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Protesters march in Venezuela, destroy Chavez statue
Anti-government protesters stage a sit-in blocking the Franciso Fajardo highway during a women's march against repression in Caracas , Venezuela, Saturday, May 6, 2017. With Maduro's approval ratings at around 24 percent - less than half the level at the time of his narrow election victory in 2013 - and Venezuela suffering a fourth year of harrowing recession, the opposition's challenge is to... [Full Article...]
N. Korean officials meet United States experts in Oslo
The arrest put the number of Americans held in North Korea at four, as Washington and Pyongyang remain at loggerheads over the North's nuclear and missile ambitions. As tensions rose over Kim's killing, the Malaysian national team was barred from travelling to North Korea , preventing them from playing the match on March 28, when it was originally scheduled. [Full Article...]
Female senators will be included in health group
Democrats are far from eager to repeal or replace former President Barack ObamaBarack ObamaBrzezinski: My on-air meltdowns "are always right" GOP senator to Dems: "Quit being passive" on healthcare reform Five takeaways from Yates's dramatic Senate testimony MORE's signature domestic achievement. [Full Article...]
States brace for big decisions under GOP health care changes
You know, you could say this legislation has not even actually reached midfield or halftime because not only does it need the Senate, but then there's going to be a conference committee between the House and Senate to work out the differences between their bills, which may be quite vast. [Full Article...]
Trump Vows to "Confront Anti-Semitism", Stand by "Our Great Friend" Israel
TRUMP TOLD STORIES of American soldiers liberating death camps, warned against those who would deny the Holocaust and praised survivors who offered hope to the world, including Elie Wiesel, a writer and intellectual who died a year ago. "We must stamp out prejudice and anti-Semitism everywhere it is found", he said. On Monday, Israel came to a 2-minute halt as sirens across the country marked Holo... [Full Article...]
President Trump preparing letter attesting no Russia ties
Do you support or oppose them? Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, during her testimony before the Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing entitled, "Russian Interference in the 2016 United States Election", on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 8, 2017. [Full Article...]
Sally Yates Says She Warned White House Michael Flynn Was Blackmail Risk
In more than three hours of closely watched testimony inside a packed hearing room, Yates described discussions she had with White House Counsel Donald McGahn, beginning on January 26, in which she laid out her concerns about public claims made by Vice President Pence and other White House officials regarding Flynn's conversations in December with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. [Full Article...]
Amtrak engineer won't be charged in deadly crash
Based on the available information, we do not have evidence sufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the engineer "consciously" disregarded the risk. The current district attorney, Seth Williams, remains in office although his law license has been suspended amid a federal bribery indictment set for trial May 31. [Full Article...]
Liberal Moon Jae-in wins South Korean election: exit polls
Mr Moon, a liberal former human rights lawyer who was jailed as a student by a previous dictatorship, favours closer ties with North Korea, saying hard-line conservative governments did nothing to prevent the North's development of nuclear-armed missiles and only reduced South Korea's voice in worldwide efforts to counter North Korea. [Full Article...]
UK Labour leader Corbyn: I won't quit if I lose election
Aides to Mr Corbyn later said that if he wins the keys to Downing Street in June "we will leave the EU". But his position quickly became less clear when the BBC asked him five times if Britain would leave the European Union if he was prime minister, and he did not answer directly. [Full Article...]
ACLU warns Texas travelers about 'sanctuary city' law
A Paxton statement said the suit asks the court to uphold the constitutionality of the new law. AILA President William Stock was equally distraught by the sanctuary ban, tying it to racism without providing any evidence to back up the claim , and also promised it will "lead to court challenges". [Full Article...]
Jakarta's Christian governor jailed for two years for blasphemy
According to the BBC , Ahok denied blasphemy and in court said he would mount an appeal. The Supreme Court in Indonesia has sentenced the minority Christian governor of Jakarta , Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, to two years in prison after he was found guilty of blasphemy against Islam. [Full Article...]
American journalist asked to leave 'Kushner family event' in China
The investment would be faciliated via the EB-5 immigrant visa program , which offers citizens of other countries the chance to immigrate to the U.S., provided they invest at least USD500,000 American development projects, according to the New York Times . [Full Article...]
Scotland's Nationalists dealt a blow in United Kingdom local elections
And he said that if Labour won, there would be "a reckoning" with big businesses and bankers who had stripped industrial assets, crashed the economy and ripped off consumers and workers. The Conservative lead was the biggest on record for any British election survey conducted by ICM, the polling firm said. The latest forecast from Electoral Calculus , based on a spread of recent polls, sees the... [Full Article...]
Trump welcomes some unions over others at the White House
Trump once read the statement at a campaign rally in SC, too. Spicer said he wasn't aware of such a statement . "We congratulate President-elect Macron and the people of France on their successful presidential election", Spicer said. [Full Article...]
Woman shot and six arrests made as police foil active terror plot
A 16-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman were arrested at the house and a 20-year-old man was arrested nearby. The 27-year-old was arrested on terrorism charges after being surrounded by firearms officers who pinned him to the ground. In a statement , the Met said the incident had been referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission "as a matter of course", as well as the Met's Direct... [Full Article...]
Yelp slides 28.4% as it chops 2017 guidance
For the quarter Yelp expects net revenues of $202 to $206 million compared with a consensus analyst estimate of $215.42 million. For the full year , the company sees revenue of $850 million to $865 million, down from its prior forecast for $890 million, and below consensus for $889 million. [Full Article...]
Emmanuel Macron prepares groundwork for transition to power
France's new President-elect , Emmanuel Macron, walked out to address supporters in Paris not to his country's national anthem but to that of the European Union. Oxford Economics reported the following: "Emmanuel Macron's landslide victory shows French voters acknowledged that leaving the euro will not solve the economy's problems". [Full Article...]
Don't let America down on health care, Trump tells Senate Republicans
Ryan noted that, under the bill, prices can not be hiked for those with continuous coverage and people with pre-existing conditions can not be denied coverage. Gallagher, who voted for the bill, was referring his House colleagues' trip to the White House Rose Garden last week to tout their bill to replace Obamacare and to Democrats singing, "Na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye" to taunt Republicans ... [Full Article...]
China just launched its first domestically built aircraft carrier
The ceremony to launch the Type 001A carrier took place Wednesday morning, local time , at the China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation's shipyard at Dalian, Liaoning province, in northern China where the ship has been under construction since 2013. [Full Article...]