Las Vegas: Mass casualties in Mandalay Bay shooting
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Last Vegas strip shooting: More than 20 dead, 100 injured after gunman opens fire near Mandalay Bay casino
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More than 20 people were killed and 100 injured in a horrific shooting near the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas Sunday night, police said. The “nonstop gunfire,” according to one witness, sent bystanders outside the resort on … Read More
N Korea media warns of ‘nuclear clouds’ over Japan
BEIJING North Korea’s official media on Monday decried Japan’s call for pressuring Pyongyang into giving up its nuclear and missile programs, calling its neighbor’s tactic a “suicidal deed” that will bring “nuclear clouds” to the country. A commentary released by … Read More
Trump foreign policy pronouncements split the Republican Party
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President Donald Trump stops to talk with reporters and members of the media as he walks from the Oval Office across the South lawn to board Marine One at the White House in Washington, DC on Friday, Sept 29, 2017. … Read More
Russia giving cover to Iran could doom nuclear deal as Trump considers whether to certify
Some European leaders vow to stand by Iran nuclear deal President Trump slams the agreement at the United Nations, calls it ‘the worst’ As President Donald Trump considers whether to certify to Congress the controversial 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, … Read More
EU looks away as Catalan crisis unfolds
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So where the cries of outrage? Where the statements of condemnation, the tweets of shock at the violence meted out on the voters of Catalonia at the hands of the Spanish police? In Europe’s capitals there has been an echoing … Read More
Same-Sex Couples Wed in Germany as Marriage Law Takes Effect
Bode Mende, center right, and Karl Kreile, center left, took their marriage vows in Berlin on Sunday.Credit Odd Andersen/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images BERLIN — Cheers rang out in the City Hall of Berlin’s Schöneberg district on Sunday as two men, … Read More
Sen. Marco Rubio One-on-One in Face the Nation on Puerto Rico Crisis
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Marco Rubio: Response to Hurricane Maria slowed because Puerto Rico distribution infrastructure destroyed
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Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said the federal government’s response to the devastation in Puerto Rico caused by Hurricane Maria was slow because the typical method of responding to natural disasters was itself a casualty of the storm. “They responded to … Read More
Netanyahu Blasts ‘Failing European Economies’ During Cabinet Meeting
PM blames career bureaucrats for woes of Europe in order to justify bill that would allow ministers to appoint cronies to carry out their agenda. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has justified a bill that would increase the scope of personal … Read More