As he kicked off his post-election thank-you tour in Cincinnati, President-elect Donald Trump announced – sort of – that he was naming U.S. Marine Corps Gen. James N. Mattis as defense secretary. But he told the crowd and the TV cameras not to let it out of the room. “We are going to appoint ‘Mad […]
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USAWashington (dpa) – Buzz Aldrin, the second person to walk on the moon, was in a stable condition in a New Zealand hospital Friday after being evacuated from the South Pole, tour operator White Desert said. “He currently has fluid in his lungs but is responding well to antibiotics and being kept for observation,” White
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International, Travel and Food, USAWASHINGTON — The internet was created in America. But is it safe in America? Some people don’t think so. A nonprofit group based in San Francisco has decided to “Trump-proof” its massive open-for-all internet library by storing it in Canada as well as the United States. The group, the Internet Archive, which claims to save
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International, USAPrincess Cruise Lines has agreed to plead guilty and pay a $40 million fine for dumping illegal waste off the coast of England three years ago and trying to cover it up by lying to the U.S. Coast Guard. The fine is the largest criminal penalty ever paid involving deliberate dumping by a cruise ship,
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International, Travel and Food, USAWASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday that he never really meant to promise that he would bring jobs back that Carrier, the heating and cooling company, had promised this year to ship to Mexico. “That was a euphemism,” Trump said, meaning he was treating the company as a proxy for U.S. manufacturers that send
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USADespite her failure to win the presidency over Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton’s lead in the popular vote hit a new landmark Thursday. She has registered more than 2.5 million more votes than the president-elect, according to an analysis from Cook Political Report. Clinton has garnered 65,152,112 votes, compared to Trump’s 62,625,928. That’s a margin of
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USAFrench President François Hollande said on Thursday he would not seek re-election next year, bowing to historically low approval ratings after a troubled term in power. The withdrawal means the 62-year-old Socialist leader is the first president of France’s fifth republic, founded in 1958, to step aside after only one term. “I have decided that
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InternationalWASHINGTON — California Gov. Jerry Brown has tapped House Democratic Caucus Chairman Xavier Becerra to be the state’s next attorney general. He will succeed Kamala Harris, who was elected to the U.S. Senate in November. Becerra, 58, has served 12 terms in Congress and was making a bid to become the ranking Democrat on the
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USAISLAMABAD — The annals of international relations are filled with mundane readouts of conversations between world leaders, the language shorn of sharp edges and massaged into shapeless lumps of diplomatic-speak. The report of a telephone call between Donald Trump and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was more interesting than that. “You are a terrific guy,”
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International, USARosie O’Donnell has apologized to Melania Trump via Twitter for her role in promoting a YouTube video that speculated 10-year-old Barron Trump might have autism. “I apologize to @MelaniaTrump. I was insensitive in my RT – i am sorry for the pain i caused – it was not my intent – i am truly sorry,”
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USADozens of Amona residents and their children ascended the Temple Mount this morning to pray for the future of their community, 0404 reported. Amona is slated for demolition at the end of this month by order of the Supreme Court, on grounds that the community is built on private Palestinian land. The residents were accompanied
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Middle EastIsrael”s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon on Wednesday slammed UN General Assembly President Peter Thomson, who wore a scarf with the colors of the the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)”s flag. Thomson wore the scarf on Tuesday as the UN marked its annual “International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People”. The special session,
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International, Middle EastPalestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas, who is also leader of Fatah and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), on Wednesday declared that Fatah will never give up on its principles, its character and identity in order to achieve the dream of freedom and an independent state. Abbas was speaking at the Fatah congress being held
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Middle EastKyrgyzstan’s President Almazbek Atambayev has called for Russian troops to leave his country when the contract to host them expires, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reports. Currently Russia’s military presence on Kyrgyz soil constitutes four different deployments all nominally considered one base but spanning different sites. They stretch from an air force deployment in
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