January 22, 2018
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Business, Human Interest, Political
amazon, business, Business News, current-events, Future, Hotels, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation
Click link below picture
.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the state’s congressional map went so far to benefit Republicans that it “clearly, plainly and palpably” violated the state constitution.
The court, where Democrats have a 5-2 majority, blocked the use of the map in the 2018 midterm elections, ordered state lawmakers to begin to draw a new map.
The suit against the congressional map, which only challenged it under Pennsylvania’s state constitution, was one of the most watched voting rights cases in the country. The ruling could encourage groups to bring similar challenges against congressional gerrymandering cases in other states and bypass a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court, which is currently considering two cases dealing with partisan gerrymandering.
Pennsylvania has been described as one of the worst gerrymandered states in the country, and analyses have found the map is responsible for at least three additional GOP seats in Congress. Republicans controlled the redistricting process in 2010 and drew the map to give them a considerable advantage. In the 2012, 2014 and 2016 elections they won 13 of the state’s 18 congressional seats, despite just winning about 50 percent of the vote.
.
.
.
Click link below for article:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pennsylvania-gerrymandering-court_us_5a662f2ee4b0022830057349
.
__________________________________________
January 22, 2018
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Business, Human Interest, Political
amazon, business, Business News, current-events, Future, Hotels, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, New York Times, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation
Click link below picture
.
The Senate voted 81-18 on Monday to end the three-day-old government shutdown, with Democrats joining Republicans to fund the government through February 8 in exchange for a promise from Republican leaders to address the fate of young, undocumented immigrants known as Dreamers.
“In a few hours, the government will reopen,” said Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader. “We have a lot to do.”
The House must still vote on the measure later Monday afternoon or evening, but final passage is a formality. The bill also funds the popular Children’s Health Insurance Program for six years and delays or suspends a handful of tax increases that were to help pay for insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
After a weekend of partisan finger-pointing — in which Democrats branded the shutdown the “Trump Shutdown,” after President Trump, and Republicans branded it the “Schumer shutdown” — Monday’s vote offered Republicans and Democrats a way out of an ugly impasse that threatened to cause political harm to both parties.
.
The Senate voted 81-18 to break the filibuster and reopen the government. Democrats helped advance a stopgap bill after a G.O.P. pledge to continue immigration talks.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Photo by Pete Marovich for The New York Times.
.
Click link below for article:
https://www.nytimes.com
.
__________________________________________
January 20, 2018
Mohenjo
Arts, Breaking News, Business, Human Interest, Made Me Laugh
amazon, business, Business News, current-events, Future, Hotels, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation
Click link below picture
.
Sarah Jones changes personas with the simplest of wardrobe swaps. In a laugh-out-loud performance, she invites 11 “friends” from the future on stage—from a fast-talking Latina to an outspoken police officer—to ask them the questions all of us want answered.
.
.
.
Click link below for video:
https://www.youtube.com
.
__________________________________________
January 20, 2018
Mohenjo
Arts, Business, Human Interest, sports
amazon, business, Business News, current-events, Future, Hotels, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, uTube, vacation
Click link below picture
.
Five on one (guitar)!
.
Walk Off The Earth
.
.
Click link below for video:
https://www.youtube.com
.
__________________________________________
January 20, 2018
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Business, Crime, Human Interest, Political
amazon, business, Business News, current-events, Future, Hotels, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, New York Times, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Washington
Click link below picture
.
Representative Patrick Meehan, a Pennsylvania Republican who has taken a leading role in fighting sexual harassment in Congress, used thousands of dollars in taxpayer money to settle his own misconduct complaint after a former aide accused him last year of making unwanted romantic overtures to her, according to several people familiar with the settlement.
A married father of three, Mr. Meehan, 62, had long expressed interest in the personal life of the aide, who was decades younger and had regarded the congressman as a father figure, according to three people who worked with the office and four others with whom she discussed her tenure there.
But after the woman became involved in a serious relationship with someone outside the office last year, Mr. Meehan professed his romantic desires for her — first in person, and then in a handwritten letter — and he grew hostile when she did not reciprocate, the people familiar with her time in the office said.
.
.
.
Click link below for article:
https://www.nytimes.com
.
__________________________________________
January 20, 2018
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Business, Human Interest, Political
amazon, business, Business News, CNN, current-events, Future, Hotels, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Video
Click link below picture
.
The speech, which Flake had previewed over the weekend, was the first of what the Arizona Republican has promised will be a series of addresses over 2018 aimed at noting the abnormalities of the Trump presidency.
.
Critics have cast Flake as something of a sore loser — a Republican whose strong anti-Trump stance lost him the confidence of voters in his state. (Flake announced he would retire at the end of this year after a series of polls suggested he would have a very difficult time winning a second term.)
