Darrell House, a Marine veteran with Navajo and Oneida heritage, was accosted by rangers on Sunday after taking a stroll at Albuquerque’s Petroglyph National Monument, home to thousands of ancient Pueblo rock carvings. The encounter was captured in footage posted to House’s Instagram page, filmed first by himself and later his …
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Dubbed the Caring for Americans with Supplemental Help (CASH) Act, House Resolution 9051 passed on Monday evening, as lawmakers lined up to cast their own and proxy votes, wearing face masks under rules instituted by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California). The procedural vote requiring two-thirds majority succeeded, with 275 votes in …
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Iran’s top diplomat took to Trump’s social media of choice, Twitter, to take a jab at his hostile rhetoric on Thursday. “Putting your own citizens at risk abroad won’t divert attention from catastrophic failures at home,” Zarif wrote, accompanying the message with a collage of Trump’s own tweets. The tweets, …
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Tweeting out a photo of what he said were three rockets that failed to launch during Sunday’s attack on the embassy, Trump said they came from Iran and that there was “chatter” about additional attacks against Americans in Iraq. “Some friendly health advice to Iran: If one American is killed, …
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President Trump threw a wrench into the passage of the stimulus measures by threatening to veto the omnibus spending bill, unless Congress amends it and raises “the ridiculously low $600” in direct payments to a $2,000 level. Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she was all for it. However, some lawmakers rallied …
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The teen, Georgia resident Skylar Mack, along with her boyfriend Vanjae Ramgeet were both handed reduced punishments on Tuesday, Mack’s attorney Jonathan Hughes told CBS. “Whilst it was our hope that Skylar would be able to return home to resume her studies in January, we accept the decision of the …
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Donald Trump is an authoritarian menace who has played to and preyed upon the United States’ worst, most hateful and paranoid instincts, in a farcical yet nonetheless dangerous effort to establish an autocratic state with him as the cult-style Dear Leader. Predictably enough, he has spent the last seven weeks …
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Last week, it was announced that Moscow had revoked the residency of Vanessa Kogan, a US national who heads the NGO Stichting Justice Initiative (SJI) in Russia. If her appeal against the decision isn’t successful, she’ll be forced to leave the country, where she has lived for over a decade, …
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On Friday, the highest court in the land decided that Texas “lacked standing” to challenge the conduct of elections in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin under Article 3 of the US Constitution. Yet the article in question explicitly states that the SCOTUS will be the original jurisdiction in “Controversies between …
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The video, which appears to have begun circulating online late Wednesday night, shows the head coach of pee wee team the Savannah Gators yelling at one of his players before punching him twice – with the second blow forceful enough to knock the child to the ground. The child is …
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