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Trump chooses former acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker as NATO ambassador
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Trump chooses former acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker as NATO ambassador

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump said Wednesday that he has chosen former acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker to serve as U.S. ambassador to NATO, the bedrock Western alliance that the president-elect has expressed skepticism about for years. Trump, in a statement, said Whitaker was “a strong warrior and loyal Patriot” who “will ensure the United States’ interests are advanced and defended” …

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Harris Is Struggling With Blue-Collar Union Members. This Union Is Doing All It Can To Change That.
2 months, 1 week ago

Harris Is Struggling With Blue-Collar Union Members. This Union Is Doing All It Can To Change That.

Huff Post  

SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN — Flanked by several leaders of the 13 building trades unions whose members are constructing a massive artificial intelligence data center in a rural area south of Milwaukee, Mitch Landrieu, the co-chair of Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign and former White House infrastructure czar, had what looked like an easy task before him. But he emphasized the …

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Biden will use last speech to UN to say he has restored US leadership on world stage
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Biden will use last speech to UN to say he has restored US leadership on world stage

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A senior administration official told reporters that Biden’s schedule for the General Assembly “reflect …

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'Doesn't make sense': FBI director issues warning on 'frightening' Project 2025
5 months, 2 weeks ago

'Doesn't make sense': FBI director issues warning on 'frightening' Project 2025

Raw Story  

FBI Director Christopher Wray issued a warning Wednesday about how a controversial right-wing plan for Donald Trump's second term would impact law enforcement. In a House Judiciary Committee hearing that focused on the attempted assassination of Trump, Rep. Hank Johnson asked Wray about the dangers of Project 2025, a presidential transition initiative organized by the Heritage Foundation. "I think the …

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Bolivian general accused of failed coup is transferred to a maximum-security prison
6 months, 1 week ago

Bolivian general accused of failed coup is transferred to a maximum-security prison

Associated Press  

LA PAZ, Bolivia — The Bolivian general accused of leading a failed coup was sent Saturday to a maximum-security prison as he faces charges of terrorism and starting an armed uprising. “At some point the truth will be known,” a handcuffed Gen. Juan José Zúñiga told journalists as he was escorted by two guards to the vehicle that will take …

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Coup attempt feared in Bolivia as troops surround presidential palace
6 months, 1 week ago

Coup attempt feared in Bolivia as troops surround presidential palace

Hindustan Times  

Bolivian President Luis Arce on Wednesday called for democracy to be respected after soldiers and tanks deployed outside government buildings and tried to knock down a door of the presidential palace. Soldiers stand guard outside the presidential palace in Plaza Murillo in La Paz, Bolivia, Wednesday, June 26, 2024. Bolivian television reported that army chief General Juan Jose Zuniga briefly …

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Speaker Johnson says House will go to court for Biden audio after Justice Dept. refused to prosecute
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Speaker Johnson says House will go to court for Biden audio after Justice Dept. refused to prosecute

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday that the House will go to court to enforce the subpoena against Attorney General Merrick Garland for access to President Joe Biden’s special counsel audio interview, hours after the Justice Department refused to prosecute Republicans’ contempt of Congress charge. “It is sadly predictable that the Biden Administration’s Justice Department will not prosecute Garland …

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BCI Issues Show Cause Notice Of Suspension To Ghaziabad Bar Association's President Over Attack On Sr Adv Gaurav Bhatia
9 months, 2 weeks ago

BCI Issues Show Cause Notice Of Suspension To Ghaziabad Bar Association's President Over Attack On Sr Adv Gaurav Bhatia

Live Law  

The Bar Council of India has issued show cause notices to the President and General Secretary of the Ghaziabad Bar Association for the alleged attack on senior advocate Gaurav Bhatia, during lawyers strike at the Guatam Budh Nagar District & Sessions Court yesterday. BCI has asked the Bar Association's President and the General Secretary to explain by March 27, why …

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Biden and Trump clinch nominations, setting the stage for a grueling general election rematch
9 months, 4 weeks ago

Biden and Trump clinch nominations, setting the stage for a grueling general election rematch

