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Second Lady Usha Vance narrowly avoided a fall while carrying her nine-week-old son, Alec, as she joined Vice President JD Vance for a campaign trip to Alaska on Monday. Usha was walking down the steps after getting off the vice president's helicopter at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, where the family was preparing to board a flight to Alaska. She was carrying Alec and a large brown backpack when she appeared to lose her footing. Usha stumbled forward but quickly caught herself, keeping hold of the baby. She then smiled in relief and continued walking. JD Vance followed a few...

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"We have to address the fact that we have got to deal with the fact that folks are paying for gas, paying for groceries, and are -- need solutions to it. So let's talk about that," Harris said. "Short-term solution includes what we need to do around the supply chain, right? So, we went to the ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, Savannah, Georgia, and said, 'hey, guys, no more five days a week, eight hours a day; 24/7, let's move the products because people need their product – they need what they need.' We're dealing with it in terms...

Time after time, President Obama has reportedly learned of a number of big administration scandals in the media, from the IRS to Fast & Furious and now the VA scandal over wait times and veterans dying before receiving proper treatment (Jay Carney said today the president learned about this scandal through media reports). All this apparent unawareness before the fact led Charles Krauthammer to argue on Special Report today that Obama acts like he “stumbled upon the presidency” only to be shocked by how much wrong there really is. He lightly mocked the idea that Obama is “madder than hell”...

GOP governors worried about Bush stumbles Republicans fear port security, other missteps will hurt in an election year Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP President Bush, center, speaks with members of the National Governors Association in the White House on Monday. Republican governors worry that administration fumbles will hurt the party in an election year. Feb. 27, 2006 WASHINGTON - Republican governors are openly worrying that the Bush administration’s latest stumbles — from the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina to those of its own making on prescription drugs and ports security — are taking an election-year toll on the party back...

Archaeologists stumble on brickworks of ancient Rome By Nick Pisa in Rome (Filed: 02/10/2005) Two thousand years ago its furnaces must have been working around the clock, turning out the bricks that built ancient Rome. Now archaeologists have discovered the site of the brickworks that provided Rome with its most famous monuments, including the Colosseum and the Pantheon. One of the inscribed bricks used to build the Colosseum in Rome It lay 50 miles north of Rome, near the village of Bomarzo and close to the Tiber - enabling the red bricks to be loaded onto boats and transported down...