But this is really about Trump's politics descending on Oregon.
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Visitors, once a rarity, are descending on the city, too.
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Some 500,000 foreign visitors are descending on the iconic beach city.
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Davis has seen this mist descending on those close to him.
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Designers start descending on the Big Apple to showcase their wares.
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Descending on loved ones while their pain was fresh felt intrusive.
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The Hill: Scores of Kavanaugh protesters arrested after descending on Senate building.
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The cameras flocked to the floor, descending on us like black hooded birds.
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None of this, however, will stop Buffett's fans from descending on Omaha this weekend.
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With thousands of athletes now descending on Rio for the Olympics, which start Aug.
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World leaders are descending on New York next week for the UN General Assembly.
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No fleet of supporters descending on cable news to recite The Official Talking Points.
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Fashion Week kicked off on Thursday with the industry descending on New York City.
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Trump is just one of many big egos descending on the Swiss mountain resort.
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New York City Police Department officers in riot gear descending on a rental van.
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The brothers paused to color before descending on a faux pond to overturn rocks.
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They're descending on new locations, and, in some cases, becoming more frequent and more severe.
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The swarm descending on Iowa reflects the state's prominent place in the presidential primary field.
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Friday, they moved straight into an ambush, with firepower descending on them from three sides.
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Latin American ministers are descending on Quito, Ecuador's capital, today to discuss Venezuela's migration crisis.
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Latin American ministers are descending on Quito, Ecuador's capital, today, to discuss Venezuela's migration crisis.
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The tech world is descending on Las Vegas this week for the Consumer Electronics Show.
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While many visitors are descending on today's inauguration to celebrate, others are planning to protest.
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Amid the chic horde descending on New York for Fashion Week, Adele Meyer stands out.
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Outraged supporters of the healthcare organization are descending on Republican town halls Outraged supporters of the healthcare organization are descending on Republican town halls The young woman was on the verge of tears as she stood up at a town hall in Tennessee on Tuesday.
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Here, the political divisions among the groups descending on Mosul provide opportunities for ISIS to exploit.
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As you read this, thousands of people are descending on San Diego for Comic-Con International.
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The time has come — tennis' greatest athletes are descending on New York for the 2019 U.S. Open.
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Now, just shy of 30 years later, a group of American artists is again descending on Greece.
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The expected matches, the ones unaffected by the veil of pestilence descending on WWE, were weighty affairs.
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Live television broadcasts showed dozens of police officers and several police cars descending on the Forest neighborhood.
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His comments came after footage went viral recently showing thousands of beachgoers descending on Clearwater Beach, Fla.
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Anyway, they represent the hordes of aliens descending on US borders that might merit a military response.
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Frustration about Kavanaugh's pending confirmation erupted Thursday, with female activists descending on Washington to protests the nominee.
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Governors are descending on Washington this weekend as Republicans wrestle with the future of ObamaCare's expansion of Medicaid.
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Washington (CNN)A new crop of House members are descending on Washington ahead of Thursday's swearing-in ceremony.
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Though the famous photograph has been revealed as hoax, it hasn't stopped monster hunters from descending on Scotland.
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Hundreds of startups are descending on this space, looking to offer scaleable solutions for the continent's financial needs.
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They marched in front of the Justice Department before descending on the National Mall to denounce institutionalized racism.
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The thought process seems solid – an estimated million people descending on the already housing-strained San Francisco Bay area.
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Hundreds of startups are descending on Africa's fintech space, looking to offer scalable solutions for the continent's financial needs.
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A full-color billboard depicted a barrage of missiles descending on a bombed-out shell of the U.S. Capitol.
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I.T. specialists, professionals and retirees are descending on the town, squeezing out the more chilled-out — and impecunious — population.
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They blamed leaders for failing to stop hordes with guns, swastikas and Confederate flags from descending on the city.
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Washington was turned into a virtual fortress with an estimated 900,000 people — backers and protesters — descending on the capital.
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They blamed leaders for failing to stop hordes toting guns, swastikas and Confederate flags from descending on the city.
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State governments and developers have been descending on these settlements recently, clearing them out to make way for development.
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Around 213,20203 people from 22020 countries are descending on Madrid this week to attend the COP22020 climate change conference.
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By descending on London, it hopes to push the government into action and make the public aware of agriculture's problems.
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Strand's motives are made clear when Nick discovers a new threat descending on the dam; Madison faces a horrifying revelation.
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They were staid intellectuals, and Saint Phalle seemed to them like a bright exotic bird descending on the sedate countryside.
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In revolutionary America, there was the ever-present fear of mobs descending on a publisher over coverage they didn't like.
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He steered toward solutions, renewable sources of strength he felt could save us from descending on history's path of failed republics.
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With a 7.5-foot wingspan, I wouldn't want this thing descending on me from the skies, but it seems friendly enough.
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When Hurricane Isaac was descending on Louisiana in 2012, Elyria Kemp was there to study how people felt about the disaster.
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But the anticipated storm of Washington Capitals fans descending on the nation's capital isn't enough to shut down the federal government.
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"We need to make sure people aren't spooked by a buzzing thing in the sky descending on them," Mr. Yett said.
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But that still would have involved 10,000 athletes from around the world descending on Tokyo and living in the Olympic Village.
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That's why hundreds of startups are descending on Africa's fintech space, looking to offer scalable solutions for the continent's financial needs.
