Los Angeles (dpa) – Folk singer Joan Baez, the grunge band Pearl Jam and the late rapper Tupac Shakur joined music history on Friday as they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Also included in the Hall of Fame’s class of 2017 were the bands Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), Journey, prog-rock […]
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USAPresident Donald Trump expressed Friday how proud he was of his grandchildren for their performance in honor of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Madame Peng Liyuan’s official visit to the U.S. The president retweeted his daughter Ivanka Trump’s tweet in which she had posted a video capturing her children, Arabella and Joseph Kushner’s performance for
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International, USAThere’s no chance Syrian President Bashar Assad ordered the chemical weapons attack that killed dozens of civilians on Tuesday, former Republican congressman and three-time White House hopeful Ron Paul insisted afterwards. Mr. Paul raised doubts over the Syrian government’s role in this week’s deadly chemical weapons attack during a Wednesday taping of his YouTube show,
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Middle East, USAFirst there was panic, then bluster. The alert the U.S. military gave Russia on Thursday of an upcoming cruise missile strike was quickly circulated by Russian officials to their Syrian counterparts. Fearing the al-Shayrat air base might not be the only target, many fled Damascus or hustled their families out of the Syrian capital, according
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International, Middle East, USAPALM BEACH, Fla. — Chinese President Xi Jinping had just finished a steak dinner with President Donald Trump in a gilded dining room at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida when Trump told Xi that dozens of U.S. cruise missiles had just rained down on an airfield in Syria, a fiery display of U.S. military might
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International, USAUnusual ice activity NOAA An iceberg seen on an Arctic mission in 2012. There is a swarm of about 481 icebergs parked in the shipping lanes of the North Atlantic right now, creating a hazardous area so treacherous that ships are having to detour 400 nautical miles out of their way to avoid the Titanic’s
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International, The World We Share, USARep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-HI., who secretly met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during a four-day trip to the war-stricken nation in January, condemned President Donald Trump’s airstrike on the regime’s airbases Thursday night, saying the “short-sighted” action will lead to “more dead civilians.” The representative told news outlets at the time she spoke with Assad
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Middle East, USAPresident Donald Trump has suffered from record-low approval ratings during his first months in the White House. But if history is any guide, those figures are likely to see a significant boost following Friday’s strikes against Syria. Trump ordered 49 Tomahawk cruise missiles to strike an airfield in the city of Homs in retaliation for
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USASurprise attack on Syrian base is music to Jerusalem’s ears, which saw Obama’s failure to respond to Assad as emboldening Iran. But it also attests to US president’s unpredictability By Raphael Ahren From an Israeli perspective, US President Donald Trump corrected the course of history in ordering airstrikes against the Syrian regime late Thursday. The
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Middle East, USAGUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — Guantanamo entered a new era Friday with the installation of the first prison camp commander of the Trump administration, an admiral charged with running the wartime prison that could grow for the first time in nearly a decade. “The work you do, the mission you execute is vitally important,
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International, USALOS ANGELES — Startlingly green hills, surging rivers and the snow-wrapped Sierra Nevada had already signaled what Gov. Jerry Brown made official on Friday: The long California drought is over. “This drought emergency is over, but the next drought could be around the corner,” Brown said in a statement. “Conservation must remain a way of
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The World We Share, USARussia deployed its most advanced Black Sea frigate Friday into the eastern Mediterranean, where U.S. Navy destroyers had launched an airstrike earlier that day against the Moscow-backed Syrian military. As Russian leadership condemned the U.S.’ first intentional attack on the military of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad since the country’s six-year conflict began, Russia’s Admiral Grigorovich
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International, USAVermont Sen. Bernie Sanders issued a statement Friday following President Donald Trump’s missile strike in Syria Thursday night. Sanders expressed his concern over the airstrikes, calling them “disastrous” and urging peace and stability. “If there’s anything we should’ve learned from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, in which the lives of thousands of brave American
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s nominee Judge Neil M. Gorsuch was confirmed Friday for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, filling a 14-month vacancy after a dramatic Senate showdown that risked long-lasting repercussions to both institutions. The confirmation will deliver a much needed political victory to Trump, whose administration is struggling in its first
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