Week In Review

ABOVE PHOTO:  Erica Garner, 24, the daughter of Eric Garner, who died in New York City police custody, poses for a photo as she attends the funeral for Freddie Gray, Monday, April 27, 2015, in Baltimore. Gray died from spinal injuries about a week after he was arrested and transported in a Baltimore Police Department…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.)  (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) More police were added to Senator Booker’s security detail. By Clarissa Hamlin newsone.com Senator Cory Booker and his family have received a recent death threat, ABC News reported. Police officers have been added to Booker’s security detail at his Newark, New Jersey residence as a result…

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ABOVE CARTOON:  David Fitzsimmons, The Arizona Star By Stephen Ohlemacher and Marcy Gordon associated press WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans delivered an epic overhaul of U.S. tax laws to President Donald Trump on Wednesday, bringing generous tax cuts for corporations and the wealthiest Americans while providing smaller cuts for middle- and low-income families. In a re-vote due…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Cars from an Amtrak train that derailed lie spilled onto Interstate 5, Monday, Dec. 18, 2017, in DuPont, Wash. The Amtrak train making the first-ever run along a faster new route hurtled off the overpass Monday near Tacoma and spilled some of its cars onto the highway below, killing several people, authorities said….

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Omarosa Manigault Newman   By Darlene Superville associated press WASHINGTON — The White House says Omarosa Manigault Newman — one of President Donald Trump’s most prominent African-American supporters — plans to leave the administration next month. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says Manigault Newman’s resignation is effective Jan. 20, one year…

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By Tali Arbel and Barbara Ortutay associated press In a vote along party lines, the federal government has ended sweeping net-neutrality rules that guaranteed equal access to the internet. The Thursday vote at the Federal Communications Commission will likely usher in big changes in how Americans use the internet, a radical departure from more than…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Law enforcement officials work following an explosion near New York’s Times Square on Monday, Dec. 11, 2017. Police said a man with a pipe bomb strapped to him set off the crude device in an underground passageway under 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)   By Colleen Long associated…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Rep. John Conyers, (D-Mich.)  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)   By Corey Williams and Richard Lardner associated press DETROIT — Democratic Rep. John Conyers resigned from Congress on Tuesday after a nearly 53-year career, becoming the first Capitol Hill politician to lose his job in the torrent of sexual misconduct allegations sweeping through the nation’s workplaces….

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ABOVE PHOTO: Atlanta mayoral candidate Keisha Lance Bottoms declares victory during an election-night watch party Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017, in Atlanta. Atlanta’s two-person mayoral runoff election is too close to call. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)   By Errin Haines Whack associated press Atlanta voters woke up to deja vu Wednesday in the racially polarized contest to…

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ABOVE CARTOON:  John Darkow, Columbia Missourian Democrats say the bill mainly benefits Wall Street. By Nigel Roberts newsone.com On Monday morning, many people were were just getting their first looks at the nearly 500-page sweeping tax bill that Senate Republicans pushed through on a party line vote of 51-49 early Saturday morning. The proposed legislations…

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