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But I watched helplessly on social media as bystanders posted videos of bearded men descending on the venue to shut it down.
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With so many party insiders, activists, lobbyists and reporters descending on Cleveland, political groups have chosen a direct path to their eyeballs.
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He's been thrown off a horse, impaled on some nasty-looking rebar, and he has two hordes of zombies descending on him.
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Hajjar said the scale of the Russian strikes around Aleppo is unprecedented, with bombers descending on the city four at a time.
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Outcast promises to expand on the supernatural world descending on Rome and Kyle Barnes' place in it when it premieres this June.
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This week, nearly 28500,6900 banking industry leaders — a record number — are descending on D.C. for the American Bankers Association's Government Relations Summit.
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Thousands of environmental activists and politicians are descending on New York City in the coming days for rallies and a major summit.
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Thousands of people opposed to President Donald Trump&aposs controversial policy of separating migrant families are descending on Boston for two planned protests.
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But night is descending on Tal Afar, and a citywide electrical outage means Spleeters can't examine or photograph this jackpot without natural light.
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A&M spokeswoman Amy Smith said university officials are concerned about fringe and hate groups descending on campuses for the purpose of disruption.
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The caravan of cute cars descending on Keystone, Colorado for last year's "MINI Takes the States" nearly doubled the small town's population overnight.
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It shows a crowded boat of Allied soldiers who take note one by one of some sort of enemy aircraft descending on them.
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A climber with Kobler and Partner, a Swiss outfitter, died Thursday while descending on the Tibetan side of the mountain, the company said.
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Hundreds of businesses, trade groups and individuals are descending on Washington to beg the administration not to follow through with the new taxes.
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The fight has attracted groups on both sides of the issue who are now descending on Colorado before the legislature convenes in January.
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Thousands of journalists are descending on Windsor, and Thomas Markle told TMZ earlier this week that the media attention had taken its toll.
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That means that right now it may appear to be descending on a crash course, but it's current trajectory is likely to be misleading.
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"We have a public health crisis descending on our country," Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, said after the vote.
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According to Newsweek, the feisty insects emerged from a hollow cherry tree before descending on the oenophiles, stinging with abandon and injuring 18 people.
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With both spectators and shoppers descending on stores, Dr. Nichols said that stores need to have a plan for handling crowds and reducing violence.
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Breezes rustling through mature trees help drown out the freeway noise, and butterflies are descending on the residents' new flower beds and vegetable patches.
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This weekend, 14 presidential hopefuls are descending on California for state Democrats' annual convention, marking the biggest gathering of candidates thus far this cycle.
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Though the polar vortex is descending on the Midwest this week, white winters are overall beginning to turn mushy gray across the northern United States.
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Now, the fair is making its US debut, with 30 galleries and artists from all over the world descending on the cavernous Greenpoint Terminal Warehouse.
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The visitors descending on the Eiffel Tower at the peak of the August tourist season are voicing frustration that the beloved Paris monument is closed.
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Nobukazu Kuriki, in his mid-thirties, fell ill and was descending on Monday when his team lost contact with him, his team said on Facebook.
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Delegates preparing to nominate Donald J. Trump at the Republican National Convention this week are just some of the thousands of people descending on Cleveland.
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But he also envisions thousands of rugby league fans from other countries descending on the United States to watch games, helping tourism in the process.
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The university now requires external speakers to have an on-campus sponsorship, saying it would prevent fringe and hate groups from descending on the campus.
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The big picture: More than 3,000 media personnel are descending on the island, the Associated Press reports, as the world braces for the historic summit.
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"The accident happened when the bus was descending on a steep hill in rainy conditions," Charles Mkumbo, the Arusha regional police commander, said by telephone.
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It was the earliest hours of the first day of October, and these teenagers from every nook of the country were descending on Las Vegas.
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The video, just 12 seconds long, shows what appears to be toxic smog descending on buildings over 20 minutes, with nearby structures becoming almost unrecognizable.
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OSAKA (Reuters) - World leaders are descending on Osaka, west Japan, for a summit on Friday and Saturday of the Group of 20 (G20) big economies.
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The memo stated, in part, that having 500,000 foreigners descending on a single city will facilitate the spread of the disease to poor and unaffected countries.
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But what may be the biggest deal for the mass of wrestling fans descending on New Orleans will be all the wrestling not sponsored by WWE.
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While the Clooneys are the first major celebrity couple to arrive in France, stars have been busy descending on Nice all throughout the day on Tuesday.
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Hollywood has begun descending on France the day before the opening of one of the year's most star-studded events, the 2016 Cannes International Film Festival.
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Thousands of Republican activists, volunteers and voters are descending on Milwaukee this weekend for the party convention, a three-day event that includes appearances by Gov.
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What our country is witnessing is a tidal wave of right-wing provocateurs descending on Berkeley's campus like ants on hot dogs on a picnic table.
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While it's impossible to prove that Lumidolls was launched to take advantage of a horde of tech bros descending on the city, it certainly seems likely.
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Should the festival crowds prove too hectic, or a daylong event too daunting, the wave of pop stars descending on more contained venues provides an alternative.
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These enormous corporations were descending on the valley for the same reason homesteaders had a century ago: the year-round growing season and the lax regulation.
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Imagine 2,000 Alpha Karens descending on you with their Psych 101 texts, their favorite song from "The Joshua Tree," their green and white striped rugby shirts.
