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There were 5 major conclusions from the fourth Republican debate
Republican presidential candidates Chris Christie, Vivek Ramaswamy, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley and Donald Trump will face off in the fourth and final US presidential debate on Wednesday. This will be the fourth Republican presidential debate of the 2020 election cycle. The candidates have been asked to stand up for their principles against Trump’s policies during…
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How to watch the Republican debate
Former US President Donald Trump will not participate in the eighth Republican Presidential Debate on Wednesday, his campaign announced. Trump will not take part in the debate due to “personal reasons”, it added. The debate will take place in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and will feature four Republican candidates, including Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
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There is a picture of Hamas commanders in Gaza
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday visited the families of Israeli hostages who were being held in Gaza and said that Hamas was trying to tear the country apart. Netanyahu said that Hamas was trying to destroy the country. Over 200 Hamas fighters have been killed in the ongoing war, Israeli officials said, adding that…
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McCarthy said he will leave Congress at the end of the year
US House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy has announced his retirement from the House at the end of the year. McCarthy, a California Republican, was removed as Speaker earlier this year in a rare vote of the House on a Motion to Vacate the Chair. A special election will be held to replace McCarthy in…
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A bigger stage and higher stakes, for the fourth Republican debate
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will skip the fourth US primary debate, hosted by NewsNation, The Washington Free Beacon and Megyn Kelly’s show. It will be broadcast or streamed on all NewsNation platforms, including its TV channel, its app and its website. The debate will be held from midnight to 2 am Eastern.
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This is Grim, says a Democratic pollster
President Joe Biden has said that US President Donald Trump was “no longer hiding the ball” in the ongoing presidential election campaign. “Trump is Kryptonite for American democracy, so why isn’t President Biden leading him by 15 points?” he asked. According to a recent Quinnipiac University poll, President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence are…
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farewell to George Santos the perfect pragmatist
US House of Representatives is set to expel New York Representative George Santos, who’s facing over two dozen federal criminal charges. This comes after the House’s Ethics Committee accused him of abusing his authority as a member of Congress and committing financial fraud during his congressional campaign for a high-paid job. Santos is the first…
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A federal judge has dismissed Trump’s immunity claims in the election interference case
US President Donald Trump has defended his actions during the US Capitol riot in January, saying he was ” acting as a officer-seeker” and not an officer-holder. Trump’s legal team said his actions were not “official acts of thePresident” as they were “an unofficial campaign”. It also said that the criminal case should be dismissed…
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The appeals court said Trump isn’t immune from lawsuits
A US appeals court has ruled that actions taken by US President Donald Trump during the 2018 riots in Charlottesville, Virginia, are not official acts of the presidency. Trump has argued that he had immunity from civil lawsuits as President, but an unofficial acting of the president, the court added. “He’s acting as an officer-seeker,…
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GeorgeSantos was hot air
US lawmaker George Santos, who was expelled from Congress after being accused of financial fraud, said that it was all “theatre” for the cameras and microphones and it was “the playhouse of American bureaucracy”. “It’stheatre for the American people at the expense of the American people,” he added. Santos was found to have used campaign…
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The death of Kissinger ends an era in relations between the U.S. and China
Henry Kissinger, the former Secretary of State who died aged 91 on Friday, visited China in 1971 to open relations with the country. Kissinger also met with Li Shangfu, China’s defence minister at the time. The US-China diplomatic relationship was further opened by President Richard Nixon in the early 1970s. However, full diplomatic recognition between…
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He never left his previous job after he left the state department fifty years ago
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who passed away on Tuesday at the age of 93, was viewed as a “living legacy of the good old days”, said Wu Xinbo, the dean of the Institute of International Studies at Fudan University in Shanghai. Kissinger’s role in organising President Nixon’s trip to China in 1972…
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The death of Kissinger ends an era in U.S.-China relations
Former US Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, passed away on Tuesday at the age of 95. Kissinger was the senior advisor to former US President George HW Bush between 1991 and 1993. He was also the Secretary of State in the administrations of George HW Bush and Bill Clinton.
