2019 – Page 43 – News Views

Dutch family ‘waiting for end of time’ found in secret room

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A family who spent nine years on a farm “waiting for the end of time” have been discovered by police in the Netherlands after one of them turned up at a local pub, reports say. MORE

Trump Phone Call to Duterte Left White House Staff ‘Genuinely Horrified’

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The US President congratulated the Philippine President for an “unbelievable job on the drug problem,” a bloody drug war that has allegedly killed over 20,000 people. MORE

Liveblog - Impeachment Updates: 10-16-19

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Senior adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Michael McKinley, will appear for a transcribed interview. Mick Mulvaney “contributed substantially to the unfolding political crisis, both through his connection to key events related to the attempt MORE

Turkey’s president Erdogan snubs Pence and Pompeo

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Turkey’s president Erdogan told Sky News he will only meet with Trump and not Pence nor Pompeo who will travel to Ankara Wednesday to discuss a ceasefire in northeast Syria. “They say ‘declare a ceasefire’. MORE

Erdogan Lays Out Conditions To End Syria Offensive

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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey’s military operation in Syria could end after Kurdish fighters leave a strip of territory along its border, laying out his key condition for ending an offensive that has drawn MORE

Xi warns any effort to split China will end with ‘bodies smashed and bones ground to powder’

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Chinese President Xi Jinping cautioned over the weekend that any effort to split with China will result in “bodies smashed and bones ground to powder” amid ongoing unrest in Hong Kong. The Chinese leader made the warning MORE

Protestors Burn LeBron Jerseys in Hong Kong; Social Media burns LeBron in US

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Protestors in Hong Kong burned LeBron James jerseys just one day after his comments on the NBA’s controversey with China. The Associated Press captured video of protestors taking shots at a photo of James taped above MORE

Fact Checking the Fourth Democratic Primary Debate

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Below is the condensed version of some claims the candidates made that are a bit suspect. I have also included links to several sites where you can find out what is and isn’t factual. Tulsi MORE

Fourth Democratic Primary Debate

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Join us for a Live Discussion the Fourth Democratic Primary Debate. You will have to set your tele to CNN to watch tonight’s debate hosted by both CNN and The New York Times. You can also watch it MORE

Watch Live: Speaker Pelosi to make an announcement

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Jacksonville Jaguars owner will invest in national 24-hour black news channel

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan announced that he will be the majority investor in the nation’s only 24-hour news network aimed at African American viewers, giving the network a deep pocket as MORE

As US troops leave Syria, Russian military police take their place

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Russian defense Ministry issued a statement claiming the Russian military police will now patrol “along the line of contact between the Syrian Arab Republic and Turkey.” The statement said the Russian military was also “interacting” with Turkey’s MORE

Liveblog - Impeachment Updates: 10-15-19

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We learned that John, ‘Never Met a War He Didn’t Like,’ Bolton did want to be a part of “whatever drug deal Rudy and Mulvaney are cooking up.“ George Kent, the deputy assistant secretary of MORE

GM CEO Mary Barra Now Talking With UAW

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GM’s Mary Barra met Tuesday morning with UAW President and lead negotiators on day 30 of the union’s strike against General Motors continues. The meeting could signal a tentative agreement is near. A meeting was MORE

Ronan Farrow reveals extreme measures Weinstein took to bury alleged crimes

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The combination of rage, threats, professional promises and vulnerability that Harvey Weinstein used to secure the silence of women he allegedly sexually attacked is described in a newly disclosed interview between one of his accusers and Ronan Farrow, the journalist who exposed the Hollywood mogul. MORE

Are you happy now, Trump supporters?

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President Trump isn’t the first American leader to turn his back on foreign friends who were counting on U.S. assistance: President Dwight D. Eisenhower did it in Hungary in 1956; President John F. Kennedy in Cuba in 1961; and President Gerald Ford in South Vietnam in 1975. MORE

Hunter Biden on Ukraine

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Hunter Biden, the son of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, said in a rare interview broadcast early Tuesday that he made a mistake by getting involved with foreign companies, acknowledging that it provided an opening for critics to attack his father politically. MORE