Washington (dpa) – US President Donald Trump signed three directives Friday as part of his bid to lift financial regulations and ease the tax burden. The actions were part of his broader effort to spur the US economy, Trump said in a visit to the US Treasury Department next to the White House, accompanied by […]
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USASarin gas was released during an attack in Syria earlier this month, the chief UN investigator has said. But Paulo Sergio Pinheiro said most of the victims in the attack were killed with conventional and not chemical weapons during an airstrike on a hospital. The Syrian government denies US accusations of a chemical attack in
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International, Middle East, USASEATTLE — A prolific Russian hacker who raked in at least $170 million by stealing more than 2 million credit-card numbers and selling them on the black market was sentenced Friday morning to 27 years in prison in U.S. District Court in Seattle. For years, Roman Seleznev was “one of the world’s leading providers of
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International, USAAngélica Vale, widely-known to Latinos for her comedic talent and starring in “La Fea Más Bella” telenovela, was discriminated at the Los Angeles airport. You would think that this only happened to non-famous people, but it seems like even highly-recognized personalities are being labeled wrongfully. The actress says that she had a pre-boarding pass and
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International, USATALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida state Sen. Frank Artiles resigned from the Florida Legislature on Friday, consumed by a scandal that erupted three days earlier over a diatribe of insults the Miami Republican unleashed against two lawmakers at a Tallahassee bar. In a letter to Senate President Joe Negron, Artiles said he was stepping down for
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USAI’ve been asked to speak at various locations for various occasions in the past. I spoke at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall in 2009 when the tea party had a rally. I’ve been a panelist for the Philadelphia Bar Association discussing the media and O.J. Simpson. I’ve gone to the state Capitol to testify about gun violence
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAFormer Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai claimed Wednesday that the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) was a tool of the U.S. Karzai, a former ally to Washington who has become increasingly critical of U.S. foreign policy, said America’s’ two-year fight against ISIS has been “weak.” Speaking to Voice of America’s (VOA) Afghan Service, Karzai criticized a
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International, USAUS President Donald Trump hasn’t won any friends in South Korea this week. A firestorm has erupted on South Korean social media after Trump said during an interview with The Wall Street Journal, “Korea actually used to be a part of China.” The Wall Street Journal published the story on April 12, but it gained
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International, USAIn an interview with “The Today Show,” Senator Lindsey Graham advocated for a first strike against North Korea in the absence of Chinese action, saying that the United States is “on a collision course” with North Korea. “I talked to the president when I had lunch with him about this very topic. I said, ‘Do
Hawaii’s Attorney General Dougal Chin has hit back at U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions following his dismissive remarks about a Ninth Circuit judge “sitting on an island in the Pacific.” Sessions criticized Hawaii-based Judge Derrick Watson, who placed a temporary restraining order on two sections of Trump’s controversial travel ban in March, blocking the bill’s
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USAConvicted murderer Ledell Lee was executed shortly before midnight Thursday in Arkansas, making him the first prisoner to die under an expedited timetable before a key lethal-injection drug expires at the end of the month. Lee, 51, who had long maintained his innocence in the 1993 murder of 26-year-old Debra Reese, also became the first
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USASenator Elizabeth Warren launched another attack on U.S. President Donald Trump on April 19, describing his election win as partly the result of an “ugly stew of racism” on the MSNBC Rachel Maddow Show. The Massachusetts Democrat has been one of the most outspoken critics of the real estate mogul since he launched his presidential
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USAThe student government at Western Kentucky University on Tuesday voted in favor of giving free tuition to black students. The school’s Student Government Association passed a resolution by 19-10 supporting slavery reparations for black students in the form of free tuition and free access to the public Bowling Green campus. The resolution also recommends that
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAFox News’ former star personality, Bill O’Reilly, will leave the network with the equivalent of one year’s salary — or $25 million, according to two people familiar with the settlement terms. Parent company 21st Century Fox on Wednesday fired O’Reilly, 67, after investigators retained by the company began reviewing allegations of sexual harassment and payouts
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