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Trump White House touts achievements but downplays 100-day expectations

WASHINGTON (TNS) — In the closing weeks of his campaign last year, Donald Trump laid out what he called a “100-day contract” with voters — an ambitious flurry of administrative and legislative steps that he vowed would start the process…

 

Coming full circle, doulas cradle the dying

As Ellen Gutenstein lay in her bed at home, dying from lung cancer that had metastasized in her brain, a heart-wrenching Mother’s Day card arrived from her granddaughter. Neither Ellen’s daughter — nor her husband — felt they could read…

 

When a faith healing sect’s children die, one Idaho sheriff wants to investigate ... first, he needs the law on his side

CALDWELL, Idaho (TNS) — The coroner’s van pulled into the driveway sometime after midnight, and for a moment — her dead daughter in her arms — LaTisha Shippy hated God.

 

Sean Spicer should cool down and stick to the facts, predecessors say

In the 88 years since President Herbert Hoover named a former Minneapolis Tribune reporter as the first White House press secretary, nobody who has held that job has stumbled as quickly or dramatically as Sean Spicer.

 

With drug costs in crosshairs, health firms gave generously to Trump’s inauguration

Facing acute risks to their businesses from Washington policymakers, health companies spent more than $2 million to buy access to the incoming Trump administration via candlelight dinners, black-tie balls and other inauguration events, new filings show.

 

Sailor killed at Pearl Harbor finally will be laid to rest

More than 75 years after Michael Galajdik was killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, the sailor from Joliet, Ill., will reach his final resting place.

 

O'Reilly is out at Fox but influence endures; career, too?

LOS ANGELES — Despite the inglorious end to Bill O'Reilly's two-decade Fox News Channel career, observers say his deep imprint on Fox and other cable news outlets and his influence on barbed political discourse are intact for the foreseeable future.

 

Prince's 1980s band hits the road for memorial tour

MINNEAPOLIS — For members of Prince’s 1980s backing band The Revolution, reuniting and hitting the road for a spring U.S. tour is how they are coping with the “Purple Rain” pop superstar’s unexpected death a year ago.

 

The making of Marine Le Pen: Seven dates that forged France's firebrand

PARIS (TNS) — Marine Le Pen has placed herself among the front-runners to be France’s next president by ditching the anti-Semitic rhetoric that her father used to build up her party.

 

Deals ensure cash keeps flowing to unsettled Prince estate

MINNEAPOLIS — A year after Prince died of an accidental drug overdose, his Paisley Park studio complex and home is now a museum and concert venue. Fans can now stream most of his classic albums, and a remastered "Purple Rain"…

 

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