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Nearly 400 companies, trade groups and others are descending on Washington this week to testify at six days of hearings before the United States trade representative.
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Tens of thousands of protesters from across the country are descending on the Democratic National Convention, preparing to test months of planning by law enforcement officials.
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The supermodels are descending on the City of Light and as you can see in their adorable teaser video, they already have their bags packed and ready!
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A sweeping set of new data privacy regulations descending on Europe is leaving internet companies in the U.S. scrambling to overhaul their practices to avoid steep penalties.
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White supremacists were descending on our town and are still here in order to make us fearful, in order to take away our power and our agency.
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The outbreak forced hard public health questions: What are the potential risks of thousands of students descending on the state's beaches and crowding into bars and restaurants?
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The stars are descending on Italy for this year's Venice International Film Festival — including Brad Pitt, whose space thriller Ad Astra premieres at the festival on Thursday.
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Still, Mr. Gianaris acknowledged that the possible changes would soon be a prime topic of discussion among lawmakers descending on Albany, as criticism is likely to continue.
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Some of these children are among those descending on Rome to press their cause during the Vatican's unprecedented meeting this week on the child sexual abuse crisis.
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The move was greeted with outrage, with protesters descending on the forest, setting up an encampment and forming human blockades to try and stop the heavy machinery.
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Video from the store shows the bandits, all wearing hoodies and sweatpants, descending on two tables in the front and middle of the store, according to ABC 30.
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Right-wing groups descending on San Francisco for a rally this Saturday might want to keep their eyes on the ground — or they might step in dog poop.
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Within days of the catastrophic flooding Hurricane Harvey brought to the Houston area, an army of tow trucks began descending on the city to haul away damaged vehicles.
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For me, all that color and lush light projected a subtle feeling of sunset onto the series — a visual metaphor that nightfall is descending on our gorgeous world.
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The flight, BA 422 from London's Heathrow Airport to Valencia, Spain, was descending on approach to Valencia, according to British Airways, when the cabin suddenly filled with smoke.
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With new lawmakers descending on Washington and wrangling intensifying ahead of Democratic leadership elections, multiple aides said it was unlikely a compromise could emerge before the Thanksgiving break.
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Democrats are fuming over the disenfranchisement of Native voters now that a Senate seat is at stake, and reporters are descending on North Dakota to cover the problem.
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The throngs of ice skaters and shoppers descending on Bryant Park's Winter Village have taken up all the seats, choked walkways and brought foot traffic to a shuffle.
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Leaders from all over the world, in business and politics, are descending on the small ski town in Switzerland to share ideas and discuss important topics impacting society.
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Temperatures overnight sank into the negative double digits in nearly a dozen states, with the polar vortex descending on the Midwest and threatening to break all-time cold records.
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Wealthy Republican donors are descending on Colorado Springs this weekend to attend the Charles and bi-annual retreat where the cloud of Donald Trump hovers over the rich influencers.
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With multitudes of out-of-town delegates and media members descending on the cities, they may be less inclined to venture away from their hotel suites or popular haunts.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It is not the sheer number of tourists descending on Venice that bothers Italian food blogger Monica Cesarato so much as the type of visitor.
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Cable news pounced on the story, rightly sending reporters into the fray and getting the kind of answers one would expect from protesters and lawyers descending on the scene.
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Officers from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency will be descending on 10 major US cities on Sunday to try to round up roughly 2,000 families targeted for deportation.
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No, it's not the white walkers from "Game of Thrones," but something much more pernicious: the threat of a government shutdown is descending on the nation's capital in December.
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I ask James if he thinks 7,500 kids descending on one spot is in anyway representative of general youth culture or just a one-off night of hubristic shitfacing.
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It's entirely possible that in October 2028, reporters — yes, they'll still exist — will be descending on Gwinnett County, outside of Atlanta, to chronicle life in a crucial swing state.
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The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in 1848 touched off the Gold Rush — an estimated 300,000 people descending on California to try and get in on the action.
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One rider in the film calls the annual crossing an act of "decolonization," and it's powerful to see over 100 horses descending on Wounded Knee at the journey's culmination.
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Mountain top radar From the top of Tai Mo Shan, Hong Kong's tallest peak, visitors can look down at commercial planes descending on their approach to the city's international airport.
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Sellers cast doubt on the ability of candidates who haven't previously made inroads with African Americans but are now descending on the state in hopes of picking up new support.
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Like San Diego Comic-Con earlier this year, it's one of the bigger fan gatherings of the year, with tons of panels, trailer reveals, and cosplayers descending on midtown Manhattan.
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Thousands are descending on Washington Friday to attend the inauguration and anti-Trump protests, creating what is expected to be a crush of activity on cellphone networks in the area.
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Sure enough, the attorney soon received a flurry of phone calls from immigrants frightened they could somehow be deported by the SWAT personnel descending on Ocean Parkway in Kensington, Brooklyn.
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Jaime's really gotta watch his back ... in addition to Arya, he's gotta worry about the Night King and the army of the dead descending on Winterfell in the next episode.
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More than 224,23 volunteers from every state were descending on flood-stricken Louisiana Wednesday to assist relief efforts for what the Red Cross called the nation's worst disaster since Superstorm Sandy.
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But although this particular event involved much of my subject matter, I was mostly frustrated at how little discussion there was over martial law unofficially descending on a large American city.
