The Rev. Franklin Graham, the evangelical leader selected to grace the crowds at President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration with a few religious words, attributed Trump’s election victory in November to the “hand of God” –and not Russian President Vladimir Putin. Graham is one of six religious leaders who have been selected to pray and read Bible […]
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USAMIAMI — With little more than two weeks left in the Obama administration, and Congress on notice of a series of looming detainee transfers, President-elect Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday for a cessation of Guantanamo prisoner releases. The Obama administration swiftly rejected the request. Expect announcements of additional transfers before Inauguration Day, White House spokesman Josh
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USAThe 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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USAJakarta (dpa) – A group from Indonesia’s devoutly Muslim province of Aceh on Tuesday demanded the central bank withdraw a banknote depicting a national heroine without a headscarf. The move by the Foundation for the Acehnese People’s Advocacy is the latest controversy surrounding the new set of rupiah bills and coins, which were released on
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InternationalThe 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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USAAndrea Contin, a Catholic priest in northern Italy’s Veneto region, is under police investigation over allegations of organizing orgies and soliciting about 15 women, according to reports Monday. He is also accused of living off immoral earnings and psychological violence. The investigation against the 48-year-old was launched after complaints from three of his female parishioners.
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InternationalKits with prepared mixes target 400 million Chinese online; marketing campaign to come By Shoshanna Solomon Chinese child eating a home baked UgaUga cake. Picture was uploaded by users on UgaUga’s blog on WeChat (Courtesy) Four years ago, Israeli Ronen Mechanik, 41, sent his Chinese friend Piu Piu a photo of an elaborate birthday cake
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International, Middle EastWikiLeaks, 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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