Mt. Pleasant News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump, who has feuded with several media personalities and organizations, will not attend the White House Correspondents' Association annual black-tie dinner for the second straight year, the president of the group said on Friday.Last year, Trump was the first U.S. president to skip the event in 36 years. Most officials in his administration also snubbed the dinner.?T...

The Cotillion Club invites the public to their Saturday, April 14, dance at The Loft, 416 Jefferson, downtown Burlington.Take Two will play from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. The dance is open to the public. Singles are welcome and encouraged to become members. Dress is business casual. There is a cover charge for non-members.Anyone interested in listening to or dancing to live music are invited to join this nonprofit ...

With a national conversation gaining momentum surrounding the unjust treatment of people of color in systems designed to support and protect in the U.S., Hope Community Church in Burlington is hosting an ?Implicit Bias Training? in June.This conversation is contextually significant for the social work profession because of their commitment to social and racial justice. People in the field of social work see ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria's right-wing government announced plans on Wednesday to ban girls from wearing headscarves in kindergarten and primary schools to combat what it sees as a threat to Austrian mainstream culture from some Muslims.Austria took in more than one percent of its population in asylum seekers during Europe's migration crisis, an issue that helped Chancellor Sebastian Kurz's conservatives win an ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Motorists traveled 0.4 percent more miles on U.S. roads and highways in January compared to the same month last year, according to data released on Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Transportation.Motorists logged 245.5 billion miles on U.S. roads and highways in January, up from 244.6 billion miles a year prior, DOT data showed.Motorists drove 1.2 percent more miles on U.S. roads and ...

The City of Salem held it's Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday, March 31.

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia has declared a state of emergency around a port on Borneo island, officials said on Tuesday, after a large oil spill and fire killed four people at the weekend.Disaster mitigation officials were able to control the blaze in the port city of Balikpapan but were still working to contain the spill, which started on Saturday and spread over an area of around 12 square km (4.5 square ...

NORRISTOWN - Comedian Bill Cosby and prosecutors who accuse him of sexually assaulting a former staffer at his alma mater Temple University are due in a Pennsylvania court on Thursday for rulings on issues including what witnesses may speak at his retrial next month.Montgomery County Judge Steven O'Neill's has scheduled two days of arguments on legal motions that will shape the second trial where Cosby, 80, will ...

OKLAHOMA CITY - Thousands of Oklahoma school teachers, including those in the state's two biggest cities, were expected to return to picket lines on Tuesday for the second day of strikes demanding state lawmakers do more to shore up public education spending.A walkout by more than 30,000 educators in Oklahoma, whose teachers rank among the lowest-paid in the United States, forced the cancellation of classes for ...

KUALA LUMPUR - British supermarket group Tesco has launched a scheme in Malaysia based on bags with barcodes, giving customers discounts on their shopping every time they reuse the bags.The ?unforgettable bag? was launched in 11 Tesco stores in Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur and the southern state of Johor on Tuesday in an effort to shift away from single-use plastic bags and reduce waste.Azliza Baizura Azmel, ...

The house is relatively quiet with several of the children taking naps and baby Elijah sleeping on my lap. Life certainly has been interesting these days.Elijah is slowly leaving his baby newborn stage, which almost makes me sad, yet it's such a blessing to see him healthy and growing. He certainly is a plump little one now and still has his mop of dark brown hair. We thoroughly enjoy his sweet smiles as well as ...

NEW DELHI - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday ordered the withdrawal of rules punishing journalists held responsible for distributing ?fake news,? giving no reason for the change, less than 24 hours after the original announcement.The move followed an outcry by journalists and opposition politicians that the rules represented an attack on the freedom of the press and an effort by Modi's government ...