Four Georgia police officers were shot and wounded Monday in two separate incidents, according to reports. Two police officers were shot early in the day while carrying out a search warrant in Fort Valley and, in the evening, a person suspected of driving a stolen car opened fire on two other officers in Lavonia in […]
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USAClose Donald Trump hasn’t been sworn in yet, but he is already making decisions and issuing statements to world leaders that radically depart from American foreign policy, all to the benefit of his family’s corporate empire. Because of this, the next president of the United States is already vulnerable to undue influence by other nations,
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International, USANetanyahu embarks on historic visit to Muslim allies Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan (JNS.org) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left Tuesday for a historic visit to Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, two Muslim-majority nations, in an effort to bolster ties with the Central Asian former Soviet Republics. In Azerbaijan’s capital of Baku, Netanyahu met with President Ilham Aliyev,
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — If Arieh Deri, Israel’s interior minister and the leader of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, gets his way, Israel will become the only country in the free world that discriminates against Jews. The legislation that Shas and its Ashkenazi counterpart are putting before the Knesset – with the help of
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Middle East, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−Donald Trump previously announced that he would divulge his plan for insulating himself from charges of business conflicts of interest as President this Thursday. Now he has postponed this speech until January (of 2021?). * Donald Trump decided to appoint Rex Tillerson, the CEO of ExxonMobil, to be his Secretary of
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAMemo to Corporate America: Be ready to be Donald Trump’s next target. Defense giant Lockheed Martin Corp. found that out Monday when the president-elect again used Twitter to blast the F-35 fighter-jet program for costs he termed “out of control.” The stock prices of Lockheed Martin, the project’s prime contractor, and of one of its
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USAGreen Party candidate Dr. Jill Stein’s election recount efforts in Wisconsin have shown that the grand total from the state was off after all. President-elect Donald Trump ended up gaining an extra 162 votes in Wisconsin, increasing his margin of victory by .06 percent. Watch the video The recount results were learned Monday. In the
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USAMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Police are investigating an alleged scheme in which high school students exchanged nude photos of female students using a shared Dropbox account that apparently spans several schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, authorities said. Mountain View High School is the only campus identified as having students tied to the ersatz
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAISIL survivors-turned-activists Nadia Murad and Lamiya Aji Bashar will receive the 2016 Sakharov Prize in a ceremony in a ceremony in the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday. After escaping sexual enslavement by ISIL, the Iraqi Yazidi women became spokespeople for women affected by the terrorist group’s campaign of sexual violence. They have also spoken
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International, Middle EastPresident-elect Donald Trump, whose global business deals pose major ethical challenges, scratched plans Monday for a “major news conference” on Thursday to disclose how he would avoid conflicts of interest in the White House. Legal advisers to the president-in-waiting need more time to structure arrangements for a withdrawal from his business empire, Trump spokeswoman Hope
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USABeijing asks president-elect not to destroy foundation for Sino-US cooperation The Foreign Ministry urged US president-elect Donald Trump on Monday to act prudently on the Taiwan question to avoid “serious damage to the Sino-US relationship”, after Trump once again publicly provoked China. Beijing could react with countermeasures in trade and regional issues, if Trump keeps
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International, USABOGOTA, Colombia — Venezuela’s struggling economy just passed another grim milestone: it’s the seventh country in Latin America to ever experience hyperinflation. The term “hyperinflation” is often bandied about, but it’s actually quite rare, and only happens when monthly inflation exceeds 50 percent for more than 30 consecutive days. On Dec. 3, Venezuela did just
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InternationalThe Russian hacking allegations appear to be fueling a Republican crackup, as party leaders in Washington broke publicly with their president-elect over intelligence reports Moscow intervened in the 2016 election to benefit Donald Trump. House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell spoke up Monday to condemn Russian meddling in the election, after
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International, USATel Aviv (dpa) – US Defence Secretary Ash Carter said Tuesday night that “there was no better symbol of the US commitment to Israel” as two next-generation F-35 fighter jets arrived at Nevatim Air Base. “Together, we will dominate the skies,” he said during remarks at a welcome ceremony at the base in southern Israel.
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