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"They want Republicans and Democrats to work together, strip off their party labels and solve problems," Lynch said. "Now, whether [Ayotte] has done that as much as she should, I don’t know ... I certainly think she’s saying the right things."
This purple speckled feline is one of the most flirtatious villagers in Animal Crossing, but don't let his pink pokadot dress fool you, he's all man. As the laziest citizen in your town, Bob can often be found following after you while fishing, asking for common fish like Sea Bass to "study". Bob's also prone to hissy ...
I have been an activist since my early teens, when I refused to dissect a frog and a fetal pig in my middle school biology class.
In college, I threw myself into campaigns for women's rights, the environment, poverty alleviation, and antidiscrimination issues.
Activism was my motivation for going on to law school. I envisioned myself using my legal skills for a greater good. But it took a while for me to find a way to reconcile these two halves of my life.
As an activist, I stood among the throngs at protests against the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in both Washington and Ottawa.
In Quebec City last year, I felt the sting of tear gas and witnessed demonstrators tearing down a fence separating the crowd from the meetings of the Free Trade Area of the Americas summit.
At the end of the summer, a few days before I started law school, I attended a rally in Philadelphia on behalf of the imprisoned Mumia Abu Jamal.
Before law school, my life was completely absorbed by these political issues.
Once I started, however, I realized that few of my peers shared my political beliefs. It became clear that many of the social-justice goals I had thought were so simple were not easily obtainable; I had been so naive.
Not only that, but I also felt disassociated from my circle of activist friends, who didn't seem to be able to relate to the experiences I faced in law school.
On a windy day in February, my life as an activist and my life as a law student finally merged.
I became a legal observer, an independent mediator between police and protesters who makes sure that the rights of all parties are upheld. For the first time, I was able to help people by directly applying some of the skills I had been learning in law school.
During a demonstration against the World Economic Forum meetings at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, I disseminated information about individual legal rights in the event of an arrest, negotiated and eased tension between police and protesters, recorded arrest information, and helped individuals who were detained...
My position as a legal observer allowed me to defuse a number of intense moments throughout the day. At the end, I felt respected by both police and protesters.
Standing on the lines between these two groups, I realized that my life as an activist had undergone a transition. I also appreciated law school more, and found a place in a circle of progressive law students and lawyers.
For the summer, I'm working part time at the Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York, which provides free civil legal services to people who cannot afford to pay for them.
So far, I've worked to make sure public housing tenants are not evicted without due process and have pursued Social Security benefits for a disabled child. My experience at Legal Aid has been another excellent opportunity to see how my education can truly serve the social good.
Being an activist and a law student is no longer cause for an identity crisis.
Cassandra Kelleher just completed her first year at Albany (N.Y.) Law School.
LSU is dealing with a suspended head coach and low expectations as it heads into the NCAA Tournament.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Southeastern Conference champions are sensing they are being written off, doubted in NCAA Tournament brackets after a 26-win season.
And they’re not entirely wrong.
Andy Katz and Joe Lunardi are among those who projected third-seeded LSU to be knocked off by No. 14 seed Yale in Thursday afternoon’s opening game at Veterans Memorial Arena.
The well-documented reason for skepticism in LSU is that the Tigers’ family is without its patriarch in head coach Will Wade.
Wade was suspended by LSU on March 8 after Yahoo Sports reported the existence of a 2017 conversation the FBI recorded via wiretap. It reportedly had Wade speaking with prospective agent Christian Dawkins about an offer made to recruit a prospect, according to Yahoo Sports.
Wade requested in a statement prior to last week’s SEC Tournament that his suspension be lifted, to which LSU declined in large part because Wade wouldn’t agree to be interviewed by LSU and NCAA officials about the situation.
Meanwhile, top-seeded LSU was upset by Florida 76-73 to open the SEC Tournament.
And now the Tigers are here, awaiting a high-scoring Yale team that upset Baylor in the first round of the 2016 NCAA Tournament.
LSU’s players say Wade has communicated through text messages, basically telling them to continue to keep pushing and doing what has taken the Tigers to their surprising success this season.
Waters has tried to take a leadership role along with teammates like junior guard Skyler Mays.
The goal, Benford said, is for LSU to be a player-driven team, making the focus on themselves as opposed to a head coach who is not with the team.
Here's another good look at Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, or as she may or may not like to be called, the new Transformers chick. The British actress made a recent appearance at the Daytona 500 to premier modified "robot" versions of Jimmie Johnson, Juan Pablo Montoya, and Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s NASCAR race cars. ...
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A Wisconsin man who wrote "Kip Hawley is an Idiot" on a plastic bag containing toiletries said he was detained at an airport security checkpoint for about 25 minutes before authorities concluded the statement was not a threat.
