A US House lawmaker has introduced a bill calling for relisting North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism. Rep. Ted Poe brought in the legislation that requires “a report on the designation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism.”
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Decades-long clash of ideals, political theater meet again in Hill’s ‘Pig Painting,’
There was Pussy Riot, the female punk music act jailed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and condemned as sacrilegious by the Russian Orthodox Church after an unauthorized performance inside a Moscow cathedral. Pablo Picasso’s massive mural “Guernica” depicts the horrors of the German Luftwaffe bombing a tiny, Basque village at the request of Spanish nationalists.
Russia news channel, linked to election meddling, cuts into CSPAN online feed
For about 10 minutes Thursday afternoon, a Russian propaganda channel that’s been linked to meddling in the 2016 presidential election mysteriously cut into the online feed of CSPAN, the network that broadcasts Congress. CSPAN said it is not entirely sure why what happened occurred and that it might have been an internal error.
Today in History
On Jan. 10, 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his State of the Union address, asked Congress to impose a surcharge on both corporate and individual income taxes to help pay for his “Great Society” programs as well as the war in Vietnam. That same day, Massachusetts Republican Edward W. Brooke, the first black elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote, took his seat.
In 2016, David Bowie died
On Jan. 10, 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his State of the Union address, asked Congress to impose a surcharge on both corporate and individual income taxes to help pay for his “Great Society” programs as well as the war in Vietnam. That same day, Massachusetts Republican Edward W. Brooke, the first black elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote, took his seat.
Netanyahu Thanks House For Condemning UN Security Council Resolution
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday for disavowing the UN Security Council’s resolution condemning Israeli settlement activity as a “flagrant violation of international law.” “After the outrageous anti-Israel resolution at the UN, the U.S. House of Representatives voted yesterday resoundingly to support Israel and reject this one-sided resolution,” Netanyahu said .
Will Trump’s promised wall become taxpayer-fundeda
It was the signature promise of his campaign: Donald Trump vowed to build an impenetrable, concrete wall along the southern border. And Mexico was going to pay for it.
Congress looks to start building a Mexican border wall within months
Local residents walk alongside a high metal wall installed by U.S. workers to replace fencing along the border between Ciudad Juarez and Sunland Park, N.M.,on Sept. 12, 2016.
Water crisis in Syrian capital as government attacks valley
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