Doug G. Ware
Jan. 20 (UPI) -- President Trump ordered federal agencies Friday to ease the "burden" of the Affordable Care Act, moving along a repeal of the former president's healthcare law.
President Donald Trump quickly assumed the mantle of the White House and began setting up his new administration on Friday, signing a bill that allows retired Gen. James Mattis to serve as his defense secretary, as well as the nomination papers for his other Cabinet choices.
Читать дальше...The Republican-led Senate, taking little time to fill two critical national security posts, overwhelmingly confirmed ...
1. The West Seattle Junction and Chamber of Commerce have received a $20,000 grant to answer the question, ‘Who is West Seattle now?’. Their goal is to build a unified voice for all West Seattle businesses. The grants were offered through the Only in Seattle Initiative, which is a partnership between Seattle’s Office of Economic […]
A soft robotic sleeve made of silicone could help a human heart keep beating, according to a new report published Wednesday. For the millions suffering from heart failure and other cardiac issues, that could mean a beating heart without the blood clotting complications of the current mechanical heart pumps called ventricular assist devices, or VADs, according to a statement from the National University of Ireland Galway. The research, published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, was led by Ellen Roche of that university. Читать дальше...
President Trump's inauguration ceremonies continue with a performance by the Radio City Rockettes at the Liberty Ball in the Washington Convention Center Friday evening.
Secondary heads in North Somerset urge Theresa May to reconsider grammar proposals.
Meet Pelican 212, the family band who performed during Donald Trump‘s Inaugural Ball. The band consists of members of the Rees family including 12-year-old trumpet playing twins Max and Kolbe. Other members include their siblings Angelle, Marie, Giovanni, Mollie and their oldest sister Katie, who helped teach many of her siblings their instruments. According to [...]
On Thursday evening, several middle-aged couples boarded an elevator in the Washington Press Club Building; in high spirits and dressed to the nines in pressed tuxedos and glittering ball gowns, they were the very image of inaugural revelry.
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Biden: “I switched the oaths.” Obama: “You what?” Biden: “It’s in Russian.”
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Former premier Yu Shyi-kun, who headed the Taiwanese government between 2002 and 2005, led an 11-strong team to the ceremony on Washington's National Mall. Yu himself is a member and former chairman of Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party, which is skeptical of cross-strait ties and defends Taipei's autonomy. Almost immediately after he won the November election, Trump provoked Beijing's ire by accepting a congratulatory call from Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen.
Читать дальше...Investors want to see the healthcare giant keep boosting revenue and profit.
Lily Aldridge looks breathtaking in her latest photo shoot for Salvatore Ferragamo‘s Spring/Summer 2017 collection. The 31-year-old model snapped the photos in the “Mediterranean dreamscape” of Taormina, Sicily. PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Lily Aldridge She was joined by fellow models Andres Velencoso and McKenna Hellam. The campaign, titled “Among Friends,” showcases the [...]
The court appearance came hours after Guzman's Thursday night extradition from Mexico, where he had become something of a folk hero for two brazen prison escapes.
Seven young people, aged 16 to 20, suspected of having been involved in the October 2016 clashes with police in Viry-Chatillon were indicted for attempted murder, Evry prosecutor Eric Lallement has announced.
Having already fought some tough rivals, big shots fighting assembly elections from constituencies in Ludhiana may face some challenge from their namesakes too, who are in the fray as independent candidates.
Kim Kardashian bid farewell to Barack Obama on Friday (Jan. 20) by posting family photos of her, Kanye West and baby North meeting the former...
A new education program run by St John Ambulance is expected to reach 15,000 WA children this year, teaching them basic emergency first aid skills and how to identify an emergency situation.
HONOLULU (AP) — A postdoctoral fellow who lost her right arm in a University of Hawaii laboratory explosion has sued the school and the researchers she worked for.
HONOLULU (AP) — A postdoctoral fellow who lost her right arm in a University of Hawaii laboratory explosion has sued the school and the researchers she worked for. Ekins-Coward was working on research to produce liquid fuel from synthetic gases such as hydrogen, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, the complaint said. Later thaT month Ekins-Coward asked Yu, who was her principal investigator and mentor, whether she should be concerned about specific hazards but Yu failed to provide her with training... Читать дальше...
What were the consequences of the founding of McDonald’s? The problem with “The Founder,” John Lee Hancock’s vigorous but blinkered drama about Ray Kroc’s expansion of the company from a single hamburger stand into a national behemoth, is that it never asks. The movie remains resolutely active, never pausing to examine the effects of fast food’s sudden ubiquity on the national diet, the environment, the economy, or national psychology. It’s an inside-business movie, and it tells the story of the... Читать дальше...
BANJUL, Gambia (AP) — The Latest on Gambia's political crisis, sparked by defeated leader Yahya Jammeh's refusal to leave office (all times local):
