Articles filed under Politics
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Bit of blackmail: The Hamas lobby tells Biden to bend, or elseNov 09, 2023 12:00 am - In the stiff competition to produce the least credible members of Congress, the Republican Party's leading entrants are Reps. George Santos and Marjorie Taylor Greene, a...
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Israel agrees to 4-hour daily pauses in Gaza fighting to allow civilians to flee, White House saysNov 09, 2023 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - Israel has agreed to put in place four-hour daily humanitarian pauses in its assault on Hamas in northern Gaza starting on Thursday, the White House said, a...
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Is a Trump renomination really inevitable?Nov 09, 2023 12:00 am - Is it inevitable that Donald Trump will be the second person in history - Richard Nixon was the first - to win the Republican Party's nomination for president three time...
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The UK's interior minister sparks furor by accusing police of favoring pro-Palestinian protestersNov 09, 2023 12:00 am - LONDON - Britain's interior minister on Thursday accused the country's largest police force of being more lenient toward pro-Palestinian demonstrators than other groups,...
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Vatican steps closer to allowing transgender Catholics to be baptizedNov 09, 2023 12:00 am - In the United States, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops rejects the concept of gender transition, leaving many transgender Catholics feeling excluded. On Wedne...
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Extremism, nostalgia, sports - the dwindling acts of faith in AmericaNov 09, 2023 12:00 am - Some habits are hard to break. Smoking. Drinking. Drugs. Some habits, once broken, are hard to pick up again. Voting. Going to church on Sunday. Reading a daily newspape...
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Spanish conservative politician is shot in the face in Madrid. The gunman fled on a motorbikeNov 09, 2023 12:00 am - MADRID - Veteran Spanish right-wing politician Alejandro Vidal-Quadras was shot in the face in broad daylight on a central Madrid street on Thursday. His life was not in...
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French President Macron opens Gaza aid conference with appeal to Israel to protect civiliansNov 09, 2023 12:00 am - PARIS - Western and Arab nations, international agencies and nongovernmental groups stressed the urgent need for aid for Gaza civilians at a Paris conference Thursday, h...
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House Speaker Welch featured guest at Indivisible Naperville's Nov. 15 meetingNov 09, 2023 12:00 am - Illinois House Speaker Emanuel "Chris" Welch will be the featured guest at Indivisible Naperville's Nov. 15 meeting. Welch will give an update on court challenges to th...
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Powell reinforces Fed's cautious approach toward further interest rate hikesNov 09, 2023 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell suggested Thursday that the Fed is in no hurry to further raise its benchmark interest rate, given evidence that inflati...