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A California high school track star’s post-race celebration that paid homage to an Olympic gold medalist resulted in her disqualification and the stripping of her state championship title by outraged officials. North Salinas High School sophomore Clara Adams had just crossed the finish line as the winner in the 400 meters at Buchanan High in Clovis on Saturday when the excited teen ran over to her father to celebrate, the Mercury News reported. Her proud father, David, handed his daughter a fire extinguisher, and away from her competitors, she sprayed on her shoes as if they were on fire. However,...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has dramatically increased the amount of water flowing from two dams in Tulare County, sending massive flows down river channels toward farmlands in the San Joaquin Valley. Federal records show that water releases from Terminus Dam at Lake Kaweah and Schafer Dam at Lake Success jumped early Friday morning. The sudden increase occurred four days after President Trump said on social media that the U.S. military had “entered” California and “TURNED ON THE WATER.” Trump also vowed during a visit to Los Angeles last week to “open up the valves and pumps” in California...

President Trump is not welcome in Wisconsin, at least not if you're asking Gov. Tony Evers. Evers, a Democrat who has been critical of Trump, urged the president to reconsider traveling on Tuesday to Kenosha, where recent protests against police brutality have exploded into deadly riots in recent days. “I, along with other community leaders who have reached out, are concerned about what your presence will mean for Kenosha and our state," Evers wrote in a letter to Trump. "I am concerned your presence will only hinder our healing. I am concerned your presence will only delay our work to...

[Catholic Caucus] Papal Baptism of the Conjoined Twins Was a Blessing — and a Puzzle COMMENTARY: The fact that the 2-year-old girls were not baptized earlier, by someone else, suggests an inexplicable pastoral failure to heed Pope Francis’ stress on the supreme importance of the sacrament. A pastoral puzzle remains. How is it that the pastors, chaplains, doctors and nurses caring for the Bangalo twins in Bangui and in Rome did not see to it that the girls were baptized long before they turned 2 years old? No child in good health should have a baptism delayed for that length...

Hillary discovers the Rutgers basketball team. http://www.hillaryclinton.com/?splash=1

Kurtz Backs Geraldo in 'NYT' Dispute By E&P Staff Published: September 12, 2005 12:07 PM ET NEW YORK It seemed like a minor, one-day story at the time -- amid the tragedy of the hurricane catastrophe -- but is The New York Times, which is normally pretty quick to run a correction or clarification, making it much more than that by stonewalling? On Monday, Howard Kurtz at the Washington Post defended Geraldo Rivera in his campaign to gain an apology from the Times for accusing him of showboating during his Katrina coverage last week. The Chicago Tribune also covered the...

I know we can't post getty images here so I just posted the link. Man the guy looks terrible.

Contrast Pat Tillman with John F. Kerry, the man who can't stop blabbering about his wartime experience in Vietnam....

<p>It's good that Gov. Jesse Ventura knows something about bullies -- because political bullying is what he is getting from the Bush administration about his scheduled Sept. 25-28 trade mission to Cuba. Ventura has stood his ground nicely thus far. He will need to keep it up.</p>