Michael Cohen Has Said He Would Take a Bullet for Trump. Maybe Not Anymore. For years, a joke among Trump Tower employees was that the boss was like Manhattan’s First Avenue, where the traffic goes only one way. That one-sidedness has always been at the heart of President Trump’s relationship […]
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Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens charged with a second felony, accused of misusing a charity donor list T. LOUIS, MO – St. Louis prosecutors on Friday charged Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens with a felony for using a charity donor list for his 2016 political campaign, adding to the woes of the […]
U.S., Europe order emergency checks on engine type in Southwest accident U.S. and European airline regulators on Friday ordered emergency inspections within 20 days of nearly 700 aircraft engines similar to the one involved in a fatal Southwest Airlines (LUV.N) engine blowout earlier this week, citing risks of a similar […]
U.S. Official Calls on Myanmar to Free Journalists DHAKA (Reuters) – U.S. envoy Sam Brownback called on Thursday for the release of journalists jailed in Myanmar while covering the plight of ethnic Rohingya Muslims forced to flee a military crackdown. Brownback spoke in Bangladesh, where he was on a mission […]
Israeli criticism of journalists on Gaza border conflicts with video Jerusalem (AFP) – Israel’s military has suggested that a photo it has distributed shows journalists are willingly being used as human shields by Palestinian militants during recent protests, but video and a witness account of the incident tell a different […]
Australia Has a ‘Perfect Right’ to Sail in South China Sea, Says PM Australia’s prime minister said the Australian navy has a “perfect right” to traverse the South China Sea after a media report Friday that the Chinese navy had challenged three Australian warships in the hotly contested waterway. The […]
US-backed Syrian fighters capture militant linked to 9/11 attacks The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces have captured an individual the US assesses to be Mohammed Haydar Zammar, a Syrian-born German national linked to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. “We can confirm that Mohammad Haydar Zammar, a Syrian-born German national, was captured more […]
Swaziland’s King Wants His Country to Be Called eSwatini A landlocked, rural nation in southern Africa, Swaziland has significant problems. Nearly a third of the country’s population lives in extreme poverty, and about as many are infected with H.I.V., one of the world’s highest prevalence rates for the virus. Life […]
Elkhart woman wants to come home after she claims she was tricked into joining ISIS Four years ago, Sam Sally left her hometown in Elkhart for a vacation in Turkey. During the trip, Sally claims her husband duped her and her children into joining ISIS in Syria. Now out of […]
Trump’s arms sales policy puts contractors above common sense In a move that poses grave risks to U.S. security, the Trump administration’s newly released conventional arms transfer policy will put jobs and the interests of arms manufacturers ahead of safety, security, and human rights in its decisions on who the […]
