2015년 2월 21일 토요일

Evening Edition: Former Va. first lady sentenced to 366 days in corruption case

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Evening Edition
The most important stories of the day  •  Fri., Feb. 20, 2015
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Former Va. first lady sentenced to 366 days in corruption case
RICHMOND — Maureen McDonnell was sentenced Friday to a year and a day in federal prison after an emotional, hours-long hearing in which the former first lady of Virginia apologized publicly for the first time since she and her husband were first accused of public corruption.  Read full article »

DHS tackles endless morale problems with seemingly endless studies
Afflicted with the lowest morale of any large federal agency, the Department of Homeland Security did what comes naturally to many in government.It decided to study the problem. And then study it some more.  Read full article »
800,000 HealthCare.gov users received wrong tax information
About 800,000 people who purchased health insurance through HealthCare.gov last year received incorrect tax information and have been asked to delay filing their returns, Obama administration health officials said Friday, a misstep affecting a critical part of the president’s signature health-care law.  Read full article »
White House to seek stay of ruling halting Obama immigration plan
The Justice Department will seek a stay of an order by a federal judge in Texas that blocked the Obama administration’s plan to provide relief to thousands of illegal immigrants.White House press secretary Josh Earnest said the stay request will be filed in District Court no later than Monday.  Read full article »
Polar vortex brings more historic cold in eastern U.S.
Washington broke a 120-year-old low temperature record.  Read full article »
How can it be racism, says Rudy Giuliani. Obama’s mom was white.
“I do not believe — and I know this is a horrible thing to say — but I do not believe that the president loves America,” former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said on Wednesday night at a private dinner in New York intended to boost Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R), a 2016 presidential contender. “He doesn’t love you. And he doesn’t love me. He wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up through love of this country.”  Read full article »
The rage of a road rage victim’s husband: ‘You made my wife look like an animal, and my son’
When news spilled out that a Las Vegas mother killed in a road-rage shootout had gone after the suspect in her attack, some started criticizing her family. Her son had gone with her, armed with a handgun. And, police said, when the suspect later showed up at the family’s home and opened fire, her son shot back at him.  Read full article »
Bill O’Reilly exaggerated war-zone experiences, Mother Jones says
Mother Jones magazine says Fox News host Bill O’Reilly has falsely claimed to have reported from war zones and has made a series of statements that echo the exaggerations that engulfed now-suspended NBC News anchor Brian Williams.  Read full article »
Washington Nationals’ Jayson Werth on jail time: ‘It’s not a destination you would choose’
On the night of Jan. 30, two guards escorted Jayson Werth into the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center. He changed out of his black sweatshirt and dark sunglasses into an olive-green jumpsuit, more comfortable than he expected. Werth shuffled into a guard’s office, a guard who happened to be a former drill sergeant.   Read full article »
‘Two and a Half Men’ finally gets revenge on Charlie Sheen with insult-filled series finale
Apparently, “Two and a Half Men” creator Chuck Lorre is a little bitter about Charlie Sheen.At least, that’s the takeaway from the series finale of “Two and a Half Men” — one of the most popular shows on TV for the last decade — which was basically an hour-long slap at its former star. Can you blame the writers? The erratic actor certainly put them through a lot. But Lorre and the writers got the last laugh, literally, as they heaved insult after insult at Sheen, certainly as payback for  his infamous 2011 meltdown that  temporarily halted production.  Read full article »

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