The mayor of the US city of Milwaukee says a still image pulled from a police officer’s body camera shows “without question” that the black man shot by an officer was holding a gun in his hand at the time of the shooting. 23-year-old Sylville K.Smith was shot after a traffic stop on Saturday. His […]
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USAMIDDLETOWN, Calif. — Firefighters are battling a 3,000-acre wildfire in Northern California that destroyed at least 175 buildings and forced about 1,400 residents to flee their lake community, authorities said Monday. The fast-moving Clayton fire broke out late Saturday afternoon off Highway 29 and Clayton Creek Road, forcing the entire community of Lower Lake —
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USARepublican presidential nominee Donald Trump outlined an anti-terrorism plan Monday that included “extreme vetting” of anyone from terrorist hotbeds trying to enter the United States, fine-tuning his controversial proposal to temporarily ban Muslims. The intense vetting would aim to root out potential terrorists by identifying individuals who do not share and respect American values, including
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USAThis story was co-published with The Washington Post. A week before the last U.S. soldiers left his country in December 2011, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki traveled to Washington to meet the team that would help shape Iraq’s future once the troops and tanks were gone. Over dinner at the Blair House, guest quarters for
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Middle East, USASCRANTON, Pa. — As Vice President Joe Biden joined Hillary Clinton to warn of the peril of a Donald Trump presidency, he offered many of the now-familiar critiques of Trump’s foreign policy views on Russia, immigration and nuclear weapons with his typical plainspoken flair. “Hillary has forgotten more about American foreign policy than Trump and
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International, USASEATTLE — Bill Bryant, Washington state’s Republican candidate for governor, has finally taken a public stand on the Donald Trump question: He doesn’t support the GOP nominee for president. “Obviously, Bill has tried to avoid having this Trump conversation, because that’s not what this election is about,” spokesman Jason Roe told The Seattle Times in
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USAIn the early hours of D-Day 1944, the Allies landed 156,000 troops on the beaches of France, spelling doom for the Third Reich. In Berlin, 756 miles away, night-owl Adolf Hitler slept peacefully through the largest invasion in history. No aide dared awaken the boss with such bad news. Being a messenger can indeed be
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USAMIAMI — In the heat of the Republican presidential primary, Marco Rubio called Donald Trump a “con man.” And he doesn’t take it back. “I’ve stood by everything I ever said in my campaign,” Rubio told the Miami Herald editorial board Monday. But Rubio still supports Trump for president. In fact, Rubio insists, Trump is
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USAWhile campaigning for Hillary Clinton in front of a group of working-class residents of Scranton, Pennsylvania, Vice President Joe Biden on Monday said he believes the phrase Donald Trump probably is most proud of is, “You’re fired.” While his reference to the line Trump made famous during his days as a reality TV star wasn’t
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USAThis article was originally published in The Conversation. Read the original article. If there is one key word we are likely to hear mentioned over and over again during the upcoming U.S. election it will be “stupid”. Some see Donald Trump’s campaign as a “cult of stupidity;” others claim Hillary Clinton is running a “painfully
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USAThe same year Bill and Hillary Clinton gave $42,000 in charity to the Desert Classic Charities, that charity turned around and cut the Clinton Foundation a $700,000 check, according to Desert Classic Charities’ tax returns. Talk about a return on investment. The $700,000 donation to the Clinton Foundation was to be dedicated to a “childhood
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USALooking for an absentee-voter boost in swing-states like Florida, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, Donald Trump is actively courting American Jews living in Israel in what the campaign hints could be an insurance policy against a repeat of the 2000 Bush-Gore deadlock in Florida. Managed by the Republicans Abroad Israel branch of the GOP, the new campaign
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Middle East, USASome 50 nuclear weapons owned by the United States and stored at a Turkish air base near the Syrian border are in danger of falling into the hands of “terrorists or other hostile forces,” a think tank said in a new report released on Monday. The Incirlik air base in southern Turkey is situated just
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Middle East, USAAs his hopes of occupying the oval office recede, Donald Trump’s list of people and institutions to blame is ballooning at a rapid rate. Over the weekend he launched a sustained attack on the media, which he says is out to get him. At a rally on Saturday he threatened to ban the New York
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