Voters turned away from Donald Trump last week because they hate Congress, not the president, said Mike Huckabee. The former Arkansas governor, and father of White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee-Sanders, described slam-dunk Democrat victories in New Jersey and Virginia as merely a vote against America’s least-loved institution, not its least-loved president. “Was that a
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USADonald Trump,Kim Jong Un While North Korea’s Foreign Ministry released a statement early Saturday calling President of the United States Donald Trump “an old lunatic” and said this justifies “building up our nuclear force,” it’s clear that Trump thinks the “old lunatic” insult came directly from Kim Jong-un’s mouth. RELATED: North Korea warns of “abyss
Saudi Arabia has denied reports that King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud is planning to relinquish the throne in favor of his son, Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman. “There is no possibility whatsoever that the king will abdicate,” a senior Saudi official told Bloomberg news on condition of anonymity, noting that Saudi kings usually stay
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Middle EastWASHINGTON — Roy Moore, the Republican candidate for Senate in Alabama, lost his lead in the race after allegations that he had sexual contact with teenagers years ago, and the election is now a toss-up, a new poll indicated Sunday. Moore trails Democratic candidate Doug Jones 46 percent to 42 percent among Alabama voters, a
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USASEOUL | One of the highest-profile North Korean defectors living in South Korea said Pyongyang continues to operate a wide-reaching spy network inside the South despite soaring tensions on the peninsula. The persistence of the North’s intelligence network adds yet another layer of complication to efforts to resolve the Korean crisis short of war, and
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InternationalWhen US President Donald Trump and other world leaders meet in the Philippines from Sunday, copying their controversial host’s signature fist salute could land them in hot water. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has adopted a clenched fist, often stuck out in front of his chest or sometimes at eye level, as his trademark gesture. Duterte
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International, USABritish Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is facing mounting calls to be sacked following a week of controversy that saw the minister’s behavior pile yet more pressure on embattled Prime Minister Theresa May. The storm began after remarks made by Johnson about Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British Iranian woman currently detained in Iran on charges of sedition.
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International, Middle EastTwo former U.S. intelligence officials slammed President Trump Sunday for saying believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin “feels that he and Russia did not meddle” in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Former CIA director John Brennan, in an appearance on CNN with James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, said Trump’s initial indication that
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International, USA“Freedom for the political prisoners” was the rallying cry of up to three quarters of a million Catalan independence supporters on Saturday night. Wearing yellow ribbons on their lapels to signify support, they poured onto the streets of Barcelona to demand the release of separatist leaders held in jail for their roles in the region’s
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InternationalTalk about loving the sinner! Nearly 40 percent of Evangelical Christians in Alabama say they’re now more likely to vote for Roy Moore after multiple allegations that he molested children, even as voters across the historically red state now seem to be punishing Moore for his past actions, a new poll shows. A plurality of
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USABy Alexander Fulbright The United States, Russia and Jordan have reportedly reached an agreement on a ceasefire deal in southern Syria that would include the expulsion of Iranian-backed militias from the border with Israel in the Golan Heights. Under the agreement apparently inked Saturday, all non-Syrian fighters, including Iranian proxies fighting on behalf of Syrian
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International, Middle East, USABy Jessica Steinberg Israelis have long been likened to sabra fruit or prickly pears, thick-skinned fruits with sweet interiors, and now the cactus in question has become a sculpture marking the long friendship between Israel and the Czech Republic. This particular cactus, designed by Czech architect Martin Rajnis, is a wood-sculpted tower situated in the
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International, Middle EastAn Israeli general has warned Palestinian militants against carrying out attacks in revenge for the blowing up of a tunnel stretching from the Gaza Strip into the Jewish state last month. Major General Yoav Mordechai, head of a defence ministry unit responsible for activities in the Palestinian territories, made the comments in an Arabic-language video
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Middle EastBoris Neshderman, a 90-year-old Jew, was circumcised at the Menorah clinic in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. The veteran rabbi of the city and Chabad emissary, Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky, told Arutz Sheva that the man is in good condition and is recovering from the operation. The brit milah was carried out by the chief mohel of Ukraine, Rabbi
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