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[ September 21, 2019 ] Trump Orders Additional Troops to Be Sent to Saudi Arabia Foreign Policy
[ September 21, 2019 ] Trump Admits to Asking World Leaders About Biden, Downplays Whistleblower Complaint Administration
[ September 21, 2019 ] Police Chief in Charge of Epstein Case Says Epstein ‘May Have Been Tipped off’ Administration
[ September 21, 2019 ] House Dems Must ‘Do Something’ about Trump, Says Julián Castro Administration
[ September 21, 2019 ] U.S.-Salvadoran Deal Could Send Asylum Seekers Back to Their Country Foreign Policy

Foreign Policy

Trump Orders Additional Troops to Be Sent to Saudi Arabia

Additional troops and missile defense equipment will be deployed to Saudi Arabia and the UAE in the wake of the recent attacks on the biggest Saudi oilfield, the Pentagon announced on Friday. Despite the move, [...]
Administration

Trump Admits to Asking World Leaders About Biden, Downplays Whistleblower Complaint

President Donald Trump told reporters in the White House that “it doesn’t matter what I discussed” with foreign leaders, seeking to assert that the allegations made against him were lodged by a “partisan” whistleblower. Trump [...]
Foreign Policy

U.S.-Salvadoran Deal Could Send Asylum Seekers Back to Their Country

An agreement signed Friday between the United States and El Salvador threatens to prevent some asylum seekers to seek refuge in the U.S., allowing the country at the same time to send some of these [...]
Foreign Policy

MSNBC: After Visiting North Korea, Trump Says He Won’t Visit North Korea

A South Korean newspaper reported yesterday that North Korea’s Kim Jong-un invited Donald Trump to Pyongyang as a way to restart failing nuclear talks. A reporter asked Trump yesterday whether the report was accurate, MSNBC [...]
Foreign Policy

Failed UN Resolutions on Syria Leave Millions at Risk

Dueling UN resolutions calling for a cease-fire in the Idlib region of Syria were both defeated Thursday, leaving millions at risk amid a brutal government offensive, aided by Russian airstrikes, and a looming humanitarian disaster, [...]

Trump Admits to Asking World Leaders About Biden, Downplays Whistleblower Complaint

September 21, 2019

President Donald Trump told reporters in the White House that “it doesn’t matter what I discussed” with foreign leaders, seeking to assert that the allegations made against him were lodged by a “partisan” whistleblower. Trump [...]
Police Chief in Charge of Epstein Case Says Epstein ‘May Have Been Tipped off’

September 21, 2019
House Dems Must ‘Do Something’ about Trump, Says Julián Castro

September 21, 2019

As Number of Vaping-Related Deaths Increases, Feds Warn Against Vaping

September 7, 2019

Federal officials told the public on Friday to avoid using electronic cigarettes, especially those containing the marijuana component THC until further research is being conducted into the epidemic that has taken five lives so far [...]
Bernie Sanders Proposes Canceling $81bn U.S. Medical Debt

September 2, 2019
Billionaire Philantropist David Koch Dies at 79

August 23, 2019

Trump Orders Additional Troops to Be Sent to Saudi Arabia

September 21, 2019

Additional troops and missile defense equipment will be deployed to Saudi Arabia and the UAE in the wake of the recent attacks on the biggest Saudi oilfield, the Pentagon announced on Friday. Despite the move, [...]
U.S.-Salvadoran Deal Could Send Asylum Seekers Back to Their Country

September 21, 2019
MSNBC: After Visiting North Korea, Trump Says He Won’t Visit North Korea

September 20, 2019

The New York Times: Notre-Dame’s Toxic Fallout

September 15, 2019

The April fire that engulfed Notre-Dame contaminated the cathedral site with clouds of toxic dust and exposed nearby schools, day care centers, public parks and other parts of Paris to alarming levels of lead, The [...]
Japan May Have to Dump Radioactive Fukushima Water into the Ocean

September 11, 2019
Mick Jagger Criticizes Trump over Environmental Policy

September 9, 2019

North Korea Reportedly Developing Own Cryptocurrency

September 19, 2019

North Korea is in the early stages of developing its own cryptocurrency in a bid to avoid crippling international sanctions and circumvent the U.S.-dominated global financial system, a representative for the regime told VICE News. [...]
FAA Will Test Changes to Boeing Software in Simulator

September 17, 2019
House Committee Requests Tech Executives’ Emails in Antitrust Investigation

September 14, 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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