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When President Donald Trump tweeted Friday that, "We cannot allow our country to be overrun by illegal immigrants," and blamed Democrats for spreading allegedly "phony stories of sadness and grief," I couldn't stop thinking about 6-year-old Jimena Valencia Madrid. Jimena is the Salvadoran girl who was separated from her mother at the Texas border on June 13 as part of Trump's "zero tolerance" immigration policy, and placed in a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol detention center in Phoenix.
I read a terrific article in The Guardian called "Passive, poor and white? What people keep getting wrong about Appalachia". The author Elizabeth Catte rightly calls the talk about "Trump Country" an elitist fetish.
Today, defunct Swedish electronic duo the Knife returned to release a live album, Shaking the Habitual: Live at Terminal 5 , documenting a 2014 New York City show supporting their great final album Shaking the Habitual. But you most likely can't listen to it: Owing to an arcane label dispute , the live album is not available to buy or stream in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Ireland, all of Asia, or South and Central America.
"Do not ask me about how this looks, we all know how this looks," said one senior aide, after reports that Trump gave highly classified information to Russian officials. White House and administration officials are reeling at reports that President Donald Trump reportedly shared classified information with Russia's top diplomats during an Oval Office meeting last week.
As the Trump administration confronts the nuclear ambitions of North Korea's Kim Jong Un and the toxic fallout from Bashar Assad's chemical warfare against Syrian civilians, it is worth remembering that both dictators also command cyber-units. On the face of it, their impact is significantly less lethal, and they can easily be underestimated.
HARRISBURG – The Green Party's quest for a recount of Pennsylvania's Nov. 8 presidential election – and, perhaps more importantly, an examination for malware inside of voting machines or systems – is being met with resistance, even before a state judge hears the case.
Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White, shown at a press conference in 2015, says she will step down in January. Mary Jo White, the chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, will step down in January, a move that leaves the future direction of the regulatory agency more uncertain than ever.
"I'm tired of being a mealy-mouthed, NPR-listening lefty who has to respect other people's opinions," musician writes Hillary Clinton supporter Moby says he's "tired" of "respect[ing] other people's opinions" on this year's presidential race. Moby is tired of being diplomatic.
The mother of an unarmed black man shot to death in a confrontation with police in a San Diego suburb this week called for peaceful protests Thursday and said her son did not deserve to die. Alfred Olango "was a good, lovely young man," said the mother, Pamela Benge.
As US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton led a team committed to delegitimising the politics of the late socialist president Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution, secret emails published by WikiLeaks reveal. Clinton publicly welcomed improved relations with Venezuela as Secretary of State, but she privately ridiculed the country and continued to support destabilisation efforts, leaked emails show.