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A congressional harassment claim led to a secret $220,000 payment. Both sides see a broken system.; The forgotten dream of Martin Luther King Jr.: A 'city' for the poor on the...
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While vacationing in Florida, President Trump called himself "the least racist person" and said he did not spoil chances for an immigration overhaul by calling poor nations "shithole countries." Relations between key Republican and Democratic lawmakers turned poisonous over whether the president made such a comment in a bipartisan meeting last week.
The payment to Winsome Packer, a former aide to Rep. Alcee L. Hastings (D-Fla.), was one of the largest known settlements paid out in recent years by a fund for claims made against members of Congress. But with lawmakers working on legislation that would alter the process for handling accusations, both sides say their dispute reveals a flawed law that is unfair and abusive to the accuser and the accused.
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The 1968 demonstration was to be the centerpiece of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Poor People's Campaign, and more than 3,000 antipoverty activists would come to live in "Resurrection City" on the National Mall. But as other tumultuous events roiled the country that year, the protest became "a forgotten part of our history," one resident said.
The administration said answers about how the false missile alert occurred and how to prevent problems in the future must come from state officials. But the incident raised broader questions about the United States' nuclear preparedness at a time of escalating tensions with North Korea.
Details are emerging on how the false alarm about a missile attack occurred — sending thousands of people scrambling to seek shelter and say their final goodbyes — and what officials are doing to prevent it from happening again.
The 34-year-old mayor — a member of the far-right National Front — insists religious exceptions to the menu violate the country's vaunted Republican principles. The move stirred outrage and rekindled the debate over secularism and the place of Islam in France.
Once a picture of planned suburbia, the Coffey Park area of Santa Rosa is barren after all 1,300 homes burned in October. Will residents stay as the neighborhood tries to rise from the ashes?
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Mahmoud Abbas also railed against U.S. diplomats David Friedman and Nikki Haley in a fiery two-hour speech as the Palestinian Central Council weighs how to respond to President Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
"안녕하세요," then-President Obama once told a little-known White House staffer named Gary Lee, whose retelling of the story on Saturday proved more popular than anything Trump tweeted that day.
Diggs scored on a 61-yard touchdown pass from Case Keenum as time expired, and Minnesota set up a date next week with the Eagles in the NFC championship game.
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