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May 07 2024
Headline Roundup
Israeli Forces Gain Control of a Key Rafah Crossing
On Tuesday, an Israeli tank brigade entered and gained control of the Gaza Strip side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt.
Key Details: The action is a move forward with an Israeli offensive in Rafah while ceasefire negotiations are in flux with Hamas. Israel has insisted that the recent Egyptian-Qatari ceasefire proposal, which Hamas has accepted, does not meet its core demands.
Fox News Digital Associated Press Wall Street Journal (News)Mar 24 2015
News
Rick Perry: Hillary Unlikely to Win Because of 'All the Drama'
Former Texas Governor Rick Perry sounded an awful lot like a candidate for president as he questioned U.S. policies on energy, immigration and education at a Bloomberg-sponsored forum in Houston.
Perry also cited his blue-collar background and military service Tuesday, and said he could win Iowa and Pennsylvania's presidential nominating contests if he runs in what is expected to be a
Newsmax (News)Mar 22 2015
News
Obama Details His Disappointment With Netanyahu In First Post-Election Comments
President Barack Obama is operating under the assumption that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not support the creation of a Palestinian state, despite the Israeli leader's post-election efforts to recast himself as amenable to a two-state solution.
"We take him at his word when he said that it wouldn't happen during his prime ministership, and so that's why we've got to evaluate
HuffPostOct 07 2013
News
Obama Tells Federal Employees He'll "Keep Working With Congress" to Reach a Deal
In a letter sent to U.S. Government workers affected by the shutdown on October 1, President Obama told federal employees he will continue to work with Congress in order to get them back to work, thanked them for their service and blamed House Republicans for the government shutdown.
"To the dedicated and hard-working employees of the United States Government: The Federal Government is
TownhallDec 03 2019
News
Kansas in Middle East? How US has – and hasn’t – changed Afghanistan
The U.S. has spent more in Afghanistan than it did rebuilding Europe after World War II. The effort has produced a mixed record that will shape future nation-building efforts.
On a crisp early winter day in late 2003, Afghan President Hamid Karzai took a pair of scissors from a tray offered by a schoolgirl – she was dressed for the ceremonial occasion in a purple velvet brocade dress
Christian Science MonitorSep 24 2013
Opinion
Common Core: A Lesson Plan for Raising up Compliant, Non-thinking Citizens
- there are several methods for controlling a population. You can intimidate the citizenry into obedience through force, relying on military strength and weaponry such as SWAT team raids, militarized police, and a vast array of lethal and nonlethal weapons. You can manipulate them into marching in lockstep with your dictates through the use of propaganda and carefully timed fear tactics about
HuffPostJun 03 2019
News
Biden Declares LGBTQ Rights His No. 1 Legislative Priority
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden declared Saturday that the Equality Act would be his top legislative priority, an effort to enshrine LGBTQ protections into the nation’s labor and civil rights laws.
The former vice president shared his hopes of signing the legislation as part of a keynote address to hundreds of activists at the Human Rights Campaign’s annual Ohio gala on the
CBNMar 11 2019
News
Trump proposes $4.7 trillion budget with domestic cuts, $8.6 billion in new funding for border wall
President Trump is releasing a $4.7 trillion budget plan Monday that stands as a sharp challenge to Congress and the Democrats trying to unseat him, the first act in a multi-front struggle that could consume Washington for the next 18 months.
The budget proposal dramatically raises the possibility of another government shutdown in October, and Trump used to the budget to notify Congress
Washington PostFeb 06 2013
News
Veterans groups praise Vietnam combat vet Hagel, add pressure for Senate GOP over defense pick
Countering the Republican-led opposition to President Barack Obama's nominee for defense secretary is a less flashy but powerful constituency: military veterans. Veterans' organizations have praised Chuck Hagel, a twice-wounded combat veteran of Vietnam and deputy administrator in President Ronald Reagan's Veterans Administration. The Veterans of Foreign Wars
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Associated PressSep 16 2013
News
'Multiple' deaths in Navy Yard shooting rampage; suspects may be on loose
One suspect is dead after a shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, but two others may be on the loose, the D.C. police chief said Monday. "The big concern for us right now is that we potentially have two other shooters that we have not located at this point," Washington Police Chief Cathy Lanier told reporters. Multiple people were killed in the shooting rampage, Lanier said, which sent police
CNN (Online News)