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during that class period hour
an
days before
auditorium in the administra-
And, what is the response
handful of all the parents and everyone Time!”
16 Republican rivals. Among
the popular
police officers in the U.S. Garland, chief judge of the U.S. the brakes
CLIN-
The CIA later concluded that
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Jesus was born in Bethlehem,
in what is now the West Bank.
tiny post office are sent to a
regional facility in White River
Edney if they could sit in. This
was just the start.
Continued from Page 1A
until each one was included.
new
was
tant.
And it all started with a
Investors have bid rates
higher because they believe
Donald
1951 and 65 years later taught
19 students what it meant to be
their choice.
Students were
parents were shocked, and
there were tears, there was
quiet.
Nearly all government offic-
es
season is far from over.
Twelve percent of people in
ROR ATTACKS: Across the the U.S. said they bought their
Thurmond and her co-work- outright because they changed
ers agreed that they are
really good after Christmas so
a 52-48 advantage next year.
9. SUPREME COURT:
After Justice Antonin Scalia’s
“Senator Corker and I have
a disagreement about the need
more.”
“Every moment of our lives,
_ - - - - „
“They think it is amazing
Reports vary on holiday sales
shooting in modern U.S. his- Continued from Page 1A
tory unfolded on Latin Night
mation” such as tax returns. that Democrats are asking for career and has never been in
“The United States Senate disclosures not demanded of public service.
Schultz and other DNC would not recommend criminal has a rich, bipartisan tradi- previous nominees, including
charges. tion of vetting nominees to the wealthy people like Secretary7 of with
Stories that did not make president’s Cabinet,” said New State John Kerry.
Russia was behind the DNC the top 10 included Europe’s York Sen. Chuck Schumer, the
never made public disclosures
responded to “reasonable Sen. Bob Corker, the com- of this type, as he has worked
FBI Director James Comey requests for additional infor- mittee chairman, complained at Exxon Mobil for his entire
care- mation” such as tax returns. that Democrats are asking for
U.S. election leads AP poll for top story
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She wanted the “Bethlehem'
stamp on her envelopes. But you’ll stand there for sev- a 2-inch-square wooded scene
“We feel the connection eral hours a day cancelling let- that says “Bethlehem, New
here with Jesus Christ, Beth- ters.” Hampshire.”
lehem, the birth of Christ and With two days before Thompson said people
everything. This kind of repre- Christmas, Thompson said come from around the state
sents it for us,” she said. about 58,000 letters had gone to get the postmark. For years,
According to the Bible, through the machine. one family has been coming
There are about 90 post from Pennsylvania. They drive
offices in the United States up, buy a Christmas tree and
Most of the y ear, letters and with holiday- or winter- mail their greeting cards.
other mail dropped off at the themed names and the U.S.
Postal Sendee offers a “Christ- from people who receive those
mas Re-mailing” service to cards from the little town of
Junction, Vermont. There, them. Letters may be sent to Bethlehem, New Hampshire?
they stream through an effi- the postmaster in the town
cient automated machine that marked “Christmas Re-mail- that they have their own spe-
cancels stamps with postal ing” and they7 will be stamped cial stamp here that says ‘Beth-
markings. and sent out. lehem’ on it,” Wareing said.
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A special touch with Bethlehem postmark Ash donation at‘right place at right time’
ASSOCIATED PRESS But each December, Bethle- The list includes six other
hem postmaster Brian Thomp- Bethlehems along with Gar-
BETHLEHEM, N.H. — son dusts off a machine that land, Maine; Holly7, Michigan;
Instead of mailing her Christ- has been there for at least six Rudolph, Ohio; Santa Claus,
mas cards from her local post decades. Stacks of cards must Indiana; Antlers, Oklahoma;
office, Sherry Wareing drove be fed into it by hand and it Nazareth, Texas; and Snow-
20 miles roundtrip to a small cancels each stamp with the flake, Arizona.
post office in a White Moun- word “Bethlehem.” In Bethlehem, New Hamp-
tains town of about 2,500. “It has a pinch wheel and shire, Thompson provides rub-
Convenience didn’t matter it just starts drawing letters ber stamps and ink pads at
to Wareing, of Twin Mountain, through,” Thompson said. a table where patrons mark
“The machine works great, their cards and packages with
But you’ll stand there for sev-
We feel the connection eral hours a day cancelling let- that says
ters.”
