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Not an Adult Argument, Prof. vs. Press

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Can You Hear Me Now?: In a debate that stuck mostly to difficult issues, Republican Presidential candidates split sharply last night on what to do about illegal immigration, with Jeb Bush and John Kasich taking on Donald Trump’s pledge to …

Russians Doped, Univ. Pres. Resigns

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Juiced: In possibly the biggest athletic doping scheme since the fall of the East German athletic empire, the World Anti-Doping Agency in a 323-page report accuses Russia of running a state-sponsored athletic doping operation that involves athletes, coaches, trainers, and …

Shooting in Jordan, Mizzou Student Strike

Monday, November 9, 2015

Breaking: A Jordanian policeman opened fire today on foreign trainers, killing two Americans and a South African before he was shot dead himself. Two other Americans and four Jordanians were wounded. The motive for the shooting in a camp outside …

“A Noise Was Heard”, Myanmar Votes

Sunday, November 8, 2015

Flight Path: Investigators say “a noise was heard in the last moments of the cockpit voice recording of the Russian Metrojet charter that went down in the Sinai desert. They have yet to analyze the noise and determine what it …

Obama Rejects Pipe, Carson Fibs

Saturday, November 7, 2015

Nation: In one of the most important and controversial decisions of his presidency, Barack Obama announced yesterday that after seven years of consideration he’s rejecting the giant Keystone XL pipeline that was to have transported crude oil from Canada to …

Stuck in Egypt, Christie Misses the Cut

Friday, November 6, 2015

Nation: Tourists are stuck at the Sharm el Sheikh airport in Egypt as flights are cancelled and delayed because of heightened security. President Obama said he thinks there’s a possibility that the Russian airliner that crashed in the Sinai after …

Cop Was Corrupt, E.T. Writer Dies

Thursday, November 5, 2015

Nation: The popular Fox Lake, Ill. police lieutenant who died on the job in September had been stealing from a youth program he oversaw and staged his death to look like a suicide, investigators announced yesterday. They said that Lt. …

Cop Death a Suicide, Pulp Friction

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Nation: Authorities in Fox Lake, Ill. outside Chicago are preparing to report today that the death of a popular police lieutenant in September was a suicide, not a murder. Lt. Charles Gliniewicz, 52, had radioed in that he was out …

Heat Flash Over Sinai, New Rules!

Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Russian Jet: CBS News reports that a US satellite detected a heat flash when the Russian airliner was going down over the Sinai desert, but Reuters reports according to sources with access to the plane’s black boxes that it was …

Relentless Royals, Midair Breakup

Monday, November 2, 2015

The Boys of November: It took 12 innings last night, but the Kansas City Royals put away the New York Mets 7-2 to win the World Series for the first time in 30 years. Mets pitcher Matt Harvey had put …