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The United States on Monday met President Barack Obama's goal of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees into the country, the White House announced. Obama sought a sixfold increase in the number of Syrian refugees provided safe haven in the United States.
In this Jan. 17, 2016 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks about the release of Americans by Iran, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. A $400 million cash delivery to Iran to repay a decades-old arbitration claim may be unprecedented in recent U.S. history, according to legal experts and diplomatic historians, raising further questions about a payment timed to help free four American prisoners in Iran.
Nothing can be more embarrassing than having to phone your attorney from Alaska for legal assistance in escaping a fine for lashing your Irish Setter to the roof of your car. Mitt Romney may have gotten away with it in Massachusetts in 1983, but that behavior would get him a hefty fine in Alaska where it is illegal to tether a dog onto the roof of a car.
If "politics ain't beanbag," as the saying goes, then the reality seems to be that political jousting is a time-honored tradition in our body politic. While the current presidential election campaign in the U.S. may be knuckle-dragging its way through the pit of incivility, politics has always been ripe for tough talk, satire and ridicule.
A U.S. Border Patrol agent detains juvenile immigrants without proper documents near the U.S.-Mexico border on Dec. 10, 2015, at La Grulla, Texas. The number of unaccompanied minors and families crossing the border from Central America has surged in recent months.
A protester wearing a mask of U.S. President Barack Obama attends a rally opposing a plan to deploy an advanced U.S. missile defense system called Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, near the U.S Embassy in Seoul, ... . President Barack Obama is seated in the presidential vehicle as his motorcade leaves Farm Neck Golf Course in Oak Bluffs, Mass., on Martha's Vineyard, after playing a round of golf Friday, Aug. 12, 2016.
U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz spoke with senior citizens at the Southwest Focal Point Senior Center in Pembroke Pines to bring awareness on the Zika virus. U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz spoke with senior citizens at the Southwest Focal Point Senior Center in Pembroke Pines to bring awareness on the Zika virus.
The Obama administration is shifting $81 million in funds from other programs to cover the costs of Zika research following continuing congressional inaction to combat the spreading disease. Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell wrote congressional leaders Thursday to say she'll transfer $34 million away from other National Institutes of Health programs and $47 million from other biometical research programs to temporarily cover a shortfall in Zika funding.
A giant "T" is displayed on Sam Pirozzolo's lawn in the borough of Staten Island in New York, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016. Days after the torching of a giant "T" tribute to Donald Trump on a New York City lawn, a new, even bigger red-white-and-blue letter has risen on the same grass spot.
On the heels of an unprecedented U.S. travel warning, and the prospect that an essential clinical trial for the vaccine to contain the Zika virus will be terminated for lack of funds, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer called on House and Senate leadership to suspend congressional recess-for even just one day-and pass a $1.9 billion emergency funding bill that is needed to fight the Zika spread. Specifically, Schumer explained that phase one of Zika vaccine trials began this week but without passing this bill, the dollars for the next phases of vaccine clinical trials will cease.
After a successful trial in rhesus monkeys, a team of researchers, including doctors from Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, is ready to start testing a Zika virus vaccine in humans, they announced this week.
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Several private universities are boosting stipends and benefits ahead of a federal ruling that could clear the way for graduate students to form unions. To some grad students, it's an attempt to persuade them that they don't need collective bargaining to get a raise.
Democratic presidential nomiee Hillary Clinton addresses the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists August 5, 2016 in Washington, DC. Clinton took questions following her remarks.
Melania Trump said Thursday that she never worked illegally in the United States after she arrived from Slovenia, despite evidence that could threaten her current legal status. Trump released the statement on Twitter after nude images of her, reportedly taken in the U.S. in 1995 appeared on the cover of the New York Post this week.
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A federal appeals court has upheld the Interior Department 's decision to grant a reservation to the Cowlitz Tribe in southwestern Washington, rejecting efforts to block the construction of a $510 million casino and resort on the land. The Columbian newspaper reports that the ruling, handed down Friday by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, affirmed a 2014 ruling by U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein in Seattle.
Hillary Clinton and Mary Thomas have little in common, except for this: They both hope to add to the meager ranks of America's female elected officials come January.
It is heartening to see the Tampa Bay region come together for a cause and win, as happened this month with the announcement that Tampa International Airport will likely host daily commercial flights to Havana as early as this fall. The list of those who should take a bow is long.