Two former aids to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump reportedly are tied to a firm that wanted to help expand the Russian government’s ability to spy on its own people. The New York Post reported former campaign Chairman Paul Manafort and ex-aide Rick Gates are linked to EyeLock, which wanted to provide iris-reading technology for […]
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International, USAA demonstration of moral courage occurred two weeks ago in a most unlikely place: the UNESCO Executive Board meeting in Paris. During a contentious vote on the “Occupied Palestine” resolution, Mexico’s Ambassador to UNESCO walked out. Andrés Roemer reportedly decided he could not support a resolution that attempts to expunge thousands of years of Jerusalem’s
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USAWith just two weeks to go before the election, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are tied in a new nationwide poll. Released early on Monday, the Investor’s Business Daily (IBD)/TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence (TIPP) poll says the candidates each have the support of 41 percent of the voters. To be precise, Clinton, the Democratic nominee for
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USALOS ANGELES — Tom Hayden, a 1960s radical who was in the vanguard of the movement to stop the Vietnam War and became one of the nation’s best-known champions of liberal causes, has died in Santa Monica after a lengthy illness. He was 76. Hayden vaulted into national politics in 1962 as lead author of
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USAReprinted with permission from Mother Jones. The first warning sign that something new was brewing came in June 2015, as Donald Trump joined the crowded field vying for the Republican presidential nomination. In the extravagant lobby of Trump Tower in New York City, he announced he would build a wall to keep out Mexican criminals
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USAThe Chicago Cubs haven’t won a World Series in 108 years. A woman has never been president of the United States in the country’s 240 years. Both of those historic droughts could end this year. The Cubs are favored to beat the Cleveland Indians in the World Series and polls show Democrat Hillary Clinton leading
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Sports & Competitions, USADORAL, Fla. �� Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe met with hundreds of Colombian immigrants Sunday to explain why he led the opposition that led to voters’ rejection of a peace agreement between the current Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia guerrilla force. Uribe said that if the deal prevailed without substantive changes,
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InternationalThe media already has declared the presidential race over and, in the process, is suppressing voters, Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, said Sunday. In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Ms. Conway said the close relationship between some media outlets and the Hillary Clinton campaign has resulted in a host of stories
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USACHICAGO — Dexter Fowler sensed a different, yet special feeling Saturday as soon as he walked into the Cubs’ clubhouse. “I could tell the guys wanted it now,” Fowler said. Never was that mission so apparent Saturday night as Kyle Hendricks pitched 71/3 innings of two-hit ball and a resurgent offense knocked out Clayton Kershaw
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Sports & Competitions, USAOrbit path of Ofek 11 makes it useful to Seoul for monitoring its nuclear-armed, missile-brandishing neighbor By Stuart Winer Israel’s Ofek-11 spy satellite takes off from Palmachim air base in central Israel on September 13, 2016. (Ministry of Defense Space Administration) South Korea was reportedly considering using an Israeli spy satellite to peek at North
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InternationalThis article first appeared on the Verdict site. In July, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made headlines when she criticized Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, calling him a “faker” and deeming a Trump presidency unimaginable. Although a few commentators praised Ginsburg for her honesty, even observers who appeared to agree with her assessment of Trump thought
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Sports & Competitions, USAWith polls showing him within striking distance in Utah, independent presidential hopeful Evan McMullin said Sunday that the Republican Party may have done irreparable damage to itself with the nomination of Donald Trump and predicted the conservative movement may need to form a new party after the Nov. 8 election. Mr. McMullin said the GOP
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USACopenhagen (dpa) – Living in Denmark is not enough to make a person Danish, writes Danish Queen Margrethe II in her new book, a statement raising eyebrows because of a stronger tone on migration than many had come to expect from the monarch. The new book, “The Deepest Roots,” is due to hit shelves Thursday,
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InternationalWASHINGTON — Republicans in Congress withstood for months the political turmoil caused by Donald Trump at the top of their ticket, confident of holding their majorities in the House and Senate despite his unconventional candidacy. For a while it appeared that, with smart campaigns and strong fundraising, their optimism was justified. But Republicans are increasingly
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