Ryan Bird, 31, said he wrote the comment about Hawley -- head of the Transportation Security Administration -- as a political statement. He said he feels the TSA is imposing unreasonable rules on passengers while ignoring bigger threats.
A TSA spokeswoman acknowledged a man was stopped, but likened the incident to cases in which people inappropriately joke about bombs. She said the man was "a little combative" and that he was detained only a few minutes.
The incident has ignited some chatter on Internet travel Web sites. More than 83,000 people have clicked on a FlyerTalk.com forum devoted to the episode, and the forum has grown to include 30 pages of comments.
Bird, the vice president of a company that manufactures industrial equipment, said the encounter occurred at Milwaukee Airport on Tuesday, the day the TSA eased restrictions on carry-on liquids, gels and aerosols.
Bird entered the airport checkpoint with a see-through resealable bag containing small containers of toothpaste, deodorant, mouthwash and hair gel -- in keeping with new TSA requirements.
"My level of frustration with the TSA and their idiotic policies has grown over 2 ½ years," he said. "I'm frustrated that poorly trained TSA people can pull random passengers out of line and pat them down like common criminals. The average traveler has no recourse."
Bird put the marked bag in a plastic tray along with his shoes and cell phone. A TSA screener saw the bag and went to get a supervisor, who grabbed it and asked Bird if it was his.
"It was obvious that he was already angry," Bird said, adding that the screener told him, "You can't write things like that."
The supervisor told Bird he had the right to express his opinions "out there" -- pointing outside the screening area -- but did not have the right "in here," Bird said.
The supervisor called a sheriff's deputy, who checked to see if Bird had any warrants for his arrest, Bird said. Bird asked the officer if he was under arrest, and was told that he was being detained, he said.
A supervisor said he was going to confiscate the bag, but after Bird refused, he just photographed it, Bird said.
Bird said he filed a complaint about the incident with the TSA.
A TSA spokeswoman said she could not confirm whether Bird had filed a complaint, but described the incident as insignificant.
Screeners looked at the bag to "make sure it wasn't anything like a bomb threat," she said. She said the man was "a little combative" and that a law enforcement officer came over, briefly interviewed him and determined that he hadn't broken any laws.
"Everyone's entitled to their own opinion," she said.
A spokeswoman for the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office said the TSA did call the sheriff's office to report an upset customer at the checkpoint. A deputy went to the scene, interviewed all of the participants, ran a wanted check on the man, and referred it back to the TSA after determining no crime had been committed,...
Landon said the original call came at 2:21 p.m., and it was unclear how long the man was detained. There is no indication that he was combative, she said.
A toiletries bag calling TSA Director Kip Hawley an "idiot" prompted airport screeners to stop a traveler Thursday.
U.S. intelligence officials warned on May 14 that Venezuela is descending into economic and political chaos that is likely to end in street violence, military suppression of citizens’ rights, and a possible coup to remove President Nicolás Maduro.
If past experience serves as a guide for the future, the CIA could instigate such a coup before the country collapses altogether and reverts to a 19th-century banana republic. The difference is that, instead of bananas, Venezuela has oil — a lot of oil — more proven reserves than any country on the planet, and eight ti...
Oil revenues fund nearly everything in Maduro’s socialist nightmare. But with a $7 billion interest payment due later this year, Maduro is cutting back imports even further, sending the economy into chaos. Venezuela has the world’s highest crime rate, and street crime has turned the capital city of Caracas into the mos...
The horrendous state of the socialized medical services industry (if one can still call it that) has even drawn the attention of the left-liberal New York Times, which featured on Sunday seven pages outlining its disastrous collapse along with a dozen heart-rending and infuriating full-color pictures of the end product...
The Times, in its article entitled “Dying Infants and No Medicine: Inside Venezuela’s Failing Hospitals,” described a typical day in a hospital in the Venezuean coastal city of Barcelona: "The day had begun with the usual hazards: chronic shortages of antibiotics, intravenous solutions, even food. Then a blackout swept...
Doctors operate without gloves or soap or pain medicines. Cancer medicines can be found only on the black market. Electricity rationing has forced hospitals to rely on backup generators, but they are failing thanks to the scarcity of parts and workmen skilled enough to repair them.
It’s a 19th century nightmare: "At the University of the Andes Hospital in the mountain city of Merida, there was not enough water to wash blood from the operating table. Doctors preparing for surgery cleaned their hands with bottles of seltzer water. 'It is like something from the 19th century,' said Dr. Christian Pin...
The death rate among newborns and their mothers has escalated to mind-numbing levels: "The rate of death among babies under a month old increased more than a hundredfold in public hospitals run by the [government’s] Health Ministry…. The rate of death among new mothers in those hospitals increased by almost five times ...
