Many topics animated GOP officials, activists and operatives that gathered at Saturday's Iowa Freedom Summit, which marked the unofficial start of the 2016 presidential primary.
But an issue that once faced vehement opposition within the party -- gay marriage -- remained conspicuously absent from the lips of many speakers who took the stage, demonstrating how dramatically politics around the issue has shifted in just a few years.
Over the last two years, street encampments have jumped their historic boundaries in downtown Los Angeles, lining freeways and filling underpasses from Echo Park to South Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, a city-county agency, received 767 calls about street encampments in 2014, up 60% from the 479 in 2013.Some residents believe the city is exporting its downtown homeless problem to their neighborhoods. But social service agencies and volunteers say it isn't that simple. They say that although downtown development and skid row cleanups are squeezing out some homeless people, many camps are filled with locals.
A Minnesota man has been accused of taking his mother’s dead body to the bank to withdraw her money hours before he reported her dead. Plymouth County authorities are already investigating David Vanzo for elderly neglect and financial exploitation of his mother.
But Vanzo says he did nothing wrong and denies the allegation.
“My mother and I had an agreement,” he told a KMSP reporter. “I took care of my mom for years. I’m the good guy here, not the bad guy.”
On social media, people were sharing a picture of a man holding Sabagh and claiming she was “dying in her husband’s arms.” However, an activist at the protest identified the man in the photo as Sayyed Abu el-Ela, a lawyer and friend of Sabagh. Activists tweeted that he had been detained by police shortly after the photo was taken.
Security officials told the Associated Press say they arrested 11 people in ensuing clashes.
The Egyptian government has been cracking down on all forms of dissent in the country, banning demonstrations without government approval.
The United States has halted somecounter-terrorism operations against al Qaeda militants in Yemenfollowing a takeover of the country by Iran-backed Houthi rebels, U.S.officials said on Friday.
The collapse of the U.S.-backed government of Yemen on Thursday has left America's counter-terrorism campaign "paralyzed," two U.S. securityofficials said, dealing a major setback to Washington's fight against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), a potent wing of the militantnetwork.
Three U.S. officials said the halt in operations included drone strikes,at least temporarily, following the abrupt resignation of thepresident, prime minister and cabinet amid mounting fears the Arab world's poorest country was veering toward civil war.
Alonso survived the horrific attack on unarmed students by state and criminal forces last September in the southern state of Guerrero, which left six people dead, 25 injured and 43 trainee teachers forcibly disappeared.
“Five carloads of masked police surrounded our three buses, and as we got out to see what they wanted they started shooting. There were bullets flying everywhere, and people started running. I saw one of my classmates go down. He’d been shot in the head, everyone was crying and screaming, but I was really surprised how calm I was. I started calling friends at the school to help us.”
Alonso was among those who managed to hide as dozens of his classmates were forced into police trucks and driven away. “I thought they would beat them, but that we’d get them back the next day. We hadn’t done anything, we were just students going to a protest.”
Omar GarcÃa, 24, another survivor, was among the students Alonso called when the ambush happened. He rushed to the scene where, he says, “we started collecting evidence like bullet casings, and calling the local media. We felt calmer when they arrived, as we thought nothing would happen in front of journalists. But around midnight the police started firing again, directly at us as we tried to run away.” GarcÃa helped carry one of the injured to a nearby private health clinic. “There were no doctors, but soon two trucks of soldiers arrived from the 27th infantry battalion, which has a base close by. They started accusing us of criminality and violence, as if we were combatants, not students.”
What sets the beautiful charges against Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver apart from other Albany scandals is the breathtaking cynicism and hypocrisy of his alleged schemes.
Liberal Democrat that he is, Silver has constantly self-righteously postured as the champion of the poor and downtrodden.
But if the details presented by federal prosecutors prove correct, he was exploiting small guys with abandon.
A New Hampshire woman got a surprise at a Burger King drive-thru: a bag full of cash instead of food.Janelle Jones says she discovered on the way home that the bag did not
contain the sweet tea and junior spicy chicken sandwich that she had
ordered Friday at the Rochester fast-food restaurant.Foster's Daily Democrat ( http://bit.ly/1EEYFl9 ) reports that Jones called her husband and they decided to return the $2,631, which was a Burger King bank deposit.
