Monday, August 22, 2016

Evening Edition: Why many veterans are still sticking with Trump

The Clinton Foundation should shut down 'immediately' and return money, Trump says; Speedo, Ralph Lauren drop Ryan Lochte; Outdated and oversized: The Olympics need a new model; Islamic State, losing fighters and territory, increasingly turns to child bombers; Federal judge temporarily halts Obama’s directive to schools on accommodating transgender students; How welfare reform changed American poverty, in 9 charts; 'I've had a good life’: The inspiration for the Little Red-Haired Girl in 'Peanuts' dies; A widening, 80-mile crack is threatening one of Antarctica's biggest ice shelves; Donald Trump just went Page Six on Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski; An aide said Trump wasn't doing insults. And then he proved her very wrong.; Clinton's struggle to find a Trump stand-in for debate prep; The Fix: John Oliver says Trump could 'drop out' and be a hero; Iran ends Russian use of air base because of unwanted publicity; A doctor learns that prolonging life doesn’t always benefit the patient; Armed, Confederate flag-waving White Lives Matter protesters rally outside Houston NAACP; A ‘restaurant recession’ sounds scary. Are we really on the brink of one?;
 
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Why many veterans are still sticking with Trump
For many of the people who have fought in this country's wars, Donald Trump is a refreshing alternative, even after he insulted a Gold Star family and former POW John McCain.
The Clinton Foundation should shut down 'immediately' and return money, Trump says
The Republican presidential nominee's campaign has yet to say whether he would close his own foundation, which also accepts donations from corporations.
 
Speedo, Ralph Lauren drop Ryan Lochte
He's apparently no longer a suitable pitchman.
 
Outdated and oversized: The Olympics need a new model
COLUMN | Fewer host cities are willing to take on the debt caused by the IOC's model. The Games are not a necessity, in an age with live-stream access to every sport imaginable.
 
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Islamic State, losing fighters and territory, increasingly turns to child bombers
A failed bombing in Kirkuk is just the latest evidence of the group's growing reliance on children to keep up the pace of suicide attacks.
 
Federal judge temporarily halts Obama’s directive to schools on accommodating transgender students
The judge sided with 13 states that had argued the federal government had overstepped its authority in forcing public schools to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms of their choice.
 
How welfare reform changed American poverty, in 9 charts
On the anniversary of Bill Clinton's law that "ended welfare as we know it," controversy heats up again. Critics said new data on the hardships of poverty in the aftermath of the recent recession exposed welfare reform's shortcomings.
 
'I've had a good life’: The inspiration for the Little Red-Haired Girl in 'Peanuts' dies
Donna Johnson Wold had dated Charles Schulz for about two years when she instead accepted a marriage proposal in 1950 from a firefighter, who survives her. Schulz turned that heartache into art.
 
A widening, 80-mile crack is threatening one of Antarctica's biggest ice shelves
The crack in the Larsen C ice shelf grew more than 13 miles in less than six months. If it broke off the shelf, it would create a floating ice island the size of Delaware.
 
Donald Trump just went Page Six on Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski
Trump escalated his feud with the hosts of "Morning Joe," repeating a rumor straight off Page Six that the two are romantically involved.
 
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An aide said Trump wasn't doing insults. And then he proved her very wrong.
With the new week, Trump completes a 360 degree pivot.
 
Clinton's struggle to find a Trump stand-in for debate prep
Her campaign manager, Robby Mook, said that it was difficult to find someone who could mirror the Republican nominee's temperament. "Preparing for a debate with him is a challenging task," he said.
 
The Fix: John Oliver says Trump could 'drop out' and be a hero
It was a semi-serious proposal. But let's treat it seriously.
 
Iran ends Russian use of air base because of unwanted publicity
"There has been a kind of showing-off and inconsiderate attitude behind the announcement of this news," Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan said.
 
A doctor learns that prolonging life doesn’t always benefit the patient
The author, an experienced physician, watched his own father make treatment decisions, challenging the assumption that a doctor's advice is always in the patient's best interest.
 
Armed, Confederate flag-waving White Lives Matter protesters rally outside Houston NAACP
Sunday's demonstration in the city's predominantly black Third Ward quickly spurred a counter-protest, which soon dwarfed the White Lives Matter gathering.
 
A ‘restaurant recession’ sounds scary. Are we really on the brink of one?
Restaurants had once been one of the few bright spots in retailing, but now many of them are seeing sales soften.
 
 
     
 
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