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[ August 25, 2019 ] Trump Suggests Deal with Post-Brexit retain Possible Business
[ August 25, 2019 ] North Korea Tests New Rocket Launcher Foreign Policy
[ August 25, 2019 ] American Imprisoned in Russia Says He Was Injured by Guards Foreign Policy
[ August 24, 2019 ] Trump Threatens New Tariffs on China Ahead of G7 Summit Business
[ August 24, 2019 ] Israel Could Have Had Role in Iraq Airstrike Complicating U.S.-Iraqi Relations Foreign Policy

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Trump Suggests Deal with Post-Brexit retain Possible

President Donald Trump praised UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, whom he met during the G7 meeting in the French seaside town of Biarritz. “He needs no advice, he’s the right man for the job. This [...]
Foreign Policy

American Imprisoned in Russia Says He Was Injured by Guards

A Russian court extended Friday the detention of American citizen Paul Whelan, who has already spend nine months in a prison in Moscow, despite continuous concerns about his wellbeing and the treatment at the detention [...]
Business

Trump Threatens New Tariffs on China Ahead of G7 Summit

President Donald Trump said late Friday that the United States would slap China with increased tariffs, shortly after Beijing imposed retaliatory levies on Washington earlier in the day. Prior to departing for the summit in [...]
Politics

O’Rourke Blames both Parties for Inaction on Gun Legislation

Presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke said Thursday that both the GOP and Democrats were to blame for the lack of action on gun legislation, accusing them of “indifference” on passing meaningful gun control legislation. “The level [...]
Business

Trump Claims He Had to Confront China On Trade

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he had to confront China over trade even if it caused short-term harm to the U.S. economy because Beijing had been cheating Washington for decades, Reuters reported. Trump’s strongly [...]

ICE Shuts Down Hotline for Detained Immigrants after Being Shown on ‘Orange Is the New Black’

August 24, 2019

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shut down a toll-free hotline for detained immigrants which allows them to connect with a lawyer after this was featured on the series “Orange Is The New Black.” This hotline [...]
NASA Names Tumbling Rock on Mars ‘RollingStones Rock’

August 24, 2019
Senator Schatz Threats to Suspend Funding to Brazil amid Amazon Fires

August 24, 2019

Billionaire Philantropist David Koch Dies at 79

August 23, 2019

Conservative activist, billionaire and phillantropist David Koch has died at age 79, NBC News reported. “It is with a heavy heart that I announce the passing of my brother David,” Charles Koch said in a [...]
CVS Slammed on Twitter for Cutting Birth Control Delivery Service

August 16, 2019
Federal Judge Blocks Arkansas Abortion Ban

August 7, 2019

North Korea Tests New Rocket Launcher

August 25, 2019

North Korea confirmed on Sunday that the country’s leader Kim Jong-un had supervised the test-firing of a “newly developed super-large multiple rocket launcher,” a move that is likely aimed at increasing leverage prior to continuing [...]
American Imprisoned in Russia Says He Was Injured by Guards

August 25, 2019
Israel Could Have Had Role in Iraq Airstrike Complicating U.S.-Iraqi Relations

August 24, 2019

Climate Change Could Affect Saudi Aramco’s IPO

August 21, 2019

Saudi Arabia’s state energy giant’s vast oil reserves, which can sustain current production levels for the next 50 years, make it more exposed than any other company to a rising tide of environmental activism and [...]
Clean Energy Production Overcomes Coal for First Time in U.S.

June 28, 2019
Trump Administration to Face Legal Battle over Pollution Rule

June 23, 2019

Space Telescope Shows Atmosphere of Earth-Sized Rocky Exoplanet

August 21, 2019

A new study using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope provides a rare glimpse of conditions on the surface of a rocky planet orbiting a star beyond the Sun, Reuters reports. The study, published today [...]
States to Move Forward With Antitrust Investigation of Big Tech Firms

August 20, 2019
Apple Sues Startup for Selling ‘Perfect Replicas’ of iOS

August 19, 2019

Former Trump Adviser Offers Help to Iraqis that Trump Wants to Deport – For a Price

August 28, 2017

A former campaign adviser to Donald Trump is offering to testify in court on behalf of Iraqi Christians in the United States who suddenly face deportation under the Republican president – for a hefty fee, [...]
Marijuana Legalization Could Gain Prominence in 2020 Election

August 14, 2017
Alt-right Plans ‘Free Speech’ March against Google

August 11, 2017

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