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NEW YORK (AP) — One of the world’s largest and most influential publishers, Simon & Schuster, celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. The list tells many stories, through the books selected, not selected, and the evolution of what has been highlighted. “A group of Simon & Schuster staffers took on the daunting challenge of selecting 100 titles from our history that are believed to best represent the breadth and depth of the company’s publishing program, across imprints,” the publisher announced Wednesday. “That book actually had an influence on the course of events.”Like many leading publishers, Simon & Schuster began as an independently owned company and vastly expanded after the 1960s. Along the way, Simon & Schuster acquired numerous other publishers, whose books are now part of the S&S catalog and its centennial list.

Persons: Simon & Schuster, Simon, Gregory Hartswick, Prosper Buranelli, Margaret Petherbridge, Richard Simon, Max Schuster, ”, Schuster, Jonathan Karp, Sloan, veteran’s, Karp, “, — Ralph Ellison, Maya Angelou, Richard Wright, Harper, James Baldwin, Alex Haley, Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, ” Karp, Ntozake Shange’s, Jenny Han’s “, ” Carlos Eire’s “, ” Siddhartha Mukherjee's “, ” Jason Reynolds ’, Safiya, Wendy Sherwin, didn’t, John Irving, Bruce Springsteen’s, Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Pulitzer, Franklin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama, Rivals ’, Barack Obama’s, Hillary Clinton, Scott Fitzgerald’s “, ” Ernest Hemingway’s “, Alan Paton’s “, Scribner, Judy Blume’s “, Margaret ”, Walter Isaacson’s “ Steve Jobs, Frederick Backman's, Ove, Dale Carnegie’s, Leon Shimkin, David McCullough's, Wright, Blume, Woodward Organizations: Simon &, New York, HarperCollins, Dial Press, Doubleday, Knopf, “, Rivals, KKR, Win, Carnegie Locations: ”, Snow, Havana

☆ Trump set to return to the city he loves to hate and hates to love
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-31 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

No modern president has been as visceral about Washington as Trump – and his contempt offers insight into his politics and his character. Washington’s marbled monuments have also been the been the backdrop for some of the most notorious moments of Trump’s political career and have highlighted his autocratic leanings. In 2020, he tweeted that people protesting the death of Floyd would be met by “vicious dogs” if they breached the White House fence. Lyndon Johnson and George W. Bush were always keen to swap the White House for their Texas ranches. Presidents have also often ventured out of the White House for refreshment.

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☆ Opinion | If It Walks Like an Insurrection and Talks Like an Insurrection …
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Jamelle Bouie | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

While we await oral argument in Trump v. Anderson — the Supreme Court case that will evaluate the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to exclude the former president from the state’s Republican primary ballot — it’s worth revisiting the arguments leveled against the Colorado court’s decision and, by extension, its interpretation of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The first and most important one is that the plot to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, culminating in the Jan. 6 attack on the United States Capitol, was not an insurrection. Related to this is the argument that, even if Jan. 6 was an insurrection, it’s still not clear that Donald Trump was an insurrectionist. If that isn’t persuasive, consider the evidence marshaled by the legal scholars Akhil Reed Amar and Vikram David Amar in a more recent amicus brief. They argue that top of mind for the drafters of the 14th Amendment were the actions of John B. Floyd, the secretary of war during the secession crisis of November 1860 to March 1861.

Persons: Anderson —, it’s, Donald Trump, Jonathan Chait, Trump, ” I’ve, Akhil Reed Amar, Vikram David Amar, John B, Floyd, Abraham Lincoln, “, Virginia slaveholder, ” Amar, Amar, Ulysses S, Grant, James Buchanan Organizations: Colorado Supreme, Republican, Colorado, U.S, U.S . Constitution, United States Capitol, Capitol, Colorado Supreme Court Locations: Trump, Colorado, U.S ., New York, Northern, Sumter, South Carolina

☆ A Lincoln Trove Lands at the Library (Pie Safe Included)
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Jennifer Schuessler | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The New York Public Library’s grand research library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street is home to Virginia Woolf’s walking stick, Charles Dickens’s desk chair and the original Winnie-the-Pooh. But one evening last week, a crowd in one of the library’s elegant public rooms was milling around a goofier treasure: an Abraham Lincoln-themed pie safe. The safe — a large cabinet made to store pies, inlaid with decorative punched-tin panels celebrating the president — was probably created for one of his campaigns. It was on view at a memorial for Jonathan Mann, a collector whose trove of rare letters, photographs, banners, ballots, ribbons, campaign songbooks and other sundry bits of Lincolniana is being acquired by the library.