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But with as many obvious Hollywood types descending on SLC for the next couple of days, how hard could it be to find someone to split a glamorous, time-saving airlift?
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Thousands of journalists from across the world are descending on the genteel town of Windsor for the wedding, and Thomas Markle told TMZ that the media attention had taken its toll.
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The most diverse Congress in history is descending on the Capitol, with newly elected lawmakers arriving in Washington, D.C., to meet their future colleagues and get acclimated to their new environment.
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Before descending on a city, Sprinkle and Stephens, who married in 2007 but first began working together in the early 90s through Outrageous Desire, a queer art show Stephens was curating.
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A slowed video of the match showing the Meepo clones descending on a rival player in the fraction of time it would normally take seemed to back up the Redditor's claims.
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This week at the Affordable Art Fair over 100 galleries are descending on Hampstead Heath, one of London's oldest and largest public parks, to exhibit a broad range of contemporary art.
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It was an immovable force, this mood that descended on him sometimes, and I worried that it was descending on him now, that it would darken the rest of our day.
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Most of the world's leaders are descending on New York City this week for the annual United Nations General Assembly, but only one of them has a residence atop Trump Tower.
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This is a dark world, and it's one the impeachment inquiry shows is fast descending on American politics, as the testimony and experience of Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman, in particular, suggests.
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The stars are descending on the exclusive H tel du Cap for the annual de Grisogono jewelry Cannes party, one of the swankiest and most star-studded events of the film festival.
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Of course, it's pretty easy to be afraid of clowns when demented circus performers are seemingly descending on one's home...though whether these guys are real or imaginary remains to be seen.
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Top national security officials testified on Capitol Hill on Thursday that they are worried about the prospect of violence descending on the Republican and Democratic national conventions over the next two weeks.
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And activists under the umbrella of Communities United for Police Reform have begun descending on Albany by the busload to lobby lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle to repeal it.
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Photographers clicked with impunity, descending on every twitch: a wave of the hand, a cock of the head, a woman delivering glasses of ice water to Mr. Comey's table before he arrived.
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He apologized, but in an interview, he argued that the video failed to show an angry demonstration of migrants descending on the square during a children's Christmas celebration shortly before his outburst.
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Sophie Lawson, a freelance reporter, recalled some of the biggest names on Fleet Street, almost all of them men, descending on a media event last January at which Neville's hiring was announced.
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Sophie Lawson, a freelance reporter, recalled some of the biggest names on Fleet Street, almost all of them men, descending on a media event last January at which Neville's hiring was announced.
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All the tumult comes as many of Rubio's top donors, those who raised at least $27,000, are descending on South Florida in the next two days for a long-planned strategy summit.
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Visitors to the carrier aboard the C-2 Greyhound aircraft can feel their plane descending on approach and it touching down only to stop instantly as the plane halts after catching the wire.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads MEXICO CITY — International art collectors, guzzling mescal and flexing gaudy taste, are descending on this megalopolis, and will leave on Monday with a hangover and something shiny.
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Disrupt San Francisco 2018 will be our largest, most ambitious Disrupt event ever, with more than 10,000 attendees descending on the City by the Bay to see the best and brightest tech innovations.
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Although Assange has remained in his sanctum for years, he is attuned to his immediate surroundings: real-estate ownership, the Lamborghinis parked nearby, the habits of Arab sheikhs descending on local night spots.
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This mass of humanity was not rushing toward commuter buses or trains, but descending on the High Line — in fact, so many people tried to squeeze in that the park had to close.
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The World Health Organization warned Friday that cholera could pose a "serious risk" to the millions of Muslims from all over the world descending on Mecca in September to perform annual the pilgrimage.
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Of course, two hours isn't too far of a drive for Las Vegas visitors pumped with pure, meme-spurred energy, so people are already descending on Lincoln County regardless of whether they're welcome.
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Thousands of people are descending on downtown Washington, D.C., Saturday for the "March for Our Lives," a rally to promote increased gun regulations that was organized by the survivors of the Parkland, Fla.
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Swift's annual summer bashes have fueled headlines the past few years, with squad members from Karlie Kloss and Blake Lively to Gigi Hadid and Cara Delevingne descending on her estate for the holiday weekend.
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To set me straight, she&aposd used Google Translate, the magic app that Russians have been using to communicate with thousands of non-Russian speakers descending on their country for the monthlong World Cup.
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And this year is no different, with a whole swarm of high-tech, tricked-out vehicles — and even a few aircraft — descending on Sin City this week for the gawking and amusement of all.
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Jonas, armed with his flashlight that looks like a kettlebell and his radiation detector, makes his way to the power plant, and sees a large, unwieldy blob, that appears to be descending on him.
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There's a lot of folk psychology around the groupthink that can happen in large crowds, but what does the actual science say, and what can it tell us about the groups descending on D.C.?
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So, the employees of advertising agency Hunt Adkins decided it'd be funny to drive home the point to the hundreds of thousands who'll be descending on their city for the Super Bold this weekend.
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But the spectacle of Mr. Cruz and a senior national Chamber of Commerce official descending on Wichita's airport just hours before Election Day to prop up Mr. Estes evoked panic more than premium-paying.
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The town released a statement saying that police officials feared an influx of protestors descending on the event to support or oppose the inclusion of a Sons of Confederate Veterans group in the parade.
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Thousands of journalists from across the world are descending on the genteel town of Windsor for the wedding, and Thomas Markle told TMZ earlier this week that the media attention had taken its toll.