In the Caribbean port town of Barcelona, two premature infants died recently on the way to the main public clinic because the ambulance had no oxygen tanks. The hospital has no fully functioning X-ray or kidney dialysis machines because they broke long ago. And because there are no open beds, some patients lie on the f...
Whether Madura is removed by recall, by a CIA-managed coup, or by assassination, the economy will remain in tatters. Apocalyptic writers such as James Wesley Rawles (the Patriots series) or William R. Forstchen (One Second After) need look no further than the economic and political collapse now taking place in Venezuel...
This is how socialism ends: not with a bang but with the whimper of patients in government-run hospitals dying for lack of care.
The touring Broadway version of "Spring Awakening." TUTS will produce a local production during the 2019-20 season.
Theatre Under the Stars has announced its 2019-20 season.
Houston's largest professional musical company, based in the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, will blend well-known classics, including "A Chorus Line" and "Newsies," with more challenging fare, including "Spring Awakening."
It will also feature a new world premiere production. TUTS will develop and premiere "Pure Country," a musical theater adaptation of the 1992 film of the same name George Strait.
"Pure Country" is being billed as "a celebration of Texas culture," according to a release, the musical will feature songs such as Strait's "I Cross My Heart" and "Heartland," as well as new music written for the stage.
TUTS' holiday show will be "Elf - The Musical." A touring production, included in TUTS season subscriptions is included. The touring show is "Once on This Island," which saw a popular Broadway reboot in 2017.
Originally directed and choreographed by Michael Bennett, with book by James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante, music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban and co-choreographed by Bob Avian. The TUTS production will be directed by Julie Kramer, with choreography by Jessica Hartman.
Spring Awakening features a book and lyrics by Steven Sater and music by Duncan Sheik. The production will be directed by Taibi Magar with choreography by Marlana Doyle.
Songs by Matthew Sklar and Chad Beguelin (Disney's "Aladdin," "The Wedding Singer"), with a book by Thomas Meehan and Bob Martin. The production will be directed and choreographed by Dan Knechtges.
Director Michael Arden and choreographer Camille A. Brown, with a score from Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, the Tony Award-winning songwriters of "Anastasia" and "Ragtime."
Pure Country features music by Steve Dorff, lyrics by John Bettis, and book by Rex McGee. The production will be directed and choreographed by Dan Knechtges.
India’s government has denied reports in a newspaper that its personal ID database, one of the biggest in the world, has been compromised by hackers selling access for as little as $8.
The Tribune, which is based in Chandigarh, reported that one of its correspondents was able to buy a login ID and password for the Aadhaar system via a Whatsapp group.
According to the publication, a correspondent paid just 500 Indian rupees, around $8, to an unknown “agent,” who facilitated access to individual names, addresses, photo and contact details on the Aadhaar portal system.
It’s suggested that a person or persons with the ability to appoint an administrator to the system may be behind the incident, during which the reporter was given the chance to print an unauthorized Aadhaar card.
The Unique Identification Authority of India, the government programme which manages the deduplication ID system, denies a data breach. It described The Tribune article as “a case of misreporting”.
However, it added that a search facility for grievance procedures, which was given to designated personnel and state government officials, may have been misused.
The grievance redressal search “gives only limited access to name and other details and has no access to biometric details,” according to the UIDAI.
“UIDAI reassures that there has not been any data breach of (the) biometric database which remains fully safe and secure with highest encryption at UIDAI and mere display of demographic information cannot be misused without biometrics,” the government issued statement read.
More than 1.1 billion people are enrolled on the Aadhaar system. Designed to weed out identity fraud in the densely populated nation, the Aadhaar identity card contains 12 digits unique to each Indian resident.
According to the UIAI website, the Aadhaar system contains biometric data – scans of people’s fingerprints, irs and facial features. Demographic information such as name, date of birth, age, gender and address are also stored by authorities.
The Tribune has since responded to the accusations of “misreporting” by saying that the UIAI’s denial “flies in the face” of the facts.
In a lengthy rebuttal, the newspaper added that the UIAI’s acknowledgement of misuse with regards to a search facility raises concerns about Aadhaar security. “The fact is that it has been ‘misused’ to steal data – personal information such as name, date of birth, address, PIN, photo, phone number, e-mail – at will, fo...
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The more I learn about wine, the more I realize there is to know. To me, that challenge is part of its charm. So when Pour Sip Savor Sommelier Jenny Benzie extended an invitation to learn about the region of Castilla-La Mancha, I jumped at the chance to broaden my horizons.
Castilla-La Mancha is Don Quixote’s Spain, that large meseta of high-altitude, semi-arid interior countryside dotted with tall monochrome windmills. Just south of Madrid, La Mancha accounts for almost half of Spain’s total wine production. Its size dwarfs the more popular regions of Rioja, Ribera del Duero and Priorat,...

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