A political crisis in the Gambia appears to be over, with the country’s leader finally agreeing to step down. Yahya Jammeh had refused to concede defeat to President Adama Barrow after elections in December. In a televised address, Jammeh said: “I believe in the importance of dialogue and in the capacity of Africans to resolve […]
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InternationalAfter President Donald Trump’s inauguration, alt-right leader Richard Spencer was punched in the face by a protester while in the middle of an interview. RELATED: The alt-right will soon end its love affair with Donald Trump Watch the video Spencer was on the corner of 14th and K Streets around 2:30 p.m. when a masked
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USAWASHINGTON—After months of mocking the CIA and questioning its conclusions on Russian interference in the election, President Donald Trump went to the agency headquarters in Langley, Va., on Saturday ostensibly to reach out but instead delivered an animated, rambling address in front of its memorial to fallen officers. The visit was designed to send a
WASHINGTON, January 20, 2017 – Just a few hours after taking the oath of office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that allows federal agencies the power to loosen enforcement of large chunks of Obamacare, including the mandate requiring Americans to purchase insurance. The order was signed during an Oval Office ceremony. The order
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USANEW YORK—The inauguration of President Donald Trump was watched by 30.6 million television viewers on Friday, 19 percent below the audience of 37.8 million for former President Barack Obama’s first swearing-in ceremony in 2009. The figure is based on preliminary data from Nielsen for inauguration coverage that aired from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Eastern
Story by Donald H. Harrison; photos by Sky M. Masori SAN DIEGO – LEGO artist Nathan Sawaya has solved one of Balboa Park’s greatest problems: how to see as much as possible in an hour or so. With 18 museums of varying size and subject matter to tempt them, San Diegans know that it takes
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Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, USAA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires was briefly evacuated on Thursday following a false bomb threat, Argentina”s Jewish community association AMIA said in a statement quoted by Reuters. The AMIA statement said police had received an anonymous phone call threatening a center for senior citizens near the AMIA building that was attacked nearly 23
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International, Jewish HistoryWASHINGTON — He’s been bounced out of the U.S. Senate, but will Mark Kirk’s landing spot be just down the road at Washington’s home of lobbying, K Street? Speaking Thursday night at the Heartland Ball, a bipartisan celebration of the presidential inauguration for Illinoisans in D.C., the former U.S. senator told Chicago Inc. that he’s
There was no pivot. There was no olive branch, no binding of wounds, no lofty summons to the better angels of our nature. The 16-minute inaugural address that President Donald Trump delivered was Trumpism distilled to its raw essence: angry, blunt-spoken and deeply aggrieved. He spoke of ending the “American carnage” under President Barack Obama,
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USAIn his first film “Hedi: a Wind of Freedom” Mohamed Ben Attia shows us what life is like for young Tunisians after the Arab Spring. Lives which are caught between the desire to live and the weight of conventions, like the young man who has to go through an arranged marriage. One look is enough
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Middle East, Theatre, Film & BroadcastMexico has extradited drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán to the United States — handing US authorities a massive drug case on the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration. Guzmán is the head of the Sinaloa cartel, which is accused of generating much of the deadly violence in Mexico and providing tons of drugs to the
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International, USAJust moments after he recited the oath of office on Friday morning, President Donald Trump used his brief inauguration speech to promise that he will fight for all Americans, always, and never allow for them to be ignored. In a national address that was reminiscent of his campaign speeches, Trump vowed to bring to the
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USAWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump aims to deliver quickly on his promise to break from the progressive policies of President Barack Obama. But the first official acts of his presidency were the signing of routine paperwork. In a ceremonial office of the Capitol shortly after he took the oath Friday, Trump took the first steps
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USAOn Friday morning, WhiteHouse.gov included a section dedicated to President Obama’s efforts to fight climate change. By 1 p.m., virtually all mentions of climate change had been removed, replaced by new President Donald Trump’s promise of an “America First Energy Plan.” The swift changes on the official White House website underscore how quickly the Trump