Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that he thinks he convinced President Trump that Russia did not interfere in the U.S. presidential election. Russian meddling in the election was the first thing Mr. Trump bought up when he two leaders had their first face-to-face meeting Friday, and Mr. Putin repeated his denials that Moscow was […]
A final statement from the leaders of the world’s top economic powers Saturday reaffirmed their support for free trade but exposed a divide between the US and other G20 members on climate change. The Group of 20 summit came up with compromise language on trade, although officials struggled to find common ground on another contentious
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International, USASenator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) remains incredibly popular in his state and he certainly energized a portion of the left during his bid for the Democratic nomination in 2016. But at least one liberal in Vermont is fed up with the senator. Jon Svitavsky, 59, announced this week he planned to challenge the longtime Vermont politician
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USARussian government-sponsored hackers are suspected of being behind the penetration of computer systems at several U.S. nuclear power plants. Three people familiar with efforts to combat the hack told Bloomberg that Russian hackers were the chief suspects, who had planned to disrupt the nation’s power supply, officials said. The hackers accessed computer systems at at
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International, USAUS President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin held their first face-to-face talks on the sidelines of a G20 summit in Hamburg on Friday accompanied by just their foreign ministers. “We look forward to a lot of very positive things happening for Russia and the United States,” Trump said as he headed into the
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International, USAVice President Mike Pence broke the rules during a tour of NASA’s Kennedy Spacer Center on Thursday and the internet isn’t ignoring it. Mr. Pence was touring the facility with Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, when Reuters photographer Mike Brown captured the vice president blatantly disregarding a prominently displayed “DO NOT TOUCH” sign. The image
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAHAMBURG, Germany — President Donald Trump met for more than two hours with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, after which both sides offered seemingly contradictory accounts of their discussions about American intelligence findings of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told reporters in a televised briefing that Trump
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International, USASEATTLE — A 23-year-old Florida man on a Thursday flight from Seattle to Beijing tried to open an exit door on the airborne Boeing 767, sparking a wild brawl with flight attendants and passengers who used wine bottles and zip ties to subdue the combative man, according to a federal complaint. Joseph D. Hudek IV
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Travel and Food, USAATLANTA — The mother accused of stabbing to death four of her children and their father appeared in court for the first time Friday morning — smiling for cameras and telling the judge she doesn’t want an attorney. “I don’t need an attorney,” Isabel Martinez said through an interpreter. “My attorney is the people that
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USAThree men were gored during the first run of Pamplona’s bull-running festival Monday. Two of them were from the United States, while the third was from Navarra in Spain. According to local media, a 35-year-old US citizen sustained a chest wound and a 29-year-old US citizen was gored in the scrotum. Another 39-year-old man, from
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International, Sports & Competitions, USAThe state of Hawaii, which already succeeded in temporarily halting President Donald Trump’s travel ban, is once again fighting the executive order in federal court. The state hopes to expand the number of people who can bypass the travel ban and on Friday took its case to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The
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International, USAHAMBURG, Germany — In his first meeting as president with his Mexican counterpart, Donald Trump on Friday said he “absolutely” intends for Mexico to pay for the controversial wall he wants to build along the United States’ southern border, setting off a furor in Mexico over a goal his own administration has largely abandoned. Trump
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International, USAWe all know that President Donald Trump likes to get prime position in any photo opportunity. On his first visit to Europe in May, he appeared to shove the prime minister of Montenegro aside in order to get to the front of the pack of world leaders, providing yet another viral sensation for the internet.
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International, USANEW YORK (Press Release) — Stephen M. Greenberg, Chairman and Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman/CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations issued the following statement: “We strongly condemn the adoption by UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee of two more resolutions in the relentless Palestinian campaign to erase the more than 3,800-year Jewish
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