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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.
Washington, Nov 26 - Presidential hopeful Jill Stein's fund-raising push to pay for recounts in three rust-belt states that were crucial to Donald Trump's surprise victory over Hillary Clinton in the November 8 election has already exceeded its original target, the Green Party said on Friday. After initially asking for $2.5 million, the recount effort has so far collected more than $4 million, EFE news agency quoted Stein's campaign website as saying.
One of the more salutary outcomes of the recent election is that Democrats are finally beginning to question the wisdom of basing their fortunes on identity politics. Having counted on the allegiance of African-Americans, Hispanics, gays, unmarried women and the young - and winning the popular vote all but once since 1992 - they were seduced into believing that they could ride this "coalition of the ascendant" into permanent command of the presidency.
"She symbolises the generation of unsung women who helped send humankind into space," Obama said. "Her software architecture echoes in countless technologies today."
An Ohio man who plotted to attack the U.S. Capitol during President Barack Obama's 2015 State of the Union address kept trying from behind bars to urge others to violence in support of the Islamic State group, federal authorities say. Prosecutors described 22-year-old Christopher Lee Cornell's jail activities in a sentencing memorandum filed this week ahead of a Dec. 5 sentencing hearing.
It appears turnout in Northeast Mississippi, like that of the rest of the state, was strong for the Nov. 8 election, but not at record levels. The certified election results from the 82 counties recently were submitted to Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann who oversees state elections.
Perhaps we should be thankful this week for Donald Trump's insincerity. In a breathtaking fortnight of flip-flopping, he has reversed many of his most reckless and damaging campaign positions.
One of the more salutary outcomes of the recent election is that Democrats are finally beginning to question the wisdom of basing their fortunes on identity politics. Having counted on the allegiance of African-Americans, Hispanics, gays, unmarried women and the young - and winning the popular vote all but once since 1992 - they were seduced into believing that they could ride this "coalition of the ascendant" into permanent command of the presidency.
American prisons offer inmates few choices and constant reminders that they are behind bars. That's not the case for many prisons in Norway, Germany and other European countries, where correctional officers... American prisons offer inmates few choices and constant reminders that they are behind bars.
Canada's pipeline gridlock is harming its global reputation as an attractive place to invest in oil and gas projects, says a leading industry group. Tim McMillan, CEO of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, said Donald Trump's election in the United States adds pressure to Canada to clear regulatory hurdles blocking new projects.
A Wayne State University police officer has died a day after he was shot in the head while on patrol near the campus. Charges could be announced Friday against a suspect being held in the fatal shooting this week of a Wayne State University police officer in Detroit.
Civil defense officials in Panama say the country... . Workers cut a tree that fell and killed a boy outside a school in Panama City, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016.
In many families, including mine, the raw emotions stemming from the 2016 election are likely to create some awkwardness at this week's Thanksgiving get-togethers. Keeping the conversation away from politics seems like a worthy, though difficult, goal.
A shocking resurgence in anti-Islamic hate crimes last year saw assaults against Muslims increasing to the highest levels seen since 2001, a report has revealed. The number of anti-Muslim intimidation crimes, in which people are threatened with bodily harm, also reached its highest level since the 9/11 attacks occurred.
Sanford and his colleagues anticipat... A giant Charlie Brown balloon will join 1,000 clowns and a dozen marching bands along a parade route lined with spectators and police in plainclothes for the 90th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
The U.N. Special Envoy for Syria on Thursday said U.S. President Barack Obama could well keep working until his last day in office to end the war in Syria, and Russia did not want to be held responsible for the demolition of eastern Aleppo. "I would never underestimate an outgoing U.S. president as a lame duck," Staffan de Mistura said in an interview published on Friday in Germany's Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper.
Tehran has taken nearly full control over Baghdad thanks to the Obama Middle East Doctrine , blueprinted to deliver a series of incentives to Iran aimed at preventing the mullahs from walking away from the already flawed nuclear deal . One victim of such a failed policy has been the country of Iraq, as Iran gained enormous influence over it under President Barack Obama's watch.
Many on the left have taken Donald Trump's surprise victory poorly, responding with considerable hand-wringing and emotional outbursts. Instead of simply focusing on the many evils that they anticipate will take place under President Trump, they would do well to look in the mirror and recognize that there would be far less cause for concern had they not spent the past eight years cheering on the expansion of executive power under President Barack Obama.
President-elect Donald Trump has received two classified intelligence briefings since his surprise election victory earlier this month, a frequency that is notably lower - at least so far - than that of his predecessors, current and former U.S. officials said. A team of intelligence analysts has been prepared to deliver daily briefings on global developments and security threats to Trump in the two weeks since he won.