August 2019

Mayors urge Senate to return to Washington for gun bill vote

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 200 mayors, including two anguished by mass shootings in Texas and Ohio, are urging the Senate to return to the Capitol to act on gun

NATIONAL BRIEFS

El Nino fades so forecasters expect busier hurricane season WASHINGTON (AP) — Government meteorologists say this year’s hurricane season may be busier than initially expected now that summer’s weak El

Ferguson has changed, but racial tension lingers nationally

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Michael Brown’s death at the hands of a white Missouri police officer stands as a seismic moment in American race relations. The fledgling Black Lives Matter

Missing files and an exorcism: Guam’s clergy abuse scandal

AGAT, Guam (AP) — Walter Denton wanted to grow up to be just like Father Tony Apuron, until the night he says the parish priest raped him in a church

WHO says it has ‘zero tolerance’ for corruption in Yemen

CAIRO (AP) — The World Health Organization says it follows “a zero-tolerance policy against all forms of corruption” amid calls for greater transparency following an Associated Press report on fraud

Big games highlight 2019 Football Season

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Looking at the schedules for the 2019 high school football season that is just a month away, there are a number of highly anticipated games that stick out across the

Browns trade RB Duke Johnson to Texans for 2020 draft pick

CLEVELAND (AP) — The Cleveland Browns traded disgruntled running back Duke Johnson to the Houston Texans on Thursday for an undisclosed 2020 draft pick. A person familiar with the deal

White Sox, Yankees to play at ‘Field of Dreams’ in 2020

Major League Baseball is going to build it — and the White Sox and Yankees are coming to Iowa. The Chicago White Sox will play the New York Yankees next

Don’t blame the president

Love him or hate him, it is unfair to blame President Trump for the actions of individuals.

This week’s mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, have of course sparked a blame game. That is the typical reaction to American tragedies these days — use the situation to launch a political war and treat the victims as pawns instead of people.

So of course, Trump’s tendency to speak harshly is being blamed for an increase in violence during his administration. However, placing the blame on the president is a stretch.

Don’t be surprised when Epstein smoke clears

At the expense of being a spoilsport, a modest prediction: When all is said and done, the celebrity fallout from the evidence the FBI seized from sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein’s New York townhouse will prove disappointing to conspiracy theorists of every persuasion.

No Trump, no Clinton, pretty much nobody you’ve ever heard of except in connection with the Miami Herald’s excellent reporting on the case. But of course, both men are in Epstein’s “little black book.” A social climber like him collects phone numbers the way boys used to collect baseball cards.