With
Most gov’t offices closed Monday
FROM DAILY NEWS STAFF REPORTS resume its regular schedule on
Tuesday.
Most banks and financial
will be closed Monday in institutions will be closed Mon-
resume regular
n
Corker quickly responded
a statement saying the
GOP-controlled committee
“This is being driven by the never officially7 asked for the
hacking in a bid to boost Don- migrant crisis, the death of incoming Democratic leader, election,” Corker, R-Tenn., told tax returns and insisted that
aid Trump’s chances of beating longtime Cuban leader Fidel
Coming after several simi- Hillary Clinton.
lar cases in recent years, the
killings rekindled debate over
policing practices and the Black
Lives Matter movement.
4. PULSE NIGHTCLUB
MASSACRE: The worst mass
and delivery7 as usual on Christ- edition as normal and will be
mas Eve and will be closed closed Monday. No newspaper
Monday. Mail service will will be published Monday.
Midwest buying spree lifted
U.S. new-home sales in Nov.
ASSOCIATED PRESS But the cheap loans that
have supported stronger sales
WASHINGTON — A buying may be vanishing. Long-term
spree in the Midwest spurred mortgage rates have quickly
new7 U.S. home sales last month risen since the election. The
to the fastest pace since July. average 30-year, fixed-rate
The Commerce Department mortgage rose to 4.30 percent
said Friday that new-home this week, the highest level
sales in November rose 5.2 per- since April 2014.
cent to a seasonally adjusted
annual rate 592,000. It was
the fastest pace since July’s President-elect
622,000. Sales were up 16.5 Trump’s plans for tax cuts and
percent from November 2015. higher infrastructure spend-
Sales in the Midwest shot ing will drive up economic
up 43.8 percent, the region’s growth and inflation. And last
biggest monthly increase since week, the Federal Reserve, cit-
October 2012. Sales w7ere up ing improvement in the U.S.
7.7 percent in the West, flat in economy, raised short-term
the Northeast and down 3.1 U.S. interest rates for only the
percent in the South. second time in a decade.
The median price of new7 More people are at risk of
home sold last month was being priced out of the hous-
$305>4°0- ing market because rates are
Demand for houses has rising at a time when there is a
been strong this y ear, helped shortage of properties for sale,
by7 a healthy job market and low driving bids higher.
mortgage rates. The unemploy- “Housing demand clearly
ment rate is at a nine-year low continues to be strong,” Ste-
4.6 percent, and most workers phen Stanley, chief economist
enjoy job security. at Amherst Pierpoint Securi-
The National Association of ties, said in a research note. But
Realtors said Wednesday7 that he noted that the November
Americans bought existing sales numbers mostly came in
homes last month at the fastest before the sharp rise in mort-
pace since February 2007. gage rates.
Senate Dems press picks for financial data
ASSOCIATED PRESS “President-elect Trump ran for president in 2004.
refused to release his tax In a letter to colleagues,
WASHINGTON — Top Sen- returns and will start his presi- Sen. Ben Cardin, the panel’s
on the Foreign returns,” Cardin said. “I think it
use of a private com- a financial report and an eth- Relations Committee, the panel is an important part of vetting
server to handle emails ics agreement with the Office that will vote on the multimil- this candidate because he has
might not be known until the details from Democratic Party7 she sent and received as secre- of Government Ethics, and lionaire’s nomination.
spring of 2019. operatives in run-up to Elec- tary of state. responded to “reasonable Sen. Bob Corker, the com-
3. BLACKS KILLED BY tion Day, leading to the resig-
POLICE: One day apart, police nation of Democratic National criticized Clinton for
in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Committee chair Debbie Was- lessness but said the bureau
fatally shot Alton Sterling after serman I
pinning him to the ground, and officials,
a white police officer shot and
killed Philando Castile during a
traffic stop in a suburb of Min-
neapolis.
consider the nomination, opt- moving forward
ing to leave the seat vacant so tions.
