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Here’s a question for US Attorney-General William Barr: why has the FBI, which falls under your purview, sat for nearly 16 months on the unwarranted killing of an unarmed young accountant shot to death by US Park police officers just outside Washingt...
DATE: Mar 07, 2019
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I’m wondering about R. Kelly.” That is the question that was posed to the Chicago police sex crimes unit by a journalist who had received an anonymous fax urging him to look into the R&B singer’s alleged misbehaviour with girls and young women. “Oh. ...
DATE: Jan 21, 2019
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The latest online craze in China are short videos — ten or 15-second snippets, whimsical, artistic and otherwise, made and distributed with increasing creativity and popularity. China’s massive censorship machine is not far behind.
The authorities is...
DATE: Jan 14, 2019
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The Trump Administration has now served notice that, as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo put it, the United States will no longer “bury our head in the sand” about Russia’s violation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, a 1987 pact that eli...
DATE: Dec 11, 2018
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The Senate voted on Saturday to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court after one of the most contentious nomination battles in history and by the slimmest margin for a justice in the modern era.
Now, difficult as this seems, it will be up to t...
DATE: Oct 08, 2018
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The weekend brought yet another reason that Republicans should ask the Federal Bureau of Investigation to reopen its background probe into Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Deborah Ramirez, a Yale University classmate of Kavanaugh’s, claimed in ...
DATE: Sep 26, 2018
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A lawyer for Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her three decades ago, says her client wants to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee — just not on Monday, when Republ...
DATE: Sep 21, 2018
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Another milestone in America’s retreat from global leadership passed on Monday when the Trump Administration announced that it will cap refugee admissions next year at 30,000, by far the lowest ceiling since the present programme was established in 1...
DATE: Sep 20, 2018
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The totalitarianism of the 21st century is being pioneered in a vast but remote region of western China inaccessible to most outsiders and subject to a media blackout by China’s Communist authorities. In Xinjiang province, twice the size of Germany, ...
DATE: Sep 19, 2018
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Colleges that have banned hard alcohol say the step has helped to combat some of the most pernicious effects of campus drinking.
They report less consumption, fewer alcohol-induced medical transports, hospitalisations and arrests, as well as a decrea...
DATE: Sep 11, 2018
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