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Israeli illegal settlement activities in Occupied Palestine have skyrocketed in recent months, almost tripling in 2017 compared to the number in the same period last year, according to a newly published report from the Palestinian National Office for the Defense of Land and Resistance of Settlement. The report reveals the striking extent to which occupation authorities under Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have escalated support to Israeli settlements - which are considered illegal under international law and even Israeli law - while allowing the expansion of illicit settlements built on privately-owned Palestinian land, which is considered unconstitutional by the occupation authority's courts.
"Trump is committed to finding a way to claim Iran has violated the nuclear accord, regardless of the facts - just as Bush did with Iraq." Something extraordinary has happened in Washington.
The law on violence against women, including domestic violence, approved by the Tunisian parliament on July 26, 2017, is a landmark step for women's rights, Human Rights Watch said today. Tunisian authorities should ensure that there is adequate funding and political will to put the law fully into effect and to eliminate discrimination against women.
The Trump cult has decided that Fox News doesn't provide the extreme level of Hitleresque propaganda that they crave, so what did they do? Launch their own "Real News" Trump weekly online news channel. The first episode was launched by Trump daughter-in-law, Lara Trump.
Each year in commemoration of the more than 200,000 people who died in the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, participants write messages of peace on paper lanterns and float them down the Motoyasu River. Seventy-two years after the U.S dropped the first atomic bombs on Hiroshima and three days later on Nagasaki, there is hope that we will finally see the abolition of these most deadly weapons of mass destruction, for this year on July 7 an historic treaty banning nuclear weapons, like every other weapon of mass destruction, was adopted at the United Nations.
President Trump can finally say his administration has added 1 million jobs, thanks to a jobs report released by the Department of Labor on Friday. But while Trump and his surrogates were quick to present this as a huge accomplishment, it is less than meets the eye.
Like many denizens of Washington DC, President Donald Trump is escaping the heat that smothers the nation's capital in August. But his respite is anything but brief.
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events Anthony Scaramucci, who was ousted as White House communications director on Monday, and counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway It's the White House's go-to pejorative when dismissing reports of internal power struggles as idle gossip: "palace intrigue." The phrase conveys the idea that reporters covering President Trump and his advisers are more like reality TV addicts than real journalists - which is exactly how the White House wants them to be seen.
Born in 1764 in Annapolis, he became a lawyer in 1786. He started his political career by being a member of the convention that ratified the Constitution in Maryland.
The Senate confirmed two new commissioners on August 4, 2017, to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. CREDIT: AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana The Senate voted Thursday evening to confirm two Republican nominees to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, one of whom accused natural gas pipeline opponents of waging a "jihad" against the agency.
Here's Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III trying to get off the boss's shit list by tripling the number of leak investigations and "reviewing policies" for issuing subpoenas to reporters: AG Jeff Sessions, citing leaks, says he's "reviewing policies" for subpoenaing the press. "They cannot place lives at risk with impunity."
One of the last things the Senate did before leaving town for August was pass the Food and Drug Administration user fee reauthorization act by a lopsided vote total. This was mostly a house keeping bill.
The Secret Service has vacated its command post inside Trump Tower in Manhattan following a dispute between the government and President Trump's company over the terms of a lease for the space, according to two people familiar with the discussions. Previously, the Secret Service had stationed its command post - which houses supervisors and backup agents on standby in case of an emergency - in a Trump Tower unit one floor below the president's apartment.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller departs after briefing members of the U.S. Senate on his investigation into potential coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign on Capitol Hill on June 21, 2017. Special Counsel Robert Mueller began using a grand jury in federal court in Washington several weeks ago as part of his probe into possible coordination between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign, according to two people familiar with the investigation.
Three years ago next week, Officer Darren Wilson shot and killed a young man named Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. That shooting sparked nationwide unrest and a national discussion of "use of force" doctrine and the militarization of the police.
The Morning Joe gang was pulling apart Trump's latest poll numbers this morning, and Joe Scarborough supplied some historical context. "You look at the states where Trump did very well in November and his approval ratings are in the mid to high 80s, and let's not forget Richard Nixon never dropped below 50% until the day he resigned," Scarborough said.
Born in West Barnstable, Massachusetts in 1725, Otis graduated from Harvard in 1743 and became a prominent lawyer in the colony. He married a wealthy woman, with strong Tory sympathies.
Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, issued the following statement based on a report by t he New York Times that the "Trump administration is preparing to redirect resources of the Justice Department's civil rights division toward investigating and suing universities over affirmative action admissions policies deemed to discriminate against white applicants." Gupta previously served as the head of the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice: "Yet again, the Sessions Justice Department, led by the political leadership and marginalizing the career employees, is changing course on a key civil rights issue.
We [Australians and Britons] can talk to each other as we can with no one else, but you can't revert to a world that's now disappeared. To hear Boris Johnson, current Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, is to be subjected to the capsuled calls of another kingdom.
China has just inaugurated its first military base abroad, in the tiny Red Sea country of Djibouti. Beijing has a long way to go to catch up with the United States, which is estimated to have some 800 military bases around the world.