Britons voted in June to leave Ten days after that attack, it could be filled by the win- Frustrated by the slow
the European Union, triggering a man killed three officers in ner of the presidential election, response of billionaires and respond to repeated requests tion
financial and political upheav- Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In Donald Trump has promised to multimillionaires
al. David Cameron resigned as Iowa, two policemen were fatal- appoint
prime minister soon after the ly shot in separate ambush- mold of Scalia.
vote, leaving the task of nego- style attacks while sitting in
tiating an exit to a reshaped their patrol cars. TON’S EMAILS: Amid the vote on a nominee until the an escalating fight Thursday
Conservative government led 7. DEMOCRATIC PARTY presidential campaign, the FBI individual has cleared an FBI between the top Republican to review the nominee’s tax
by Theresa May. EMAIL LEAKS: Hacked conducted an investigation into background check, provided and Democrat
Under a tentative timetable, emails, disclosed by WikiLeaks, Clinton’s use of a private com- a financial report and an
final details of the withdrawal revealed at-times embarrassing puter
‘We hope to continue that The Associated Press. “The fact Tillerson was ahead of schedule
Castro, and the spread of the tradition with our colleagues that Donald Trump did not pro- in providing information to the
8. SYRIA: Repeated cease- Zika virus across Latin America in the Republican majority7 vide tax returns is driving all committee.
fire negotiations failed to halt and the Caribbean. because the American people that is being done.” The issue has the potential to
are entitled to a fair and open In fact, Kerry, a former Mas- produce a major political battle
consideration process for all sachusetts senator, had to file in the opening days of Trump’s
executive nominations.” an annual financial disclosure administration. Corker said it is
Republicans controlling the report, and he released 20 not the practice of his commit-
_ . ..
this holiday season. Sales run Senate, led by Majority7 Lead- years of tax returns when he tee to request tax information,
on Latin Night Thurmond said even with rampant in the coming days, er Mitch McConnell, want to
at the Pulse, a gay nightclub in the economy down people are
Orlando.
The gunman, Omar Mateen,
killed 49 people over the course
students, it was the difference was cry ing. It meant so much
betw een going and not going to to them - just as much, if not
Two of the students listening college after high school gradu-
to Ash were library7 assistants ation.
One student, the youngest God has prepared us for this,'
and had asked librarian Marsha child from a large family, had another student said. “Mr. Ash
no means for further educa- said at Homecoming that no
tion. Within a day of the dona- matter what we have - money,
Seven weeks later, the 19 tion, the student was meeting a kind word, a smile - we
students and their parents w?ere with HHS counselors and reg- need to give somebody some-
asked to attend a meeting at istering to take college entrance thing every7 day. I’ve definitely
the HISD administration build- exams. Ash’s generous gesture thought about that a lot more
ing and were told they would had changed his plans. and tried to put a lot more
receive a special message from Another student sought an effort into it.”
Ash as part of his other major interview with M.I.T., some- Being in the “right place at
donation to HISD (renovation thing that wouldn’t have hap- the right time” was beneficial to
of Lion Stadium). pened if the donation came the 19 students. So were some
That night, the students were in May, like most scholarship other things, including some-
called to the stage of the old awards. thing commonly found in East
Another student who had Texas... manners. Each student
tion building. Stacey Johnson, moved away in eighth-grade receiving the $100 bill in Sep-
Director of Human Resources and returned to Henderson last tember wrote a thank-y ou note
and Communication for HISD year would further chime in, to Ash. Who says “manners”
don’t pay7 off?
The students’ journey start-
as well as the district’s Educa- “Right place at the right time.”
tion Foundation, told the stu- His pursuit of a career in phar-
dents and their families of Ash’s macy will be easier. “I think ed with an advanced placement
wish to give each $100,000 to everything happens for a rea- calculus class taught by Grand-
use for tuition at the college of son,” he said. “With whatever george. It can be traced far-
I’m able to do, I want to give it ther back to parents and other
awestruck, in that way.” teachers. It can even go back to
Another student put it per- a small town where things like
fectly when he said, "It opened values and respect are impor-
a door I couldn’t open. It shat-
Ash wished to give the tered my7 whole plan of what I
money with plenty7 of time for thought I was going to do and Grady Ash, who graduated in
seis and Istanbul, a park teem- relentless warfare among mul- students to change their plans, opened up so many options.”
would run for president. Wide- ing with families and children tiple factions. With Russia’s if the donation meant the pos-
ly viewed as a
an _
featuring raucous rallies and where 86 people were killed seized rebel-held portions of
pugnacious tweets, he outlasted when a truck plowed through the city of Aleppo, at a huge
a Bastille Day celebration. In cost in terms of deaths and
the Democrats, Hillary7 Clin- Iraq alone, many hundreds of destruction,
ton beat back an unexpectedly civilians were killed in repeated
strong challenge from Bernie bombings.
