Month: September 2020

The European Union and Iran signaled on Saturday that they would not permit President Donald Trump’s deeply unpopular decision to exit the Iran nuclear deal to deteriorate their own involvement in the agreement. “We have sent a message to our Iranian friends that as long as they are sticking to the agreement the Europeans will…fulfill […]

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TORONTO — People holding large social gatherings in defiance of new limits could face fines of over $10,000, Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced Thursday as he moved to crack down on the get-togethers he blames for spiking COVID-19 rates in three of the province’s largest regions. Ford rolled out the new penalties, which he touted […]

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Former Dallas sheriff Lupe Valdez won the Democratic primary runoff Tuesday to become the state’s first-ever openly gay and Latina gubernatorial nominee from a major party. Valdez defeated Houston businessman Andrew White in the primary. Some Democrats were concerned about running White in the gubernatorial race because of his personal opposition to abortion, according to The Associated Press. […]

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Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley, the Republican poised to take on Sen. Claire McCaskillClaire Conner McCaskillMissouri county issues travel advisory for Lake of the Ozarks after Memorial Day parties Senate faces protracted floor fight over judges amid pandemic safety concerns Amash on eyeing presidential bid: ‘Millions of Americans’ want someone other than Trump, Biden MORE […]

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As Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin vow to develop and modernize their nuclear arsenals, more than three dozen arms control experts and officials from the U.S., Russia, and Europe on Wednesday warned that two key agreements limiting nuclear proliferation are in danger of collapsing, and urged Washington and Moscow to heed the warning that […]

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As President Donald Trump’s “deafening” and uncharacteristic silence on his alleged affairs with adult film actress Stormy Daniels and former Playboy playmate Karen McDougal continues even in the aftermath of Daniels’ widely-viewed “60 Minutes” interview Sunday night, a new CNN survey published on Monday found that nearly two-thirds of Americans believe the women over Trump’s […]

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Demonstrating just how easily the Trump administration’s mixture of utter incompetence and malicious determination to undermine diplomacy can bring the U.S. to the brink of yet another war in a matter of minutes, the White House issued a statement Monday night falsely declaring that Iran “has a robust, clandestine nuclear weapons program”—only to quickly change […]

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In a policy shift LGBTQ rights groups denounced as “a deliberate recipe for violence against transgender people,” the Trump administration on Friday rolled back rules allowing transgender inmates to use facilities that match their gender identity and instructed federal officials to use “biological sex” in determining housing assignments. “This administration seems to be using every […]

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