Saturday, May 18, 2024

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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 ...

TSA Looking Into Adding Capitol Rioters To US No-Fly List

Federal officials are investigating people who took part in the riot at the U.S. Capitol to determine whether they should be barred from traveling on airlines. The assessments a...

California Now Reporting 525 Virus Deaths Every Day

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — More Californians than ever are dying from the coronavirus -- a knee-bucking 525 every day — and with the number expected to keep climbing state officials...

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...

Banking Heir Benjamin De Rothschild Dies At 57

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NEW YORK (AP) — Benjamin de Rothschild, who oversaw the banking empire started by his father in 1953, has died. He was 57. The Edmond de Rothschild Group, the company he was cha...

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...

Bus Driver In Dramatic Bridge Plunge Says It ‘Just Took Off’

NEW YORK (AP) — The driver of a New York City bus that plunged off a bridge blamed the dramatic crash on mechanical failure, saying Saturday that the tandem vehicle “just took off”...

US Army Discharges Officer Who Made Holocaust Joke On TikTok

The U.S. Army is removing an officer who made a Holocaust joke last year on TikTok. Nathan Freihofer, a second lieutenant, has millions of followers on TikTok, the video social...

No Winner Of Mega Millions $750M; Powerball Drawing Saturday

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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — One of the largest jackpots in U.S. history will grow even larger since there was no winner for Friday's drawing of the Mega Millions' $750 million top priz...

Man Arrested With Handgun, Ammo At DC Checkpoint

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WASHINGRTON (AP) - Police have arrested a man with a handgun and 500 rounds of ammunition at a checkpoint in Washington set up ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. ...

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...