Thursday 24 August 2017

Thursday's Headlines: Trump’s whiplash: Three personas in three speeches, but the same president

 
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Trump's whiplash: Three personas in three speeches, but the same president
Like a contestant on one of his reality TV shows, President Trump has showcased divergent traits with flourishes seemingly to survive another day of his beleaguered presidency. Or, as Trump the television producer might say, to keep up ratings.
'I don't know how it got this bad': Trump supporters and protesters meet in Phoenix
America's deepening political and racial divisions played out on the Arizona city's downtown streets this week.
 
'Have you lost your minds?' Critics pile on Virginia GOP for saying Democrat rejected Confederate 'heritage'
After state Republicans tweeted that gubernatorial nominee Ralph Northam "turned his back on his own family's heritage," the blowback was so severe that the party apologized.
 
Mosul learns the price of driving out militants: Homes are now graves
Weeks after Iraq's landmark military victory that ended the Islamic State's occupation of Mosul, the terrible cost is emerging in quarters of the Old City ground to rubble by airstrikes, shelling and suicide bombs. Under the barrage were thousands of homes packed with families.
 
Amid reports of a widening rift, Trump and McConnell push back
The president has waged a public war with the Senate majority leader in recent weeks, but both issued statements Wednesday indicating unity on key Republican agenda items.
 
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The disgraceful way Trump walks in Obama's footsteps
 
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A reprieve for Joe Arpaio wouldn't be the first 'political pardon' issued by a president
If the controversial former Arizona sheriff is pardoned — as President Trump strongly suggested this week — it will be one of the rare but not unprecedented instances when a president short-circuits legal proceedings and acts preemptively.
 
 
Energy Dept.'s recommendations would bolster coal, nuclear power plants
The report on the electricity grid rejects the notion that regulations or renewable energy sources caused premature shutdowns of coal and nuclear plants over the past 16 years, noting that cheap, abundant natural gas had been the main factor.
 
Qatar restores diplomatic ties to Iran amid regional crisis
Since the diplomatic dispute with Arab nations began in June, Iran has sent food shipments to Qatar and it also has incorporated the crisis into its regular criticism of Saudi Arabia, part of the two Mideast powers' long-running proxy war.
 
A teen reunited with her birth mother — who then killed her and burned her body, police say
Rebecca Ruud is accused of murdering the teen, Savannah Leckie, whom she'd given up for adoption 16 years before. Investigators allege that Leckie was tortured on an isolated farm in Missouri, forced to crawl through hog pens and have salt rubbed in her wounds.
 
One postal worker faked cancer and got paid to miss two years of work. She received a special punishment.
The woman got probation, was fined, ordered to pay restitution and she must serve 652 hours of community service at a cancer treatment center, cancer research center or hospice — precisely how many hours of falsified sick leave she took.
 
Missed the solar eclipse? You won't have to wait too long for the next one.
If you didn't see it this time, you'll have another chance in less than seven years to see one in the United States. If you can't wait that long, there will be four others elsewhere in the world before then.
 
     
 
 
 
 

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