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Though the potentially record-shatteringly low temperatures descending on a large swath of the country may touch off a political debate over global warming, Chenard said, the phenomenon is not related to climate change.
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I search the chaos—through a knot of Resistance fighters descending on a pair of legionnaires, past a Mask fighting off ten rebels at once, to the rubble of the tunnel, where my mother stands.
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For $200 a night, the listing offered the conservatives, protestors, and media folks who were descending on the city the chance to sleep in a place where countless bodies were once embalmed and mourned over.
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The candidates tried their best to deliver this weekend, descending on the state for a 48-hour sprint of town-hall-style meetings, meet-and-greets, house parties and, of course, plenty of stump speeches.
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But using such an anodyne form to tell such a sly story — about egotistic New York actors descending on Middle America to help a lesbian go to her high school prom — makes it almost subversive.
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Purists and grouches will say it peaked 20 years ago, but that hasn't stopped hippies, hopefuls and everyone in between from descending on Ubud, the rice-paddy-and-Hindu-temple-punctuated town in southern Bali.
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Volunteers have been descending on the cave site to join the multinational rescue team, which includes Australian police, U.S. military personnel and British cavers as well as more than 1,000 Thai army and navy personnel.
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The Wisconsin showdown The Democratic and Republican candidates are all descending on Wisconsin ahead of its April 21 primary -- turning on the style of retail politicking that's been largely absent since Iowa and New Hampshire voted.
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The timing kind of makes sense: It's all happening at the same time a horde of boys are descending on the White House for Generation Next, a summit for millennials the Trump administration held on Thursday.
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Live: Track the storms yourself A storm descending on the region Wednesday is expected to dump 8 to 12 inches of snow over the course of the week, with up to 2 feet in some areas.
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San Francisco-based marketing consultant Kate Talbot, who has attended SXSW every year since 2015 as a way to try to get new business, was expecting to be among those descending on the city next week.
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The actions coincided with a series of demonstrations organized by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, whose members are descending on the universities of North Carolina, Michigan and Florida and Ohio State University this week and next.
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Here are just a few of the notable animal tales that have made New York feel more like Zoo York: • Late last summer, thousands of bees swarmed Times Square, descending on a hot dog cart's umbrella.
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MOSCOW — In recent weeks, Russia has been engaged in a concerted effort to tame its habitual xenophobic demons in anticipation of 500,000 foreign soccer fans descending on the country for the World Cup that started Thursday.
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Besides an anticipated 25 million visitors descending on Dubai over the six-month course of the expo, the Museum of the Future, which is set to open in 2020, is sure to become a huge attraction.
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The rising crowds descending on the World Economic Forum's annual summit in Davos each year are forcing the event's organizers to consider housing some staff in temporary 'container pods' as a solution to the growing accommodation crunch.
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ATLANTA (Reuters) - Local, state and federal agencies are staging a multi-tentacled security operation to protect hundreds of thousands of football fans descending on Atlanta ahead of Sunday's Super Bowl, one of the world's largest sporting events.
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Kansas declares state of disaster emergency A storm descending on the region Wednesday is expected to dump 8 to 12 inches of snow over the course of the week, with up to 2 feet in some areas.
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So, for fans descending on Russia for the Nordic island's first ever appearance at the tournament, the national team is often a deeply personal affair, with many supporters boasting blood ties or personal links with the players.
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That first event drew 100 people — a success, with the only hiccup being that not all the bookstores knew such a large crowd would be descending on them (although one that did had a chocolate fountain waiting).
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MOSCOW — When Russian agents grabbed Frode Berg in front of Moscow's ritzy Metropol Hotel two years ago, they turned the retired Norwegian border inspector into the symbol of a new Cold War descending on Scandinavia's Arctic north.
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The children of priests are among the many people who feel they have been wronged by the church and are descending on Rome to press their cause during the Vatican's landmark meeting on sexual abuse this week.
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State media outlets have been providing breathless coverage on the story, with journalists descending on the hometowns of Zhang, Liang and Xie to uncover details ranging from Zhang Jun's broken marriage, Liang's mental state to Xie's past debts.
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WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand's booming tourism industry is emerging as a cornerstone of an economy hit by declining dairy exports, but the hordes descending on silver screen locations such as Hobbiton are stretching the small island nation's resources.
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On June 16, 2015, after theatrically descending on the escalator at Trump Tower, Mr. Trump announced his candidacy for president, hitting the precise themes he had laid out in the Conservative Political Action Conference speech five years earlier.
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WUHAN, China — People desperate for treatment started descending on a new hospital that was mostly built in just 10 days to help cope with the outbreak of the new coronavirus in the central city of Wuhan on Monday.
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The Consumer Electronics Show opens its convention floor doors, with more than 4,500 exhibitors reportedly descending on Las Vegas to peddle wares ranging from the future of autos and TV to what to expect from privacy and 5G.
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Environmental justice issues — I can go through all the issues that I think people are talking openly and I've seen tens of thousands of people descending on Washington, Republican offices taken over because of the oncoming of Trump.
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The manhunt kicked off just as diplomats from around the globe were descending on New York for the annual United Nations General Assembly, an event notorious for halting traffic and shutting down sections of the city over security concerns.
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Thousands of party leaders, delegates, reporters and activists are descending on Cleveland for a week of platform and rules committee hearings as Republicans prepare to nominate a candidate that has divided the GOP and been a flashpoint for controversy.
