Saturday, May 14, 2016

Saturday's Headlines: Audio captures Trump posing as a publicist to brag about himself

Pfizer takes steps to block its drugs from use in lethal injections; Ancient tools, remains found in Florida raise questions about first Americans' arrival; Islamic State, growing stronger in Libya, sets its sights on fragile neighbor Tunisia;
 
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Audio captures Trump posing as a publicist to brag about himself
In the 1970s, '80s and '90s, the real estate mogul masqueraded as media spokesman "John Miller" or "John Barron" to talk about himself, according to journalists and several of Trump's top aides. On Friday morning, Trump denied he was John Miller.
Pfizer takes steps to block its drugs from use in lethal injections
The company's move will further clamp down on the chemicals that states can obtain for executions.
 
Ancient tools, remains found in Florida raise questions about first Americans' arrival
Archaeologists say the underwater discovery proves humans arrived on the continent earlier than previously thought, raising doubts about the theory that the first humans had migrated from Asia and then south through Canada.
 
Islamic State, growing stronger in Libya, sets its sights on fragile neighbor Tunisia
A sophisticated assault in Ben Guerdane, long known as an incubator for jihadists, shows the militants' growth in North Africa.
 
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I ate my words about Trump. But treating him as normal is a recipe for ruin.
 
Due process is still being kicked off campus
 
Reaching the age when age is a liability — especially for women
 
George Mason University is right to rename its law school after Antonin Scalia
 
More incompetence and negligence in the District
 
Brazil endures more turmoil
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At state dinner, first lady skips Nordic fashion for her go-to designer
It would have been daring to pick a designer from Denmark or Sweden or one of the other Nordic countries being celebrated, but Michelle Obama went with New York designer Naeem Khan. 
College students: Don't charge us tuition for unpaid internships
Students say universities avoid the expense of providing instruction but profit off their free labor.
U.S. officials: Venezuela could collapse
As Venezuelan unrest grows amid food shortages, power blackouts and political gridlock, the country may be headed toward a popular uprising, American intelligence officials said.
Psychologists' research suggests a connection between Obama's skin tone and support for tea party
Researchers showed subjects a series of pictures of celebrities, including altered images of the president, and then asked about support for the conservative movement.
Beekeepers lost nearly half their colonies in the past year
A new survey of U.S. beekeepers found the second-highest annual loss of the past 10 years. Most alarming, losses in the summer — when bees should be healthiest — matched those during the winter.
This 116-year-old woman might be the last living person born in the 1800s
The world's oldest living human is a raw-egg-eating, brandy-drinking Italian who credits her long life to her diet, her early bedtime and her status as a single woman.
White House asserts transgender rights with dual actions
The Obama administration unveiled two broad initiatives aimed at combating discrimination against transgender Americans in schools and health-care coverage.
India's 'face of Hindu terror' to go free
Citing a lack of evidence, the national investigation agency dropped all terrorism-related charges against Pragya Singh, a self-styled Hindu holy woman jailed in connection with a 2008 bomb explosion in a Muslim area.
Bill Clinton takes on protesters in coal country
A hostile audience in Kentucky turned him into a seeming empathizer-in-chief. There was something about this crowd and this place that lit up Clinton. It was as if the calendar had flipped back a quarter of a century.
Will white working class vote Democratic in traditionally blue states? Clinton is not so sure.
Donald Trump's unconventional bid for president may pose threats in unexpected places, and Hillary Clinton's plans include an early, aggressive attempt to defend Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan.
Paul Ryan isn't yet endorsing Trump, but 9 other House leaders are
The powerful lawmakers' backing is the latest demonstration of how the GOP establishment is falling in line behind Trump.
 
     
 
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