(AP) A fireball that lit up the evening sky is lighting up social media. The bright streak Tuesday evening was seen in parts of New England, including southern Maine and New Hampshire. The Mount Agamenticus Conservation Program webcam on Mount Agamenticus in York County captured the event at 5:52 p.m. The National Weather Service in […]
2017
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Today in History
Today is Thursday, Dec. 28, the 362nd day of 2017. There are three days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History On Dec. 28, 1917, the New York Evening Mail published “A Neglected Anniversary,” a facetious essay by H.L. Mencken supposedly recounting the history of bathtubs in America, starting with the “first” one in […]
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2017’s Disharmonious Year
A new year is just around the corner. Time to get a new calendar. Out with the old and in with the new! Another 12 months falls by the wayside, their sum of events, good and bad, destined to the waiting twilight of history. Another year slips away passing all too fast. In its final […]
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Schumer, Pelosi Back Surrender on DACA – For Now
After saber-rattling for weeks that they would shut down the federal government unless the 790,000 “dreamers” under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACAs) program were granted amnesty, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi quietly withdrew their threat. Schumer and Pelosi realized what the rest of voting America knows – […]
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Dear Abby
DEAR ABBY: I have been married for three years to a woman who is very beautiful inside and out. (We have been together for six years.) Recently, I found out she is addicted to pain meds — and two months ago she confided that she had gotten hooked on heroin. I set up an intervention […]
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Islamic State claims attack on Shiite center, 41 dead
KABUL, Afghanistan A brutal attack claimed by the Islamic State group devastated a two-story Shiite Muslim cultural center in the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing at least 41 people and wounding another 84, many suffering severe burns from the intensity of the explosions. The IS-linked Aamaq news agency said three bombs were used in the […]