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After you make up the lost hour of sleep, there s a decent day on tap. Expect plenty of sunshine (stretching all the way to 7 p.m.) and a high of about 55 degrees.
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At 3 a.m. one September morning, Susan Omlor called the ambulance for her husband, Walt, who was having trouble breathing. She didn t see him again for two and a half months - and she was lucky. She didn t need the funeral home services she had been instructed to set up. Many in Delaware County know Walt Omlor, the affable 78-year-old director of the county s Community Services program, constable and lifelong resident of Upper Providence. Known for his positive attitude, kind demeanor and towering figure, those, along with a fair amount of prayers, may have been what saved him from a bout of COVID-19 that left him precariously close to death s door.
Security forces draw their guns as rioters loyal to former President Donald Trump try to break into the House of Representatives chamber to disrupt the Electoral College process at the Capitol in Washington in January. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced later in January that she would send the article of impeachment against Trump to the Senate, triggering the start of the former president’s trial on a charge of incitement of insurrection over the deadly Capitol riot.
This is our effort to communicate clearly to the Chinese government how the United States intends to proceed at a strategic level, what we believe our fundamental interests and values are, and what our concerns with their activities are, Sullivan said during a press conference at the White House Friday. I don t expect that, for example, the phase one trade deal is going to be a major topic of conversation next week, he added.
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The State Department announced Wednesday that the meeting next week in Anchorage, Alaska will take place with top Chinese officals. Sullivan and Secretary of State Antony Blinken
The first objection is most familiar, having been employed to defend Trump in his second impeachment trial. Recognizing the manifest weakness of the procedural point that Trump could not be tried by the Senate because he had left office, senators claimed he should be acquitted because he was exercising the right to speak freely when he addressed supporters on Jan. 6. Similar claims will surely be made in court.
But Swalwell’s federal claims implicate no First Amendment rights at all. They seek no damages for anyone’s speech but invoke it only as constitutionally unprotected evidence that the speakers engaged in conspiratorial action. “Speech” that evidences or is part of an unlawful agreement to act is obviously afforded no constitutional protection. So, too, it’s irrelevant that the actions Swalwell is suing Trump for
The arrogance of white people never ceases to amaze me.
You’d think I’d be over it by now, after seeing people who are charged with violently attacking the U.S. government in the name of Trump and white supremacy get permission to vacation in Mexico and the privilege of being served organic food in jail on the basis of their appropriation of indigenous religious practices.
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But I confess to still being taken aback by CNBC’s report that one of the suspected Capitol insurrectionists, 32-year-old Isaac Sturgeon, flew all the way to Kenya after allegedly participating in the Jan. 6 white supremacist mob attack right here in the USA.