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump clinched their parties’ presidential nominations Tuesday with decisive victories in a slate of low-profile primaries, setting up a general election rematch that many voters do not want. Trump, Biden said, “is running a campaign of resentment, revenge, and retribution that threatens the very idea of America.” He continued, “I am …

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'Not Impossible' to Introduce VAR in ISL From Next Season, Deliberates AIFF AGM
9 months, 4 weeks ago

'Not Impossible' to Introduce VAR in ISL From Next Season, Deliberates AIFF AGM

News 18  

The Annual General Meeting of the All-India Football Federation on Sunday told that it was “not impossible” to introduce Virtual Assistant Referee in the Indian Super League from next season with no cost to the federation. The AIFF held its Executive Committee meeting followed by the Annual General Body Meeting in Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, on Sunday. After the completion of …

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'Outright Insult to Federation': AIFF AGM Slams Personal Attacks on Kalyan Chaubey
9 months, 4 weeks ago

'Outright Insult to Federation': AIFF AGM Slams Personal Attacks on Kalyan Chaubey

News 18  

The All India Football Federation on Sunday passed a resolution during its Annual Genral Body Meeting here, calling the “personal attacks” on president Kalyan Chaubey as “motivated” and “outright insult” to all its members. “Both the Executive Committee and the General Body expressed anguish at the way personal attacks have been made against senior AIFF officials, especially the president, from …

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Pakistan election 2024: Presidential polls set to take place by March 9
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Pakistan election 2024: Presidential polls set to take place by March 9

Live Mint  

Still struggling to address the rigging allegations after general elections in the country, Pakistan is now gearing up to elect the new president by March 9. The Election Commission of Pakistan is set to hold an election for the office of the country’s president by March 9, two days before the retirement of half of the senators after completing their …

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Prabowo Subianto | The ‘reformed’ General
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Prabowo Subianto | The ‘reformed’ General

The Hindu  

The party started almost a year ago. Two, Mr. Subianto’s popularity this time around leveraged Indonesia’s young electorate, who comprise more than half of Indonesia’s 204 million eligible voters spread across some 17,000 islands. Like other candidates, Mr. Subianto has pledged to expand economic initiatives, increase social security cover, create new jobs, and build the new capital city, but analysts …

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AIFF asks its high profile secretary general — Shaji Prabhakaran — to quit
1 year, 2 months ago

AIFF asks its high profile secretary general — Shaji Prabhakaran — to quit

The Hindu  

The All India Football Federation was hurled into crisis after its top-brass decided to remove its secretary general Shaji Prabhakaran citing breach of trust. According to sources, the AIFF president Kalyan Chaubey took the decision of removing Prabhakaran after consulting the executive committee members late on Tuesday. According to AIFF sources, Prabhakaran earned the displeasure of the president and executive …

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AIFF secretary general Shaji Prabhakaran terminated on account of trust deficit
1 year, 2 months ago

AIFF secretary general Shaji Prabhakaran terminated on account of trust deficit

India TV News  

The All India Football Federation terminated its secretary general Shaji Prabhakaran owing to "trust deficit" on Wednesday, November 8. As per a PTI report, the president of AIFF, Kalyan Chaubey issued a termination letter to Prabhakaran to put an end to his one-year and two-month-long association with the administrative body. He is no longer the AIFF Secretary General," AIFF vice-president …

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'I'm not Congress's prosecutor,' Attorney General Garland holds firm against GOP's push for Hunter Biden inquiry details
1 year, 3 months ago

'I'm not Congress's prosecutor,' Attorney General Garland holds firm against GOP's push for Hunter Biden inquiry details

Hindustan Times  

U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland staunchly defended the Justice Department's investigation into Hunter Biden during a House Judiciary Committee hearing, asserting that he was "not Congress's prosecutor" and refusing to divulge investigative details under congressional pressure. House Republicans, keen on bolstering an impeachment inquiry into President Biden over allegations of profiting from Hunter's business dealings, targeted Garland. Garland's testimony, …

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UNGA Briefing: Security Council, climate summit and what else is going on at the United Nations
1 year, 3 months ago

