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James Hackett Elected to Fluor’s Board of Directors (Fluor Corporation)

Edit Public Technologies 04 Aug 2016
Hackett joined Seagull from Duke Energy where he led its Energy Services Division as president. Prior to that, he was executive vice president of Pan Energy when the company merged with Duke Power to create Duke Energy ... With headquarters in Irving, Texas, Fluor ranks 155 on the FORTUNE 500 list with revenue of $18.1 billion in 2015 and has more than 60,000 employees worldwide....

Question for Candidates: End Endless War (FCNL - Friends Committee on National Legislation)

Edit Public Technologies 04 Aug 2016
Since 2001, Congress has given the president nearly unchecked power to engage in military action all over the world ... Presidents Bush and Obama have invoked the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force to justify military interventions, indefinite detention, and lethal drone attacks that spread terror in communities around the world....

How the GOP Lost Arab-American Voters

Edit Politico 04 Aug 2016
Bush was determined to woo Michigan’s Arab-American voters in the run-up to that November’s election, which meant targeting Dearborn, the vote-rich Detroit suburb where one-third of the residents are of Arab descent ... The next month, Bush won the presidency ... Some estimates placed Bush’s support in the community as high as 72 percent ... Courted in 2000 by Bush, the community didn’t enjoy the same desired status in 2004....

Trump's "rigged" claim challenges US democratic system

Edit WPTV 04 Aug 2016
WASHINGTON (AP) -- When Donald Trump cried foul over what he describes as a "rigged" electoral system, his loosely defined claims challenged the essence of America's democratic process and more than 200 years of peaceful transfers of power from one president to the next ... Michael Johns, a co-founder of the conservative Tea Party and a former speechwriter for President George H.W....

George Will's decision easy to understand and more letters to the editors

Edit Times Free Press 04 Aug 2016
George Will's decision to leave the Republican party was prompted by Trump's going after the "Mexican" judge presiding over the Trump University case, followed by Speaker Ryan's endorsement of Trump ... Anyone supporting Trump should consider what George Will had to say, those who walked out of the convention, Women Republicans for Hillary, ......

Bullpen follows blueprint in second chance

Edit MLB 04 Aug 2016
The team's late-inning triumvirate of Zach Duke, Kevin Siegrist and Seung Hwan Oh -- each of whom had, to varying degrees, missteps in a loss one night earlier -- rebounded with scoreless outings ... The Cardinals' acquisition of Duke on Sunday was done with the hope that he could help stabilize the back end of a bullpen that has been thinned by injury and ineffectiveness ... Zach Duke strikes out Tyler Holt swinging in the 7th inning....

Bush, Cheney to blame for Khan’s death, not Obama, Clinton: US author

Edit Press TV 04 Aug 2016
Former US President George W. Bush and his vice president, Dick Cheney, are to blame for the death of Army Captain Humayun Khan in Iraq rather than President Barrack Obama and his former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, an investigative journalist says ... “That blame should squarely fall on the shoulders of Bush and Cheney.” ... “One cannot blame President Obama.”....

Is Donald Trump even trying to win?

Edit The Times Picayune 04 Aug 2016
Ezra Klein, at Vox.com, also wondered if Trump's even trying to win when – the weekend before the Republican National Convention – Trump hadn't seemed to put any energy into preparing for an interview on "60 Minutes."  Trump, who has routinely criticized Hillary Clinton's vote to go to war with Iraq, reiterated that her vote for that war ......

Poor Will’s Clark County Almanack: Perseid meteors arrive

Edit Springfield News-Sun 04 Aug 2016
The likelihood of rain increases to 60 percent, the highest since the 3rd of July, and the second highest of the summer ... Nights grow longer in August, almost one hour and 15 minutes longer by the end of the month. The first week loses two minutes in a day; by the last week, the loss is up to three minutes every 24 hours ... A cardinal suddenly came out from the bushes, hovered for an instant and then gobbled one of the skippers down....

Trump's nuclear nightmare

Edit Politico 04 Aug 2016
“He talks about nuclear weapons very loosely, casually—as if they’re just another tool in the toolbox,” said Joe Cirincione, president of Ploughshares Fund, a non-profit that advocates nuclear arms reductions ... Trump's defense of the right to use nuclear weapons also comes at a time when President Barack Obama is considering issuing an executive order that would change U.S ... It would take a minute to call the [military] officer....

Aluminum Is a Poor Man’s Steel When It Comes to Fighting China

Edit Bloomberg 04 Aug 2016
The company might not be giving Bless’s push for a WTO case any public support out of fear of retaliation and worries about a proliferation of tit-for-tat trade cases, according to Caitlin Webber, a Bloomberg Intelligence analyst ... officials, said Charles Johnson, the group’s vice president of policy.‘China’s Attack’ ... In April, the labor union representing aluminum workers filed a petition that asked President Barack Obama to use U.S....

CPI(M) worker murdered in Nandigram

Edit The Hindu 04 Aug 2016
The district CPI(M) leadership alleged that the party worker, Puranjan Maal (60), was “murdered” at the behest of a local Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader who was pressurising him not to appear as a witness in a murder case. A TMC leader was one of the accused in the case ... Maal) was being constantly pressurised (by the TMC) for not appearing as a witness in another murder case....

Cards edge Reds, take ownership of 2nd WC (St Louis Cardinals)

Edit Public Technologies 04 Aug 2016
CINCINNATI -- Zach Duke, acquired by the Cardinals in a Sunday swapwith the ... Duke had just been released by the Nationals after an unsuccessful try to fit as a long reliever when he signed a Minor League deal with the Reds in June 2013....
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