Six missing climbers on Washington's Mount Rainier presumed dead - New York Daily News

Elaine Thompson/AP The six climbers were reported missing to Mountain Rainier park rangers on Saturday after they never returned from their trip to the summit. Six Mount Rainier climbers are presumed dead after helicopters detected pings from emergency beacons buried in the snow and a debris field that may indicate an avalanche.Mount Rainier National Park spokeswoman Patricia Wold told KOMO-TV on Saturday there’s no way the group could have survived.The...

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Cruz wins straw poll of group that once was wild about Perry - Dallas Morning News

NEW ORLEANS — In an audition of their nascent presidential themes, the two titans of Texas politics performed as top acts of the Republican Leadership Conference on Saturday.U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and Gov. Rick Perry played to 1,500 conservative activists, blasting Washington and laying out their scripts of how to change it.But on this platform, the younger Cruz upstaged the political veteran, winning the conference’s presidential straw poll and radiating...

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Six missing climbers on Washington's Mount Rainier presumed dead - New York Daily News

Elaine Thompson/AP The six climbers were reported missing to Mountain Rainier park rangers on Saturday after they never returned from their trip to the summit. Six Mount Rainier climbers are presumed dead after helicopters detected pings from emergency beacons buried in the snow and a debris field that may indicate an avalanche.Mount Rainier National Park spokeswoman Patricia Wold told KOMO-TV on Saturday there’s no way the group could have survived.The...

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Cruz wins straw poll of group that once was wild about Perry - Dallas Morning News

NEW ORLEANS — In an audition of their nascent presidential themes, the two titans of Texas politics performed as top acts of the Republican Leadership Conference on Saturday.U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and Gov. Rick Perry played to 1,500 conservative activists, blasting Washington and laying out their scripts of how to change it.But on this platform, the younger Cruz upstaged the political veteran, winning the conference’s presidential straw poll and radiating...

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Six missing climbers on Washington's Mount Rainier presumed dead - New York Daily News

Elaine Thompson/AP The six climbers were reported missing to Mountain Rainier park rangers on Saturday after they never returned from their trip to the summit. Six Mount Rainier climbers are presumed dead after helicopters detected pings from emergency beacons buried in the snow and a debris field that may indicate an avalanche.Mount Rainier National Park spokeswoman Patricia Wold told KOMO-TV on Saturday there’s no way the group could have survived.The...

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Cruz wins straw poll of group that once was wild about Perry - Dallas Morning News

NEW ORLEANS — In an audition of their nascent presidential themes, the two titans of Texas politics performed as top acts of the Republican Leadership Conference on Saturday.U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and Gov. Rick Perry played to 1,500 conservative activists, blasting Washington and laying out their scripts of how to change it.But on this platform, the younger Cruz upstaged the political veteran, winning the conference’s presidential straw poll and radiating...

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6 Mt. Rainier climbers presumed dead; families head to Seattle - Los Angeles Times

Four mountain climbers and two guides escorting them to the summit of Mt. Rainier were presumed dead after searchers found a trail of scattered equipment on Saturday, authorities said.Gary Harrington, operations director for Alpine Ascents International, which was leading the expedition, told the Los Angeles Times that families of the six were traveling from around the country to Seattle on Saturday night. Authorities did not immediately release...

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Cruz wins straw poll of group that once was wild about Perry - Dallas Morning News

NEW ORLEANS — In an audition of their nascent presidential themes, the two titans of Texas politics performed as top acts of the Republican Leadership Conference on Saturday.U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and Gov. Rick Perry played to 1,500 conservative activists, blasting Washington and laying out their scripts of how to change it.But on this platform, the younger Cruz upstaged the political veteran, winning the conference’s presidential straw poll and radiating...

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Pastor: Released soldier has mental toughness to recover - USA TODAY

This June 21, 2013, file photo shows a yellow ribbon honoring captive U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl tied to a tree in Hailey, Idaho.(Photo: Jae C. Hong, AP) 38 CONNECT 1 LINKEDIN EMAILMORE The newly freed soldier who spent nearly five years in captivity in Afghanistan has the mental and physical toughness to survive the experience, his former pastor said. Bowe Bergdahl grew up in a conservative Christian family in Idaho, studied ballet, was home-schooled,...

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6 Mt. Rainier climbers presumed dead; families head to Seattle - Los Angeles Times

Four mountain climbers and two guides escorting them to the summit of Mt. Rainier were presumed dead after searchers found a trail of scattered equipment on Saturday, authorities said.Gary Harrington, operations director for Alpine Ascents International, which was leading the expedition, told the Los Angeles Times that families of the six were traveling from around the country to Seattle on Saturday night. Authorities did not immediately release...