Persons: Charles Dickens’s, Abraham Lincoln, —, Jonathan Mann Organizations: New York Public, Fifth Locations: Virginia

☆ Analysis: Trump’s absurd ‘total immunity’ argument for law-breaking presidents, deconstructed
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Zachary Wolf | Analysis Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

These presidents would presumably argue that in their capacities as president, they must expect some legal immunity to pursue policy and lead the country. EVEN EVENTS THAT ‘CROSS THE LINE’ MUST FALL UNDER TOTAL IMMUNITY, OR IT WILL BE YEARS OF TRAUMA TRYING TO DETERMINE GOOD FROM BAD. In arguing for total immunity, his lawyer said a president could only be prosecuted if he or she was convicted by the Senate in an impeachment trial. ALL PRESIDENTS MUST HAVE COMPLETE & TOTAL PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY, OR THE AUTHORITY & DECISIVENESS OF A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES WILL BE STRIPPED & GONE FOREVER. It’s actually an appeals court currently considering the total immunity claim.

Persons: Donald Trump, Jack Smith, Trump, Joe Biden, ”, Norm Eisen, ” Eisen, Ulysses Grant, Bill Clinton, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, ” Trump, Smith, Abraham Lincoln, Mike Pence, Biden, he’s, George W ., Barack Obama, It’s Organizations: CNN, White House, Republican, Democrats, Appeals, DC Circuit, STATES, Trump, White, Department of Justice, of Justice, Senate Locations: Washington , DC, Trump’s, United States, Washington, Georgia, Manhattan, Washington ,, Florida

☆ Opinion: The dangerous Civil War ideology looming over the 2024 election
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Opinion Karen Finney | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

The myth of the Lost Cause hasn’t been defeated. Echoes of Lost Cause mythology have also been invoked throughout the primary by Trump’s leading opponents, Florida Gov. The myth of the Lost Cause hasn’t been defeated. In short, it was defeated and discredited, but Lost Cause mythology nevertheless lives on. It was easy not to indulge my grandmother Mildred Lee in her promotion of Lost Cause mythology.

Persons: Karen Finney, Hillary Clinton, Robert E, Lee, Mildred Lee, Karen Finney Ralph Alswange, ”, curriculums, General Lee, Jim Crow, hasn’t, Biden, —, Donald Trump, Abraham Lincoln, Trump’s, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, DeSantis, ” Karen Finney, Trump’s MAGA, Haley, Trump, McCarthy, Clint Smith, we’ve Organizations: CNN, Democratic, Aggression, United, Mother Emanuel AME Church, Florida Gov, South Carolina Gov, Trump voters, Capitol, Fox News, Florida Governor, CNN Town Hall, Union, South Carolina, House, Confederate, Illinois, Reconstruction, Ku Klux, Republican, Civil Locations: Virginia, North Carolina, Charleston , South Carolina, Iowa, Florida, America, South Carolina, United States

☆ Nikki Haley Is Tougher Than the Rest - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( David Brooks | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Donald Trump was tough, mean and self-pitying (a nifty combination). And the woman who is now Trump’s chief challenger, Nikki Haley, is one of the toughest politicians in America — by which I mean confrontational, willing to hammer her foes. When you read accounts of her days in South Carolina, her bellicosity fairly ripples off the pages. In a fantastic 2021 profile in Politico Magazine, Tim Alberta quotes a former South Carolina Republican Party chair: “Listen, man. Nikki Haley has a memory.

