Bernie Sanders is returning to a key campaign promise and will introduce a single-payer healthcare bill in the wake of the Republicans’ Obamacare replacement defeat. The Vermont senator said Sunday that he was willing to work with both Democrats and Republicans to provide “insurance for all,” two days after the GOP leadership’s American Health Care […]
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USAIn the weeks after Donald Trump won last year’s presidential election and Republicans kept control of Congress, Sarah Dohl, with a of friends and former Capitol Hill colleagues, wanted Americans — mostly distraught Democrats — to know that their voices could still be heard. Not expecting much, they published online a 26-page document in mid-December,
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USAThe Pentagon said on Saturday that a strike in Afghanistan this week killed an Al-Qaeda terrorist who was responsible for the death of two American service members and accused of involvement in a deadly attack on a bus carrying Sri Lanka’s cricket team in 2009. In a statement quoted by Reuters, the Pentagon said the
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International, USAThe threat posed by North Korean projectiles to the U.S. has increased due to multiple missile tests conducted by Pyongyang over the weekend, according to a senior U.S. Air Force commander. Lt. Gen. Kenneth S. Wilsbach, the commander of the Anchorage-based 11th Air Force, told Congress’ Joint Armed Services Committee Thursday that North Korea’s hawkish
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International, USAThe chief executive of Charter Communications committed in a meeting with President Trump on Friday to invest $25 billion on broadband infrastructure while joining a trend of business leaders touting previously announced job creation at the White House. In the case of Charter, Chief Executive Thomas Rutledge said he expected to hire 20,000 new U.S.
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USALondon supports 2 of the votes, but slams bias and ‘selective focus’ on Israel, puts council ‘on notice’ that it had better change By Times of Israel staff The Human Rights Council during an interactive dialogue with the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip on June 29, 2015
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International, Middle East, USAUS President Donald Trump’s controversial ban on electronic devices on flights from Muslim-majority countries began Saturday. But instead of condemning the move, Arab carriers took advantage of it as a fun PR boost and to promote their products… The US announced, to much fanfare on March 21, a ban on electronic devices for passengers on
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Middle East, USAMOSUL, Iraq — The U.S.-led military coalition fighting to dislodge the Islamic State from the Iraqi city of Mosul said Saturday it may have been responsible for an airstrike that killed more than 200 civilians in the western part of the city. The U.S. Central Command, which oversees military operations in the Middle East, said
Vice President Mike Pence said Saturday that congressional Democrats won’t be able to savor very long the survival of Obamacare, after Trump administration and House Republican leaders lost a bid to repeal and replace the law. “Nancy Pelosi, the leader of the Democrats, actually said yesterday was a victory for the American people,” Mr. Pence
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USABerlin (dpa) – Chancellor Angela Merkel reaffirmed on Friday Germany’s commitment to a two-state solution for peace in the Middle East, fanning Palestinians’ hopes that she will mediate a future peace deal. “I still do not see a reasonable alternative to the goal of a two-state solution,” Merkel said after meeting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
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International, Middle East, USAA bipartisan group of 191 Congress members on Friday sent a letter to President Donald Trump, in which they urged him to reaffirm support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Arab conflict. The letter was spearheaded by representatives Gerry Connolly (D-VA) and David Price (D-NC). “As strong supporters of Israel, we write to urge
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — One key Republican Washington power player — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell — emerges from the wreckage of Friday’s GOP effort to overhaul Obamacare relatively unscathed. While McConnell had supported the bill, which failed to get enough Republican support and was pulled from the House floor, the Kentucky Republican never asked his 52-member
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USAIsrael says it intends to adopt a settlements policy that takes Trump’s concerns ‘into consideration,’ but no agreement reached By Eric Cortellessa US President Donald Trump, right, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands during a joint press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, February 15, 2017. (AFP/Saul
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Middle East, USALarge protests have spread throughout French Guiana, blocking roads to neighbouring Brazil and Suriname, prompting the US government to issue a travel warning Friday for the French territory in South America. Hundreds of people have taken part in protests over the high crime rate, cost of living and the poor quality of social services such
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