Week In Review

ABOVE CARTOON:  John Cole, The Scranton Times-Tribune, PA   By Marc Levy associated press HARRISBURG, Pa. — President Donald Trump on Tuesday encouraged Republicans to fight Pennsylvania’s new court-imposed map of congressional districts, issued a day earlier in a move expected to improve Democrats’ chances at chipping away at the GOP’s U.S. House majority. Trump…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Barack Obama by Kehinde Wiley, oil on canvas, 2018. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. © 2018 Kehinde Wiley.   Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald are the first Black artists to be commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery to paint a presidential couple.   By Taylor Dafoe ARTNET.COM History was made Monday morning in Washington,…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Naples)   By Terry Spencer ASSOCIATED PRESS FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. — From third to fifth grade, Alyson Hochstedler says bullies slammed her son into lockers and punched him. One threatened to stab him. The public school’s administration did little to stop his tormentors, she says, so the mother of five…

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By Kelli Kennedy associated press PARKLAND, Fla.  — Students and neighbors describe the suspect in the deadly rampage at a Florida high school as a troubled teenager who threatened and harassed peers, talked about killing animals, posed with guns in disturbing photos on social media, and bragged about target practice in his backyard with a…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Eagles fans celebrate the first-time Super Bowl win on South Broad Street between Walnut and Arch Streets.   (Photo: K-Len Anderson) associated press The Philadelphia Eagles’ Super Bowl victory set off a celebration that has been 58 years in the making. Just as Nick Foles and the Eagles clinched a surprising 41-33 victory…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Marcel Groen   By Marc Levy Associated Press HARRISBURG,Pa.–Pennsylvania’s Democratic Party chairman resigned Friday, acceding to Gov. Tom Wolf’s request that he step down in the wake of conflicting messages over how the party should respond to sexual misconduct allegations against politicians and party officials. The last straw seemed to be Marcel Groen’s…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Wreckage is seen near the scene of where an Amtrak train carrying multiple Republican lawmakers crashed into a garbage truck in Crozet, Va., on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018. A chartered train carrying dozens of GOP lawmakers to a Republican policy retreat in West Virginia struck a garbage truck in a rural Virginia town…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Chief Wahoo logo (Background photo: By Henryk Sadura/shutterstock) By Tom Withers associated press CLEVELAND — Divisive and hotly debated, the Chief Wahoo logo is being removed from the Cleveland Indians’ uniform next year. The polarizing mascot is coming off the team’s jersey sleeves and caps starting in the 2019 season, a move that will…

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ABOVE PHOTO: U.S Army 2nd Lt. Richard Collins By Brian Witte Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md.–Maryland’s public colleges and universities would be required to develop stronger policies for reporting and documenting campus hate crimes and bias incidents under a measure introduced in the General Assembly on Friday in response to the stabbing of a Black Bowie…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Crowds of women listen to speakers at the Philadelphia Museum of Art steps at Saturday’s Women’s March.  (Photo: Kala J.) By Haven Daley and John Locher associated press LAS VEGAS — Thousands of people poured into a football stadium in Las Vegas on Sunday, the anniversary of women’s marches around the world, to…

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