Persons: Abraham Lincoln, —, Reagan, Obama, Donald Trump, Biden, Nikki Haley, Tim Alberta, Haley, “, I’ve, ” Organizations: White House, Politico Magazine, South Carolina Republican Party Locations: America, South Carolina, Alberta

Ambassador Nikki Haley failed last month to mention slavery as the root cause of the Civil War. “Let me be clear, for those who don’t seem to know: Slavery was the cause of the Civil War,” he said. Chris Christie, who suspended his campaign on Wednesday, referenced the Civil War with a word of caution to Republican voters. The last time they were that relevant was the Civil War — which we know was caused by slavery,” Christie said. The intra-party jabs echo a broader debate over the legacy of the Civil War for policymaking today.

Persons: Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Donald Trump, “, ”, Jeff Kaufmann, Joe Biden’s, Biden, Kamala Harris, DeSantis, Kaufmann, Abraham Lincoln, Paul Peterson, Peterson, Haley, Carolina Sen, Tim Scott, —, Chris Christie, Benjamin Franklin, Christie, ” “ Benjamin Franklin’s, ” Christie, Eric Foner, Geoff Kabaservice, Kabaservice, ” Foner, ____ Matt Brown Organizations: WASHINGTON, —, Republicans, Florida Gov, GOP, Party of, Reconstruction, ” Iowa Republican, Republican, Mother Emanuel AME Church, Florida Republicans, Iowa GOP, Republican Party, Education, Harvard University, Democrats, Trump, Former New Jersey Gov, Columbia University, Niskanen, AP Locations: Florida, Party of Lincoln, Iowa, Charleston , South Carolina, Carolina, “, America, American

An incumbent hasn't lost his party's presidential nomination since Democrats passed over Franklin Pierce in 1856. Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 marked the last time someone from a new party — in his case, the Republican Party — won the White House. But with the United States deeply divided and somewhat anxious about the prospect of another Biden-Trump campaign, third party candidates insist voters are restless enough to defy history. West announced last month that he no longer was running under the Green Party banner, but as an independent. Democrats assume that many of voters supporting a progressive environmental activist would likely have chosen Clinton if forced to choose between the major parties.

Persons: George Washington, hasn't, Franklin Pierce, Abraham Lincoln's, Republican Party —, ” Jill Stein, “, ”, Stein, Cornel, “ it's, Biden, Trump, Justice Department indicting Trump, Hillary Clinton, Clinton, umbrage, Dean Phillips, “ I’m, ” Phillips, ” Robert F, Kennedy Jr, Kennedy, Kennedy's, John F, Sen, Robert F, Joe Manchin, Utah Sen, Mitt Romney, Jennifer Franks, Romney, McKay Coppins, Manchin, invigorate centrists, he's “, Meg Kinnard, Leah Willingham Organizations: Republican Party, White, Biden, Trump, Green Party, West, Associated Press, NORC, for Public Affairs Research, Justice Department, Republicans, wariness, Trump's, Clinton, Democratic, Rep, Minnesota, Democratic Party, Children’s Health Defense, Electoral College, GOP, Manchin Locations: United States, Minnesota, renominating, South Carolina, Manchin, Utah, Arizona, Michigan, West Virginia, Columbia , South Carolina, Charleston , West Virginia

[1/7] People demonstrate during the 95th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., November 23, 2023. War in the Middle East has prompted officials to take extra precautions at airports and shopping malls across the United States and along the route of New York's signature Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. A quintessential American rite, Thanksgiving brings together family and friends for turkey dinner and watching the parade and American football on TV. Many of them wore tops emblazoned with "Stop the Genocide" as they unfurled a banner saying "Free Palestine," "Land Back" and "Genocide Then, Genocide Now." For many Native Americans, however, Thanksgiving is a day of dark reflection about the genocide that followed.

Persons: Brendan McDermid, Joe Biden, " Biden, Eric Adams, Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Trotta, Jonathan Allen, Gerry Doyle, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: REUTERS, FBI, NBC, New York, New York Police, Pilgrims, Thomson Locations: Manhattan , New York City, U.S, Israel, Gaza, United States, Sixth, Massachusetts, Plymouth, Carlsbad , California, New York

War in the Middle East has prompted officials to take extra precautions at airports and shopping malls across the United States and along the route of New York's signature Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. A quintessential American rite, Thanksgiving brings together family and friends for turkey dinner and watching the parade and American football on TV. It also marks the most intense week of the year for travel and start of the holiday shopping season on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. but slower economic demand has retailers concerned that the holiday season could prove lackluster. For many Native Americans, however, Thanksgiving is a day of dark reflection about the genocide that followed.

