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The United States will contribute nearly $32 million in humanitarian aid to help Rohingya Muslim refugees, the State Department said Wednesday, in the Trump administration's first major response to the mass exodus from Myanmar. The new money for food, medical care, water, sanitation and shelter comes as the U.S. joins a growing chorus of international condemnation over the minority group's plight.
Under normal circumstances, the sailors aboard the USS Kearsarge would be training for their primary job - putting Marines ashore in an amphibious operation to attack a target, and support them until the mission's done. But it's not normal circumstances that brought the USS Kearsarge and the other ships of the U.S. Navy's Expeditionary Strike Group 2 - otherwise known as ESG-2 - to the waters of the U.S. Virgin Islands.
New research has shown that there's a wide variation in the risk that unmanned aircraft, or drones, pose to people on the ground. The study involved collecting drone impact data from test dummies whose head and neck contained sensors to measure acceleration and force.
This post appears in Draining The Swamp , part of our ongoing series Broken Promises , a project to track the campaign promises of Donald Trump and if they hold true. The guy responsible for the "new" Rick Perry with Clark Kent glasses and fewer mind-altering drugs, goes by the name of Jeff Miller.
Baby boomers elected Donald Trump. Not all of them, of course. Trump won convincingly among voters 45 and older - the bulk of whom are boomers - and lost convincingly among voters 44 and under, according to the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University.
The Nation is reader supported: Chip in $10 or more to help us continue to write about the issues that matter. The gender pay gap doesn't just reflect men's dominance in the workplace, it parallels a hidden oppression in the home.
Jack Moore, GQ: Democrats, facing down the prospect of no healthcare for millions, agreed to make some concessions in exchange for a bipartisan process to fix aspects of the Affordable Care Act. This, according to a Chuck Schumer spokesperson, included giving Republicans the so-called "copper plans" that they've been wanting as well as "wide waiver authority," or basically a loophole that would allow states to opt out of certain Obamacare regulations.
"The Barbarian cannot make ... he can befog and destroy but ... he cannot sustain; and of every Barbarian in the decline or peril of every civilization exactly that has been true." Hilaire Belloc's depiction of the barbarian is recalled to mind as the statues honoring the history and heroes of the Republic and of the West continue to be vandalized and smashed.
's new show "Items: Is Fashion Modern?," John Edmonds photographed his friends in clothes the museum has deemed among the past century's most indispensable. 's new show "Items: Is Fashion Modern?," John Edmonds photographed his friends in clothes the museum has deemed among the past century's most indispensable.
The Arizona Supreme Court unanimously ruled Tuesday that same-sex couples have the same parental rights as parents in opposite-sex relationships - including financial support and child custody. Under Arizona law, there's a statute creating a "presumption of paternity" for men in opposite-sex marriages.
Sen. Deb Fischer said Wednesday that she likes the idea of giving states more authority in building health insurance models in their states. "I think it's a great model that the senators have come up with," Ms.
Time growing short, President Donald Trump and Republican Senate leaders dove into a frantic hunt for votes Tuesday in a last-ditch effort to repeal and replace "Obamacare." The pressure was intense, the outcome uncertain in a Capitol newly engulfed in drama over health care.
19, 2017 in Washington. Astronomers are using an array of giant antennas in the New Mexico desert for a years-long project aimed at producing the sharpest view ever of such a large portion of the sky using radio waves.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is considering issuing subpoenas to President Donald Trump 's former campaign chairman and two FBI officials close to fired director James Comey as part of the panel's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election s. It would be the second time the panel has subpoenaed Paul Manafort , Trump's former campaign chairman.
Rep. Gordon Hintz was elected by members Tuesday at the Capitol, with no other candidates seeking the position. Following the vote, the Oshkosh Democrat said it will be an honor to lead the caucus moving forward.
Wyoming's congressional delegation should work to find a bipartisan solution to the rift over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, using the legislation as a starting point for immigration reform. In its five years DACA has served roughly 800,000 young Latino adults, most of them brought to the U.S. as children by their parents.
David Greene talks with Michele Flournoy, a former Pentagon official in the Obama administration, about President Trump's speech at the United Nations about what a Trump foreign policy entails.
On Wednesday night, Jimmy Kimmel laced into Republican Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana for proposing new health care legislation that Kimmel said fails the "Jimmy Kimmel" test Cassidy himself had proposed in an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last May. Cassidy appeared on the program after Kimmel had made an emotional plea for health care legislation in the wake of his newborn son's need for life-saving heart surgery. But, Kimmel said, with new legislation that Cassidy and co-sponsor Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., have proposed, "Not only did Bill Cassidy fail the Jimmy Kimmel Test, he failed the Bill Cassidy Test."
Hillary Clinton stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday night to promote her book, What Happened , about the 2016 presidential election. The major topic of conversation, no surprise, turned out to be Russian meddling in the campaign - just one of the many factors on which Clinton blames her electoral defeat at the hands of President Donald Trump.
A scheduled private meeting between President Donald Trump's personal lawyer and Senate committee staff was abruptly canceled on Tuesday amid a dispute over a public statement he issued before the meeting. Senate intelligence committee leaders said they called off the closed-door staff meeting after Michael Cohen sent a public statement to the media just as the interview was about to start.