Sanders, and won the popular 6. ATTACKS ON POLICE: death in February, President
vote over Trump. But he won Ambushes and targeted attacks Obama nominated Merrick ate Democrats are trying to put dency consumed by questions top Democrat, said he asked
key Rust Belt states to get the on police officers in the U.S. Garland, chief judge of the U.S. the brakes on President-elect about how7 he could be using the Trump transition team for
most electoral votes, and will claimed at least 20 lives. The Court of Appeals, to fill the Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks, his position to enrich himself three years’worth of tax returns
enter the White House with victims included five officers vacancy. insisting on extensive financial and his family, but that doesn’t because Tillerson was “active-
Republicans maintaining con- in Dallas working to keep the However, majority Repub- information on some of the mean that his nominees should ly engaged with many foreign
trol of both houses of Congress, peace at a protest over the fatal licans in the Senate refused to wealthiest Americans before be held to the same low7 stan- governments” at Exxon Mobil.
2. BREXIT: Confound- police shootings of black men consider the nomination, opt- moving forward on nomina- dards,” said Sen. Patty7 Murray, Cardin said Tillerson “prom-
ing pollsters and oddsmakers, in Minnesota and Louisiana. ing to leave the seat vacant so tions. D-Wash. ised to provide” the tax infor-
Ten days after that attack, it could be filled by7 the win- Frustrated by the slow Transition officials did not mation in response to a ques-
a man killed three officers in ner of the presidential election, response of billionaires and respond to repeated requests tion on a standard question-
to their for comment. naire that all nominees submit
a conservative in the request, 16 Democrats deliv- Trump’s choice of Exxon prior to appearing before the
ered an ultimatum Thursday, Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson for committee.
10. HILLARY CLIN- saying no committee should secretary7 of state touched off
TON’S EMAILS: Amid the vote on a nominee until the
7. DEMOCRATIC PARTY presidential campaign, the FBI individual has cleared an
EMAIL LEAKS:
Another, w7hose parents are
long shot, with in Pakistan, and the seafront help, the government forces of sibility of attending another teachers, said, “I looked out at at the “Right Place at the Right
unconventional campaign boulevard in Nice, France, President Bashar Assad finally university. For a
and while many may never want make quick work of Cabinet
still buying furniture. to step foot into another store confirmations once Trump
“I don’t know where people after the holiday season, some takes office on Jan. 20.
are getting money, but people stores say they see more traffic Democrats have limited
of three hours before dying in still keep coming in,” Thur- in the days follow ing Christmas, options to block nominees
a shootout with SWAT team mondsaid.
members. During the standoff, It may be Christmas Day, ers agreed that they are ready filibuster rules when they con- Henderson, including City of day and will
he pledged allegiance to the but the NRF says the shopping for the new year, but look for- trolled the Senate in 2013, and Henderson and Rusk County, hours on Tuesday.
Islamic State. season is far from over. ward to the days after Christ- Cabinet nominees can w in for the Christmas holiday week- Progressive Waste Solutions
5. WORLDWIDE TER- Twelve percent of people in mas. approval on a simple major- end and will resume regular residential trash pickup will
“A lot of people go to the ity vote. Republicans will hold hours on Tuesday. remain on a normal schedule.
globe, extremist attacks flared last gift on Dec. 23 last year and other stores for after Christ- a 52-48 advantage next year. The U.S. Post Office con- The Henderson Daily News
at a relentless pace through- nearly half of consumers plan mas sales, but last year we did However, Democrats could ducted residential mail pickup office published its Sunday
out the year. Among the many to shop in the coming week. really good after Christmas so drag out the process in com-
The NRF expects sales to I think we’ll do alright,” Thur- mittee or force longer Senate
that targeted airports in Brus- increase $655.8 billion during mond said. debates than usual.
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