UNGA Briefing: Security Council, climate summit and what else is going on at the United Nations

Associated Press  

UNITED NATIONS — It’s Day 2 of the U.N. General Assembly high-level meeting that brings world leaders together at U.N. headquarters in New York. WHAT HAPPENED AT THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON TUESDAY — Motorcades and barricades choked midtown Manhattan as the world’s top dignitaries convened for the first day of the U.N. General Assembly’s annual meeting, which kicked off …

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'Mountain of evidence' shows $2.2B in Trump fraud case was tip of iceberg: Attorney General
1 year, 4 months ago

'Mountain of evidence' shows $2.2B in Trump fraud case was tip of iceberg: Attorney General

Raw Story  

Donald Trump's attorneys asked a judge Friday to dismiss fraud claims as New York's attorney general accused him of inflating his assets by even more than her lawsuit alleges. Attorney General Letitia James last week accused the former president of inflating his assets by up to $2.2 billion in a single year, but her office on Friday said that was …

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Sudan’s top general meets with South Sudan’s president on the war
1 year, 4 months ago

Sudan’s top general meets with South Sudan’s president on the war

Associated Press  

CAIRO — Sudan’s top military general held talks in Juba Monday with South Sudan’s president on his second trip abroad since the war in his country started earlier this year. Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, chairman of the ruling Sovereign Council, arrived in the South Sudanese capital, Juba, Monday morning and was received by President Salva Kiir. South Sudan’s Minister of Cabinet …

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Conservative despairs as Trump indictments 'are making him stronger in the GOP nomination fight'
1 year, 6 months ago

Conservative despairs as Trump indictments 'are making him stronger in the GOP nomination fight'

Raw Story  

Conservative Rich Lowry has written a despairing new column in Politico lamenting that Republican voters seem to love former President Donald Trump the more he gets hit with criminal charges. Lowry argues that this dynamic was on full display during Trump's interview with Fox News' Bret Baier in which he "he talked about having boxes with his clothes mixed in …

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Macron awards top U.S. general France’s highest honors
1 year, 7 months ago

Macron awards top U.S. general France’s highest honors

Associated Press  

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron awarded France’s highest medal of honor to the U.S. Joint Chiefs chairman, Gen. Mark Milley, on Friday for his role in coordinating support for Ukraine and for his more than 40-year military career spent in defense of democracy. Milley, who is traveling in France to attend ceremonies at Normandy to mark the 79th anniversary …

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Rythu Sangham seeks two new barrages on Krishna River
1 year, 8 months ago

Rythu Sangham seeks two new barrages on Krishna River

Deccan Chronicle  

VIJAYAWADA: The Andhra Pradesh Rythu Sangham has passed a unanimous resolution seeking construction of two new barrages across River Krishna at Chodavaram in Penamaluru mandal and at Bandikolla Lanka in Mopidevi mandal to store 3 TMC of water in each barrage. Prasad said the general body meeting of the Sangham met here and unanimously demanded that the government urgently complete …

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Spanish league: Clubs not convinced by Barça’s explanations
1 year, 8 months ago

Spanish league: Clubs not convinced by Barça’s explanations

Associated Press  

MADRID — Spanish clubs were not convinced by Barcelona’s explanation about its payments to a former official of the country’s refereeing committee, the Spanish league president said Wednesday. Javier Tebas said after the league’s general assembly that most clubs felt that Barcelona president Joan Laporta did not fully explain why his club paid more than 7 million euros from 2001-18 …

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Civic polls: Gorakhpur mayor’s post general category, BJP eyes majority in corporation
1 year, 9 months ago

Civic polls: Gorakhpur mayor’s post general category, BJP eyes majority in corporation

Hindustan Times  

For the first time since Gorakhpur municipal corporation was formed in 1994 the city mayor’s post has become a general category seat. Civic polls: Gorakhpur mayor’s post general category, BJP eyes majority in corporation All opposition parties are keeping a close watch on BJP’s plan on the seat. Interestingly, despite BJP holding the mayor post in Gorakhpur municipal corporation, the …

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