Presidents' Day shows how time can change legacies. Just look at Washington and Lincoln.

[ad_1] Breaking News Emails Receive last minute alerts and special reports. News and stories that matter, delivered in the morning on weekdays. SUBSCRIBE February 18, 2019, 10:28 GMT By Ethan Sacks Americans generally believe that this truth is self-evident: George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were presidents who gained their place in monuments and in the … Read more

Firefighters save a cougar from the tree in an extraordinary rescue

[ad_1] HESPERIA, Calif. – Firefighters have saved a very big cat – a mountain lion – from a tree outside a home in the Southern California desert. The owner called authorities Saturday after spotting the animal near the edge of the San Bernardino Mountains. Firefighters from San Bernardino County have found the big mountain lion … Read more

Absentee ballots will be honored at the North Carolina House Race Hearing

[ad_1] Breaking News Emails Receive last minute alerts and special reports. News and stories that matter, delivered in the morning on weekdays. SUBSCRIBE February 17, 2019, 23:57 GMT By Leigh Ann Caldwell, Jeremia Kimelman and Rich Gardella RALEIGH, North Carolina – The North Carolina Electoral Council is set to begin Monday its long-awaited hearing on … Read more

New York Times columnist denounces Ocasio-Cortez Green New Deal

[ad_1] David Brooks, the New York Times' center-right political columnist, said Sunday that he could never support a candidate who was supporting the Green New Deal because he would be concentrating power in the hands of the "New York Times". elite of Washington "to a level never seen since the Second World War. Brooks half … Read more

Trump's allies are preparing for a fierce fight for the declaration on the state of emergency

[ad_1] The Democrats argued that Trump had launched an unconstitutional coup because Congress had refused to apply for multi-billion dollar funding. Nevertheless, he decided to finance it with funds intended for other purposes, including military construction projects. And California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has promised to launch "definitely and imminently" a legal challenge to the … Read more