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UPPER BROOKVILLE, N.Y. — Seven miles from here, an old-world mansion known as the Killenworth estate became, briefly, a center of international intrigue on Thursday as reporters began descending on the property, long a weekend retreat for Russian diplomats.
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"I didn't have any inkling, let alone any reason, to think we'd be in this position," a subdued Andy Shea said as he sat in a boardroom that offered a spectacular view of dusk descending on the team's infield.
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But when people feel like chaos is descending on their society and threats from the outside are ubiquitous, they are willing to turn a blind eye to growing authoritarianism in the interest of the instituting a more "orderly" society.
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But the queer guy's queer eye begins and ends with this episode, the rest having the tone of an alien abduction: five gay men descending on an unsuspecting, middle-aged hetero to change the way he sees the world forever.
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Say what you will about the plague of Instagramming millennials descending on the fair field of photography, the fact is that Apple has led the charge on mobile imaging basically since the original iPhone and its amazing 2-megapixel camera.
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It's a festival of bile, with hundreds of hard-right creeps descending on the Gaylord National Harbor south of Washington DC to discuss the threat posed to the US by leftism, immigration, and the continued non-alive-ness of Ronald Reagan.
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Cleveland (CNN)Months of planning and reassurances from top city officials have done little to quiet concerns here over the potential for violent clashes between law enforcement and protest groups descending on the city ahead of this week's Republican National Convention.
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With an estimated 103,000 foreigners descending on Rio for the Olympics and recent attacks on European cities raising security concerns, the daunting task of monitoring and controlling the border area between Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina has come back into focus.
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The temperature in West Hollywood crept up into the mid 80s last week, but that didn't stop 96 of the nation's top winter Olympians and Paralympians – many toting figure skates, hockey sticks, snowboards and racing skis — from descending on the town.
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Members of the same alt-right and white nationalist groups who stormed Charlottesville, Virginia, a year ago, marching with tiki torches and chanting slogans from the Third Reich, are descending on Lafayette Square in the second "Unite the Right" event.
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In Northern Ireland, drastic road closure measures have already had to be brought into play after the country got more than it bargained for when hordes of Games of Thrones tourists started descending on sites that were unprepared for the onslaught.
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We've got all the familiar signs here: a naive developer playing with code he doesn't understand, savvy thieves exploiting the vulnerabilities he doesn't understand, and finally a squad of angry criminals descending on him for screwing up their meal ticket.
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Members of the Missionaries of Charity family — both lay and religious — have been descending on Rome for Sunday's canonization, and a week of events has been organized, from a musical based on Mother Teresa's life to Masses venerating her relics.
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To the Editor: Maybe, just maybe, a long, blue line of police officers from all over the United States descending on Washington would convince our Congress of the urgent need to establish some controls on the sale of assault weapons.
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The coming season deals in relevant plotlines like a new presidential administration and anti-immigration raids descending on the South Side of Chicago; within the family, Frank (William H. Macy) tries to sober up, and Fiona (Emmy Rossum) becomes a landlord.
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From Amy Qin, a China correspondent, and Elsie Chen, a researcher, on the ground in Wuhan: People desperate for treatment started descending on a new hospital in Wuhan on Monday that was built within 220 days to fight the coronavirus outbreak.
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Washington (CNN)Some of the biggest names in Democratic politics are descending on South Carolina in the final weeks of the midterms, introducing themselves to voters and operatives in a state that will be crucial in the party's 2020 presidential primary.
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As a result of the detour, 2759,210 passengers and airline crew members — plus 210 cats, 22016 dogs, and a pair of endangered apes — arrived in Gander, descending on the small northeastern town (and its nearby villages) and nearly doubling its population of 113,211.
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Yet with his White House in considerable disarray, a quick fix of thousands of American paratroopers descending on the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa in northern Syria and wiping its headquarters clean in a single dramatic stroke might appear quite an attractive option.
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To mark International Roma Day on April 8, Farkas is one of 13 Roma actors and artists descending on Berlin to take part in the first Roma Biennale – a series of art exhibitions, theatre performances and music events organized by the community.
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According to an economic impact report released by WWE, the fanbase descending on WrestleMania last year in the New York City metropolitan area came from all 50 states and 68 countries, with similar numbers the previous two years in New Orleans and Orlando.
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With the national media descending on Georgia's Sixth Congressional District, and outside money pouring in, the contest is viewed as a major test of whether a wave of left-wing activism since Mr. Trump's inauguration will produce change at the ballot box.
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With dozens of world leaders descending on UN headquarters, Trump had scheduled a competing meeting at the UN for a "call to protect religious freedom"; in the end, he and Vice President Mike Pence made a brief surprise appearance at the climate meeting.
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Warning that "darkness is descending" on the Middle East as Iran works to build an "aggressive empire," Netanyahu told a Washington audience that neither Israel nor the US will accept a nuclear Tehran and that Trump will counter Iran in the region.
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The case over the overtime rule, which would have made an estimated 4.2 million people newly eligible for time-and-a-half overtime pay, provides some insight into why opponents of regulation conclude that descending on Texas increases their odds of success.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The world's gas industry is descending on Tokyo this week with something other than cherry blossoms on its mind: a trio of Asian LNG buyers testing their collective muscle in a push for more flexible long-term contracts for the fuel.
