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For generations, as America's authoritarian rivals strutted their tanks, troops and jets through main thoroughfares in dramatic displays of strength, the United States watched from afar, but did not emulate. Widely accepted as the world's mightiest, the U.S. military has no tradition of putting itself on parade like in Russia, North Korea or China.
Carrefour ... . An employees of French retail giant Carrefour Group protests job cuts outside a Carrefour hypermarket, in Aix-en-Provence, southern France, Thursday Feb. 8, 2018.
This is a good piece by Adam Serwer. And what he's saying about the FBI is true of all of institutions, especially the media: Republicans, insulated from the potential backlash by the very "law and order" voters who put them in office, are willing to attack the FBI publicly as a covert political tool of Democrats in a way that the opposition party simply is not.
Missouri U.S. Senators Roy Blunt and Claire McCaskill today announced that their legislation passed the House yesterday and is headed to the president's desk. The legislation, S. 1438, which renames the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial as the Gateway Arch National Park.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service today projected net farm income to decrease $4.3 billion from 2017 to $59.5 billion in 2018, a 52 percent drop since 2013. National Farmers Union President Roger Johnson says the projection elevates the need for an increase in funding for farm programs: "The farm economy has been on a sharp decline for five years, and projections do not indicate we'll get much relief any time soon.
Amazon's entry into the world of filmmaking began in earnest less than three years ago, when the company announced in July 2015 that it had acquired Spike Lee's Chi-Raq to be the first "Amazon Original Movie." Quickly enough, Amazon Studios pursued a strategy of tapping established indie filmmakers who had risen to fame in the '80s and '90s to make their passion projects.
Senate leaders brokered a long-sought budget agreement Wednesday that would shower the Pentagon and domestic programs with an extra $300 billion over the next two years. But both Democratic liberals and GOP tea party forces swung against the plan, raising questions about its chances just a day before the latest government shutdown deadline.
Rep. Andy Harris thinks President Donald Trump's immigration framework goes too easy on undocumented immigrants. Appearing last week on a Baltimore radio program , he blasted Trump's proposed pathway to citizenship for Dreamers-undocumented immigrants who came to United States as children-as an "amnesty" plan.
Eric Holder, the only U.S. attorney general to be held in contempt of Congress, emerged from relative obscurity Wednesday night to denounce "spurious attacks" on the FBI and Justice Department. Holder, a close friend of his former boss, President Barack Obama, appeared on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow show Wednesday night, ostensibly to discuss his congressional redistricting project, but also to criticize the current president and attorney general for "discrediting" the FBI and Justice Department.
The exterior of the concrete foundation of Maggie and Vincent Perracchio's home continues to show serious signs of cracking and even collapsing. "This is getting worse and worse and worse," says Maggie about the crumbling concrete foundation.
Teacher's unions are hell bent on keeping the agency fees they collect from government workers whether they want to join the unions or not. "Later this month the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case of Janus v.
The U.S. go... . FILE - This April 15, 2017, file video image courtesy of KTVB-TV shows the remote area where skeletal remains were found in a badger hole north of Mountain Home, Idaho.
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has refused to pardon a U.S. Army veteran with a green card who faces deportation because of a 2008 drug conviction. Last month, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago rejected the argument by Miguel Perez Jr that his life would be in danger if he were deported to Mexico.
A group including Rep. Jimmy Dixon, Sen. Louis Pate and 916th Air Refueling Wing commander Col. Scovill Curran pose for a photo during a groundbreaking ceremony for the wing's new hangar Wednesday.
More specifically: The GOP-passed tax plan that led companies to announce bonuses that House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi dismissed as "crumbs" compared with "the bonus that corporate America received" may be popular enough that it can lessen the danger of Republicans being wiped out by a blue wave in this year's midterm elections. Near Cincinnati on Monday, President Donald Trump compared Pelosi's "crumbs" comment to Hillary Clinton referring to half of Trump's supporters as belonging in a "basket of deplorables" during the 2016 presidential election.
In the more than two months since Martinez's patrolled the West Texas desert for the last time, the FBI interviewed hundreds of people, combed through cellular data and analyzed DNA from the scene. Yet, authorities are still trying to determine how Martinez got injured and eventually died.
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In this file photo from January 2016, Rep. John Martin, D-Eagle Lake, speaks with House Minority Leader Ken Fredette, R-Newport, at the State House in Augusta. During his first term in office, Gov. Paul LePage became famous - or perhaps infamous, depending on your perspective - for his brash rhetoric and personal attacks, but in light of his success, the question becomes "Is it working?" There's no denying Maine's political discourse has become more uncivil.
This photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets, shows a civil defense worker carrying a wounded man after airstrikes hit a rebel-held suburb near Damascus, Syria, Monday, Fe... . This photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets, shows civilians standing near a body after airstrikes hit a rebel-held suburb near Damascus, Syria, Monday, Feb. 5, 2018.
In a ceremony held at Pilatus Business Aircraft Ltd in Broomfield, CO, the first production PC-24 twin jet was handed over to U.S. customer PlaneSense. The aircraft is the first of six PC-24s which PlaneSense has on order with Pilatus.