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A Houston college student sentenced for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 breach at the U.S. Capitol is one of the alleged victims of a FBI agent who was indicted for theft. Alexander Fan was sentenced to 12 months probation for trespassing during a sentencing hearing on Friday. His attorney, Mark Thering, said he pleaded guilty and expressed genuine remorse in a statement to the court. Fan's home was searched after his arrest in June 2023. Court records filed ahead of the hearing state, "the next day, Fan reported to the FBI that some items--including cash and silver bars--had...

The Moms for Liberty Joyful Warriors National Summit starts on June 29 in Philadelphia, but controversy surrounding the event has been brewing for weeks in the City of Brotherly Love. Six Democrat members of the Pennsylvania Senate sent a letter imploring the Museum of the American Revolution to cancel the Moms for Liberty event planned there for June 29 through July 2. “Moms for Liberty, put plainly, is a hate group,” the June 20 letter said. “This is not hyperbole—on June, 6, 2023, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) designated Moms for Liberty a hate group, and specifically, as an...

Perhaps they should have talked to some people who work with them. "A documentary being screened in cities around the country, and shown here to the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (PFT), purports to show how our public schools — and public schools everywhere — are being forced to close because charter schools are stealing 'their' money," Anthony Williams, David Hardy & Sharif El-Mekki write in Real Clear Education. "The notion that the closure of several Philadelphia schools was caused by greedy charter school operators is ludicrous." "The primary culprit was a long-accumulating budget deficit (totaling $1.35 billion), brought on by...

Former Mayor of D.C. Anthony Williams Washington D.C., Mar 25, 2009 / 02:25 pm (CNA).- Despite extreme positions on abortion and same-sex “marriage,” the Washington Post reports that Anthony Williams, a former mayor of Washington D.C., is being considered for membership in the Knights of Malta. However, Dr. Joseph Metz, an officer of the Order of Malta American Association, told CNA that anyone who does not agree with Church teachings will be denied admission. The Knights of Malta, who earned their name by operating on the Island of Malta for hundreds of years, were created “to care for and...

During Mayor Anthony A. Williams's final months in office, his personnel director improperly gave 28 top appointees two sets of bonuses totaling more than $525,000, according to a report by the D.C. auditor. The 16-page report says Lisa Marin approved higher bonuses than the mayor's office recommended and lacked required paperwork and authorizing signatures. Supporting documents, some of which were eventually submitted, are required to verify that the employees did outstanding work and qualified for bonuses. Among those awarded bonuses were senior Williams administration officials, including the city administrator, the police chief, three deputy mayors, the chief of staff, agency...

DC Mayor To Bulldoze Ruth Bader Ginsberg's House For Homeless Shelter ABC 'Home Makeover' team commissioned to evict JusticeMayor Williams, announcing the domocilic ouster of Justice Ginsberg. Washington- In an immediate municipal action based upon the just-released ruling by the United States Supreme Court, DC Mayor Anthony Williams has announced that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg "needs to start packing" as the city's plans for a suburban homeless shelter have finally been vetted. Ginsberg was one of five justices who ruled that city governments may seize private property in the name of furthering beneficial municipal programs. "We are allowing time for...

Ex-president Bill Clinton is endorsing Nation of Islam chief Minister Louis Farrakahan's "Million More March" over the objections of the Anti-Defamation League, which is urging top politicians to avoid the October event because they say that both Farrakhan and march organizer Malik Zulu Shabazz are anti-Semitic. "I think this is a very positive idea,” Clinton told the Amsterdam News this week in an interview from his Harlem office. "I like the idea of a march," he continued. "It’s fine to be concerned about [homeland] security, but we also have to keep trying to make America strong and better here at...

Calling the rising cost of medical liability insurance "unacceptable," D.C. Mayor Anthony A. Williams yesterday urged the D.C. Council to provide some relief for doctors. He introduced the Health Care Reform Act of 2005, flanked by physicians and other medical officials who said they are being forced to practice elsewhere, making it more difficult for city residents to get adequate health care. "We have the dubious distinction of having among the very highest medical liability insurance premiums in the nation and the highest jury awards in the nation," Mr. Williams said.

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Linda W. Cropp, the newly fashioned woman of the people, is drawing kudos from certain corners of the city, which is understandable. That is not the work of a populist. That is just another politician motivated by self-interests.

Washington Mayor Says Baseball Deal Nearly Dead Sports - Reuters By Kristin Roberts WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The deal to bring Major League Baseball back to Washington, D.C, was described by Mayor Anthony Williams as close to dead Wednesday after the City Council changed the plan to require private financing. "I believe the deal is broken. The dream is now close to dying," he said. "We're in great jeopardy here, and I think I'm being optimistic." The City Council Tuesday approved a financing plan for a new waterfront stadium to host what would become the Washington Nationals baseball team, but added...

