Everett Miller has been arrested and charged with murdering Officer Matthew Baxter and Sgt. Sam Howard in Florida. The 45-year-old, who left the Marines for mental health reasons, came in contact with police around 9:30 p.m and shot at officers, killing Baxter and Howard. Watch the video Kissimmee Police Chief Jeff O’Dell said that there […]
A controversial Free Speech Rally in Boston fell apart Saturday afternoon when thousands of counter-protesters showed up and drowned it out. Journalists at the Boston Common, a downtown park, tweeted about an hour into the planned rally that many, if not all, of the attendees left the bandstand where they were due to hear speeches
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USAIn the waning days of Richard Nixon’s administration, when he had sunken into depression and heavy drinking, his secretary of defense told Pentagon officials to check with him before executing any nuclear launch order from the distraught president. Four decades later, the story suggesting a check on nuclear strikes may seem like comfort for those
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International, USAFormer vice president and climate change warrior Al Gore has a single word for President Donald Trump in the wake of his bungled attempt to unite Americans after a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville turned violent last weekend. When asked by Britain’s Lad Bible to give Trump one piece of advice Thursday, Gore said: “resign.”
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USALeaders of the far-right movement raged against Steve Bannon’s ouster from the White House, warning that the West Wing is now dominated by fake conservatives led by President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner. “It’s a full on coup now, guys,” well-known far-right activist Mike Cernovich said Friday in a live video
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USAHouse Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi threw her support Friday behind an effort to censure President Trump over his response to the violent clashes in Charlottesville. Mrs. Pelosi, California Democrat, announced she backs the resolution authored by Reps. Jerry Nadel, Bonnie Watson Coleman and Pramila Jayapal that seeks to officially rebuke Mr. Trump. “The president’s repulsive
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USA“I think there is blame on both sides, and I have no doubt about it,” President Donald Trump said about the violence at the Unite the Right rally last week in Charlottesville, Va. The statement has been roundly denounced by Democrats and Republicans alike. Still, Trump’s words have some truth that we cannot simply wish
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USAWASHINGTON — Republicans exhaled on Friday after President Donald Trump ousted controversial strategist Steve Bannon from the White House — a move that will help ease lawmakers’ return to Washington after a damaging and polarizing period many blame in part on the former Breitbart chairman. “I, for one, am relieved he will no longer be
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USAANNAPOLIS, Md. — Under the cover of night, a work crew removed the statue of former Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney — author of the infamous Dred Scott decision — from the grounds of the State House, ending the monument’s 145-year prominent perch in Annapolis. At 12:20 a.m. Friday, flatbed trucks with equipment
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USAJames Murdoch, chief executive of Fox News’ parent company, became the latest corporate leader to blast President Donald Trump over his response to the recent racially charged attack in Charlottesville, Va. “hat we watched this last week in Charlottesville and the reaction to it by the president of the United States concern all of us
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USAWASHINGTON — Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump’s self-styled liaison to the far right, has departed the White House in the latest staff turmoil, the White House said in a statement. “White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Steve Bannon have mutually agreed today would be Steve’s last day,” the White House statement said. “We
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USAIt wasn’t difficult for any other living president in recent American history to decry the racism and violence displayed by the alt-right at Saturday’s white supremacy rallies in Charlottesville, Virginia. Their rejections were swift—their words were clear. Within the span of just a few days, former presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, George Bush and his
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USASpeaking in an interview on Israeli television, white nationalist Richard Spencer Wednesday said Jews were “overrepresented” when challenged on antisemitism, adding Jews and Israelis should respect him despite his supremacist views. Spencer, who has previously courted Israeli media, despite engaging in Holocaust denial and refusing to condemn Hitler, made the remarks while speaking to Israeli
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Middle East, USARight-wing legal aid group representing the pair says the sting operation that led to their arrest was a ‘provocation’ By Jacob Magid View of the West Bank settlement of Bat Ayin (photo credit: Gershon Elinson/Flash90) Police on Wednesday arrested a pair of teens from a settlement south of Jerusalem who are suspected of assaulting Israeli-Arab
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