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A GoFundMe campaign has been launched for the family of a 24-year-old man who tragically took his own life on Friday, May 27 while attending the 2022 Maryland Deathfest in Baltimore. Axel James Markle from Pennsylvania reportedly jumped off the parking structure at the Baltimore Soundstage, which is...

Staff, patrons remember Dallas restaurateur Tom Ruggeri as a great entertainer and friend The owner of Ruggeri’s restaurant died in early January. Owner Tom Ruggeri in front of Ruggeris restaurant in Dallas in October 2014. He opened the first Ruggeri’s restaurant on Routh Street in 1985.(Kirsten Kearse / Staff photographer) Anytime Paula Scholz hears an Elvis song, she thinks of Tom Ruggeri. She worked with him for 18 years, starting as a waitress, shuttling cocktails back and forth, then ...

There are two things you need to know about this budget, one is it actually creates a deficit that is higher than current policy until 2017 when the president will leave office, two, there is this outfit called the congressional progressive casino the most left wing members of congress. they produced a budget that had a deficit, a debt excuse me lower ten years from now than the presidents budget. this document is just a joke, its completely dead on arrival. jenna: bob samuelson goes on and he s...

>> the vice president of banco santander from one of the worlds largest banks said that spain is making positive steps to get back on non-fiscal ground. this is an hour 10 minutes. >> when they welcome all of your todays her peterson institute for international economics. the crisis at the euro continues to be at the center of the global economic agenda. spain has now moved close to the center of the crisis of the euro. the spanish banking system is obviously a critical part of the eco...

Tend to be things like the mortgage deduction. so i would be surprised if we saw real action on the long-term deficit this year. but its not out of the question. this gang of six is trying to do something about it. so its not out of the question. >> you know, bob samuelson in the "washington post" was writing he feels the president has not led enough, because he has been refusing to take on the whole health entitlement the part of the budget. >> well, thats not -- i think thats going a little bi...

say, i was there, so -- [ laughter ] >> i knew that -- i knew i had been born there. i remembered it. [ laughter ] >> and less than 24 hours to go. new details on the ceremony, the vows, and whats in that garment bag. good day. im andrea mitchell live in washington. we begin with those devastating storms. the death toll now across the deep south stands at 249 people. the threat is not over. the same system is triggering tornado warnings along the east coast. it is already one of the ...

>> bob samuelson, one of the things about your habits as a reporter is that you never vote. >> years ago i decided not to vote because i thought that when you vote you make a psychological commitment to one side and against the other side, and i thought it better not to do that. i discovered a number of other journalists, including the former editor of "the washington post" had the same practice, and i assumed for roughly the same reasons, but my wife decides this as one of the dumbest...

>> all righty. >> welcome to "morning joe." its friday. you know, yesterday, a lot of times, i say things just to get the argument started. yesterday, i was comparing the people who followed barack obama, following him like a rock star, the people who followed sarah palin. it was more about following a rock star and a politician. i grew some comparisons. i made an analogy. got a lot of people angry. >> juxtaposed. >> let me just say to those people, after playing that clip, that i got ...

at least some senior decision-makers to believe this could be replicated in iraq relatively easily and with little cost. on the other hand, the preparations for iraq and ongoing military operations in iraq sapped or kind of burned up all the oxygen in the room and sat the lot of resources from afghanistan which could give been used to stabilize the situation there and perhaps lead to a different outcome then we are facing today. likewise again the success of the surge in iraq has encou...

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