Monday, January 9, 2017

With new monuments in Nevada, Utah, Obama adds to his environmental legacy and other top stories.

  • With new monuments in Nevada, Utah, Obama adds to his environmental legacy

    With new monuments in Nevada, Utah, Obama adds to his environmental legacy
    Aerial view of Gravel Canyon and Jacobs Chair in the west part of Bears Ears National Monument. (Robert Fillmore) President Obama on Wednesday created new national monuments in a sacred tribal site in southeastern Utah and in a swath of Nevada desert, after years of political fights over the fate of the areas. The designations further cement Obama’s environmental legacy as one of the most consequential — and contentious — in presidential history. He has invoked his executive power to create..
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  • Man killed 4-year-old son when he wandered into murder scene

    Man killed 4-year-old son when he wandered into murder scene
    Isaac Infante, 23, is charged with two counts of first degree murder and two counts of second degree murder. (Jefferson Siegel/New York Daily News). BY Molly Crane-newman Graham Rayman Larry Mcshane. NEW YORK DAILY NEWS. Updated: ...
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  • Trump on Russia Sanctions: 'We Ought to Get on With Our Lives'

    Trump on Russia Sanctions: 'We Ought to Get on With Our Lives'
    President-elect Donald Trump, asked about possible sanctions against Russia in the wake of alleged cyber-attacks during the presidential campaign, replied "I think we ought to get on with our lives." "I think that computers have complicated lives very greatly, the whole you know age of computer has made it where nobody knows exactly what's going on," Trump told reporters outside his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. "We have speed we have a lot of other things, but I'm not sure you have the se..
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  • Dylann Roof won't work to spare his life in church massacre

    Dylann Roof won't work to spare his life in church massacre
    CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof says he won’t call any witnesses or present evidence while representing himself during the punishment phase of his death penalty trial, but he is working hard to keep secret potentially embarrassing evidence about himself and his family. Just exactly what that evidence is remains a mystery. Roof, the judge and prosecutors carefully tiptoed around describing it during a hearing Wednesday. The judge has indicated that it may be allowed..
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  • DC police: Suspect says strangled actress killed herself

    DC police: Suspect says strangled actress killed herself
    The D.C. actress and yoga instructor who disappeared Christmas Day and was later found dead in her car had her legs bound by a seat belt and exhibited signs of sexual assault, according to an arrest affidavit filed in court. Police said Tricia McCauley, 46, had been strangled and beaten, then stuffed in the rear of her white Scion iQ hatchback and concealed under several items. The man charged in her death, Adrian Duane Johnson, 29, did not know McCauley, police have said. Johnson told police t..
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  • Trump holds Q&A, discussing jobs, Russia, Israel

    Trump holds Q&A, discussing jobs, Russia, Israel
    PALM BEACH, Fla. — President-elect Donald Trump applauded the return of 8,000 jobs to the U.S. and hailed his transition discussions with President Barack Obama in a series of comments that amounted to the most detailed interaction he’s had with journalists since before the election. In one of his cameos Wednesday on the front steps of his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, Trump touted plans by a Japanese mogul to bring jobs to the United States. They could be the first of the 50,000 jo..
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  • Brother of JonBenet Ramsey Sues CBS for $750 Million Over TV Special

    Brother of JonBenet Ramsey Sues CBS for $750 Million Over TV Special
    The brother of JonBenet Ramsey has filed a $750 million defamation lawsuit against CBS and Critical Content in connection with the four-hour documentary series “The Case of JonBenet Ramsey” that aired in September. Burke Ramsey, 29, asserts in the complaint filed in Michigan’s Wayne County state court that CBS and series producer Critical Content sought to generate ratings by pointing the finger at him as the killer of his younger sister, who was found dead in the family’s Boulder, Colo., home ..
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  • 8-year-old transgender boy ousted from N.J. Cub Scouts group

    8-year-old transgender boy ousted from N.J. Cub Scouts group
    The family of an 8-year-old with an appetite for camping, hiking and barbecues says he was kicked out of a New Jersey Cub Scout pack because he was born a girl. When Joe Maldonado joined Pack 87 in Secaucus in late September — his transgender ...
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  • Two soldiers die in helicopter crash near Houston

    Two soldiers die in helicopter crash near Houston
    LA PORTE, Texas, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Officials are launching an investigation into what caused an Apache attack helicopter to crash in Galveston Bay Wednesday afternoon, killing both soldiers aboard it. Two soldiers were killed Wednesday when an AH-64 Apache helicopter flying from Ellington Field went down in the bay, about 24 miles from Houston. A search was launched immediately for the two soldiers, whose bodies have not yet been recovered from the crash. "It is with our deepest sympathy we tell..
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