WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump plans to pick former Indiana Sen. Dan Coats to head the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, overseeing 17 intelligence agencies, according to a transition official. If he is confirmed by the Senate, Coats would face a daunting task as the bridge between Trump and the intelligence community. Trump […]
“Unacceptable and unjustifiable” The president of Kosovo says the detention of one of the country’s former prime ministers on suspicion of war crimes is “unacceptable and unjustifiable”. “The Kosovo Liberation Army waged a war for the freedom and independence of Kosovo,” Hashim Thaci said. Ramush Haradinaj, who is also a former guerilla fighter, was detained
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InternationalCHICAGO — Hate crime charges have filed against four people shown in a Facebook video attacking a mentally disabled man in Chicago, cutting his scalp with a knife and punching him while yelling obscenities about Donald Trump and “white people.” Jordan Hill, 18, of Carpentersville, Ill.; and Tesfaye Cooper, 18, Brittany Covington, 18, and Tanishia
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USAHillary Clinton lost to Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, but she beat him in their shared-hometown of New York rather handedly, where the former Democratic candidate received over 1.7 million more votes than the president-elect. Now, as Clinton has quietly been licking her wounds in upstate Chappaqua while her former opponent prepares to
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USADays ahead of the two-year anniversary of the attack on French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, its new chief editor warned Wednesday that intolerance in France is on the rise. Millions of people in France brandished the phrase “Je suis Charlie” in the wake of the gruesome January 7, 2015 attack at the paper’s Paris headquarters
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InternationalOn September 14, 2016, days before the premiere of Oliver Stone’s hagiographic movie Snowden, Human Rights Watch, the American Civil Liberties Union and Amnesty International launched a well-funded campaign, with full-page ads in The New York Times, imploring President Barack Obama to pardon Edward Snowden, a former contract worker at the National Security Agency, for
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, USATel Aviv (dpa) – Israel’s attorney general has approved the indictment of an Arab-Israeli lawmaker for smuggling mobile phones to Palestinian prisoners, a Justice Ministry statement said Thursday. Basel Ghattas, a member of the Joint List of Arab parties, is facing charges including breach of trust by a public servant and use of property “for
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Middle EastWASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s hesitation in hiring immigration hard-liner Kris Kobach reflects the next president’s indecision on how to approach the biggest issue of his presidential campaign. As a candidate, Trump promised to build a wall on the southern border, deport 11 million immigrants who are in the United States illegally, ban all Muslims from
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USAPresident Obama has issued 145 “midnight” regulations with a cost of more than $21 billion since the election of Donald Trump, the most by a lame-duck president in a generation, a study has found. The conservative American Action Forum said Thursday that Mr. Obama’s rules, issued from Nov. 8 through Dec. 31 of last year,
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USAWhile Donald Trump struggles to land big names (or any names) to perform at his inauguration on January 20, the Obamas have corralled a host of A-listers for their final party at the White House, which will take place Friday night. Related: Obama to deliver farewell address from Chicago January 10 The White House has
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USAThe rugged Dakar Rally auto race is about to blaze through Bolivia. But to many Bolivians, the timing could not be worse. Thousands of La Paz residents have been protesting these days. Now they’re also shouting online with the hashtag #AguaSíDakarNo — “yes to water, no to Dakar.” In other words, they wish authorities would
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International, The World We ShareVictorine Ngamsha was 12 years old when, on leaving church one Sunday, her aunt told her they “needed to do something about her breasts.” Vicky, now 43, recalls her aunt saying: “They are too big. Much too big. Come with me.” When they got home, Vicky’s aunt told her to take her shirt off and
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International, Science, Medicine, & EducationSince Election Day, scholars and curators of Jewish history have consistently issued one message: Watch out By Ben Sales Participants in an anti-hate rally at a Brooklyn park named for the late Beastie Boys member Adam Yauch after it was defaced with swastikas, Nov. 20, 2016. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) NEW YORK — In the two
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USAPresident Obama said Thursday that he’s leaving the country in great shape for President-elect Donald Trump, and his few regrets include his inability to enact gun control and immigration reform. In his “exit memo” to the nation, Mr. Obama said the U.S. has added more than 15 million jobs, lowered the poverty rate, provided health