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Trump picks fight with key ally Mexico, whose president scraps visit

MEXICO CITY — Barely six days in office, President Donald Trump has managed to poison one of the United States’ most important strategic international relationships by prompting Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto to cancel a planned visit to the White House, sending a good relationship to a new low. Pena Nieto had been scheduled next

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Theresa May, British PM, says Trump brings new era of American renewal, global leadership

PHILADELPHIA – British Prime Minister Theresa May cozied up Thursday to Republican lawmakers, saying the political wave that swept them and President Trump into power would make America a stronger and bolder leader in the world. In a speech to a congressional Republican retreat for formulating strategy, Ms. May said the upset victory by Mr.

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Trump’s rift with Mexican president sets off worries about future of NAFTA

WASHINGTON — The Mexican president’s abrupt cancellation of a White House meeting following President Donald Trump’s intensified pressure on Mexico to pay for a border wall not only raises the risks of a diplomatic crisis but the specter of an unraveling of the North American Free Trade Agreement. While the tit for tat between Trump

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Edwin Dorn: Russians did to us what we’ve done to others for long time

Let’s stop acting like wounded innocents. The U.S. has been big-footing around the globe for more than a century. We have influenced elections in other countries and when that didn’t work, we have deposed leaders who did not support our interests. Prominent examples include intervening several times in Central America and supporting coups that replaced

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Accused Florida airport shooter Esteban Santiago indicted

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Airport shooting suspect Esteban Santiago was formally charged Thursday with carrying out the fatal mass shooting Jan. 6 at Fort Lauderdale’s international airport. Santiago, 26, was indicted on 22 federal charges after prosecutors presented their evidence to a grand jury in Fort Lauderdale. Santiago was indicted on five counts of causing

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McConnell caught between GOP lawmakers and Trump

PHILADELPHIA — Mitch McConnell’s got what he has long sought: Republicans controlling Congress and the White House. But he’s heading down a bumpy, unpredictable road. That became clear Thursday as Republicans conducted a second day of strategy meetings here, including sessions with President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. Instead of a celebration and

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Enrique Pena Nieto, Mexican president, cancels meeting with Trump after immigration orders

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said Thursday that he’s canceled his planned visit to see President Trump next week, retaliating for the strict new executive orders issued a day earlier. In a Twitter post, Mr. Pena Nieto said he remains a friend to the U.S. and is willing to work on agreements – as long

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Mexican president rejects Trump’s border wall — and says he won’t pay for it

MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said he rejects and condemns U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to immediately begin construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. In a televised address Wednesday night, Pena Nieto said Mexico “does not believe in walls.” His voice rising, Pena Nieto repeated his promise that Mexico “will

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Trump’s hiring freeze already hurting some of his most loyal supporters: Veterans

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s temporary hiring freeze on federal jobs is disproportionately affecting a group of his most loyal supporters: veterans, who receive preference in federal hiring. Some already have had job interviews canceled or postponed, advocacy groups say. The hiring freeze also applies to the Department of Veterans Affairs, something that deeply troubles

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USA

47 groups ask UC to implement anti-hate policy

SAN FRANCISCO (Press Release)–At a time when hate and intolerance is rising at an alarming rate, AMCHA Initiative Director Tammi Rossman-Benjamin on Thursday, Jan. 26, delivered a letter from 47 education, Jewish and civil rights groups to the University of California Board of Regents calling on UC to implement the Regents’ Principles Against Intolerance as a “relevant,

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Israel said readying to take in 100 orphaned Syrian refugees

Children will receive temporary residency, becoming permanent residents after 4 years; will be integrated into Arab Israeli families By Times of Israel staff Syrian children gather around a fire as the Syrian government starts to clean up areas formerly held by opposition forces in the northern city of Aleppo on December 27, 2016, in the

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Middle East

South Carolina Governor Urged To Quit ‘Segregated’ Country Club

One day after the Senate confirmed South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under President Donald Trump, her replacement, former Lieutenant Gov. Henry McMaster, came under renewed public scrutiny for his affiliation with a country club accused of racial segregation. At least 840 people have signed a petition demanding

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