The president of the NAACP led an occupation of Sen. Jeff Sessions’ Mobile, Alabama, office Tuesday, demanding that Sessions withdraw his name from consideration as attorney general of the incoming Trump administration. Between 15 and 30 activists, including Cornell Williams Brown, president of the NAACP, and Bernard Simleton, head of the group’s Alabama chapter, walked […]
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USAFormer Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee slammed UN Security Council Resolution 2334 as an act of hate and contempt against the State of Israel and criticized Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech against construction in Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria during a visit to the Knesset Tuesday. The Knesset visit was arranged by MK Miki
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Middle East, USAStrident ad hominem attacks on President-Elect Donald Trump did not end with the new year. Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) on Tuesday compared Trump to the late Cuban dictator, Fidel Castro. The Cuban leader, Cohen said on CNN, “loved to talk for long periods of time, hated disloyalty and dissent and eliminated it, and was very
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USAHouse Democrats lobbed a preemptive salvo Monday against Republicans itching to kick-start their Obamacare repeal effort once the new Congress gavels in, calling the effort an “act of cowardice” and reckless “assault” on health care for millions and conservative orthodoxy alike, since repeal is projected to raise the deficit. They also said Republicans would pay
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USAThe most powerful Democrat in Washington issued a stern warning to President-elect Donald Trump as Congress returned to work on Tuesday. Senator Chuck Schumer’s combative remarks on the Senate floor, his inaugural speech as minority leader, signal there will be little in the way of bipartisan cooperation under President Trump. The veteran lawmaker from New
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USAWASHINGTON — The inauguration of the next president won’t play out quite the way they had envisioned. But Bill and Hillary Clinton will still attend inaugural ceremonies for President-elect Donald Trump at the Capitol on Jan. 20, aides for both Clintons confirmed Tuesday. Protocol dictates that former presidents, and their spouses, are given prominent seats
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USAWASHINGTON — The share of U.S. adults who describe themselves as Christians has been declining for decades, but today’s Congress is about as Christian as it was in the early 1960s, according to a new analysis by the Pew Research Center. The survey finds that among members of the new, 115th Congress, which took office
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USAThe website publisher who proposed holding an armed, anti-Semitic march in Whitefish, Montana, now says the rally will happen on Martin Luther King Day weekend, local media reported Monday. Daily Stormer publisher Andrew Anglin this week indicated an “armed protest” he initiated last month will commence in Whitefish on Jan. 15 to coincide with the
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USAWikiLeaks, which in 2016 released troves of private information related to Hillary Clinton’s Democratic presidential campaign, announced Monday via Twitter it would publish more even documents in 2017. The whistleblower organization did not specify what was in store but alluded to a bombshell, writing, “If you thought 2016 was a big WikiLeaks year 2017 will
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International, USAPresident-elect Donald Trump urged President Obama to hold off on any final transfers from Guantanamo Bay, saying Tuesday that the detainees still being held are “extremely dangerous people.” The administration has signaled it is trying to transfer nearly 20 of the remaining detainees before Mr. Obama leaves office, making as much headway as possible on
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International, USAHours after President-elect Donald Trump lambasted General Motors (GM) on Twitter early Tuesday morning, the company’s share price dropped more than a dollar, or nearly 3 percent. The president-elect wasn’t happy that the company manufactures its Chevy Cruze models in Mexico rather than domestically. In a statement to the finance news site Benzinga, GM responded
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USAWASHINGTON — Ford Motor Co. said Tuesday it was scrapping plans to build a $1.6 billion factory in Mexico and would invest $700 million to expand a Michigan plant to build electric and autonomous vehicles that will add 700 jobs there in a move Ford’s chief executive said was a “vote of confidence” in the
Amid an outcry from President-elect Donald Trump and other elected officials, House Republicans have backed off on their short-lived plan to gut the almost decade-old Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE). Related: Republicans want to punish members for recording on House floor As the 115th Congress kicked off on Tuesday, House Republicans held an emergency meeting
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USAAs names, including Elton John and Celine Dion, have reportedly turned down the opportunity to perform at U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony, an unlikely name has revealed she is up for the gig—under one condition. U.K. singer Rebecca Ferguson, who appeared on the 2010 season of singing competition The X Factor, tweeted Monday she
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