Tad Cummins, the man accused of kidnapping 15-year-old Elizabeth Thomas, had sex with the girl “most nights” while the two were missing, according to an FBI agent’s testimony. FBI Agent Utley Noble also said 50-year-old Cummins, who was formerly Elizabeth’s high school teacher, said the two began having a sexual relationship March 13, the day […]
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USANorth Korea is blaming the U.S. for instigating what have become heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula, as Pyongyang vows to go forward with nuclear weapons testing and Washington threatens to use military action to prevent it from doing so. North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency released a commentary Friday titled, “Who Is Chiefly
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International, USALos Angeles (dpa) – Candidates to head the FBI will be interviewed Saturday, US media reported, amid a scandal over the ouster of the top law enforcement agency’s former boss by President Donald Trump. Trump’s Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his deputy Rod J Rosenstein planned to meet four possible candidates to replace James Comey,
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USAWikiLeaks announced Friday it is prepared to pay $100,000 for any tapes of conversations between President Donald Trump and former FBI Director James Comey. The message was sent out from its Twitter account just hours after Trump sent out his own tweet apparently warning Comey not to leak information to the media because of tapes
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USAOpposition leader promises his support if Netanyahu attempts to make progress By Times of Israel staff Opposition Leader Isaac Herzog attends the Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset, on March 8, 2017.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) US President Donald Trump’s Special Envoy for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt has “unequivocally” stressed that the White House is
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Middle East, USAPresident Donald Trump’s popularity has been plummeting and not just in the polls. Since the now commander-in-chief started his campaign trail, the name Donald has decreased in popularity among new parents. In fact, in 2016, the name Donald dropped 45 spots below its 2015 baby name ranking, according to the Social Security Administration’s yearly Popular
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USAThe Senate subpoenaed a “large number of documents” from President Donald Trump’s former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn Wednesday concerning his contacts with Russian officials. After sending a request for the documents on April 28, the Senate Intelligence Committee moved to seize them with what amounts to a court order after Flynn’s lawyer rebuffed their
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USAWashington (dpa) – Former first lady Michelle Obama on Friday slammed a move by the Trump administration to loosen rules for nutrition in school lunches, in a rare comment on the policies of her husband Barack’s successor. “Why don’t you want our kids to have good food at school?” Obama asked at a health summit
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Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food, USAPresident Donald Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey is “much more serious” than Watergate and could arguably be enough to see him impeached now, says the historian who predicted the Republican’s shock election win. Related: WikiLeaks Offers $100K Reward for Trump-Comey ‘Tapes’ Allan Lichtman, a professor of history at American University, came to national
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USATwo black female students attending a charter school in Massachusetts were recently kicked off their sports teams and prohibited from attending prom all because they wore their hair in braids. The Mystic Valley Charter School in Malden, about nine miles away from Boston, enforces a strict dress code preventing students from wearing their hair in
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USASen. Rand Paul has been one of the leading voices for criminal justice reform throughout his entire senate career, particularly of eliminating what he sees as draconian mandatory minimum sentencing laws. When Attorney General Jeff Sessions made it public on Friday that he would direct federal prosecutors to seek the harshest sentences for non-violent drug
By Jerry Klinger KEYSTONE, South Dakota — Mt. Rushmore, South Dakota, where the visages of four presidents, Washington, Jefferson, T. Roosevelt, and Lincoln are massively carved into the mountain, means different things to different people. For some, it is awe at the enormity of the vision begun by the “Father of Mt. Rushmore,” Doane Robinson.
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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, USAUpdated | North Korea appeared to fire another missile on Saturday, marking the first time it’s launched a projectile since South Korea’s new president took office, the news agency Yonhap reported. A military officer could not tell Reuters what exactly Pyongyang had launched, but Seoul’s Yonhap said it was a ballistic missile that traveled about
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International, USAPresident Trump on Saturday told the class of 2017 at Liberty University to stay true to their ideals and remember that the United States was built on religious principles. “In America we don’t worship government, we worship God,” Mr. Trump said, delivering a commencement address in Lynchburg, Virginia, at what is considered the largest Christian