have had fatal incidents inside the Eagle's Nest cave dive area in Western Florida since 1981. The Hernando County Sheriff's Office said Patrick Peacock and Chris Rittenmeyer went diving on Sunday afternoon with a third man, who reported the duo missing.Search and rescue divers found their bodies the next day in a "very dangerous and complex area of the cave system," the sheriff's office said. Peacock and Rittenmeyer had come from Fort Lauderdale ..
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  • Police shoot and kill deranged bat-wielding woman in Bronx

    Police shoot and kill deranged bat-wielding woman in Bronx
    An NYPD sergeant shot and killed a 66-year-old woman wielding a bat in the Bronx on Tuesday, and now cops say they're looking into why the officer used lethal force instead of his stun gun. Police were responding to a neighbor's complaint about Deborah ...
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  • Crews trying to stamp out southern Colorado wildfire

    Crews trying to stamp out southern Colorado wildfire
    WESTCLIFFE, Colo. –  Firefighters helped by improved weather conditions were trying Tuesday to stop the spread of a wildfire that has forced the evacuation of hundreds of people in southern Colorado and destroyed at least two homes. Taking advantage of light winds, crews were building containment lines along the north side of the fire to prevent it from spreading with stronger winds from the south forecast to develop later in the day, fire operations section chief Dan Dallas said. The winds wer..
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  • Donald Trump Proposes Another Terrible Idea: Congressional Term Limits

    Donald Trump Proposes Another Terrible Idea: Congressional Term Limits
    WASHINGTON ― In the final flailing weeks of his presidential campaign, Donald Trump took the time on Tuesday to announce a handful of ethics reforms he would push for as president. Trump called for the passage of a constitutional amendment instituting term limits for Congress on top of a handful of lobbying reforms. “If I am elected President, I will push for a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress,” Trump said in a statement. “Decades of failure in Washington..
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  • Campus sex assaults stir debate on when to alert students

    Campus sex assaults stir debate on when to alert students
    SAN FRANCISCO –  When a student athlete at San Jose State University in California was accused of sexually assaulting two women at an off-campus party over Labor Day weekend, school officials acted decisively. The student was ordered to stay away from the women involved and was moved from his dorm into a staff housing facility. He was also temporarily suspended from campus and team events pending the result of an investigation. University officials also acted quietly, prompting many students to..
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  • Guilty plea entered in decades-old Ohio cold case

    Guilty plea entered in decades-old Ohio cold case
    USA Today Network Patrick Brennan, The Cincinnati Enquirer 8:38 p.m. EDT October 18, 2016Sam Perone(Photo: Provided/Maricopa County Sheriff's Office)CINCINNATI — For Richard Woods' family, Sam Perone's guilty plea merely confirmed what they had long ago accepted as truth.They gained no pleasure, they said, from an 11-year prison sentence handed down by Warren County Court of Common Pleas Judge Donald E. Oda's II. That wasn't going to bring back their beloved husband and father who, i..
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Boston police officers 'extremely critical' after shooting .Brexit: High Court to hear challenge to Article 50 strategy .
Nobel-winning scientists are calling for open borders for the advancement of science .For moderator Lester Holt, too, the debate was a test .

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