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Hillary Clinton claimed the "future was female" in her first public address since Donald Trump moved in to the White House. In a video for the 2017 Makers conference, the former Democratic candidate praised thousands of women who marched across the world in protest against President Trump's inauguration. [Snip] "Just look at the amazing energy we saw last month as women organised a march that galvanized millions of people in our country and across the world. "Now more than ever we need to stay focused on the theme of this year's conference: Be Bold."

A group of unwelcome bees disrupted US President Barack Obama's storytelling session for children at the launch of the White House Easter egg roll on Monday.

Trayvon Martin's Mother Files Paternity Action Against Obama Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, the teen who was shot and killed by a self-appointed neighborhood security guard, has filed a paternity action against President Obama, seeking back child support for the 17 years of Trayvon's abbreviated life. Fulton filed the claim after President Obama admitted, "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon." Fulton explained, "I'd noticed the resemblance as well. So it really struck me when Barack mentioned it, too." Fulton stated that while she is not entirely certain that Obama is Trayvon's father, the statistical possibility...

At 9PM on January 26, 1700 one of the world's largest earthquakes occurred along the west coast of North America. The undersea Cascadia thrust fault ruptured along a 680 mile length, from mid Vancouver Island to northern California in a great earthquake, producing tremendous shaking and a huge tsunami that swept across the Pacific. The Cascadia fault is the boundary between two of the Earth's tectonic plates: the smaller offshore Juan de Fuca plate that is sliding under the much larger North American plate. The earthquake also left unmistakable signatures in the geological record as the outer coastal regions subsided...

We went over the mountains last weekend to attend the Smoky Mountain Storytelling Festival. Before I describe that, what do you think it was? Do you imagine a bunch of good ol’ boys in bib overalls, swapping outrageous fish tales? No such thing. It was far more interesting than that. When we drive to D.C., we go through Tennessee. Every trip, we’d pass a sign for the National Storytelling Center in Jonesboro. Finally, we took that exit, and spent an hour talking with the lady in charge of the center, in the beautifully-restored downtown of Tennessee’s oldest city. We decided...

Stories to tell She just doesn't talk - she collects By Jessica Lowell rep5@wyomingnews.com Published in the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle CHEYENNE - Eldrena Douma welcomes you with a smile and an open face. She wants to know you: what your name is, what it means, where you are from and what your stories are. It's an occupational hazard. Douma is a storyteller. Everywhere she goes, she collects stories from others and works on her own to tell. During Cheyenne Frontier Days, Douma - which means Singing as You Go - is telling her stories twice a day in the Indian Village....