.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Wednesday that Flake’s speech was the result of his “poll numbers,” adding that the Arizona senator served as a “mouthpiece” for Cuba’s regime by recently making a trip to that country.
.
.
.
Click link below for article and video:
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/17/politics/jeff-flake-trump-press-speech-analysis/index.html
.
__________________________________________
January 20, 2018
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Business, Human Interest, Political
amazon, business, Business News, current-events, Future, Hotels, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, nbc news, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Video
Click link below picture
.
NBC News’ Lester Holt is in North Korea filing exclusive reports for NBC News and MSNBC through Monday. On Tuesday, January 23, he will anchor “NBC Nightly News” live from Seoul, South Korea.
.
.
.
Click link below for video (other videos available for watching at site):
https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/lester-holt-reports-from-inside-north-korea-1141665347833
.
__________________________________________
January 19, 2018
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Business, Human Interest, Photographs, Political
amazon, business, Business News, current-events, Future, Hotels, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation
Click link below picture
.
Last year, New York City saw hundreds of thousands of protesters spill into the streets of Manhattan for the Women’s March. In Washington, D.C., half a million came out. Across the country and world, women took a stand.
And they had some pretty great signs with them while doing it. This year was no different.
Since President Donald Trump’s inauguration, women proved they are a force to be reckoned with. Women came out in record numbers last year to both protest and run for office. And men in power have seen their worlds shattered by women fed up with their abuse.
But we don’t need to tell you that.
.
ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS via Getty Images
.
.
Click link below for article and many photos:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/signs-2018-womens-march-movement_us_5a6371d9e4b0e56300701d7c
.
__________________________________________
January 19, 2018
Mohenjo
Arts, Breaking News, Business, Human Interest
amazon, business, Business News, current-events, Future, Hotels, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, New York Times, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation
Click link below picture
.
Paul Bocuse, the most celebrated French chef of the postwar era and a leading figure in the pathbreaking culinary movement known as nouvelle cuisine, died on Saturday, his family said in a statement. He was 91.
Mr. Bocuse emerged as the first among a brilliant band of chefs who developed a modernized version of classic French cooking in the late 1960s and early ’70s, cheered on by Henri Gault and Christian Millau, the publishers of the influential Gault-Millau Guide. Following the lead of Fernand Point, the spiritual father of nouvelle cuisine and a mentor to many of its pioneers, Mr. Bocuse shaped a style of cooking at the Auberge du Pont de Collonges, his three-star restaurant near Lyon, that stressed fresh ingredients, lighter sauces, unusual flavor combinations and relentless innovation that, in his case, rested on a solid mastery of classic technique.
His signature dishes not only pleased the palate; they also seduced the eye and piqued the imagination. He stuffed sea bass with lobster mousse and encased it in pastry scales and fins. He poached a truffled Bresse chicken inside a pig’s bladder.
.
A mural of Mr. Bocuse was painted in Lyon in 2015. Despite his international status, the chef remained deeply rooted in his native soil.CreditJeff Pachoud/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
.
.
Click link below for article:
https://www.nytimes.com
.
__________________________________________
January 19, 2018
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Business, Human Interest, Political
amazon, business, Business News, current-events, Future, Hotels, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, the washington post, travel, vacation
Click link below picture
.
In the days before Donald Trump’s inauguration, a wealthy Russian pharmaceutical executive named Alexey Repik arrived in Washington, expressing excitement about the new administration.
He posted a photo on Facebook of a clutch of inauguration credentials arranged next to a white “Make America Great Again” hat, writing in Russian: “I believe that President Donald Trump will open a new page in American history.”
Throughout his trip, Repik had prime access. He wrote on Facebook that he got close enough to the president-elect at a pre-inaugural event to “check the handshake strength of Donald Trump.” He and his wife, Polina Repik, witnessed Trump’s swearing-in from ticketed seats in front of the U.S. Capitol. And he posed for a photo shoulder-to-shoulder with Mike Pompeo, the president’s nominee to head the CIA, although Repik later said he was not aware of Pompeo’s intended role at the time.
.
Some prominent Russians came to Washington to witness Donald Trump’s inauguration last year. Above is a section where some had ticketed seats in front of the U.S. Capitol. (CNN/Photo illustration by The Washington Post)
.
.
Click link below for article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/amid-trumps-inaugural-festivities-members-of-russias-elite-anticipated-a-thaw-between-moscow-and-washington/2018/01/20/0d767f46-fb9f-11e7-ad8c-ecbb62019393_story.html?utm_term=.f68d310dab48
.
__________________________________________
Older Entries
Newer Entries
