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Working fire at night, Two-Alarm fire in the morning. That was the case in the posh Kalorama neighborhood of DC where the new home of Donald Trump''s Navy Secretary caught fire TWICE in 12 hours. After that, we had a murder on the other side of town, but just next to an all-city elementary school track meet, which led to lots of scared kids and parents. PenguinSix is an apolitical guy in a political town who likes to walk a lot. He has hiked over 17,000 miles (27,000kms) in the past six years and is still walking today. He is...

...The Farmer-Labor Party carried more than a tinge of communism, an ideology which repelled Humphrey. This presented few problems during wartime when the U.S. was allied with the Soviet Union, but when the war ended and the Cold War began the communists threw their weight behind Moscow. Despite the Midwest’s long tradition of non-interventionism, Humphrey believed that the failure to confront Hitler earlier had encouraged eventual war and he was deeply committed to an anti-communist foreign policy, which the communist elements of the DFL opposed. “We’re not going to let the political philosophy of the DFL be dictated from the...

John J. Phelan Jr., a former chairman of the New York Stock Exchange who introduced computer technology to the Big Board in the 1980s and was widely praised for his calming response to the stock market crash of October 1987, died on Saturday in Manhattan. He was 81. After the 1987 crash, which shook investors' confidence in financial markets, Mr. Phelan coolly resisted calls to close the exchange, fearing that it would breed further panic. He rang the closing bell himself. "He deserves eternal credit for that,"Felix G. Rohatyn, a longtime investment banker who helped save New York from bankruptcy...