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'Erm. This is me. And I'm pretty sure I never ran a CIA black site for torture': BBC star Emily Maitlis is left bemused after human rights activist identifies her as new deputy CIA chief on Twitter BBC star Emily Maitlis has been left bewildered after a US human rights activist identified her as the new deputy CIA chief who ran a torture 'black site'.
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A student walks past a colorful mural at Luke C. Moore Academy High School in Washington, D.C., in Dec. 2016. D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser had just a few minutes to speak to hundreds of thousands of people at the Women's March on Washington.
Some of the first acts of the Trump presidency were to remove all references to US Government policy on climate change and LGBT rights from the White House website. He also announced that he plans to stop funding the National Endowment for the Arts.
The looming presidency of Donald Trump has created a deep sense of uncertainty for inmates at Guantanamo on the 15th anniversary of the arrival of the first prisoners at the U.S. base in Cuba. Nineteen of the remaining 55 prisoners are cleared for release and could be freed in the final days of Barack Obama's presidency, part of an effort to shrink the prison since the administration couldn't close it on his watch.
Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights and DRUM - South Asian Organizing Center sent Freedom of Information Act requests to multiple federal agencies seeking documents related to the federal National Security Entry-Exit Registration System . NSEERS required nonimmigrants who were citizens of designated countries - 24 out of 25 of which were majority Arab or Muslim - to submit to special registration and monitoring requirements while in the U.S. Critics say the program was discriminatory and abusive, and warned that its regulatory framework could easily facilitate president-elect Trump's proposed Muslim registry.
You can view the complete video of the event here . We had a tremendous line up: Congressman Jim Jordan , who is a member of both the Judiciary Committee and the Oversight and Government Reform Committee; Edwin Meese III, former United States Attorney General and Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow Emeritus at The Heritage Foundation; Mark Krikorian, Executive Director for the Center for Immigration Studies; Andrew McCarthy, Senior Fellow for the National Review Institute and former chief assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York; and Ramona Cotca, senior attorney at Judicial Watch.
Donald Trump's new luxury hotel in Washington D.C. has been attracting foreign envoys, special interest groups - and a bit of controversy. One of the latest groups to book the hotel is the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank whose big donors will gather there Tuesday night for a speech from Vice-President-elect Mike Pence.
The first time I lived in the nation's capital, Ronald Reagan was president. The conservatives I knew there were proud of their movement's accomplishments, in such areas as reforming taxes and challenging the Soviet empire, as well as disappointed by inadequate progress on such issues as cutting the federal budget.
Hillary Clinton took a break from hiking to present the Audrey Hepburn Humanitarian Award , which honors charitable work for children in developing nations, to Katy Perry Tuesday night at UNICEF's annual Snowflake Ball in New York. "I cannot tell you how delighted I am to be here to help celebrate," Clinton said after surprising the audience walking onstage to Perry's "Roar."
The 32-year-old singer was joined by her British actor beau at the UNICEF Snowflake Ball in New York on Tuesday night , where the Roar star was presented with the organisation's Audrey Hepburn Humanitarian Award. And speaking to Entertainment Tonight on the blue carpet at Manhattan's Cipriani Wall Street, Katy revealed Orlando has taught her a lot " and not only about UNICEF's work around the world.
Hillary Clinton made a surprise appearance at tonight's UNICEF Snowflake Ball in New York to introduce Katy Perry , the singer and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador honored with the organization's Audrey Hepburn Humanitarian Award. "We need champions like Katy, now more than ever," Clinton said.
Human Rights Watch chief Kenneth Roth said he was keeping a close eye on "warning signs" from US President-elect Donald Trump after the Republican's tough talk during his campaign about torture and drone strikes. "I don't take entirely seriously what he said on the campaign trail... I don't take entirely at face value that he is going to kill families is just a blatant war crime," Roth told AFP.
The Sierra Club has signed about 11,000 new monthly donors since the election, more than nine times the number for last December, its best month ever. Other environmental groups including the Environmental Defense Fund and Natural Resources Defense Council also report surges in giving because the Trump administration has vowed to ease environmental regulations.
Trump, a Republican who defeated Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the Nov. 8 election, fought allegations during the campaign of encouraging racism and xenophobia. A founder of Human Rights Watch warned that Donald Trump's election as US president is encouraging anti-Semitism in Europe.
Hillary Clinton's plan to bring 11 million illegal aliens "out of the shadows" would cost American households an immediate tax increase of $1.2 trillion, or $15,000 per household, according to a study by the National Academy of Sciences. In examining the study, the Heritage Foundation found that the immediate tax increases would be imposed to pay for the infrastructure, school, welfare and other costs of illegals.
There is no telling exactly what the joint force of Iraqi Army and Kurdish Peshmerga troops will encounter in their effort to reclaim IS's last stronghold in Iraq, an operation that is expected to take weeks or even months. But aid groups, working in cooperation with Baghdad and Kurdish regional government authorities, have prepared for the worst.
In this Jan. 26, 2012 file photo, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas speaks at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass. Thomas says the Supreme Court confirmation process is an example of how the nation's capital is "broken in some ways."
Researchers are trying to infect mosquitoes in Brazil and Colombia with a type of bacteria that could prevent them from spreading the Zika virus and other dangerous diseases. British and American governments are teaming up with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the U.K.-based Wellcome Trust to expand field tests in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and the city of Bello in northwest Colombia, philanthropist Bill Gates told a conference Wednesday.
In this Monday, Feb. 22, 2016 file photo, Bill and Melinda Gates talk to reporters about the 2016 annual letter from their foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, in New York. Researchers are trying to infect mosquitoes in Brazil and Colombia with a type of bacteria that could prevent them from spreading Zika virus and other dangerous diseases.