Persons: Joe Biden, Leah Millis, Eric Adams, Adams, Corie Barry, Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Trotta, Jonathan Allen, Gerry Doyle Organizations: White, REUTERS, FBI, . New York, Consumer, Pilgrims, Thomson Locations: Washington , U.S, Israel, Gaza, United States, U.S, New York, New, Massachusetts, Plymouth, Carlsbad , California

[1/5] Passengers make their way through the terminal as they travel ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday at Washington Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virginia, U.S., November 22, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque Acquire Licensing RightsNov 22 (Reuters) - Millions of Americans headed to the homes of friends and family on Wednesday, the day before the Thanksgiving holiday, on the busiest travel day since the pandemic, undeterred by a sprawling East Coast storm system that disrupted some flights and slowed traffic. Industry group Airlines for America forecast U.S. airlines would carry some 29.9 million passengers between Nov. 17 and Nov. 27. That figure would be an all-time high, 9% higher than last year and up 1.7 million passengers from the levels seen before the COVID-19 pandemic. Out West, a snowstorm in the northern and central Rocky Mountains and adjacent High Plans will likely affect Thanksgiving travel from Wednesday night through Friday, the weather service said.

Persons: Kevin Lamarque, Hopper, Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Trotta, Joseph Ax, Miral Fahmy, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: Washington Dulles International, REUTERS, Industry, Airlines, America, U.S . Transportation Security Administration, American Automobile Association, AAA, National Weather Service, Thomson Locations: Dulles , Virginia, U.S, East, COVID, Carolinas, Atlantic, New England, New Hampshire, Rocky

☆ Cass Sunstein On Why He Is a Liberal - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Cass R. Sunstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

In North America, South America, Europe and elsewhere, those who consider themselves to be “conservatives” may or may not embrace liberal commitments. You can be, at once, a liberal, as understood here, and a conservative; you can be a leftist and illiberal. Historically, both Republicans and Democrats have been part of the liberal tradition. Many liberals have invoked an anticaste principle to combat entrenched forms of inequality on the basis of race, sex, and disability. The rule of law is not the same as a commitment to freedom of speech, freedom of religion or freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures.

Persons: ”, Abraham Lincoln, John Stuart Mill’s, Mill Organizations: Democrats Locations: North America, South America, Europe, Lincoln

☆ Trump’s extreme rhetoric conjures the prospect of a presidency like no other
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

CNN —Donald Trump is promising a second presidency that would be an aberration in American history. And Trump’s ambitions should be taken seriously because one year from the election, President Joe Biden’s reelection hopes are far from secure. He dehumanizes his political enemies, has discredited the legal, political and electoral system, has demonized the press and has targeted vulnerable members of society, minorities and immigrants, as scapegoats. With questionable historic comparisons, Trump’s critics only fuel his bid to provoke the outrage that is essential to his political appeal. Nikki Haley have only criticized Trump obliquely, understanding there’s no market in the modern Republican Party for confronting Trump’s lawlessness.

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, Joe Biden’s, “, ” Trump, ”, “ Donald Trump parroted, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Ammar Moussa, he’s, he’ll, else’s, Biden, —, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, there’s, Bob Dole, Mitt Romney, institutionalists, Republican Party isn’t reining, Trump’s, Mike Pence, Chris Christie, Asa Hutchinson, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, South Carolina Sen, Tim Scott, Susie Wiles, Chris LaCivita, …, Mark Milley, who’s, Jack Smith’s, –, Abraham Lincoln’s, George Washington’s, ” Smith Organizations: CNN, White, Veterans, Trump, New York Times, Republican, Democratic, Capitol, Republican Party, GOP, Florida Gov, South Carolina Gov, Justice Department, Conservative Political, Conference, Univision, Joint Chiefs, Staff, NBC News, MSNBC, Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Locations: New Hampshire, Gaza, Ukraine, China, Russia, Europe, America, South Carolina

☆ Opinion | America Needs a Serious Talk About How to Shrink Its Deficits
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( Peter Coy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

You need to put politics aside to shrink government budget deficits — or that’s the conventional wisdom, anyway. I was given an early look last week at a new collection that includes her essay and eight others commissioned by the foundation. Heitkamp told me last week that by politics, she doesn’t mean the kind of skirmishing for electoral advantage that Washington is famous for. Her essay quotes President Abraham Lincoln, who said: “Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.”“When you’re faced with tough choices, as certainly Lincoln was, you can’t expect people to follow you,” Heitkamp told me.

