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Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko discusses progress on receiving the next tranche of cash from the IMF, efforts against corruption, and his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday. He speaks with Bloomberg's Francine Lacqua from the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
Henry Kissinger came to the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday to bestow his advice on a raft of global security threats, but he began his testimony with a story about the committee's absent chairman, Sen. John McCain, who was in Arizona battling brain cancer. The 94-year-old former secretary of state said he was in Vietnam in 1973 when McCain was released by the North after more than five years as a prisoner of war.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, in 2016 did not spare former President Mahama the 'jabs' following the decision by the previous NDC administration to admit the two Guantanamo Bay detainees. Nana Akufo-Addo who was then presidential candidate for the ruling NPP, lambasted President Mahama for failing to inform Parliament before resettling the two former Guantanamo Bay detainees.
FILE - In this Nov. 21, 2017 file photo, Alaska Gov. Bill Walker speaks to reporters, at his office in Anchorage, Alaska. Walker is a former Republican turned political independent and a role model for the quixotic movem... .
Aberdeen-based Sentinel Marine has been awarded a contract to provide a patrol vessel to be chartered by the European Fisheries Control Agency in international and EU waters. Lundy Sentinel is one of the firm's growing fleet of new built multi-role emergency response and rescue vessels .
The U.S. Coast Guard will offload more than 47,000 pounds of cocaine worth over $721 million Thursday at 9:30 a.m., which was seized in 23 separate interdictions in the eastern Pacific Ocean by U.S. and Canadian forces operating in international waters off the coast of Central and South America. Senior U.S. and Canadian officials will be at the offload to discuss new tactics used by transnational organized crime groups and to highlight international cooperation in combating the threat posed by these dangerous groups.
Dennis Kucinich promised a “major announcement” today in Columbus, and he delivered a promised moratorium on fracking and outright ban on injection wells if he is elected Ohio governor. Kucinich told reporters his goal is to eliminate all oil and gas drilling – not just fracking – in Ohio by the end of his four-year term.
Republicans again will occupy all seven seats on the Ohio Supreme Court with Gov. John Kasich's appointment of a justice to fill the unexpired term of the departing William M. O'Neill. Kasich, a second-term Republican, announced Thursday that Mary DeGenaro, a judge on the Youngstown-based Seventh District Court of Appeals, will fill O'Neill's unexpired term through Jan. 1. The choice of DeGenaro was politically predictable since she has been endorsed by the Ohio Republican Party and her appointment will allow her to run as a seated justice.
Former New York Mayor-turned anti-oil activist Michael Bloomberg has yet to render a judgement about his successor's highly-publicized climate change lawsuit against oil companies. Bloomberg refuses to address the controversy, while other prominent activists take a skeptical approach toward the pursuit against Exxon Mobil and other companies criticized for producing emissions some argue contributes to global warming "Fundamentally, solving the climate problem is about looking to the future, not the past," Jason Grumet, president of the Bipartisan Policy Center, told Axios in an interview Thursday.
Hoosiers apparently liked their two U.S. senators less at the end of 2017 than they did at the beginning of the year, according to a national pollster.
The state worker who inadvertently sent the false missile alert to all Hawaii phones is not cooperating with federal or state investigators, authorities said Thursday. "We are quite pleased with the level of cooperation we have received from the leadership of the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency thus far," Lisa Fowlkes, chief of the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau at the FCC, said Thursday at a Congressional hearing.
Immigrant supporters protest during the Los Angeles City Council ad hoc committee on immigration meeting to discuss the city's response to threats by the Trump administration to cut funding from Los Angeles and other jurisdictions which federal officials say are providing sanctuary to illegal immigrants arrested for crimes, in Los Angeles on March ... (more)
President Donald Trump told reporters on Wednesday that he's "looking forward" to being interviewed by special counsel Robert Mueller, who's investigating Russia's interference in the election. Trump said the interview could take place in the next two or three weeks and repeatedly denied any collusion with Russia.
AMID the Twitter boasts of us President Donald J. Trump and the defiant posturings and stance of Democrats, the world's perceived most powerful country has indeed technically shut down its operations on Saturday midnight, January 20, 2018. Meaning, funding for its civil service, national security and federal agencies ran out and all activities were stopped, including the more than 850,000 workers who were told to stay home and remain unpaid.
Take Trump's assault on the FBI's integrity and conspiracy-mongering about a plot to ignore Hillary Clinton's misdeeds and focus instead on his. This, it turns out, is reportedly part and parcel of a strategy to smear the FBI and bend it to Trump's will.
Amazon has begun briefing officials in Chicago and 19 other cities in the running for the company's HQ2 second headquarters on the next phase of the process, after announcing the 20 contenders last week. Amazon has begun briefing officials in Chicago and 19 other cities in the running for the company's HQ2 second headquarters on the next phase of the process, after announcing the 20 contenders last week.
Built in 1925, the neo-Gothic Tribune Tower was designed by New York architects Raymond Hood and John Mead Howells, who won a contest held by Tribune co-publishers Robert R. McCormick and Joseph Patterson to create the newspaper's new HQ. It was named a Chicago landmark in 1989.
Nunes Duels the Deep State By Patrick J. Buchanan Tuesday - February 6, 2018 That memo worked up in the Intel Committee of Chairman Devin Nunes may not have sunk the Mueller investigation, but from the sound of the secondary explosions, this torpedo was no dud. The critical charge: To persuade a FISA court to issue a warrant to spy on Trump aide Carter Page, the FBI relied on a dossier produced by a Trump-hating British spy, who was using old Kremlin contacts, while being paid to dig up dirt on Donald Trump by Hillary Clinton's campaign.
Pressure group, OccupyGhana, is asking President Nana Akufo-Addo to repatriate the two Guantanamo Bay detainees because the New Patriotic Party kicked against their stay in Ghana when it was in opposition. According to a member of the Occupy Ghana, Nana Sarpong Agyemang Badu, although the previous administration granted the two former terror suspects refugee status, the current government must show them the exit.
There seems to be some confusion about what the Women's March is fighting for. As best as I remember, women's reproductive rights were guaranteed in 1973.