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How Sports Shaped US Presidents: CT's Chris Cillizza Dives Deep In New Book How Sports Shaped US Presidents: CT's Chris Cillizza Dives Deep In New Book
How Sports Shaped US Presidents: CT's Chris Cillizza Dives Deep In New Book George H.W. Bush was a baseball player at Yale who met Babe Ruth and was very competitive. Donald Trump used his background in professional wrestling storylines to propel himself to the White House. Chris Cillizza, a native of Marlborough, explores these stories and more in his new book "Power Players: Sports, Politics, and the American Presidency," which uses the sports background of every president since Eisenhower to explore how it shaped their presidency. "Sports is a window into their personalities," Cillizza, who wrote about politics for CNN and now has a Substack, said. "It show…

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by Sam Barron
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Teens OK After Minibus From Greenwich Country Day School Careens Across Entire Parkway Teens OK After Minibus From Greenwich Country Day School Careens Across Entire Parkway
Teens OK After Minibus From Greenwich Country Day School Careens Across Entire Parkway A group of teens and their driver escaped serious injury when a minibus from a prestigious private school in Connecticut careened across both the northbound and southbound lanes of the Garden State Parkway in Paramus, New Jersey. The Greenwich Country Day School bus was headed north when the driver swerved to avoid a Lexus whose driver had changed lanes abruptly around 12:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 13, New Jersey State Police Trooper II Charles Marchan said. The minibus ran off the roadway, then across the southbound lanes, before coming to rest in a ditch with a flat rear tire. Two of nearly a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Surprising Announcement: Chris Wallace Says He's Leaving Fox News Surprising Announcement: Chris Wallace Says He's Leaving Fox News
Surprising Announcement: Chris Wallace Says He's Leaving Fox News Updated story: Chris Wallace Announces Where He's Heading After Departure From Fox News After nearly two decades with the network, news anchor Chris Wallace is leaving Fox News effective immediately. The 74-year-old Wallace made the surprising announcement in the closing moments of "Fox News Sunday" on Dec. 12. "Finally, a personal note," Wallace said. "After 18 years, this is my final 'Fox News Sunday.' It is the last time, and I say this with real sadness, we will meet like this.  "Eighteen years ago, the bosses here at Fox promised me they would never interfere with a gu…

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by Joe Lombardi
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COVID-19: Former Secretary Of State Colin Powell Dies From Complications Of Virus COVID-19: Former Secretary Of State Colin Powell Dies From Complications Of Virus
Covid-19: Former Secretary Of State Colin Powell Dies From Complications Of Virus Colin Powell, the first Black secretary of state and a retired four-star general, has died at age 84 of COVID-19 related complications. "General Colin L. Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, passed away this morning due to complications from Covid 19,"  Powell's family wrote on Facebook on Monday morning, Oct. 18. "We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great America." Powell's family said he had been vaccinated. Powell was known as the epitome of a soldier-statesman who put his country and family above all…

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by Joe Lombardi
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Survey Reveals Americans' Favorite Vegetables By State Survey Reveals Americans' Favorite Vegetables By State
Survey Reveals Americans' Favorite Vegetables By State Sorry President George H.W. Bush, who once famously said, "I do not like broccoli," it is America's favorite vegetable according to a survey by vegetable guru Green Giant. The company released the findings on Monday, June 14, from its annual survey of what veggies Americans are eating and in what part of the country. Broccoli secured the No. 1 spot, yet again, as America's favorite vegetable, followed by carrots and corn.  Broccoli came in as America's favorite veggie once again.Photo by Louis Hansel on Unsplash During the survey, Green Giant polled over 5,000 Americans in an open-ende…

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by Kathy Reakes
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Presidents' Day Survey: Here's Who Scholars Rate No. 1, Where Trump Ranks Presidents' Day Survey: Here's Who Scholars Rate No. 1, Where Trump Ranks
Presidents' Day Survey: Here's Who Scholars Rate No. 1, Where Trump Ranks Who is the only president ranked among the Top Five of all time who does not have a 60-foot sculpture of his head on Mount Rushmore?If you guess Franklin D. Roosevelt, you are correct. At least according to the Siena College Research Institute’s (SCRI) Survey of U.S. Presidents, which was released just in time for Presidents Day on Monday, Feb. 18. Mount Rushmore features (from left), No. 1-ranked George Washington, No. 5 Thomas Jefferson, No. 4 Theodore Roosevelt and No. 3 Abraham Lincoln. FDR is ranked No. 2 in the Siena survey and took office as president in 1933, six years af…

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by Joe Lombardi
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George H.W. Bush Hospitalized In Intensive Care Days After Wife's Funeral George H.W. Bush Hospitalized In Intensive Care Days After Wife's Funeral
George H.W. Bush Hospitalized In Intensive Care Days After Wife's Funeral Days after his wife's death, former President George H.W. Walker is hospitalized with several serious complications, according to multiple news reports.  George H.W. Bush is awake, alert and talking after he was admitted to intensive care earlier this week, a family spokesman said Tuesday, April 24. Bush, 93, was admitted to the Houston Methodist Hospital Sunday morning after contracting an infection that spread to his blood, family spokesman Jim McGrath said, a day after a funeral was held for his wife, Barbara Bush. According to McGrath, the 41st President has said he is determined to ge…

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by Jon Craig
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Area Native, Former First Lady Barbara Bush Dies At 92 Area Native, Former First Lady Barbara Bush Dies At 92
Area Native, Former First Lady Barbara Bush Dies At 92 Former First Lady Barbara Bush, a native of Westchester, who had been in failing health and declined further medical treatment after a series of hospitalizations, died on Tuesday. She was 92. A native of Rye who attended Rye Country Day School, she had been treated for decades for Graves' disease, a thyroid condition. Bush had been suffering for some time and has been in and out of the hospital multiple times in the last year while battling with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, or COPD, and congestive heart failure. She was surrounded by family and loved ones at the Bush home in Hous…

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by Joe Lombardi