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Franklin dances onstage during the first annual march on cancer in Washington, DC. The daylong event, known as the March, drew thousands of cancer survivors, patients, and loved ones descending on the National Mall to remember cancer victims and to ask for more research funds.
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"——> im super excited for the feminist revolution to hopefully start this wknd!" she messaged me in January while en route to Washington, DC, where she would crash on our classmate's couch as she reported on Chinese feminists descending on Capitol Hill for the Women's March.
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While we wait for Victoria's Secret to announce the official air date for the show, which is usually broadcasted by CBS in late November, we're keeping track of the models that will be descending on the Big Apple for the sexiest night of the year.
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San Diego Comic-Con is right around the corner, and fans from all over the world will be descending on America's Finest City — yes, that's the actual nickname for San Diego — for all the latest news from the biggest pop culture event of the year.
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Enthusiasts and collectors will be descending on Phoenix and Scottsdale later this month for a number of high-dollar events, and as new generations of millionaires and billionaires get into the swing of collecting, sale prices for rare classic models are reaching new heights.
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PARIS — With some 2.5 million people descending on France for the European Championship soccer tournament, which kicks off Friday, French officials have acknowledged that even as they take all possible steps to prevent and deter terrorist attacks, there is no such thing as zero risk.
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Orsinger, a 2600-year-old who resides in Washington, DC, was one of many local activists promoting an event to oppose "Unite the Right," a white supremacist rally that turned fatal in Charlottesville, VA last year, and would be descending on DC next month.
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ZACHARY WOOLFE Descending on New York, With Batons WHAT Three of the world's greatest orchestras WHEN March 220-212; April 11-13; May 4, 6, 7 The Berlin Philharmonic might not be visiting New York this spring, but three conductors with links to it are.
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According to CBS News and local media, thousands of people have been seen descending on Clearwater Beach this week and over the weekend, even as health officials have asked the public to avoid large gatherings in a bid to mitigate the spread of the virus.
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Photographer: Mark Elias/Bloomberg via Getty Images With Florida's peak growing season underway, thousands of foreign guest workers are descending on farm fields to join a labor force that has endured the hardships of crowded boarding houses, law enforcement raids, and indentured servitude for generations.
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During a speech in which he responded to white supremacists descending on Charlottesville, Virginia, he initially blamed "many sides" for the chaos, even though only one side — white supremacists — were responsible for the death of a counterprotester after a Nazi sympathizer drove into a crowd.
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The right-wing vituperations descending on Romney, directed by the president and amplified through his media minions, are no better than the left's cancel-culture warriors, seeking to wreck the lives of anyone who falls short of expectations or doesn't toe the ideological line.
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" —Jonathan Cohn, Huffington Post "Hospitals Fear Changes to Health Law, Press GOP on Revenue Concerns": "Hospital executives are descending on Washington with a message: They are concerned about losing insured patients and revenue under any plan to dismantle or significantly alter the Affordable Care Act.
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The group seeks to address labor and housing shortages, overtaxed healthcare and traffic congestion caused in part by companies descending on the Permian Basin, the nation's largest oilfield, where they hope to pump billions of dollars' worth of oil and gas in coming decades, experts said.
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With images of tanks descending on Ferguson protestors and the stoic countenance of Ieshia Evans before she is pulled behind a line of riot police seared into our national memory, it was difficult to make sense of a decree that encouraged these displays of military force.
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The wave of sniffles started descending on the packed house about the time Molly Shannon's character went off chemo, and I started bracing myself for the flood of all-caps hyperbolic praise that would not cease until the film got its inevitable multi-million dollar distribution deal.
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This Black Friday, I'll be thinking about the title story, "Friday Black," which reimagines Black Friday as a kind of zombie plague, and has forever changed the way I think about the waves of shoppers who spend the day after Thanksgiving descending on stores across the country.
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Over the years, we have seen how hard it is to detach Americans from even the obviously fallacious parts of that elementary-school saga—the absurd rendering of Reconstruction, with its Northern carpetbaggers and local scalawags descending on a defenseless South, was still taught in the sixties.
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This week's visit by the younger Mr. Trudeau, 44, and his wife, Sophie GrégoireTrudeau, 40, was bound to be quite a bit more conventional, if no less glamorous, with diplomats, elected officials, business executives and celebrities, including the prime minister's mother, descending on the White House.
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If you've never been to the Montreal International Jazz Festival—the largest in the world, according to Guinness world records—picture this: nearly two million festival goers descending on a few square blocks in the heart of downtown Montreal for 211 days and nights of music.
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On this episode of AMERICAN CONVENTIONS, We went to this year's gathering in Freeport, Illinois, to hear why the presenters rep the 16th president, and ask the locals how they feel about dozens of dudes in top hats and women in petticoats descending on their town.
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So on a soggy morning last week, she joined the scores of people who have been descending on the offices of the Bureau of Vital Statistics in Lower Manhattan to get the paperwork needed to ensure that whatever happens, she and her children will not be separated.
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"The state is very worried about the possibility of 100,000 people descending on that sparsely populated part of the state, getting in massive 8-hour long traffic jams, and having some newbie-camper in the forest accidentally starting a major forest fire that traps tens of thousands," he writes.
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And with hundreds of thousands of students descending on the capital annually, during peak season (March through June, roughly), the streets are awash with both bands of teens and tweens who have trekked from around the country and countless vendors who hawk knockoff hats bearing Trump's trademarked phrase.
