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News Saturday, January 25, 2020 Pompeo Denounced for 'Insulting and Contemptuous' Statement Lashing Out at NPR's Mary Louise Kelly Secretary of State Mike Pompeo lashed out at NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly in a statement Saturday a day after she pressed Pompeo on issues including former ambassador Marie Yovanovitch and he reportedly yelled at her with expletives and demanded she identify Ukraine on a map. In her Friday... Read more |
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News Friday, January 24, 2020 'If Truth Doesn't Matter, We're Lost': Watch Rep. Adam Schiff's 9-Minute Closing Argument on Why Senate Must Remove Trump In nine-minute closing remarks capping off the third day of President Donald Trump's Senate impeachment trial Thursday night, Rep. Adam Schiff argued the evidence for Trump's guilt is overwhelming and said his removal from office is a necessary step toward protecting the U.S. Constitution and the... Read more |
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News Sunday, January 19, 2020 Because 'I Can Feel Bernie Beating Trump,' Pramila Jayapal Endorses Sanders for President Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders for president on Sunday—the latest high-profile endorsement for 2020 Democratic candidate. I'm all in for @BernieSanders for President! Bernie has the bold passion, authenticity &... Read more |
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News Sunday, January 19, 2020 'Naked, Unapologetic and Insidious' Corruption: Democrats Respond to Trump's Official Statement on Impeachment Charges Responding to President Donald Trump's official answer to the impeachment charges against him now facing trial in the U.S. Senate, the Democratic House Managers assigned to prosecute the case rejected Sunday morning the president's claim his conduct was "perfect" by saying there is "a different... Read more |
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News Friday, January 17, 2020 'Are You F*cking Kidding Me:?' Monica Lewinsky Reacts to Ken Starr Joining Trump's Impeachment Defense Team Monica Lewinksy was among those expressing shock Friday morning after it was announced that Ken Starr and Robert Ray—both of whom served as special prosecutors in the investigation that led to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton in the 1990s—were appointed by President Donald Trump to be part... Read more |
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News Tuesday, January 07, 2020 'The People of This Region Want US Out': More Than 40 Iranian Mourners Killed at Soleimani Funeral Procession The ire aimed at President Donald Trump and the United States only grew on Tuesday after dozens of mourners were killed and more than 200 more injured when a stampede broke out at the massive funeral procession for Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani, who the U.S. assassinated with a bombing last week in... Read more |
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News Sunday, December 29, 2019 A Call to Action as Planet's Essential Groundwater is Being Rapidly Depleted Nearly 1,100 scientists, practitioners and experts in groundwater and related fields from 92 countries have called on the governments and non-governmental organizations to "act now" to ensure global groundwater sustainability. In their ' Call To Action ', the group said: "Groundwater, the invisible... Read more |
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News Saturday, December 28, 2019 Thousands of Koalas Feared Dead in Australia Wildfires Australia is still on fire. And now thousands of koalas are feared to have died in a wildfire-ravaged area north of Sydney. "Up to 30 percent of their habitat has been destroyed," Environment Minister Sussan Ley told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Friday. "We'll know more when the fires... Read more |
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News Thursday, December 26, 2019 Typhoon Devastates Philippines With at Least 20 Dead on Christmas Day Just over six years after Super Typhoon Haiyan slammed into the Philippines with devastating impacts, a less powerful but still deadly Typhoon Phanfone plowed across the central Philippines on Christmas Day leaving destruction in its wake. According to the Associated Press , the storm (also called... Read more |
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News Monday, December 09, 2019 WATCH LIVE: House Democrats Lay Out Their Case for Impeachment of President Donald Trump Members and legal staff of the Democratic-controlled House Judiciary Committees on Monday will lay out their case for the impeachment of President Donald Trump in a hearing scheduled to begin at 9:00am EST. According to the New York Times : After hearing from constitutional scholars last week , the... Read more |