President Barack Obama celebrated his 55th birthday the way most middle-aged men do: with a three hour briefing at the Pentagon followed questions about ISIS and Donald Trump, the Zika virus and commuting the sentences of hundreds of prisoners. Sure, it wasnt’ the standard cake-and-a-new-tie kind of birthday for the father of two, but it […]
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USA“Who’s going to pay for the wall?” asks Donald Trump, hand to ear. “Mexico!” yells the crowd. Trump’s call and response is as iconic as it is misleading. Because the real answer is Texas. No state has more to lose from soured relations with Mexico than the Lone Star State. By threatening to make Mexico
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International, USAWASHINGTON — Here’s a prediction: Hillary Clinton’s latest four-and-a-half minute answer to questions about whether she mishandled classified email is not going to satisfy her critics. Clinton was asked Friday to explain whether she had misrepresented the findings of FBI Director James Comey when she seemed to say in a Fox News interview last week
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USADonald Trump on Friday admitted that footage he’s been indicating for two days was of money getting shuttled to Iran was actually footage of hostages in Switzerland. “The plane I saw on television was the hostage plane in Geneva, Switzerland, not the plane carrying $400 million in cash going to Iran!” Mr. Trump tweeted. Mr.
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Middle East, USAA court in Istanbul has issued an arrest warrant for US-based Turkish cleric Fetullah Gulen. Ankara claims he masterminded the July 15 coup attempt. Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has vowed to cut off financial resources and businesses linked to the cleric. Erdogan accuses Gulen of harnessing his network of schools, charities and businesses to
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Middle East, USAThe Clinton campaign has announced that it will not travel abroad to garner support, claiming that Clinton simply has to much to do on the home front in terms of campaigning, according to a report by ABC news. “[I]f we had more time, it might be something that we would do. But at this point
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International, USAIt is a truth universally (if often silently) acknowledged that if you want more Twitter followers you should get into Twitter feuds. This holds especially true for mid- or low-level celebrities, many of whom know that if their follower numbers are falling off, if they’re no longer trending, all they need to do is pick
Although Ari Fleischer recently said Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump was blatantly ignoring the advice provided by experienced members of the Republican Party, he may be someone the Donald should start listening to. The former White House press secretary has had quite the successful run in Washington, D.C., and if Trump plans to take the
The United States and Israel have closed many of the remaining gaps in their negotiations over a new multibillion-dollar military aid package, and the two sides hope to reach a final deal soon, a senior U.S. official told the Reuters news agency on Wednesday. Three days of talks on the issue between Jacob Nagel, acting
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Middle East, USADonald Trump has insisted all is well with his campaign despite claims that his fellow Republicans are planning an “intervention.” Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus is reportedly among a handful of high-profile Republicans considering whether to confront Trump about his approach to his presidential campaign and attempt to stop him doing any more damage.
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USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Let’s not waste time. At the direction of President Obama, the United States of America gave $400 million to Iran – it was Iran’s money, after all, Obama said. In an unrelated move, Iran released four American hostages: a newspaper reporter, a former Marine, a Christian pastor, and a
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International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USALibertarian Party presidential nominee Gary Johnson and running mate William Weld continue to draw interest from the press, along with voters exploring their third-party options in the presidential election. Both candidates appeared Wednesday night in a live, one-hour CNN town hall broadcast at 9 p.m. EDT, with network anchor Anderson Cooper moderating. The two parsed
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