Supporters of South Korean President Park Guen-hye have rallied to call for her reinstatement. Opponents have gathered to repeat their demands that the leader, impeached over a corruption scandal, should step down immediately. Supporters rally The Park supporters, who last held a major rally in mid-November, began their demonstration first. They have been in the […]
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InternationalA bevy of liberal Hollywood stars have put aside their differences with Republicans in an eleventh-hour plea to GOP electors to convince them not to cast their ballots for Donald Trump at the Monday vote of the Electoral College. A self-described “public service announcement” released last week by Unite for America featured 17 celebrities assuring
Annie Glenn was married to her husband and American hero John Glenn for more than seven decades of her life. On Friday, she said goodbye for the final time as he was lying in state at Ohio’s capitol building. Glenn, 95, died a week ago surrounded by family and friends at the Ohio State University
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Obituaries & memorials, USATrump’s Proposed Amendments to the Bill of Rights By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Amendment I: Congress shall respect that Christians established this nation. It shall not prohibit the free exercise of the freedom of speech or of the press except when dishonest reporters lie about me. Amendment II: No regulations shall infringe on the
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAA Kremlin spokesperson denied any Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election Friday after President Barack Obama promised to take action against alleged hacking. Russia, which has been accused of tampering with the election in order to install Donald Trump in the White House, seized on the fact that no official evidence has been made
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International, USAAmsterdam (dpa) – The wartime arrest of Anne Frank, the Jewish teenager who wrote one of the world’s best known diaries, may not have been as a result of betrayal as previously thought, a new study has suggested. Researchers at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam say the annex where she was hiding with her
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International, Jewish HistoryThis article originally appeared on The Conversation. How to report on a fascist? How to cover the rise of a political leader who’s left a paper trail of anti-constitutionalism, racism and the encouragement of violence? Does the press take the position that its subject acts outside the norms of society? Or does it take the
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InternationalWashington (dpa) – Vanity Fair magazine has reportedly seen its subscriptions soar following a tweet by US president-elect Donald Trump which suggested the magazine was “dead” and its editor had “no talent.” The tweet appeared to be a response to a negative review of a Trump restaurant published by the magazine on Wednesday titled “Trump
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USAThe day before the presidential election, a 5.0 magnitude earthquake struck just outside Cushing, Oklahoma—an 8,000-person town that’s also North America’s top oil-trading hub and one of the largest oil-storage facilities in the world. The quake knocked bricks off century-old buildings, cracked foundations and forced Cushing to evacuate its downtown. Workers at the town’s sprawling
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USALOS ANGELES — Howard Bingham, a close friend and longtime photographer of Muhammad Ali who was also known for his community activism, died Thursday afternoon. He was 77. Bingham died in a Los Angeles hospital. No cause of death was given by his agent, Harlan Werner. The renowned photographer, who grew up in Compton, had
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Sports & Competitions, USARod Carew “is expected to make a full recovery,” the Twins announced Friday, after the Hall of Fame infielder underwent 13-hour surgery to receive a heart and kidney transplant at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. “The entire Minnesota Twins family is happy to report that Rod Carew had a successful heart and kidney transplant,”
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Sports & Competitions, USAWASHINGTON — There is “strong consensus” among U.S. intelligence services that Russia orchestrated hacks and online leaks in part to help Donald Trump win the White House, the head of the CIA told agency employees in a message Friday. FBI Director James B. Comey and Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. agree with
RALEIGH, N.C. — State legislators wrapped up their work Friday on a pair of controversial bills that would deprive the incoming governor of a substantial part of his power to make appointments and reduce Democrats’ power over elections regulation. Republican Gov. Pat McCrory signed the bill dealing with elections a short time later. Less than
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USARamallah/Tel Aviv (dpa) – A leading figure in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) on Friday warned against the relocation of the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The warning came after David Friedman, recently picked as future ambassador to Israel by US president-elect Donald Trump, said he expected to be based in
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