'Give it a go, Joe': Pittsburgh union crowd cheers on Biden
PITTSBURGH
(AP) — Hearing chants of "Run Joe, run," President Joe Biden marched in
Pittsburgh's annual Labor Day parade on Monday as speculation swirled
about a potential late entry into the Democratic presidential campaign.Read More ...
Clinton says no email apology: 'What I did was allowed'
CEDAR
RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday she does not
need to apologize for using a private email account and server while at
the State Department because "what I did was allowed."Read More ...
Europe's Refugee Crisis by the Numbers
European
leaders are proposing extra funding to help relocate thousands of
people amid the continent's biggest refugee crisis since World War II.
Germany and Austria are advocating for quotas for each of the 28 members
of the European Union. European Commission President Jean-Claude
Juncker is expected this week to propose relocating 120,000 migrants in
Italy, Greece and Hungary to other nations in the E.U., according to
Bloomberg News.Read More ...
Britain says to take in 20,000 Syrian refugees over five years
By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron pledged on Monday to take in up to 20,000 Syrian refugees over the next five years, responding to public clamor for his government to help those fleeing civil war in the country. "We are proposing that Britain should resettle up to 20,000 Syrian refuges over the rest of this parliament. Cameron has been under pressure from the media and his European counterparts to take in far more refugees to help with the wider migrant crisis, which has seen hundreds of thousand of people arrive in mainland Europe.
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Harvard Professor Larry Lessig Says He's Running for President
After
exceeding his $1 million crowd-funding goal, Harvard Law School
professor Larry Lessig announced today on “This Week” that he is running
for president. “I think I'm running to get people to acknowledge the
elephant in the room,” he told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.Read More ...
Hundreds surge past police near Hungary border, march north
ROSZKE,
Hungary (AP) — Hundreds of angry and frustrated asylum-seekers broke
through police lines Monday near Hungary's southern border with Serbia
and began marching north toward Budapest, while Britain and France
pledged to take in tens of thousands more refugees to try to ease the
crisis.Read More ...
Jailed Kentucky clerk seeks emergency injunction in gay marriage case
By
Steve Bittenbender LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Reuters) - Lawyers for jailed
Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis said on Monday they had asked an
appellate court to force Governor Steve Beshear to let her refuse to
issue same-sex marriage licenses based on her religious convictions. The
lawyers sought emergency relief from the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals,
asking it to grant Davis an exemption from the "governor's mandate that
all county clerks issue marriage licenses," the non-profit legal
advocacy group Liberty Counsel, which represents Davis, said in a news
release.Read More ...
In haven for Mideast emigres, a hope U.S. will take more refugees
By
Bernie Woodall DEARBORN, Mich. (Reuters) - Akeel Asady, the usually
cheerful part-owner of Iraqi Kabob restaurant, lifted a kitchen towel
draped over his left shoulder to wipe tears that formed seconds after he
spoke of the 3-year-old Syrian boy who drowned last week during his
refugee family’s desperate attempt to make it to Greece. Asady was once a
refugee who fled Saddam Hussein's government in Iraq in the early 1990s
and lived in a tent in Saudi Arabia's desert for more than two years
before a Christian agency brought him to the United States. For
Arab-Americans who sit at the six booths of Iraqi Kabob in Dearborn,
Michigan, lively discussions about violence in the Middle East and the
refugees it creates are always taking place, he said.Read More ...
At least four people dead in small plane crash in Colorado mountains
The twin-engine Cessna 310-H went down around 4:15 p.m. local time on Sunday in a remote section of the San Juan Mountains, part of the Rocky Mountain range, the National Transportation Board said. NTSB spokesman Peter Knudson said the agency had reports that five people on board had died. Rescue teams from the Colorado National Guard and San Juan County had spotted the wreckage and were working to recover the bodies from the remote, mountainous area above the town of Silverton, in southwestern Colorado.
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