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Syrian rebels outside Aleppo on Friday ... . This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA shows Syrian army soldiers marching through the streets in the Ansari neighborhood, east Aleppo, Syria, Friday, Dec 23, 2016.
California's attorney general is pursuing new charges against the operators of a website advertising escort services two weeks after a judge tossed an earlier case. California's attorney general said Friday that she was pursuing new pimping charges against the operators of Backpage.com, a website that advertises escort services, just two weeks after a judge tossed an earlier case.
With weeks to go in his tenure, President Barack Obama on Friday moved to end the controversial "dual-hat" arrangement under which the National Security Agency and the nation's cyberwarfare command are headed by the same military officer. It is unclear whether President-elect Donald Trump will support such a move.
An Israeli official has accused US president Barack Obama of colluding with the Palestinians in a "shameful move against Israel at the UN". An Israeli official has accused US president Barack Obama of colluding with the Palestinians in a "shameful move against Israel at the UN".
The UN Security Council has voted to pass a resolution condemning Israel's settlement construction. The United States abstained in the voting, allowing the resolution to pass.
Congress wrapped up the 114th session early Saturday, a tumultuous two years marked by the resignation of a House speaker, a fight over a Supreme Court vacancy, bipartisan bills on health care and education and inaction on immigration and criminal justice.
In the machinery of the Holocaust, in the places where Jews and others were murdered by the millions, certain prisoners were compelled or volunteered to help the Nazis in the arduous business of genocide. These people were called Kapos, reviled by Jew and Nazi alike, and few of them survived.
Hill House in Pretoria's leafy Waterkloof is depressingly empty of the Gaspards. The outgoing US ambassador has a taste for good art and music, but no sign of these remain.
President-elect Donald Trump tapped bankruptcy lawyer David Friedman to serve as the US ambassador to Israel on Thursday, raising questions about how Friedman's far-right views will upend Washington's longstanding approach to the Israel-Palestine conflict. Friedman, who has no diplomatic experience, is a fierce opponent of a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine that would create two independent states on either side of the Jordan river.
President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday threatened to terminate a pact that allows U.S. troops to visit the Philippines, saying "bye-bye America" as he reacted with rage to what he thought was a U.S. decision to scrap a major aid package over human rights concerns.
Woman rally as part of a nationwide protest against US President-elect Donald Trump outside of Trump Tower in New York on December 12. / AFP / TIMOTHY A. CLARY Jordan Spiegel cried the night Donald Trump was elected president. The 14-year-old high school freshman from Walnut Creek not only looked forward to Hillary Clinton becoming the first female president, she despaired of the sexist, racist and xenophobic rhetoric that marked the celebrity mogul's campaign.
Something to contemplate as you are idling on Interstate 95 behind a tanker truck or gripping the steering wheel in terror as ninja-motorcyclists weave past in 100 mph-plus packs: The rankings, released Tuesday, come courtesy of Bankrate.com. The study evaluated 50 U.S. states based on several factors that impact drivers, including commute time , annual insurance premiums , gas expenditure, cost of car repairs, car thefts and auto fatalities.
Former Illinois Congressman Aaron Schock, who just two years ago was the future face of the Republican Party, pleaded not guilty Monday in federal court to charges that he misused government and campaign money for personal use. The 35-year-old Republican from Peoria pronounced his plea and gave short answers to questions by U.S. District Judge Sue Myerscough, who set a trial date of Feb. 7. Appearing calm and dressed in a dark suit with thin stripes, the one-time formidable fundraiser and rising GOP star faces federal corruption charges alleging he used his position to spend lavishly on travel, World Series and Super Bowl tickets and other amenities of an extravagant lifestyle.
Likely fueled by the improved prospects for building a football stadium on the Strip, Clark County has granted permission for an extension of the monorail from the MGM Grand to Mandalay Bay. The approved extension of 1.4 miles will also put the system in position to expand again to the airport at a future date.
The United States border crossing is shown Wednesday, December 7, 2011 in Lacolle, Que., south of Montreal. A bill with potentially sweeping consequences for the Canada-U.S. border has just been adopted by the American Congress, allowing new projects aimed at speeding up travel through the international boundary.
Congress wrapped up the 114th session early Saturday, a tumultuous two years marked by the resignation of a House speaker, a fight over a Supreme Court vacancy, bipartisan bills on health care and education and inaction on immigration and criminal justice. The new Congress will be sworn-in Jan. 3. - A hard-fought budget and debt agreement that provided two years of relief from unpopular automatic budget cuts and extended the government's borrowing cap through next March.
Senator Ben Cardin speaks during a press conference introducing the Iran Policy Oversight Act on October 1, 2015 in Washington, DC Legislation expanding the 2012 U.S. Magnitsky human rights act from Russian citizens to cover abusers in any country passed the U.S. Senate on Thursday as part of an annual defense policy bill, leaving the landmark measure on the verge of becoming law. The legislation was included in the must-pass National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, setting policy for the Department of Defense, despite the recent election of Republican Donald Trump as the U.S. president.
At least least there's one country where elections produce swift results. Since Donald Trump's victory, the Mexican peso has collapsed, the cost of mortgages has risen in France, the European Commission has eased its demand for budget austerity, Japan feels encouraged to re-arm, Israel is hoping that the US embassy will move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, opinion pollsters and proponents of campaign micro-targeting have kept their heads down, what little remained of journalistic credibility is all but gone - and the Trans-Pacific Partnership is dead.
Actress Angela Lansbury is interviewed Sunday as members of the press gather around at the 9th National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Truthdig contributors John Patterson and Tim Riley took top prizes at Sunday evening's National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards, the ninth annual event sponsored by the Los Angeles Press Club.
Or just CLICK THIS LINK to start shopping for anything. Don't worry - anything you buy through it will pay Daily Pundit a commission! Thanks! Per The Washington Examiner , the PA Department of State is rejecting Jill Stein's attempt to file for an election re-count, stating that the deadline was a week ago: Stein missed Pennsylvania's deadline to file for a voter-initiated recount.