Persons: Heidi Heitkamp, Heitkamp, Peter G, Abraham Lincoln, ”, you’re, Lincoln, ” Heitkamp, they’re Organizations: U.S . Senate, Peterson Foundation, Washington Locations: U.S, Dakota

☆ Philip Schlamberg: Final US combat death of World War II was Jewish teen in Japan
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Brad Lendon | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

“The Last Fighter Pilot” says when the service saw those scores, Schlamberg was offered his pick of jobs and chose to be a fighter pilot. During that trip, he saw Japanese war veterans up close and felt a kinship, he said. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty ImagesFitting endingsYellin died in December 2017, shortly after “The Last Fighter Pilot” was published. In the foreword to “The Last Fighter Pilot,” Yellin recounted how World War II’s end was fitting for the times. “And that the final combat life in the defense of freedom would be laid down by a teenage Jewish fighter pilot who had not yet learned to even drive a car.”

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☆ Opinion | The Speakership Is Yours, Mike Johnson. Good Luck With That.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Gail Collins | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

This week, he compared himself to a South African Nobel Peace Prize winner who served time in prison for his battles against apartheid. All that flailing around over selecting a House speaker was due, in part, to the Republicans’ failure to corral their Flimsy Five around any of the original contenders. “I have many wonderful friends wanting to be Speaker of the House, and some are truly great Warriors,” Trump declaimed. Mike Johnson of Louisiana, who finally won the speaker’s job, is exactly the kind of guy you’d expect to come up on top. Right-wing anti-abortion activist who gets along with his colleagues and who, crucially, has items in his résumé that won Trump’s heart.

Persons: Donald Trump, Nelson Mandela, He’s, Abraham Lincoln B, C, George Washington D, Mona Lisa The, Tom Emmer, who’d, “, ” Trump, ” RINO, Trump, Mike Johnson of Organizations: South, Republicans, Republican, Independence Party, Democratic Party Locations: who’s, New York, Manhattan, Mike Johnson of Louisiana

☆ Opinion: We could be witnessing the Republican Party break apart in real time
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Thomas Balcerski | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Historically, political realignment has occurred when groups of voters change their affiliation to a new political party or candidate, especially around presidential and midterm elections. Yet the period between 1852 and 1860 is crucial here, for it saw the last time a major political party collapsed (the Whig Party in 1854) and the dissolution of another political party (the Democratic Party in 1860). The 1924 Democratic Party famously went through 103 ballots before agreeing on a compromise candidate, John W. Davis of West Virginia. Of course, party realignment is a tricky thing since we only come to know that it has happened in hindsight. A failure to reach a majority consensus signals the doom of an American political party.

Persons: Thomas Balcerski, James Buchanan, William Rufus King ”, Hakeem Jeffries, Patrick McHenry, let’s, V.O, Abraham Lincoln’s, Franklin D, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Andrew Jackson, Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, Lincoln, William Henry Seward, William L, Yancey, Stephen Douglas of, John C, Breckinridge, Theodore Roosevelt, Moose, Republican William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, John W, Davis of, Hubert H, Humphrey, Republican Richard Nixon, “ Organizations: Eastern Connecticut State University, Oxford University Press, CNN, Republican Party, Democratic Party, Whig Party, Whigs, Republican Party . Southern Whigs, American Party, Democrats, Whig, Union, Democratic, Southern, Lincoln, splintering, Republican, GOP Locations: United States, Northern, Southern, Kansas, Nebraska, Charleston , South Carolina, Alabama, Baltimore, Stephen Douglas of Illinois, Kentucky, Davis of West Virginia, Vietnam, American

☆ For Annie Leibovitz, an Opportunity to Work and Build on the Past
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Laurel Graeber | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

