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Aug 27 2013
News
Hagel: 'We're ready to go' if ordered on Syria chemical weapons
With a flurry of diplomatic signals and activity, U.S. officials sought Tuesday to lay the groundwork for a possible military strike on Syria in response to last week's suspected chemical weapons attack that Washington blames on President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
CNN (Online News)
Jan 23 2015
News
Saudi King Abdullah Dead at Age of 90
Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah, the powerful U.S. ally who joined Washington’s fight against al-Qaida and sought to modernize the ultraconservative Muslim kingdom with incremental but significant reforms, including nudging open greater opportunities for women, has died, according to Saudi state TV. He was 90.
The Blaze
Mar 19 2015
Opinion
Another Red Line? Reports Indicate Syria Used Chemical Weapons in Attack
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is brazenly challenging the latest U.S.-led effort to stop him from using chemical weapons and the Barack Obama administration has yet to say if it will do anything about it.Two weeks ago the U.S. got the United Nations Security Council to...
Newsmax (News)
Aug 06 2013
News
State Dept. Orders Evacuation Of Embassy In Yemen
The State Department on Tuesday ordered non-essential personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Yemen to leave the country following the threat by al-Qaida that has triggered temporary shutdowns of 19 American diplomatic posts across the Middle East and Africa.
HuffPost
Aug 06 2014
News
Civilian or Not? New Fight in Tallying the Dead From the Gaza Conflict
Inside the Health Sciences Library at Al-Shifa Hospital here, a small team spent the war crunching numbers. Stuck to their laptops were a statistician, a graphic designer, a data-entry specialist and an issuer of death certificates, some of whom spent nights sleeping in their straight-backed chairs.
New York Times (News)
Sep 09 2013
News
Kerry says Assad could prevent U.S. action by handing over chemical weapons
Secretary of State John Kerry said the regime of President Bashar al-Assad could prevent possible U.S. military action by handing over its chemical weapons, as President Barack Obama mounts an intensive campaign to promote a strike on Syria.
Wall Street Journal (News)
Apr 06 2019
News
Ocasio-Cortez slammed as 'financially illiterate' at Sharpton event over Amazon, faces calls to be ousted from office
Hours before Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called for an “agenda of reparations” at an Al Sharpton-sponsored event in New York on Friday, she was slammed as “financially illiterate” at the same conference for killing the Amazon deal with the state. Ocasio-Cortez spoke to the crowd at the National Action Network, saying her Green New Deal will consider reparations to black Americans for slavery in
Fox News (Online News)
Oct 24 2012
News
WHY IT MATTERS: Terrorism
Osama bin Laden is dead and there hasn't been a successful attack by al-Qaida-inspired extremists on U.S. soil since the deadly shooting rampage in Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009. But the danger of terrorism remains a reality for Americans.
Associated Press
Sep 03 2020
News
NewsBusters Podcast with Tim Graham: COVID Double Standards Outside in Washington D.C.
In the latest edition of the NewsBusters podcast, Executive Editor Tim Graham tackles the dramatic double standard in comparing President Trump's big convention speech on the south lawn of the White House, compared to a large leftist anti-police protest in Washington the very next afternoon.
The Friday night newscasts audaciously portrayed Trump's speech as a "super spreader event" --
NewsBusters
Sep 29 2014
News
Obama: 'Contradictory' Syria Policy Helps Assad
President Barack Obama on Sunday gave voice to the conundrum at the heart of his Syria policy, acknowledging that the U.S.-led military campaign against the Islamic State group and al-Qaida's affiliate in Syria is helping Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, a man the United Nations has accused of war crimes.
ABC News (Online)