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According to sources close to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, next year will be Egypt's year par excellence. They say Egypt will be the only Arab country that will have strategic quasi-alliances with both Putin's Russia and Trump's America.
U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl leaves a courthouse after an arraignment hearing for his court-martial in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in December 2015. A U.S. Army sergeant charged with desertion for leaving his combat post in Afghanistan in 2009 has asked President Barack Obama for a pardon.
Iranian President Hassan Rohani has urged U.S. President Barack Obama not to sign a 10-year extension of U.S. sanctions approved unanimously by the U.S. Senate. In a speech to Iran's parliament on December 4, Rohani said the bill violates a landmark nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers.
Hillary Clinton's loss in the presidential race and Democratic failures further down the ballot have the party searching for a way forward. Democrats are clear-eyed about the size of the hole they're in.
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Sunday he was confident a refugee resettlement deal with the United States would go ahead, despite White House comments which seemed to cast doubt about its future under a Trump Administration. White House deputy spokesman Eric Schultz told reporters the deal to resettle in the U.S refugees currently held at Australian-funded offshore processing centres was reached with President Barack Obama, and it was the prerogative of each president to set policies.
The day after the presidential election, I stood in front of a class of foreign graduate students who had come to the United States to study U.S. and international law, trying to reassure them that they were not in danger of being deported. "You are all here legally on student visas," I reminded them.
HARRISBURG, Pa. - The Latest on the Green Party's effort to force a statewide recount of the Nov. 8 presidential election in Pennsylvania: : The Green Party says it's switching strategy in its bid to force a statewide recount of Pennsylvania's Nov. 8 presidential election, won by Republican Donald Trump.
In Rep. Jim Renacci's latest online "Week in Review", he continued to bash Hillary Clinton, who, as you may have heard, "lost" the election. The Wadsworth Republican, a strong supporter of Donald Trump.
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A new poll conducted for CTV News suggests about two in three Canadians are on board with Donald Trump's proposal to approve the Keystone XL pipeline and the same proportion agree with the president-elect that Canada should contribute its "fair share" to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization . At the same time, the Nanos Research poll found strong support for the North America Free Trade Agreement that Trump has vowed to scrap or re-negotiate, and little appetite for the idea of Canada making special provisions for illegal immigrants he deports.
California authorities say a fire has broken out at an Oakland warehouse where people were having a party and police say there are "casualties." Firefighters struggled to get to bodies in the rubble Saturday after a fire tore through a converted Oakland warehouse during a late-night electronic music party, killing at least 9 people and making the charred structure... The warehouse gutted by a blaze that killed at least nine people was home to musicians, painters, woodworkers, dancers and other artists who came together to make art and hold dance performances and parties.
Have you heard the news that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote? Unless you live under a rock you likely have stumbled across a barista or aspiring novelist mumbling something about how the Electoral College is unfair and undemocratic and how electors should follow "the will of the people" and vote for Hillary on Dec. 19. Because "democracy!" or something. What too many of these uneducated and unshowered drum circlers don't know, or don't care to know, is the popular vote is a meaningless unit of measure.
Housing of Representatives Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi may well be patting herself on the back this past week. In the process, she should be looking over her shoulder.
The Green Party is dropping its court case seeking a recount of Pennsylvania's ballots in the Nov. 8 presidential election. It had wanted to explore whether voting machines and systems had been hacked and the election result manipulated.
President-elect Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during a "USA Thank You" tour event on Dec. 1, 2016, in Cincinnati. President-elect Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during a "USA Thank You" tour event on Dec. 1, 2016, in Cincinnati.
Speaker of the House Rep. Paul Ryan speaks during a weekly news briefing December 1, 2016 at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. During the briefing, Ryan repeated comments indicating that changes to Medicare would have to accompany any effort to repeal and replace President Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Speaker of the House Rep. Paul Ryan speaks during a weekly news briefing December 1, 2016 at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. During the briefing, Ryan repeated comments indicating that changes to Medicare would have to accompany any effort to repeal and replace President Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
For a brief time this week, Alvin Crockett posted an angry handwritten letter to a political critic on the Trump campaign sign he put outside his scooter shop in Key West, Fla. President Barack Obama's Fayetteville, N.C. rally for Hillary Clinton grew rowdy when an elderly Trump supporter started protesting during the president's speech.
Media mogul Haim Saban, who was among Hillary Clinton's largest campaign donors, made clear Friday that he doesn't want to see Rep. Keith Ellison as the next chair of the Democratic National Committee. "He is clearly an anti-Semite, anti-Israel individual," Saban lashed out at Ellison, warning Democrats that choosing the Minnesota congressman, who is the first Muslim elected to Congress, would be "a disaster for the relationship between the Jewish community and the Democratic Party."
An anonymous reader quotes the Washington Post: Congressional negotiators on Wednesday approved an initiative to track and combat foreign propaganda amid growing concerns that Russian efforts to spread "fake news" and disinformation threaten U.S. national security. The measure, part of the National Defense Authorization Act approved by a conference committee, calls on the State Department to lead government-wide efforts to identify propaganda and counter its effects.