This article is part of the Fine Arts & Exhibits special section on the art world’s expanded view of what art is and who can make it. Annie Leibovitz often says she is obsessed. It requires drive, she said, and “you have to be obsessed.”All of these passions — and more — appear in “Annie Leibovitz at Work,” a show of about 300 photographs at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Ark. The exhibition, which runs through Jan. 29 before traveling to other museums, is unlike any Ms. Leibovitz, 74, has ever done. When Ms. Walton suggested that Ms. Leibovitz might want to exhibit at the museum as well, Ms. Leibovitz replied that she was more interested in making new work than in displaying what she had already done.

Persons: Annie Leibovitz, Abraham Lincoln, ”, Leibovitz, Alice L, Walton, Sam Walton Organizations: Fine Arts, Gettysburg, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Locations: Bentonville, Ark, Jan

NEW YORK (AP) — The next book by Erik Larson, widely known for the best-selling “The Devil in the White City,” is a work of Civil War history inspired in part by current events. Crown announced Wednesday that Larson's “The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War” will come out April 30. Larson sets his narrative over a short but momentous time span, from Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 to the firing on Fort Sumter five months later. Lincoln's primary concern had been about whether the electoral vote count would be disturbed, and then came the grave concern about the inauguration. Besides “The Devil in the White City,” based in Chicago during the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, Larson's books include “The Splendid and the Vile,” “Dead Wake” and “Isaac's Storm.”

Persons: Erik Larson, Larson, Abraham Lincoln's, Donald Trump, “, Robert Anderson, Edmund Ruffin, Mary Boykin Chesnut, ledgers, it’s, ” Organizations: Crown, Fort, U.S, Capitol, Confederate Army Locations: White City, ”, Fort Sumter, Virginia, South Carolina, America, Chicago

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Gov. The state’s 25-year-old Gift Ban Act prohibits public employees such as Pritzker from accepting presents, with broad exceptions. Therefore, the high-priced hooch delivered compliments of the Japanese embassy and three bottles of tequila valued at $450 have remained untapped. Together, they comprise 4 1/2 years of gratuities totaling 561 gifts valued at $16,890.14, according to a log provided to The Associated Press in response to a public records request. Jim Edgar, the Gift Ban Act was the first major ethics reform in Illinois since post-Watergate campaign-finance disclosure laws.

Persons: J.B . Pritzker, Pritzker, hooch, ” Pritzker, “, Jordan Abudayyeh, John Bel Edwards, Sen, Paul Simon, Barack Obama, Jim Edgar, “ It’s, ”, David Melton, Tiffany Kuhl, Shimon Peres, Sidney Blumenthal, Bill Clinton, Abraham Lincoln, Ralph Nader, Mark Green, Donald Trump’s, Jody Coss, ” Coss, Mike’s, Jennifer Farrar Organizations: Ill, —, Democratic, Associated Press, Louisiana Gov, Hotel, Forbes, Republican Gov, Illinois, National Bobblehead Hall of Fame, Museum, Loyola University, Stephenson County Democratic Party, Associated Locations: SPRINGFIELD, — Illinois, Springfield, Chicago, Louisiana, Mardi Gras, U.S, Illinois, Swiss, Milwaukee, Victoria ”, Freeport, Stephenson County, Rockford, New York

☆ The first full deployment of the US Navy's newest supercarrier and its strike group just took an unexpected turn with the crisis in Israel
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

The US announced the deployment of USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group to the eastern Mediterranean on Sunday amid a major crisis in Israel. The USS Gerald R. Ford is the US Navy's newest aircraft carrier and is on its first full deployment. Aircraft carriers have long been deployed to deter enemy forces, engage in air operations, and provide humanitarian support in emergencies. F-18 jet fighters are seen on the flight deck of USS Gerald R. Ford, on November 17, 2022 in Gosport, England. The deployment of the carrier strike group indicates US support for its ally during this serious crisis.