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Cruz wins straw poll of group that once was wild about Perry - Dallas Morning News

NEW ORLEANS — In an audition of their nascent presidential themes, the two titans of Texas politics performed as top acts of the Republican Leadership Conference on Saturday.U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and Gov. Rick Perry played to 1,500 conservative activists, blasting Washington and laying out their scripts of how to change it.But on this platform, the younger Cruz upstaged the political veteran, winning the conference’s presidential straw poll and radiating...

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Pastor: Released soldier has mental toughness to recover - USA TODAY

This June 21, 2013, file photo shows a yellow ribbon honoring captive U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl tied to a tree in Hailey, Idaho.(Photo: Jae C. Hong, AP) 23 CONNECT 1 LINKEDIN EMAILMORE The newly freed soldier who spent nearly five years in captivity in Afghanistan has the mental and physical toughness to survive the experience, his former pastor said. Bowe Bergdahl grew up in a conservative Christian family in Idaho, studied ballet, was home-schooled,...

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Families travel to Seattle after 6 Mt. Rainier climbers presumed dead - Los Angeles Times

Four mountain climbers and two guides escorting them to the summit of Mt. Rainier were presumed dead after searchers found a trail of scattered equipment on Saturday, authorities said.Gary Harrington, operations director for Alpine Ascents International, which was leading the expedition, told the Los Angeles Times that families of the six were traveling from around the country to Seattle on Saturday night. Authorities did not immediately release...

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Cruz wins presidential straw poll at summit - St. Augustine Record

NEW ORLEANS — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has won the latest 2016 presidential straw poll at a conservative summit in Louisiana.Cruz took 30 percent of the vote at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans. He edged out conservative speaker and author Ben Carson.Organizers at the annual conference say about a third out of 1,500 delegates voted in the straw poll. Delegates had to pay to register for the conference and vote in the straw poll.Cruz...

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Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl: Flight to freedom - CNN

Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl writes on a paper plate because the helicopter is too loud"SF?" he writes to the crew in a shorthand for "Special Forces?""Yes," at least one tells him, "we've been looking for you for a long time!"Bergdahl breaks down after realizing he's freed after five years in enemy captivity(CNN) -- It was another day in nearly five years of captivity for U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, and he didn't know what the 18 Taliban fighters...

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Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl: Flight to freedom - CNN

Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl writes on a paper plate because the helicopter is too loud"SF?" he writes to the crew in a shorthand for "Special Forces?""Yes," at least one tells him, "we've been looking for you for a long time!"Bergdahl breaks down after realizing he's freed after five years in enemy captivity(CNN) -- It was another day in nearly five years of captivity for U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, and he didn't know what the 18 Taliban fighters...

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Six climbers on Mt. Rainier presumed dead - Los Angeles Times

Four mountain climbers and two guides escorting them to the summit of Mt. Rainier are presumed dead after searchers found a trail of scattered equipment on Saturday, an official said.Gary Harrington, operations director for Alpine Ascents International, which was leading the expedition, told the Los Angeles Times that families of the six were traveling from around the country to Seattle on Saturday night. The names of the climbers were not immediately...

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Cruz Wins Republican Presidential Straw Poll - Wall Street Journal

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Sudan to free woman facing death for Christian faith: report - New York Daily News

Global Justice Center in Sudan Meriam Ibrahim and husband Daniel Wani were married in 2011. Both are Christian. Sudanese authorities are planning to free a woman who was sentenced to death for refusing to renounce her Christian faith, the BBC reported.Meriam Ibrahim, who gave birth to a baby girl earlier this week at the clinic at the Omdurman women's prison near Khartoum, will be released in a few days, a senior official told the BBC.Ibrahim,...

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Cruz Wins Presidential Straw Poll at Republican Leadership Conference - MyArkLaMiss

New Orleans -- (CNN) Senator Ted Cruz won the 2016 Presidential straw poll at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans.Cruz finished in first place in the annual conference's presidential straw poll at 30.33%. Dr. Ben Carson, a Fox News commentator and conservative activist, finished in second with 29.38% while Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, was third with 10.43%.Fox News host and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Texas Governor Rick...

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Taliban Releases US Soldier Held Captive for Five Years--Update - Wall Street Journal

By Adam Entous and Julian E. Barnes WASHINGTON--Taliban militants in Afghanistan on Saturday handed over Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who had been held as a prisoner of war for almost five years, to U.S. Special Operations Forces in exchange for the release of five Afghan Taliban prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay prison.The breakthrough was brokered by Qatar, which sent representatives to the U.S. military prison in Cuba to take custody of the five detainees,...

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Sudan to free woman facing death for Christian faith: report - New York Daily News

Global Justice Center in Sudan Meriam Ibrahim and husband Daniel Wani were married in 2011. Both are Christian. Sudanese authorities are planning to free a woman who was sentenced to death for refusing to renounce her Christian faith, the BBC reported.Meriam Ibrahim, who gave birth to a baby girl earlier this week at the clinic at the Omdurman women's prison near Khartoum, will be released in a few days, a senior official told the BBC.Ibrahim,...

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