Freeway bridge collapses into Washington river
AP: A major freeway bridge in Skagit County, Washington, collapsed Thursday night, dumping people and cars into water.
The portion four-lane Interstate-5 bridge that passes over Skagit River fell about 40 feet into the water at around 7 p.m. local time. The Skagit Valley Sheriff Department initially reported three people were rescued from water.
The bridge is a steel-truss bridge with a sufficiency rating of 57.4 out of 100, according to federal records.
Photo: North end of the I-5 bridge over Skagit River collapsed Thursday night. (Gina Cole / Skagit Valley Herald)
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Funky Code Medea: One American has taken full use of her free speech rights at every major political event of the past decade.
Code Pink founder Medea Benjamin heckles, shouts, yells, and berates politicians to listen to the organization’s messages.
Benjamin shouted at U.S. President Obama to close Guantanamo and apologize to innocent people killed in military strikes around the world during a major foreign policy speech today.
Watch: Medea Benjamin shouts at President Obama:
Photos: REUTERS and photographers Jason Reed, Mike Theiler, Mike Segar, Yuri Gripas, Damir Sagol, Brendan McDermid.
“I Built This AK-47. It’s Legal and Totally Untraceable.”
In which our reporter attends a “build party” where anyone can make a rifle that no cop will ever know about.
Holder OK’d search warrant for Fox News reporter’s private emails, official says
(Photo: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images file)
Attorney General Eric Holder signed off on a controversial search warrant that identified Fox News reporter James Rosen as a “possible co-conspirator” in violations of the Espionage Act and authorized seizure of his private emails, a law enforcement official told NBC News on Thursday.
Barack Obama’s prom pictures.
Hallelujah
butdoesitfloat.com curates photographs of civil rights I am a Man demonstrations.
powerful.
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Delayed by war, Class of 1943 finally holds senior prom
(Photos: NBC News)
It took seven decades, but the Hillhouse High School Class of 1943 finally had its senior prom.
This isn’t just a debate about policy — it’s about people.
Toddler can breathe easy, thanks to printer
(Photo: Gionfriddo family via University of Michigan)
Using a device based on an inkjet printer, doctors custom-made a splint for 19-month-old Kaiba Gionfriddo, which holds his airway open and helps him breathe.
Deep Thoughts, with actual member of Congress Steve King (R-Iowa).
Holder says drone strikes since 2009 have killed four U.S. citizens
(Photo: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters)
On the eve of a major address by President Barack Obama on his counterterrorism policy, the Obama administration revealed Wednesday that drone strikes since 2009 had killed four Americans overseas – one of whom, Anwar al-Aulaqi, was targeted in Yemen because he’d planned and was planning terrorist attacks on the United States – principally the plot to blow up an airliner over Detroit on Christmas Eve 2009.
As hospital crumbled, mom brought new life
(Photo: Norman Regional Health System)
As the floor shook “like an earthquake,” Shayla Taylor, 25, braved both the peak contractions of childbirth and the wrath of the worst twister she had ever endured.
Given recent allegations that 3 military service members — all who are in charge of sexual assault programs — committed sexual assaults, Fox News has seriously underreported the topic. While MSNBC spent nearly 5 hours on it in the last 2 weeks, Fox News spent less than 19 minutes.
And most of that was Shep.
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