Former Sen. Fred Thompson, had TV and film roles, dead at 73
NASHVILLE,
Tenn. (AP) — Former U.S. Senator Fred Thompson, a folksy Tennessee
lawyer whose career led him from politics to Hollywood and back again,
died Sunday. He was 73.Read More ...
Frustrated Republicans agree on push for debate changes
WASHINGTON
(AP) — Republican presidential candidates have agreed ona series of
demands giving them greater control of debates, as the GOP's frustrated
2016 class works to inject changes into the nominating process.Read More ...
Royals win the World Series with another epic comeback against the Mets
Of all the ways for Kansas City to win its first championship in 30 years, this was the most fitting.Read More ...
U.S. completes complex test of layered missile defense system
The
U.S. military on Sunday hailed the success of a complex $230 million
test of the U.S. missile defense system that it said showed the ability
of the Aegis and THAAD weapons systems to identify and destroy ballistic
and cruise missiles at once. The test was conducted near Wake Island in
the western Pacific Ocean around 11:05 p.m. EDT by the U.S. Missile
Defense Agency, U.S. European Command, U.S. Pacific Command, the
Ballistic Missile Defense System Operational Test Agency and the Joint
Functional Component Command for Integrated Missile Defense.Read More ...
Former senator, actor Fred Thompson dies
Fred
Thompson, a former Republican U.S. senator from Tennessee who briefly
ran for president and straddled the world of politics and entertainment
with a prolific television and film acting career, died of cancer on
Sunday at age 73. Thompson, a onetime real-life federal prosecutor best
known to prime-time TV audiences for his role as a district attorney on
NBC's hit show "Law & Order," died from a recurrence of
lymphoma, said Brent Leatherwood, executive director of the Tennessee
Republican Party. The actor-politician, who first made a name for
himself in Washington as a Watergate investigator, was in hospice care
at the time of his death, Leatherwood said.Read More ...
U.S. Navy salvage team seeks to confirm wreckage of sunken El Faro
By
David Adams MIAMI (Reuters) - A U.S. Navy salvage team prepared on
Sunday to launch a remotely operated submersible to confirm that
wreckage discovered near the Bahamas was that of the cargo ship El Faro,
lost in a hurricane last month along with its 33 crew members. The
team's mission is to document the shipwreck and any debris field, and to
retrieve the sunken vessel's voyage data recorder - similar to an
airplane's black box - as part of an investigation into its loss,
according to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). If human
remains are encountered during the submersible operation the Navy will
attempt to recover them, NTSB spokesman Peter Knudson said.Read More ...
Jeb Bush: ‘I know that I got to get better at doing the debate’
Former
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush says he knows he needs to improve his lackluster
performance in the debates if he’s going to have a chance at the 2016
Republican presidential nomination. “I know that I got to get better at
doing the debate,” Bush said in an interview that aired on NBC’s “Meet
The Press” Sunday. “I’m a grinder. I mean, when I see that I’m not doing
something well then I reset and I get better.”Read More ...
Royals win World Series, rally late, then rout Mets in 12th
Kansas City wins its first World Series crown since 1985.Read More ...
Turkey's ruling party sweeps back to majority in parliament
Turkey's
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has declared victory for his ruling
party after preliminary election results showed it restoring its
majority in parliament.Read More ...
Paul Ryan’s first challenge as House speaker
Newly
elected House Speaker Paul Ryan says it’s time for his fellow House
Republicans to “take some policy risks” on an ambitious conservative
agenda that includes comprehensive tax reform, an overhaul of federal
poverty programs and the replacement of the Affordable Care Act,
President Obama’s signature health care law better known as Obamacare.Read More ...
Investigators probe deadly Russian plane crash in Egypt
Cairo and Moscow reject a claim from an Islamist group that it downed the aircraft.Read More ...
Prices, politics challenge Obamacare's 3rd sign-up season
WASHINGTON
(AP) — The government's insurance website is faster and easier to use,
but as a third sign-up season gets underway, President Barack Obama's
health care law is approaching limits.Read More ...
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