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6 [police] officers shot, 1 Killed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfDGwCB2FUw
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President Trump Just FIRED Steve Bannon as WH Chief Strategist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQw2r5jDPtQ
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Charlottesville: Is America Becoming the Middle East?
This post originally appeared at The Nation. Americans have been so entangled in the Middle East for the past few decades that they have begun interpreting their own politics in the terms of that region. Is driving a car into protesters an ISIL tactic? Is pulling down statues of Confederate generals like destroying ancient Assyrian…
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President Trump ‘considering his options’ on Afghanistan after Camp David meeting
WASHINGTON – President Trump will soon decide on a new strategy for the conflict in Afghanistan that could involve sending a few thousand more U.S. troops, the White House said Friday after a national security meeting at Camp David. “This afternoon the President was briefed extensively by his national security team on a new strategy…
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Opinion Trump and Israel Must Not Conflate North Korea Nuclear Threat With Iran
Deterring the proliferation of nuclear weapons is a noble goal – one that America and Israel ostensibly share. How to go about doing so is another story “How can dictatorships be deterred from developing operational nuclear arsenals?” This is a good question posed in an August 10 Haaretz op-ed about North Korea and its potential…
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Defiant Trump renews criticism of ‘both sides’ in protest
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump defiantly blamed “both sides” for the weekend violence between white supremacists and counter-demonstrators in Virginia, seeking to rebuff the widespread criticism of his handling of the emotionally-charged protests while showing sympathy for the fringe group’s efforts to preserve Confederate monuments. In doing so, Trump used the bullhorn of the…
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South Korea’s Leader Bluntly Warns U.S. Against Striking North
SEOUL, South Korea — With his public alarmed by President Trump’s recent threats to North Korea, President Moon Jae-in of South Korea issued an unusually blunt rebuke to the United States on Tuesday, warning that any unilateral military action against the North over its nuclear weapons program would be intolerable. “No one should be allowed…
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U.S. General and South Korean Leader Push for Diplomacy on North Korea
SEOUL, South Korea — Emphasizing diplomacy and sanctions over war, the top American general and South Korea’s president said on Monday that they hoped to avoid armed conflict with North Korea, as China vowed to enforce new United Nations penalties. The developments suggested that officials of the United States, South Korea and China are seeking…
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