Trump’s next chief of staff may be walking into a nightmare:
The next chief will walk into a White House engulfed in scandal, in the sights of special counsel Robert Mueller and newly empowered Democrats, at what is shaping up as one of the most grave constitutional moments in US history.
The long-expected departure of the current incumbent, John Kelly, announced by Trump on Saturday, comes at a time of instability and crisis that is remarkable even for this riotous administration where turbulence is the rule.
As southeastern winter storm fades, canceled flights and icy roads remain;:
The first winter storm of the season is fading but a warning remains in effect for Virginia, where 11 inches of snow has so far fallen in Roanoke — the city’s fourth highest December total on record.
Hundreds of flights out of Richmond, Virginia, as well as Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, were canceled Sunday. Airlines at each airport hope to resume normal operations late Monday.
Former Miss Kentucky charged with sending nude photos of herself to 15-year-old student:
Ramsey Bearse, a 28-year-old teacher at Andrew Jackson Middle School outside Charleston, West Virginia, allegedly sent the photos to a former student,
according to the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office.
The boy’s parents found the photos on his phone and told police about them last week. They said their son was a student at Andrew Jackson from 6th to 8th grade and that Bearse was a teacher there during some of that time, according to a criminal compl
Jailed Huawei executive will learn her fate Monday as China demands her release:
Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou has been
detained in Vancouver since December 1 and faces extradition to the United States.
She’s accused of helping Huawei, one of the world’s biggest makers of smartphones and networking equipment, dodge US sanctions on Iran, according to Canadian prosecutors.
As debates over music in the age of #MeToo rage on, radio is still about the power of the people:
All this over the San Francisco radio station’s decision to pull “Baby It’s Cold Outside” from its rotation after roughly 100 complaints got the attention of program director Brian Figula. Just days before, a
Cleveland radio station found itself in the crosshairs for doing the same.
“For a station that’s a mass-appeal brand, like an at-work radio station, that’s a lot, and it raises a massive red flag,” Figula told CNN on Thursday.
The lyrics to “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” have for years been viewed by some as problematic when seen through a modern lens. In a culture that emphasizes the importance of sexual consent, lyrics like “I ought to say no, no, no, sir (Mind if move in closer?)” and “Say, what’s in this drink?” don’t fly with some.
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