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People fight in Dublin after a knife attack
Ireland’s Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has said that anti-immigrant rioters did not do the violence in Dublin because they “loved Ireland”. He added that they didn’t do it “out of any sense of patriotism, however warped” they were. “Our country is full…Our society is the rule of law…it doesn’t matter what happened to the Irish…
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The New York Times reports that the Arab Israeli feels pain twice
Ahead of Israel-Hamas conflict, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “We will defeat Hamas in the war. We’ve won the war.” He added, “I’m satisfied with the way we defeated Hamas, and…we’re going to continue to defeat them until they’re defeated.” Netanyahu also called on the international community to ensure that the ongoing conflict doesn’t…
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A deal to release some hostages is possible soon, says the leader of Hamas
Hamas has “delivered its response” to mediators in Qatar and is “close to reaching a truce agreement” with Israel, the group’s political wing said. Earlier, International Committee of the Red Cross said that it would not participate in negotiations for the release of hostages if they were allowed to check on their welfare and deliver…
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Linda Yaccarino is the one who stays the course
After a right-wing group posted “Christ is King” on Facebook, Israeli-American author and activist Ben Shapiro said, “I don’t want to diminish antisemitism…I do want to focus on the people who are most prominent on the right.” “I think that anti-Zionism and antisemitism are not the same thing, and that the left is not genocidal…
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Journalists were taken on a visit to the hospital
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday said that he’s “not trying to win it” by attacking a Hamas-based hospital, adding, “Once we defeat Hamas…we have to make sure that there’s no new Hamas, no resurgence of terrorism, and right now the only force that is able to secure that is Israel.” Israeli soldiers attacked…
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Trump is found to be “engaged in insurrection,” but stays on the ballot
A Colorado judge on Friday found that former US President Donald Trump engaged in insurrection during the attack on the US Capitol in January 2021. However, he rejected an effort to keep him off the state’s primary ballot because it is unclear whether a Civil War-era Constitutional amendment barring insurrectionists from public office applies to…
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The War in Gaza is hurting the Democratic Party
US Senator Mark Pocan, a Wisconsin Democrat and former Co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, has said that “the level of concern and engagement on the part of the pro-Israel community is at an extraordinarily high level.” He added, “The US hasn’t held Israel accountable towards helping us to get there…The policies of the Israeli…
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A new poll shows strong support for Biden among Jewish voters
The US President Joe Biden’s response to the conflict between Israel and Hamas has received support from American Jews, a group that backs Democrats said. Biden has vowed to militarily support Israel, vetoed a UN resolution that called for a ceasefire, and allowed a separate resolution to pass, asking for extended humanitarian pauses. This comes…
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Florida’s favorite son, congressman Ron DeSantis, is in the race for president
Following the endorsements of Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, US President Donald Trump on Saturday said he is “very excited” to announce the nomination for the Republican Party’s 2020 Presidential nomination. “I’m going to do a lot of talking,” Trump added. Earlier in the day, US Vice President Mike Pence endorsed…
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There is an opinion about anti-Zionism and antisemitism
Israel’s defence minister Tzipi Livni on Wednesday said the country would destroy Hamas in Gaza. This comes after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called for ” Nakba 2″ (catastrophe), a reference to the mass displacement and flight of Palestinians before Israel’s creation in 1948, which Palestinians refer to as the “nakba”. She added that Israel will…
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More than 400 Americans have signed a letter protesting Biden’s Israel policy
Over 400 US political appointees and staff members representing 40 government agencies have written to President Joe Biden protesting his support of Israel’s war in Gaza. “We call on…President Biden to urgently demand a cease-fire; and to call for de-escalation of the current conflict by securing the immediate release of the Israeli hostages and arbitrarily…
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The US Privacy Groups haveUrge the Senate to stay out of the Spying Powers issue
Twenty groups including the Brennan Center for Justice, American Civil Liberties Union and Asian Americans Advancing Justice have opposed plans to extend the Section 702 surveillance program. They said extending the program by amending “must pass” legislation would show ” blatant disregard for civil liberties and civil rights of the American people”. The program is…