Thursday, April 18, 2024

Politics

Buchenwald Concentration Camp Becomes Center Of Winter Sports, Director Criticizes ‘Disrespectful’ Visitors

NEW YORK (VINnews) — The German authorities in charge of former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald have demanded that visitors to the site demonstrate respect for all those buried ...

Gen. Milley Key To Military Continuity As Biden Takes Office

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WASHINGTON (AP) — In taking charge of a Pentagon battered by leadership churn, the Biden administration will look to one holdover as a source of military continuity: Gen. Mark Mill...

Democrat Fund Group ActBlue Serves As Platform For Donations To Illegal Palestinian Terrorist Groups

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NEW YORK (VINnews) — A report by the One America news network claims that the Democratic fundraising group ActBlue serves as a front for terrorist groups seeking to raise funds in ...

Inauguration Day Also Is Move In/Out Day At The White House

WASHINGTON (AP) — Moving from house to house is challenging under the best of circumstances, and even with movers as first rate as the housekeepers and other staff who work in the ...

Trump Gives Award To Morocco’s King In Private Ceremony

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has awarded a top U.S. honor to King Mohammed VI of Morocco, citing his decision to begin normalization of relations with Israel. The Le...

Federal Prisons On Lockdown In Run-Up To Biden Inauguration

NEW YORK (AP) — All federal prisons in the United States have been placed on lockdown, with officials aiming to quell any potential violence that could arise behind bars as law enf...

Some In The GOP Parrot Far-Right Talk Of A Coming Civil War

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — War-like imagery has begun spreading in Republican circles after the attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of President Donald Trump's supporters, with some e...

Biden Outlines ‘Day One’ Agenda Of Executive Actions

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WASHINGTON (AP) — In his first hours as president, Joe Biden plans to take executive action to roll back some of the most controversial decisions of his predecessor and to address ...

Missouri Woman Seen With Pelosi Sign Charged In DC Riot

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A Missouri woman has been charged with taking a splintered name plate belonging to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during the riot at the U.S. Capitol. Emily Hernan...

Pence Calls VP-Elect Kamala Harris To Offer Congratulations

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence has called his soon-to-be successor Kamala Harris to offer his congratulations, according to two people familiar with the conversation. ...

Guard Troops Pour Into Washington As States Answer The Call

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WASHINGTON (AP) — By the busload and planeload, National Guard troops were pouring into the nation's capital on Saturday, as governors answered the urgent pleas of U.S. defense off...

Initiator Of Last Of Kin Monument For Lone Holocaust Survivors Who Died In War Of Independence Passes Away At 90

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A special monument is located at the end of the trail that connects Israel’s Yad Vashem, the official memorial to Jewish victims of the Holocaust, and Mount H...

State Dept: New Evidence That Researchers At Wuhan Were Sick With COVID-19 Despite Chinese Denials

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NEW YORK (VINnews) — The State Department claimed Friday that it had new information suggesting that the COVID-19 pandemic could have emerged from a Chinese laboratory and not thro...

Biden Returns David Cohen, Obama-Era CIA Deputy Director, To His Old Job

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WASHINGTON (JTA) — President-elect Joe Biden named David Cohen, the deputy CIA director under President Barack Obama, to his old job. Cohen, who rose up through the intelligence...

Florida Man Sued For Not Paying Up After Betting On Trump

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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A friendly $100 wager over the 2020 Presidential election has landed in a Florida small claims court. Before the election, Sean Hynes, a Trump suppor...

Calls To Governors For More Guard Troops For DC

WASHINGTON (AP)- Defense Department officials are scrambling to call governors and asking whether they have any more National Guard troops they can send to Washington to help prote...

Fate Of Biden Agenda Rests With Schumer In 50-50 Senate

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Chuck Schumer is used to drinking from a firehose. But the incoming Senate majority leader has never taken on such a torrent of challenges, with the opening days ...

Sheldon Adelson Buried On Jerusalem’s Mount Of Olives

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JERUSALEM (AP) — Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino magnate who made prolific donations to right-wing politicians and causes in the United States and Israel, was laid to rest ...

Capitol Rioters Included Highly Trained Ex-military And Cops

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WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Donald Trump’s supporters massed outside the Capitol last week and sang the national anthem, a line of men wearing olive-drab helmets and body armor ...

Michael Cohen Writes Foreword For Trump Impeachment Book

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NEW YORK (AP) — A bound edition of materials about President Donald Trump's second impeachment will feature a foreword from an estranged associate — former Trump attorney Michael C...