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Take for example, Machu Picchu in Peru, which has been dealing with the very real possibility of a landslide for years and the effects of hordes of people descending on the area such as waste disposal issues, pollution and overcrowding, according to numerous reports including in National Geographic and Conde Nast.
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The group founded by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch has dozens of field workers descending on the lawmaker's district in the Raleigh suburbs, all of whom are working to brand the three-time incumbent as a fake conservative who has too often voted for legislation reaffirming Washington's crony capitalism.
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"But the news media kind of painted this picture, like they had the world thinking that there were probably 50 al Qaeda agents descending on the hotel with grenades or something like that," he said, admitting that others in the community have accused him of being too flippant about the incident.
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Populist firebrands Marine Le Pen of France and Geert Wilders of the Netherlands are descending on the scenic city of Prague this weekend for the "Europe of Nations and Freedom" conference, where like-minded far-right parties will discuss greater cooperation between their anti-migration, Islamophobic and eurosceptic political movements.
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The zealously Christian organization behind the group, Love Life Charlotte (LLC), has mobilized over 100 separate congregations on the morning of Saturday, December 2—the culmination of a 40-week long campaign against abortion that's seen a total of 18,000 protesters descending on the clinic in the past two years.
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Not just a wildly unpredictable horse race that attracts punters who never usually place a bet, the gathering is one of the highlights of the British social calendar, with thousands, especially from the north of England, descending on the course near Liverpool to wine and dine and try their luck.
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In the late 1990s, at the peak of the dot-com madness, I tried not to visibly roll my eyes over the hubris of the MBAs descending on Silicon Valley with their charts and projections but not much else beyond a smooth, practiced delivery and the promise of "ubiquity" for whatever they were selling.
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Unlike Cleveland, where scattershot demonstrations routinely dissolved among infighting and an overwhelming police presence, the protesters descending on the DNC have a more coherent slate of demands and, with a new Wikileaks release of documents that seems to show Democratic officials discussing ways to undermine Sanders' bid, freshly ignited anger at the party's handling of the nominating contest.
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You can see all of this in action via IGN's video walkthrough of the booth: While the novelty alone would explain why so many people are descending on the Fortnite booth, it also helps that there's exclusive swag such as T-shirts and pins available at the booth, and these items are often sold for good money online.
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Nordstrom cardmembers have had a week to shop these must-have brands, but starting July 20, the rest of the world will be descending on the site's well-stocked sale section (we've already got tabs open for kids, beauty and travel) to stock up on the normally splurge-y items we can justify when they're marked 30 percent off.
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Sherrod BrownSherrod Campbell BrownThe Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape Dayton Democrat launches challenge to longtime GOP rep Dayton mayor: Trump visit after shooting was 'difficult on the community' MORE (D-Ohio) said it begs the question as to where management was when newspaper stories were being written and regulators were descending on the bank.
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Thousands of demonstrators for and against Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE are descending on the Republican National Convention, creating a volatile mix that is keeping law enforcement officials on edge.
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"These gatherings could be seen as the first united cultural events of our island, with people from all corners of Britain descending on the areas around Stonehenge to feast on food that had been specially reared and transported from their homes," said Richard Madgwick, lead study author and lecturer in Cardiff University's School of History, Archaeology and Religion, in a statement.
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With the 2016 NBA All-Star Game going down this Sunday at Toronto's Air Canada Centre, and the league's best players descending on the city all weekend, there are plenty of big ticket concerts featuring DJs (AraabMuzik, Metro Boomin, Ryan Hemsworth), rappers (every single working MC), rappers pretending to be DJs (DJ Snoopadelic), and retired basketball stars pretending to be DJs (looking your way Shaquille O'Neal).
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CLEVELAND — Scores of GOP party leaders and delegates are descending on Cleveland this week to hammer out the party's platform a week before Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE is named the Republican presidential nominee.
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After a weekend of violence caused by white supremacists descending on Charlottesville, Virginia, to protest the city's plan to remove a Confederate statue, the media and White House made a big deal about a two-days-late press conference in which Trump condemned "this weekend's racist violence," said that "racism is evil," and called out the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and white supremacists in particular.
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Hundreds of protesters were seen descending on London on Saturday to pressure the U.K. government to decline to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian AssangeJulian Paul AssangeHillicon Valley: Twitter falling short on pledge to verify primary candidates | Barr vows to make surveillance reforms after watchdog report | DHS cyber chief focused on 85033 Lawyer says Assange tried to warn White House, Clinton about dump of diplomatic cables The Hill's Morning Report - Can Sanders be stopped?
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But the image of this town known as an adventurous, fun-loving, free-wheeling place under clear California skies is now clouded by the image of children hungry and shackled, of one teenager's desperate escape, of an army of police investigators and social workers, of TV crews and reporters from around the world descending on that one house that, to a skydiver, doubtless looked like just another home in just another neighborhood.
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The choices are legion: Judi Dench gliding in as Old Deuteronomy, a Yoda-esque fluff ball with a huge ruff who brings to mind the Cowardly Lion en route to a drag ball as Queen Elizabeth I; the tap dancing Skimbleshanks (Steven McRae), dressed, unlike most of the furries — in red pants and suspenders, no less — leading a Pied Piper parade; or Taylor Swift, as Bombalurina, executing a joyless burlesque shimmy after descending on the scene astride a crescent moon that ejaculates iridescent catnip.
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