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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.
A person wearing a Donald Trump mask holds a sign in Spanish that reads the Rat Dies as he celebrates the death of Fidel Castro Saturday, Nov. 26, 2016, in the Little Havana area in Miami. Castro died eight years after ill health forced him to formally hand power over to his younger brother Raul, who announced his death late Friday, Nov. 25, on state television.
The US president-elect called the former Cuban leader "a brutal dictator who oppressed his own people for nearly six decades". Trump said Castro, who has died aged 90 , leaves a legacy of "firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights".
Within half an hour of the Cuban government's announcement Saturday of the death of the 90-year-old revolutionary leader, cheers were heard in Miami's Little Havana. Within half an hour of the Cuban government's announcement Saturday of the death of the 90-year-old revolutionary leader, cheers were heard in Miami's Little Havana.
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"The passport won't be valid without your signature," Putin told Seagal, according to remarks carried by state news agency Tass. "Thank you very much," the actor reportedly replied before signing it at an unusual ceremony at the Kremlin.
IT was just past midnight on Nov 9, and there I stood in the middle of Times Square in New York City, among hundreds of Americans transfixed by the live election results that were flashing across the giant screens every few seconds. A strong sense of anticipation and nervousness had filled the chilly air.
Ready, set, SPEND: First Black Friday shoppers race through the doors as retailers prepare for a post-election spending boom 'I feel incredibly blessed and thankful': Ivanka Trump shares her own Thanksgiving message with husband Jared and the kids as Donald celebrates in Mar-a-Lago Has Team Trump soured on Mitt Romney? Campaign manager Kellyanne Conway joins in criticism of 2012 GOP nominee as grassroots supporters claim he would be a terrible Secretary of State Pick up! Family refused to answer the phone for FIVE DAYS because they thought it was a telemarketera but Lotto was calling to tell them they had won A family from Victoria who thought telemarketers were harassing them for five days have discovered it was actually Tatts trying to contact them after they won the lotto.
Railroad travelers and commuters make their way through Union Station in Los Angeles, Nov. 23, 2016. Tens of millions of Americans are taking to the roads, airports and railways for the Thanksgiving holiday.
Shakespeare 400 Chicago , the yearlong festival marking the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare 's death, will wrap up a dynamic year of programming with a full calendar of events in December , having inspired an estimated 1.1 million people to take part in 863 events at 231 locations across the city of Chicago. Spearheaded by Chicago Shakespeare Theater under the leadership of Artistic Director Barbara Gaines and Executive Director Criss Henderson -and in partnership with 60 local cultural institutions-the city's festival is one of the largest Shakespeare quadricentennial celebrations in the world.
NOVEMBER 21: Former Texas Governor Rick Perry leaves Trump Tower on November 21, 2016 in New York City. President-elect Donald Trump and his transition team are in the process of filling cabinet and other high level positions for the new administration.
The indictment of a 35-year-old disgraced former Republican congressman jolted residents of his central Illinois district, shaken by prosecutors' claims that Aaron Schock illegally dipped into campaign and government coffers to subsidize a lavish lifestyle, including his Capitol Hill office done up in the style of "Downton Abbey." Perhaps more stunning was an allegation found on page 34 of the charging document: Schock's apparent willingness to pocket thousands of constituents' dollars by arranging annual Washington tours combined with meet-and-greets.
The coldest handshake: Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin photographed in brief and very frosty exchange at Peru summit - amid angry clashes over Syria and Russian support for Trump Melania and Barron Trump 'WON'T move to the White House so he can finish school in NYC' - threatening years of nightmarish traffic and security checks for shoppers near Trump Tower What blind trust? Donald Trump meets with Indian business partners and his three children a week AFTER being elected despite conflict of interest promises Horrific moment a children's hospital in Aleppo is bombed for the second time in a WEEK as workers desperately scramble to rescue babies in incubators Winter IS coming: Storm brings first snow of the season and icy winds in the Northeast as temperatures dip into the twenties Putin to ask Trump's permission to bomb Syria: Russian ambassador to London says airstrikes are 'diplomacy ... (more)
President Barack Obama has embarked on what presumably will be his last foreign trip, to Greece, Germany and Peru. The Peru part is partly because he wants to visit Machu Picchu as a tourist, but it will also give him a chance to review the bidding in America's relations with Latin American countries post-Cuba opening and with Venezuela disintegrating.
The USS Constellation n Baltimore's Inner Harbor is the last sail-only ship designed and built by the U.S. Navy. It is the only vessel still afloat that saw service in the Civil War.