As fires go, the one that broke out Wednesday in a small vacant building was likely to be pretty routine for the Chicago Fire Dept. Instead, it caused the deaths of 2 firefighters and injured several others when a wall and roof collapsed. (Dec. 22)
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As fires go, the one that broke out Wednesday in a small vacant building was likely to be pretty routine for the Chicago Fire Dept. Instead, it caused the deaths of 2 firefighters and injured several others when a wall and roof collapsed. (Dec. 22)
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A judge in Florida has set bail at $15000 for Phillip Greaves, the Colorado man who wrote a how-to guide for pedophiles. Greaves is charged with violating Florida’s obscenity law, a third-degree felony. (Dec. 22)
Continue reading …Enthralled White House Press Corps Pose Sycophantic ‘Questions’ to ‘Comeback Kid’ Obama
December 23, 2010 No Comment
“There weren’t a lot of hard questions in this news conference,” FNC’s Bret Baier observed on Special Report in the understatement of the night. Indeed, in the first question posed at the late afternoon session, Caren Bohan of Reuters reflected the collective glow of the White House press corp basking in Barack Obama’s glory: You racked up a lot of wins in the last few weeks that a lot of people thought would be difficult to come by. Are you ready to call yourself the “comeback kid”? (Katie Couric gushed on the CBS Evening News over how “the President isn’t calling himself the ‘comeback kid,’ but some other folks are.” A pleased George Stephanopoulos teased ABC’s World News by yearning for more Obama success in 2011: “The President takes a victory lap. How the Christmas season became what he called a ‘season of progress.’ Will it continue in the new year?”)
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President Obama is rebounding from an Election Day shellacking with a series of big political victories. AP correspondent Julie Pace reports. (Dec. 22)
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A powerful storm is dumping rain on California, sending water cascading down hillsides made weak by wildfires. The waters have people trying to stay dry or on the move to higher ground. (Dec. 22)
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President Barack Obama celebrated a bipartisan “season of progress’ on Thursday at a year-end news conference a few hours after the Senate ratified an arms control treaty with Russia. (Dec. 22)
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Jamie Foxx says his 16-year-old daughter, Corinne, gave him the best advice when he began recording music: Connect with younger artists. Foxx used that formula on his past albums, and does it again on his latest, ‘Best Night of My Life.’ (Dec. 22)
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A construction worker who was on probation for felony drunken driving when he ran a red light and killed Angels rookie pitcher Nick Adenhart and two others was sentenced Wednesday to 51 years to life in prison. (Dec. 22)
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Zoe Dunning, a retired US Navy commander who continued to serve after declaring she was gay, describes standing next to President Obama as he signed the repeal of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy Wednesday. (Dec. 22).
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