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Trump Vows to Win in Afghanistan, Won’t Reveal Numbers

President Donald Trump has announced a new strategy in the war in Afghanistan, one that focuses on ending the U.S.’s costly nearly 16-year struggle to quell an Islamist insurgency there by eradicating militants and engaging regional powers, but does not commit to long-term nation-building goals. In a highly anticipated televised address, Trump told troops Monday […]

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Secret Service runs short of money to pay agents protecting Trump and his circle

WASHINGTON — The Secret Service is close to its annual caps for salary and overtime pay for more than 1,000 agents, partly because of President Donald Trump’s large family, multiple properties and frequent travel, according to a report Monday in USA Today. The Secret Service director, Randolph “Tex” Alles, told the newspaper that he is

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Former Michael Jackson lawyer to defend Cosby

The onetime attorney of late pop icon Michael Jackson will now defend disgraced television icon Bill Cosby in his upcoming re-trial for sexual assault, the actor’s spokesman said Monday. After Brian McMonagle quit earlier this month, his California-based co-counsel Angela Agrusa also filed a motion asking to be taking off the trial. The pair helped

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

University of Texas removes Confederate statues

AUSTIN, Texas — University of Texas President Gregory L. Fenves abruptly announced late Sunday that four statues of people with Confederate ties would be removed immediately from the school’s South Mall. The bronze likenesses of Confederate Gens. Robert E. Lee and Albert Sidney Johnston and Confederate Postmaster John H. Reagan will be relocated to the

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Christopher Columbus monument in Baltimore smashed to combat ‘white supremacy’

A monument to Christopher Columbus that was over 200 years old was smashed with a sledgehammer Monday morning to combat a “culture of white supremacy.” A YouTube channel titled “Popular Resistance” posted footage of men in hoodies destroying a monument to Columbus and his famous voyage in 1492. The individuals carried signs that read “Racism:

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US Treasury chief defends Trump after criticism by classmates

US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Saturday defended President Donald Trump’s response to bloodshed following a rally of white supremacists and neo-Nazis, rejecting calls from former Yale classmates that he resign from the administration in protest. A group of 359 people from Mnuchin’s 1985 class at the Ivy League university had signed an open letter

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‘A monumental act of injustice against the Jewish people’

International March of the Living expressed its “profound disappointment” with the organizers of the March for Racial Justice, which is being planned for this Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. “Especially in light of recent events in Charlottesville, where prejudice and hatred against Jews, African Americans and others were painfully evident, we

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Is Trump Mentally Ill? A Democrat Lawmaker Thinks so

Hurling accusations of mental illness at opponents is nothing new in politics. But on Friday, Representative Zoe Lofgren went a step further, tabling a resolution for President Donald Trump to undergo a medical and psychiatric evaluation to determine if he is fit to hold office. The San Jose Democrat said in Congress that the results

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Film Shows How ‘Curious George’ Creators Escaped Nazis

We all think we know Curious George, the rambunctious primate who’s been entertaining children since his first book was published in 1941. He’s been in television shows, blockbuster movies and video games, shaping the lives of countless children. But a new documentary, Monkey Business, tells the story of the iconic children’s character on film for

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