Persons: Gerald R, Ford, —, Lloyd Austin, Austin, Burke, Thomas Hudner, Ramage, USS Carney, Roosevelt, Kendall Warner, US Navy supercarrier, Maxwell, Trump, Nimitz, Theodore Roosevelt Carrier, Abraham Lincoln, John C, Marines —, George H.W, Bush, Harry S, Truman, Finnbarr Webster Organizations: US, Ford Carrier Strike Group, Aircraft, Service, carrier's, Ford Carrier Strike, Israel Defense Forces, Ticonderoga, Arleigh, Ford, Virginian, Tribune, Getty, US Navy, Nimitz, Whitney, ITS Cavour, U.S . Navy, Naval, Pentagon, Iranian, Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group, Nimitz Carrier Strike Group, Stennis, Marines Locations: Israel, Normandy, Gaza, Iran, South China, Taiwan, China, Russia, Damascus, Syria, Ukraine, Gosport, England, States

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers who had been sitting in stunned silence gasped at the declaration: The office of speaker “is hereby declared vacant. ”For the first time ever, a House speaker had been voted out of the position, plunging Congress into a new degree of turmoil. “Chaos is Speaker McCarthy,” Gaetz said on the floor, suggesting a series of reforms could make Washington work better. “Shocking … just the finality of it," said Rep. Michael McCaul, a Texas Republican who chairs the House Foreign Relations Committee. Republicans will try to coalesce around a new leader after McCarthy ruled out another bid to become speaker.

Persons: gasped, “, Kevin McCarthy, Brian Fitzpatrick, McCarthy, ” McCarthy, Donald Trump, Hakeem Jeffries, “ Kevin McCarthy, ”, Jamie Raskin, Matt Gaetz, ” Gaetz, Republicans —, —, Patrick McHenry of, Michael McCaul, Republicans seething, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Democrats —, Mary Claire Jalonick, Farnoush Amiri, Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking Organizations: WASHINGTON, — Lawmakers, California Republican, Lawmakers, Republican Party, Republicans, ”, Pennsylvania Republican, Capitol, Democratic, Republican, Texas Republican, Foreign Relations, —, Democrats, Associated Press Locations: California, United States, Washington, Pennsylvania, “ Ukraine, Russia, Maryland, Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, Texas, Gaetz

The tale provides an unlikely, ghastly background to the original 1858 ambrotype created during the future nation-saving Civil War president's ascendancy, an image which the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum has added to its collection, officials said Tuesday. “Original images of Abraham Lincoln are extraordinarily rare, and images with a fascinating back story like this are even more rare," said Christina Shutt, executive director of the library and museum. The photo ... is a physical reminder of his kind spirit and concern for others,” said Ian Hunt, head of acquisitions for the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. Hunt, also with the library and museum, sees “a man of conviction" while noting that Lincoln would have been exhausted by the campaign trail. “This is the Lincoln that the voters of Illinois would have been familiar with,” Hunt said.

Persons: Stephen A, Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln, Charles Lame, ambrotype, Christina Shutt, “ Lincoln, Charles Lame’s, Lame, Mary Davidson, Louis, Daniel Gilmer, Calvin Jackson, Robert Scanland, LeRoy H, Fischer, amputate Lame's, Lame's, “, ”, Ian Hunt, Horseflies, Gilmer, Hunt, ” Hunt, Daniel Chester French Organizations: Ill, U.S, Senate, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, of Congress, Lincoln Memorial Locations: SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, Hendersonville , Tennessee, Springfield, Pittsfield, St, Lincoln, Chickamauga, Washington

BOSTON (AP) — A pair of front-row balcony tickets to Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865 — the night President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth — sold at auction for $262,500, according to a Boston-based auction house. The tickets are stamped with the date, “Ford’s Theatre, APR 14, 1865, This Night Only.” They bear the left-side imprint “Ford’s Theatre, Friday, Dress Circle!” and are filled out in pencil with section (“D”) and seat numbers “41″ and “42”, according to RR Auction. The handwritten seating assignments and the circular April 14th-dated stamp match those found on other known authentic tickets, including a used ticket stub in the collection of Harvard University’s Houghton Library, auction officials said. Political Cartoons View All 1179 ImagesAs Lincoln slumped forward in his seat, Booth jumped onto the stage and fled out a back door. Also sold at Saturday's auction was a Lincoln-signed first edition of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, which fetched nearly $594,000.

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