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Traditionally, the chief usher of the White House hasn’t been someone who comes and goes with each administration; it’s a position that endures. The White House chief usher as a fixture of the institution is as American as apple pie. Chief ushers used to be tied to the White House itself. Now, their tenures are […]

Traditionally, the chief usher of the White House hasn’t been someone who comes and goes with each administration; it’s a position that endures. The White House chief usher as a fixture of the institution is as American as apple pie. Chief ushers used to be tied to the White House itself. Now, their tenures are […]

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave a passionate shoutout to all of the country’s provinces and territories. Or so he thought. He forgot Alberta. “We may live in British Columbia, Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia or Newfoundland and Labrador,” he said, “but we embrace […]

Civil rights and LGBT activists say they are concerned about President Donald Trump’s nomination Thursday of Eric Dreiband to head the Justice Department’s civil rights division because of his work defending major corporations and others against discrimination lawsuits. Dreiband, a labor attorney in Washington, D.C., who served as general counsel of the Equal Employment Opportunity […]

Crayola fans feeling blue about the recent retirement of the beloved dandelion from the crayon box now have a chance to help choose its replacement. Voting opened Saturday in the company’s contest to name the color of a new crayon, which will be a shade of blue. There are five names to choose from: Blue […]

Humanity could face one less doomsday scenario if NASA has its way. On Friday, the space agency announced plans to redirect the course of a small asteroid approaching Earth, as part of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), according to a NASA press release. The release notes that asteroids hit Earth nearly every day, but […]

Illinois officials are racing against the clock to pass a budget before the state’s credit is branded junk. The state legislature, facing a massive budget crisis, was unable to reach a spending deal before the new fiscal year began on Saturday — marking the third year in a row that Illinois has started without a […]

JONES TOWNSHIP – A single-vehicle crash took the life of a 21-year-old Wilcox man, Marshall A. Northrop, on Saturday morning in Jones Township. According to state police at Ridgway, Northrop’s vehicle left the roadway on Rasselas Road, struck a pole and came to a rest in a swampy area. Northrop was pronounced dead at the […]

Thousands of Singaporeans on Saturday rallied for LGBT rights at the annual Pink Dot celebration, despite a new government policy banning foreigners from participating. The ban was announced after last year’s Pink Dot event in effort to stop “foreign entities” from interfering in domestic issues. “For events like the Pink Dot, foreigners are not allowed […]

If there is anything that I have relearned in the last few months about this country it is that some people in the United States have an extremely narrow view of who is and who isn’t an American. This Sunday on the season two finale of “United Shades of America,” we spend time in one […]

HARRISBURG – Gov. Tom Wolf sent the following letter today to Kris Kobach, the Vice Chair of the Trump Administration’s Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity. To view the letter in its entirety, click here (Scribd). View a PDF version here. Full text of the letter: June 30, 2017 Kris W. Kobach Vice Chair Presidential Advisory Commission […]

Twenty-eight people were wounded early Saturday as gunfire rang out during a concert at a nightclub in Little Rock, Arkansas, police said. All but three were shot and the others suffered related injuries at the Power Ultra Lounge in the Arkansas capital. Two people are listed in critical condition, Police Chief Kenton Buckner said Saturday […]