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President Trump tweeted out a video compilation on Sunday apparently aimed at critics who said he would never be president. “They just didn’t get it, but they do now!” Trump tweeted. The video begins with footage from “The Simpsons” television show that replicates his escalator ride down Trump Tower to announce his presidential campaign in 2015. The video, produced by YouTube user Elouai, consists of over 2-minutes of pundits, celebrities and politicians projecting that his opponent, Democrat Hillary Clinton, will win the 2016 presidential election. It also features CNN coverage of election night, showcasing the states Trump won to secure...

President Donald Trump tweeted Thursday that he finally agrees with Rosie O’Donnell, the liberal actress and activist, on at least one point. The president’s Tweet was in response to a message O’Donnell tweeted in 2016, blaming former FBI Director James Comey for interfering with the 2016 presidential election by releasing information about the expansion of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email scandal.

Those who made New Year’s resolutions to quit smoking have had two weeks to contemplate the decision.Is it worth the hassle? Can they stick to it?Similarly, Lawrence itself is experiencing the effects of such a decision nearly two years after banning smoking in “all enclosed public places.”“It wasn’t my idea, and I wasn’t on board at first,” said Lawrence Mayor Boog Highberger. “But I think this is the most popular decision I’ve made since I’ve been on the City Commission. I know in certain circles it’s not, but it is if you count the population as a whole.”While the commission...

In one of a trio of new global warming papers in Science, Mears & Wentz (2005) address what they consider to be a large source of uncertainty in our (University of Alabama in Huntsville, "UAH") satellite estimate for global lower tropospheric ("LT") temperature trends since 1979. The satellite measurements come from the Microwave Sounding Units (MSUs) and Advanced Microwave Sounding Units (AMSUs) flying on NOAA's polar orbiting weather satellites. The UAH estimate of the globally averaged trend since 1979 to the present has been +0.09 deg. C/decade, considerably below the surface thermometer estimate that has been hovering around +0.20 deg....

Friday's National Non-Smoking Day turned out to be a non-event for several for smokers The Royal Gazette caught up with. One smoker, who did not want to be named, said she had "no idea it was going on", and "was not sure if she would not have smoked if she had known". The Hamilton office worker who was outside smoking said that she "did not think it would have made a difference." Another man said he thought it was "a stupid idea because people should have choices. They have choices for everything else, we should have choices if we smoke...