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This is our show tonight. Now it is time for john stossel. John i like to gamble. We want to bet on whether Hillary Clinton will become president with the stock market will go up on thursday . I will take any bet as long as the odds seem fair. Supposedly more than 100 million americans filled out march madness brackets. Totaling about 12 elion, thats more than the super bowl. And according to our new reading of federal and state law, betting on those brackets is illegal. It is illegal in nevada ...

War, is the war in 1864. Good morning. If you could all take a seat, please. I am pete carmichael, professor of history here at gettysburg college. I am also the director of the civil war institute. It is my pleasure this morning to introduce brooks simpson, the Asu Foundation professor of history at Arizona State university. He is a historian of 19th century america. The american presidency as well as the civil war and reconstruction. He has written extensively about ulysses s. Grant. He is the...

Under this legislation, states are incentivized to put in place laws to clearly recognize that minors engaged in prostitution are not criminal bus victims who need to be protected from further trauma. My own state of North Carolina is one of a handful of states that has passed similar legislation explicitly recognizing that children involved in prostitution are victims in a modern day form of slavery. H. R. 3610 is an important step toward ensuring this becomes true nationwide. The average age f...

Ktvu channel 2 morning news continues. Good morning. We continue to follow developing news this morning in novato. We are out there live because there have been six suspicious fires. Some of them just this morning. Ktvu alex savidge has been talking with fire investigators out there and hes going to update us on the investigation coming up in just about two minutes. It is friday, may 16th im pam cook. And good morning im dave clark. Lets talk about weather and traffic. I was loving the cooler te...

And somewhere in the audience is billy but let, a former preacher from tuskegee who now lives here and his daughter, jean nate. He came to us as our preacher to days after she was born. No she is a student here at georgia state, and i am upper shifted to them and maybe some other persons year. I met one lady who bought a copy of the First Edition of bus ride to justice. It was in 1995. I had autographed it. I put a little note on it. She had to get the current edition because of live has happene...

Care because we are only 61 years old and not eligible for medicare for another four years. 18,000 a year for health care. We were told that part of the problem is the provisions in the law require us to choose a plan that has maternity benefits. How does this make sense for seniors to be forced to buy coverage that does not apply to them . We agree that benefits should not be denied to peernling peopt its not fair to be forced to buy coverage that doesnt even apply. Mrs. Fischer i rise to speak...

It is summer in europe. The weather is mild, and that means several boats set sail every day from libya in Northern Africa carrying hundreds of refugees. They are headed for europe in what are often hopelessly overcrowded vessels not fit for see. Last year, one such vote sank off the italian island of lampedusa, and hundreds were killed one such boat sank. To prevent the tragedy from happening again, italian authorities have launched a mission where several Italian Navy Ships patrolled the Medit...

Just for i. T. When all that money has been unaccounted for and the revelation under oath was were using 1985 software. I think that is shocking and i think the american taxpayers deserve an answer as to where their money go and how can they trust you with another 17 billion or just 1 billion in i. T. Upgrade . Either of you. I was listening for a question there. Any question is how can the American People trust you for more money, een a billion . Be glad to give you a lay down of the work that ...

Agreement are much greater than the difficulties that will come with getting an disagreement. He spent 15 years in the senate, first representing maine and as majority leader. But he says money and rigid ideology have changed the political landscape. It is dysfunctional. I hope very much that the American People will demand clearly and loudly change and we will have the necessary change. The man who has played mistaken roles talks as well about one of the people who most affected his life. I am ...

Misunderstand. Lets do this together, lets explore these areas, lets give people information going forward. And lets make the system work better, not create a parallel system that will make it work worse. The speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expired. The gentleman from michigan. Mr. Upton mr. Speaker, at this point id like to yield one minute to the gentleman from florida, mr. Bilirakis, a member of the health subcommittee. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from florida is recogni...