Washington (dpa) – The chief of police in the Midwestern US city of Minneapolis resigned on Friday, less than a week after a police officer shot dead an Australian woman who had called emergency services to report a possible sexual assault. “Last Saturday’s tragedy, as well as some other recent incidents, have caused me to […]
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International, USAPresident Trump claimed Saturday he has “the complete power to pardon,” publicly responding for the first time to recent news reports suggesting he’s seeking pardons for individuals being investigated by prosecutors probing Russia’s role in last year’s White House race, including relatives, staffers and himself. “While all agree the U.S. President has the complete power
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USACongress has reached a final deal on new Russia sanctions legislation, leaders announced Saturday, clearing the path for final approval of legislation that would codify penalties imposed by the Obama administration and would require President Trump to seek approval from Capitol Hill should he want to lift the sanctions. The bill has been stalled for
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International, Middle East, USAJeff Sessions discussed Donald Trump’s White House bid with the Russian ambassador, according to US intelligence intercepts cited in the Washington Post on Friday, contrary to the attorney general’s public assertions. Sergey Kislyak, Russia’s ambassador to Washington, told his superiors in Moscow that he discussed campaign-related matters, including policy issues important to Moscow, with Sessions
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International, USAPresident Trump commissioned the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford Saturday, celebrating the newest symbol of American military might as he called on Congress to approve a budget with a big increase in defense spending. Addressing an audience of dignitaries and sailors on the $12.9-billion nuclear-powered carrier at the Naval Air Station in Norfolk, Virginia,
Anthony Scaramucci, President Trump’s newly appointed communications director, has begun purging his Twitter account of old tweets that don’t jive with the administration’s agenda. “Full transparency: I’m deleting old tweets. Past views evolved & shouldn’t be a distraction. I serve @POTUS agenda & that’s all that matters,” Mr. Scaramucci tweeted Saturday afternoon, hardly 24 hours
Outgoing White House press secretary Sean Spicer has criticized the notorious parody of him by Saturday Night Live comedian Melissa McCarthy as “over the line.” “I think that there were parts of it that were funny, but there’s a lot of it that was over the line,” Spicer told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Friday.
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAUS Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has ambitious plans to streamline and restructure the State Department. And the first thing on the chopping block could be the war crimes office. Foreign Policy magazine reported that a member of Tillerson’s team informed the Office of Global Criminal Justice Special Coordinator Todd Buchwald that he and his
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International, USALOS ANGELES — The U.S. Labor Department has ordered Wells Fargo & Co. to reinstate another former employee who alleged she was fired after reporting part of the widespread fraud that engulfed the bank in a major scandal. The whistle-blower, a former branch manager in Pomona, Calif., will be reinstated and paid $577,500 in back
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USAA Virginia McDonald’s has taken “appropriate action” after a uniformed police officer was denied service by a drive-thru employee. Scott Naff, an officer for the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, had reportedly paid for his food at the restaurant’s drive-thru when he pulled up to the second window and was refused his meal.
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USAWhen Capt. Libby Weiss grew up in the US, she never suspected she’d one day be working with international media in a war zone By Renee Ghert-Zand TEL AVIV — Capt. Libby Weiss spent most of the summer of 2014 in a Hamas tunnel, and she wouldn’t have wanted to be anywhere else. Israel’s military
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Middle East, USAAnthony Scaramucci finds himself at the center of the latest storm in President Donald Trump’s White House after Sean Spicer resigned from his position as press secretary Friday. According to The New York Times, Spicer quit after telling Trump that he strongly disagreed with the appointment of Scaramucci as the new communications director. It was
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USAPHILADELPHIA — The news cycle had not been kind to Attorney General Jeff Sessions by the time he made it to Philadelphia on Friday. His boss was griping about him in The New York Times. He was fighting off rumors that he’d resign. And then, late Thursday, a federal judge had refused to reinstate the
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USAWASHINGTON — The State Department said Friday it will prohibit U.S. citizens from traveling to North Korea starting late next month, citing the risk of arrest and imprisonment by the authoritarian regime in Pyongyang. The decision by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson bars use of U.S. passports “to travel in, through, or to North Korea,”
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