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Team Trump admits holding back billions for Puerto Rico disaster recovery
Trump administration officials have admitted that last summer they knowingly withheld billions of dollars Congress appropriated to help Puerto Rico recover from Hurricane Maria. House Democrats say withholding the relief money violates the law. Federal law requires that our government help Americans hit by natural disasters. But two Housing and Urban Development officials acknowledged at [
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US to send top delegation to Saudi event: media
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and presidential adviser Jared Kushner will lead an American delegation to Saudi Arabia’s annual financial conference, US media reported Tuesday, after widespread boycotts of last year’s event in protest at the murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Saudi reporter Khashoggi, a columnist for the Washington Post, was strangled and dismembered at [
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Woman who walked out after commissioner launched anti-gay attack on Dem running for president says she was ‘incensed’
A Tennessee woman was the only person to walk out in protest of Sevier County Commissioner Warren Hurst’s anti-gay and racist diatribe Monday night. The county commissioner decried the “queer running for president,” calling it “about as ugly as you can get.” “Look what we got running for president in the Democratic party,” Commissioner Hurst continued, [
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Chris the sheep, famed for record-breaking fleece, dies
An Australian sheep that entered the Guinness World Records after being found with an enormously overgrown fleece has died, its carers announced. Chris the merino sheep made global headlines after being found wandering alone outside Australia’s capital Canberra with masses of wool sagging from its frame in 2015. A champion shearer was brought in to [
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Morning Joe panel breaks down ‘staggering’ corruption revealed by ambassador: ‘Bribery or extortion?’
Panelists on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” agreed former Ukraine ambassador Bill Taylor had revealed criminal wrongdoing directed by the White House — but the only question was which crimes the president should be impeached over. The career foreign services office testified about efforts directed by President Donald Trump to hold up congressionally approved aid to Ukraine [
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As Modi hobnobs with Kissinger and other war criminals, Ilhan Omar and Pramila Jayapal criticize US support for Indian regime
“At what point do we no longer share values with India? Are we waiting for the Muslims in Assam to be put in those camps?” As Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi rubbed shoulders with Henry Kissinger and other former world leaders in India on Tuesday, Reps. Pramila Jayapal and Ilhan Omar questioned State Department officials [
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Testimony by top diplomat Bill Taylor on Trump and Ukraine elicits disturbed responses from members of Congress
Taylor was told in July that Ukraine would not receive military aid unless President Volodymyr Zelensky publicly launched an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden “Explosive” closed-door testimony on Tuesday from William Taylor, a career diplomat who questioned the Trump administration’s attempts over the summer to pressure Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, [
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Heat-cam exhibit alerts tourist to breast cancer
A tourist discovered she had breast cancer after an interactive heat-cam exhibit revealed a tumor during a family trip to a museum in Edinburgh. Bal Gill, 41, caught the disease in its early stages following her visit to the Camera Obscura attraction in May, which prompted her to consult a doctor. When the British woman [
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Trump ambassador Gordon Sondland could face a criminal perjury referral after bombshell testimony: report
State Department official Bill Taylor delivered a shot of adrenaline to the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump on Tuesday, providing testimony to the House of Representatives that was more detailed and damning that even many of the White House’s fiercest critics anticipated. But in addition to powerfully strengthening the case that Trump engaged in [
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North Korea’s Kim orders demolitions at South-built resort
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has condemned a flagship tourist development with the South as an eyesore and ordered buildings there demolished, state media reported Wednesday, in a stark illustration of dire relations between Pyongyang and Seoul. The Mount Kumgang tourist complex was built by Southern company Hyundai Asan in the North on one [
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Cyclist who flipped off Trump running for local office
A viral photo taken in the fall of 2017 shows a cyclist flipping off Donald Trump’s presidential convoy. The image cost Juli Briskman, the cyclist, her job. Two years later, Briskman has jumped headfirst into politics and is running for local office. Night has begun to fall in Loudoun County, Virginia, and the growing shadows [
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Diplomat’s testimony supercharges Trump impeachment probe
The top US diplomat in Ukraine poured fuel on Donald Trump’s impeachment probe Tuesday with a detailed account of how the president pushed Kiev to discredit one of his main political rivals, withholding US military aid to exert pressure. Democrats said the congressional testimony by Bill Taylor was a stunning confirmation of their allegations that [