Education Leaders Council Praises Senate Passage of D.C. School Choice Legislation 1/22/04 6:01:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: Kimberly Tulp of Education Leaders Council, (202) 261-2605; e-mail: kbt@educationleaders.org; Nicole Keating of FitzGerald Communications, 202-973-4788; e-mail: nkeating@fitzgerald.com WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Committed to education reform policies and programs that pave the way for all students to access high quality education, Education Leaders Council Board Chairman Jim Horne and CEO Lisa Graham Keegan today lauded Senate passage of the DC School Choice Legislation. "Due to the unflagging efforts of not only members of Congress, but also local and...

Washington, D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams tonight called for "respectful" civil disobedience to call attention to the District's lack of full voting rights in Congress.Mr. Williams made his remarks to a reporter for WTTG-TV at a gathering to mark the ruling Democratic party's faux presidential primary election held today.The city's leaders fought the Democratic National Committee to hold the first-in-the-nation primary to highlight the lack of full congressional representation for D.C. residents.The city backed off from holding an official primary, but went ahead with today's beauty contest.The WTTG reporter mentioned that one form of civil disobedience under consideration is blocking the...

District of Columbia Democratic Presidential Primary Updated 1/13/04 9:20 PM ET 68% Precincts Reporting Incumbent* declared winner Candidates Votes % Howard Dean 7,586 42 Al Sharpton 6,254 35 Carol Moseley Braun 2,092 12 Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich 1,465 8 Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. 220 1 Arthur H. Jackson Jr. 109 1 Florence Walker 104 1 Vermin Supreme 56 0 Harry Braun III 29 0 Jeanne Chebib 18 0 Lucian Wojciechowski 11 0 Source: AP EDITOR'S NOTE: Primary results are only advisory. Official allocation of D.C.'s 16 pledged delegates to the National Democratic Convention occurs during the D.C. Democratic Caucus on...

President Bush's bipartisan education reform initiative, The No Child Left Behind Act, has increased public school education spending by 40 percent and has provided more funds to poor children than any other education bill in this country's history. So why is the secretary of education, Rod Paige, so upset? "The most egregious issue that we must confront as a minority is the achievement gap between the performance of minority kids and their peers," Paige said, while pacing behind a long lacquered table in his downtown D.C. office. According to the 2000 National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) test, 63 percent...

<p>The pope, a venerable leader throughout the Christian world, says don't do it. Tony Williams, the mayor of Washington, D.C., says, please, indulge yourself. Whose advice would you follow?</p> <p>Both the pope and the politician are speaking of promiscuity in general and HIV/AIDS in particular. Monday, as part of World AIDS Day, while Pope John Paul II and theRoman Catholic Church were warning us against hedonistic lifestyles, the mayor and other lefties were promoting condoms. Renew your D.C. driver's license and pick up a condom when you're done. Boogie the night away at one of the city's hot spots and grab a condom in the ladies room before you hit the door. Got your eye on a sweet young thing, but don't have the dough to buy condoms? Stop by your neighborhood barbershop and pick up a few for free.</p>

<p>Opponents of the D.C. school-voucher program said yesterday they will combine efforts to kill the initiative in the Senate.</p> <p>Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat, and other opponents "will use all the tools available to them to try to defeat this legislation on the Senate floor," said James Manley, spokesman for the ranking member on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.</p>

Congress Returns To Church-State Issues On Agenda ( ABP) -- When Congress returns to session next week from its month-long summer recess, a host of church-state issues will be on the agenda – from gay marriage to school vouchers. The most visible debate may be over gay marriage. A proposed constitutional amendment that would limit marriage and marriage-like benefits to opposite-sex couples -- in some cases overturning state and local laws -- appears to be picking up momentum in Congress. The Federal Marriage Amendment, sponsored by Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-Colo.), will likely receive committee hearings in the early fall....

<p>In one of this year's most popular comedies, Will Farrell plays a pathetic, but humorous beer-bellied guy, returning to college to form a fraternity of like-minded souls haplessly "flunking out" of living in the present. A few kegs short of their undergraduate drinking requirements, Mr. Farrell and his fellow bacchanal-loving friends relive their misspent youth in the movie "Old School."</p>

California educators have joined a political battle over a plan to let families use school vouchers, or taxpayer money for private tuition, to escape failing campuses. But the fight isn't in California. It's nearly 3,000 miles away, in the public schools of Washington, D.C., where lawmakers are poised to create the nation's first federally funded voucher program. The program would set a precedent that supporters hope will open the door for vouchers all over the country. What happens in the faraway district could affect whether a similar school voucher plan eventually makes it into the classrooms of California, where 70...