Category Archives: Headlines

White House hits back at Dem criticism over Trump visit with Mexican president: ‘It’s really a shame’ 

A senior Trump administration official said that President Trump’s upcoming visit from Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will help build on the leaders’ relationship — while pushing back against criticism from Democrats over the meeting.

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This Time It’s A Melania Trump Aide Planning A Tell-All About Her Rocky White House Tenure 

Stephanie Winston Wolkoff will discuss her 15-year friendship with the first lady—but reportedly not in a positive light.

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Mississippi board votes ‘no’ on moving Confederate monument 

Officials in a Mississippi county unanimously voted to keep a Confederate monument where it stands because moving the statue wouldn’t fix racial tensions

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US ‘running out of time’ to control COVID-19 crisis 

With few federal guidelines, states have been left to make their own rules for reopening, but in many places that reopened early, cases continue to shoot.

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Siberian Arctic sees record average temperatures 

The heat in June helped fan wildfires and released 59m tonnes of carbon dioxide, scientists say.

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Reopening N.Y.C. Schools Safely: A Huge Challenge 

The plan now emerging could have an enormous impact because the local economy may not fully recover until working parents can send children to school.

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Russian billionaire offers to buy two statues BLM protesters want removed from US cities 

Businessman Andrey Filatov, 48, who runs the Art Russe Foundation – focusing on the preservation of soviet-era art – has made an offer for two statues US officials backed for removal.

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New York, Connecticut, New Jersey add 3 more states to mandatory quarantine restriction list 

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont, and New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Tuesday announced that individuals traveling to their states from Delaware, Kansas and Oklahoma will be required to quarantine for 14 days — after the three states experienced a recent surge in coronavirus cases.

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Ennio Morricone, The Sound Of The American West, Dies At 91 

The iconic Italian composer, who scored The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and more than 500 other films, died Monday in Rome.

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Chechen exiles are being hunted down. Often, the trail leads back to Russia. 

A blogger gunned down Saturday in Austria was the latest victim. Russia denied charges of involvement in the wave of killings.

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China detains Xu Zhangrun, leading critic of President Xi 

The professor’s arrest comes at a time when the Communist Party is forcefully reasserting itself domestically as well as globally.

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Live Coronavirus Updates: Federal Workers in the U.S. Return to Offices 

The move could jeopardize progress in one of the few regions where the virus is declining: Washington. New data shows the pandemic’s disproportionate effect on Blacks and Latinos in the United States.

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Preserving Buddhist treasures in Afghanistan 

Historians at the University of Chicago and teachers in Afghanistan are working to save artefacts.

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Coronavirus updates: Scientists call on WHO to recognize airborne threat; India’s cases surpass Russia’s 

The coronavirus has infected more than 11.47 million people around the world as of Monday, killing at least 534,784 people.

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Death of triathlete Choi Suk-hyeon sparks a reckoning in South Korea 

The young athlete had endured what she and others indicated was years of physical and verbal abuse from coaching staff.

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