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The United States and Israel are publicly brushing aside President Donald Trump's reported sharing of a highly classified tip from Israel with Russia, but spy professionals on both sides are frustrated and fearful about the repercussions to a critical intelligence partnership. "I know how things work in Israeli intelligence," said Uri Bar-Joseph, a professor at Haifa University in Israel who has studied and written widely about the Jewish state's spy operations.
President Donald Trump said Thursday that he is "very close" to naming a new FBI director to replace the one he fired more than a week ago. During an Oval Office appearance with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, Trump was also asked whether former Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman was a top candidate for the job.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday interviewed four potential candidates to lead the FBI, including former Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, former Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating and Andrew McCabe, currently the bureau's acting director. White House press secretary said Trump would also meet with Richard McFeely, a former top FBI official, in addition to the three other candidates.
Since Adam's fall in Eden, we humans find it easy to fall for lies. Especially in the absence of a moral filter, which helps us differentiate between and navigate around what is right and wrong.
It may come as a surprise but electronic voting is not the prevailing choice among the world's democracies, though most forward-looking nations are aspiring to go electronic for casting ballot. Today, only about a two dozen nations have adopted electronic voting.
Paris Hilton attends the 24th Annual Race to Erase MS Gala at the Beverly Hilton on Friday, May 5, 2017, in Beverly Hills, Calif. When he was running for president in 1999, Al Gore made the unforgettable claim in a CNN interview that he had, in fact, invented the internet.
To my mind it speaks truth. More significantly, it demonstrates a quality of character to which the man who fired him, Donald Trump , can never aspire.
This May 23, 2016, file photo, shows the northernmost boundary of the proposed Bears Ears region, along the Colorado River, in southeastern Utah. The re-evaluation of the new Bears Ears National Monument and the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is part of President Donald Trump's executive order calling for a review of 27 national monuments established by several former presidents.
It's a warm spring night and Green party Leader Andrew Weaver is standing in the middle of a paved road on a Vancouver Island First Nation talking about vote splitting in British Columbia's election. Traffic has stopped and the more than 50 people gathered around Weaver want to know the value of a Green vote when the Liberals and New Democrats dominate the province's politics.
Education: Bachelor of science in mathematics and physics from the University of Victoria in 1983, a masters in advanced studies in mathematics from Cambridge University in 1984, and a PhD in applied mathematics from the University of British Columbia in 1987. Academic career: Weaver was a lead author on four scientific assessments by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the body that shared a Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore in 2007.
The meeting will take place just hours before a larger White House meeting about the fate of the US' participation in the global environmental pact, Axios reported. Pruitt has repeatedly called for the US to exit the Paris agreement, calling it "a bad deal for this country."
Thousands of people who support action on climate change are expected to brave the sweltering heat Saturday and march through the nation's capital as part of the People's Climate March. With temperatures expected to hit 90 degrees, the march is set to begin at 12:30 p.m. near the Capitol.
In theory, two intelligent people who disagree on something, should be able to discuss the matter and resolve the issue. In practice, I have found this not to be the case.
It's April, but to liberals it's March. They've had the March for Science. Now we get the March for Climate, which is virtually identical to its predecessor.
During the TED 2017 conference in Vancouver, Canada, Al Gore came onstage for a surprise question-and-answer session with TED curator Chris Anderson. think there is a better than 50/50 chance that the Trump administration will decide to stay in the Paris Agreement.
Former President Barack Obama made his first public remarks since leaving the White House wearing a white shirt, dark suit jacket and, noticeably, no tie. "So uh what's been going on while I've been gone?" he joked on Monday at the University of Chicago while taking his seat, a reference to both his public absence and his successor.
Calls from US President Donald Trump to roll back environmental regulations and slash funding for health, environmental and research agencies have raised alarm in the scientific community. Earlier this year, a commenter on the social-media website Reddit made an off-hand remark about the need for scientists to march on Washington DC.
Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's senior adviser and son-in-law, listens during a meeting with small business leaders at the White House on Jan. 30. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Jabin Botsford Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's senior adviser and son-in-law, listens during a meeting with small business leaders at the White House on Jan. 30. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Jabin Botsford Vice President Al Gore during interview with reporters in 1997 at his White House desk using his personal computer and talking about all the 'goodies' he has on it. Vice President Al Gore during interview with reporters in 1997 at his White House desk using his personal computer and talking about all the 'goodies' he has on it.
It took off around the world in 2008 and 2009, everywhere but the USA where the trolls promised to turn on extra lights and even highjacked the website address. The professional deniers went on about how we environmentalists want to squat in our mud huts in the dark.
Within this role she handles community issues and outreach. 2.) She pressured President Trump to hire African American entertainers for the inauguration despite his reluctance because 'black people didn't support his campaign'.