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Sheriff David Clarke says Obama administration ignoring ‘white voter intimidation’

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke said Friday that the Obama administration’s silence on the dirty election tricks linked to Hillary Clinton’s campaign that were exposed by undercover videos has further diminished the public’s trust in the federal government. Mr. Clarke, who is black, called the incidents in which pro-Clinton operatives planted operatives at Donald Trump […]

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Jeff Flake urges Congress to move on Merrick Garland Supreme Court nomination in lame-duck session

Sen. Jeff Flake said it is time for Congress to move forward as if Hillary Clinton is president-elect and plan to take up President Obama’s nomination of Judge Merrick B. Garland to the Supreme Court during the lame-duck session of Congress. “I said if we were in a position like we were in in ’96

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Islamic State fighters attack police compound, power plant in northern Iraq’s Kirkuk

IRBUL, Iraq — With an offensive underway to oust Islamic State from the northern city of Mosul, militants staged a surprise attack early Friday about 95 miles south in Kirkuk. “It was expected that (Islamic State) sleeper cells would make a move in Kirkuk one day,” Kirkuk Gov. Najmaldin Karim told the Kurdish news agency

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Middle East

Former Mexican Governor Missing After Accused Of Money Laundering

Mexican officials are scrambling to find former governor of Veracruz Javier Duarte de Ochoa. It is being reported that the former politician who has been accused of criminal charges is missing. According to FOX News Latino, Duarte de Ochoa stepped down from his position last week to respond to corruption allegations. Since his departure, Mexican

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International

Norwegian Minister Faces Backlash For Muslim Comments

Norway’s migration and integration minister has faced calls to resign after telling the country’s Muslim immigrants they must adapt to a society in which “we eat pork, drink alcohol and show our face.” Sylvi Listhaug, a member of the country’s populist, anti-immigrant Progress Party, made the comments in a Facebook post Monday. “I think those

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International, Middle East

Iraqi forces make gains against IS group near Mosul

Elite Iraqi forces retook a town on the eastern edge of Mosul on Thursday while Kurdish peshmerga fighters opened a new front in the offensive to wrest back the Islamic State (IS) group’s last major bastion in Iraq. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi told an international meeting in Paris that the four-day-old offensive was “advancing faster

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Trump walked away from an interview after a reporter asked him a question he refused to dignify

Hours before his headline-making appearance at Thursday’s 2016 Al Smith Dinner in New York City, Republican presidential nominee walked off an interview with an NBC affiliate in Ohio. The interview started off well enough. Trump and WCMH’s Colleen Marshall spoke of his recent comments about the upcoming presidential election possibly being rigged against him. Marshall

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USA

Canada’s trade minister Chrystia Freeland walks out of EU trade talks on verge of tears

OTTAWA – Trade minister Chrystia Freeland has “walked out” of talks with Wallonia’s prime minister, Paul Magnette, her office confirmed, as it appeared the Belgian region would miss an EU deadline for CETA support Friday. Belgian broadcaster RTBF reported Freeland left the Walloon parliament on the verge of tears. Freeland was quoted in French as

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International

Breaking down the UNESCO vote

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –Last week, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) voted Christian and Jewish heritage off of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem; Tuesday they ratified their perfidy. The vote seems clearly a response to the expansionist, jihadist aspirations of members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) that sponsored

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International, Middle East

British lawmaker says Israel is responsible for anti-Semitism

A British lawmaker who is a well-known critic of Israel is blaming Israel’s treatment of Palestinian Arabs for the rise of anti-Semitism in the country. Jenny Tonge, a House of Lords member from the Liberal Democrat party, took to Facebook on Monday after the publication of a report which determined that the Labour party”s leadership

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