Are releases two members of punk band pussy riot. And, the maker of the Assault Rifle ak47, dice at 94. 94 dies at 84. So the conflict in south sudan appears to be are escalating. Government forces are about to step up their assault on rebels. Colonel phillip ogarre, says if to take back rebel territory. Forces are are about to retake the area. Ethnic violence between different groups. Tens of thousands of people seeking refuge at the u. N. Compound in juba. From there, hari matassa sent this message. South sudans capital juba, young people started to attack civilians with blades that looked like machetes. Of the two to three hours i just got to hospital. Reporter and more people are expected to get hurt. President says the army is now ready to strike bor. Currently,. To protect those towns bor and ventu and bring them under the government of south sudan. The army concentrations are underway. This woman wont leave this u. N. Compound even though conditions here are bad. Theres no water
Involved. Propaganda involved. I think it was one of the worst mistakes ever made and we will pay the price for many years. I did a cartoon. When there were 2000 American Service members killed during the iraq war i did a cartoon and wrote the word why with that . And drew it the size. I wrote the names of all the troops that had been killed in iraq in the letters. That generated a lot of controversy and was at a time when people still thought the war was a good thing. I think that was responsible for you getting a Pulitzer Prize that year. I was a very strong opponent of the war from the start. I got a lot of heat for it at the time but felt very strongly about it. I will tell you an interesting story. You might recall the patriot act that was done in secret for several weeks and everyone was wanting to know what was going on behind closed doors. After berating John Ashcroft to come forward publicly he eventually did and gave a presentation and did this in front of the senate committe
The folks would march down and the president might come out and greet them. Eleanor roosevelt, monday at 9 00 p. M. Eastern. Also on cspan cspan radio and cspan. Org are. We bring Public Events from washington directly to you, putting you in the room at congressional hearings, briefings, and conferences, and offering complete gaveltogavel coverage of the u. S. House as a Public Service of private industry. We are cspan and funded by your local cable or satellite provider. Now you can watch is in hd. A discussion with three awardwinning cartoonist about the future of editorial cartoons. This is one hour and 15 minutes. Good evening. I am tom watkins, treasurer of the Atlanta Press club. Thank you for coming to drawing the news. The Atlanta Press club is one of the largest and most active press clubs in the world. We encourage you to join. We have some great programs coming out. We will host a newsmaker luncheon on september 17. Join us on october 8 for the hall of fame dinner. For more
Im always off. The wind is much calmer today from what we saw yesterday. You wont see nearly those conditions. We had to hold our eyebrows and eyelashes. The houses were creeking yesterday. Hopefully none of the Christmas Decorations got damaged. We had wind gusts up to about 45 Miles Per Hour yesterday. Now, today were starting off with light winds around six Miles Per Hour. Right now 29 degrees. The dew point at 20. Temperatures could still be falling as we go throughout the morning. It is going to be cool. Typical for this time of the year. Temperatures ranging from 45 to 50 degrees. But the sunshine will be out. Looking for beautiful conditions as people are busy finishing up their plans for the holidays. Things get a little tricky towards christmas. The cold weather kept some people indoors while the windy conditions brought out bge crews. 1,000 customers lost power. Most reported outages. Utility not only beefed up their crews and call center staff, they also had all their line m
A divisive and polarizing effect on the population very unlike the perfect harmony and civility of our present day. So over a period of 13 days as lincoln is making his way by train from his home in springfield, illinois, to washington, d. C. For his inauguration as president , the air is filled with rumors of an assassination plot. In maryland where his train will pass below the Mason Dixon Line for the first time, there are rumors that hell be shot or hell be stabbed, or his train will be blown up at a whistlestop appearance in baltimore. Allen pinkerton of the legendary Pinkerton Detective agency is on the scene. Hes already there in baltimore x he has just or and he has just under two weeks to uncover hard evidence of this looming plot before time runs out. What makes the situation even more difficult and more dangerous is that theres no good way to get from springfield to washington at this time. Americas railroads are expanding at a fantastic rate, but theres no single, direct ra