Articles filed under Politics
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US, Russia hold highest-level talks since Ukraine invasionMar 02, 2023 12:00 am - NEW DELHI - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov talked briefly Thursday in the highest-level in-person talks between the tw...
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Israeli police crack down, clash with anti-Netanyahu protestMar 01, 2023 12:00 am - TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - Weeks of anti-government protests in Israel turned violent on Wednesday for the first time as police fired stun grenades and a water cannon at de...
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Ohio senators ready rail safety bill after fiery crashMar 01, 2023 12:00 am - COLUMBUS, Ohio - Railroads like the one involved in last month's fiery crash and toxic chemical release in Ohio would be subject to a series of new federal safety regula...
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Guest columnist Bonnie Jean Feldkamp: Did we really elect legislators to police love and belonging?Mar 01, 2023 12:00 am - By Bonnie Jean Feldkamp When my son was in preschool, he had two best buddies who were siblings. One boy. One girl. One day my son told me, "When I grow up, I'm going t...
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Syndicated columnist Veronique de Rugy: The simple solution to the coming demographic challengeMar 01, 2023 12:00 am - Newspapers have been reporting on the demographic challenges in Asian nations like China, Japan and South Korea. Some expect China's population, for example, to be cut i...
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China says TikTok ban reflects US insecuritiesFeb 28, 2023 12:00 am - BEIJING - U.S. government bans on Chinese-owned video sharing app TikTok reveal Washington's own insecurities and are an abuse of state power, a Chinese Foreign Ministry...
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UK's Sunak tries to win over skeptics to his Brexit dealFeb 28, 2023 12:00 am - LONDON - U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak traveled to Belfast on Tuesday to sell his landmark agreement with the European Union to its toughest audience: Unionist politic...
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Blinken warns Central Asia of dangers from war in UkraineFeb 28, 2023 12:00 am - The Biden administration on Tuesday pledged to support the independence of the five Central Asian nations in a not-so-subtle warning to the former Soviet states that Rus...
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COVID-19 scamdemicFeb 28, 2023 12:00 am - Are you dead? Probably not. You're reading this column. Am I dead? Well, not right now. I'm writing. Of course, by the time you read this, I could be the star of an unde...
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Guest columnist Keith Peterson: Separated from family, Afghan scholar still waiting for U.S. to do the right thingFeb 28, 2023 12:00 am - Eighteen months ago, I wrote about three Afghans who had been awarded Fulbright scholarships and who had managed to leave Afghanistan just as the Taliban fighters were w...