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Rep. Joaquín Castro (D-Texas) says he’ll decide by the spring whether to challenge Republican Sen. Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward CruzSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote The Hill’s Morning Report – Trump’s public standing sags after Floyd protests GOP senators introduce resolution opposing calls to defund the police MORE (Texas) in 2018. “I said …
The United States transferred five Yemeni prisoners out of the Guantánamo Bay military prison on Wednesday, releasing them to Estonia and Oman in the first detainee handover of the year. Four of them—Al Khadr Abdallah Muhammad al-Yafi, Fadel Hussein Saleh Hentif, Abd al-Rahman Abdullah Au Shabati and Mohammed Ahmed Salam—were sent to Oman. The fifth, …
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Click:総合大学ランキング関連 In the five days since Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud took the throne, he has already overseen at least four beheadings, which critics say underscores the brutality of the regime, as well as the hypocrisy of the United States for holding the oil-rich country as one of its closest allies in …
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Government requests for Twitter users’ personal information in the second half of 2014 jumped by 40 percent compared to the first half, the social media site’s most recent transparency report has revealed. Between the months of July and December, Twitter received 2,871 requests total, according to the report, released Monday. Turkey, Russia, and the U.S. …
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In a teleconference hosted by the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression at Ryerson University on Wednesday, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden warned that the country’s intelligence agencies have the “weakest oversight” in the Western world, and that new anti-terror legislation championed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper was “an emulation of the American Patriot Act.” “And when …
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According to federal authorities’ own predictions, potentially deadly oil train accidents are likely to be commonplace in the United States over the next two decades, with derailments expected to occur an average of 10 times a year, costing billions of dollars in damage, and putting a large number of lives at risk. The grim projection …
Click:diode and zener diode UNITED NATIONS – Despite commitments by the international community to achieve universal primary education by 2015, funds for education have been decreasing over the past ten years, according to a report released Friday by the global advocacy campaign ‘A World at School’. Figures from a Donor Scorecard show that nine of …
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Massachusetts Republicans are looking to field a serious challenger to take on liberal star Sen. Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth WarrenWarren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases OVERNIGHT DEFENSE: Joint Chiefs chairman says he regrets participating in Trump photo-op | GOP senators back Joint Chiefs chairman who voiced regret over Trump …
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The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee approved a cybersecurity bill during a secret session on Thursday, marking the next step in a process that critics warn will nefariously expand the government’s already substantial surveillance powers. The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), which passed by 14-1 vote, would ostensibly protect against large-scale data thefts of private consumer …
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The French public prosecutor heading the investigation into the Germanwings airliner crash in the French Alps that killed 150 people earlier this week alleged at a news conference on Thursday that the crash was caused deliberately by the plane’s co-pilot, identified as Andreas Lubitz, a 28-year-old German national. Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin cited what he …
