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WASHINGTON — As Gaza buries its dead and starves under siege, the Trump administration has quietly signed off on a 6.7 billion dollar surge of US weapons for Israel, adding new attack
Donald Trump is building a 250-foot Independence Arch on the Potomac, a White House grand ballroom, and more — a vanity construction campaign running alongside sinking approval ratings and a fractured rural base.
Chinese authorities have accused the United States of a “chronic disease” of racism amid ongoing protests in the United States, triggered by several high-profile murders of black Americans. AFP writes that China
U.S. President Donald Trump over the phone called on state governors to step up law enforcement at the #BlackLiveMatters (Black Lives) protests that broke out across the country after several high -profile
In the United States, for the first time in 25 years, all federal prisons were closed. Such a decision was made amid riots that began around the country after the death of
United States President Donald Trump gave a speech after the riots that occurred this Monday in front of the White House, amid new protests for the crime of George Floyd. At the
A telephone conversation between US President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel led to a “heated debate,” Politico reports citing an unnamed US official. In a conversation this week, politicians argued
On June 24, 1947, Private Pilot Kenneth Arnold was flying aboard a CallAir A-2 near Mount Rainier in Washington state, United States, looking for a lost military aircraft. An Associated Press report
United States President Donald Trump announced that Washington “is going to end its relationship with the World Health Organization” because it has too close ties to China and has mishandled the covid-19
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, will sign this Thursday an executive order that opens the door to a possible cataract of lawsuits against Twitter, Facebook, and other technology giants,
Social networks should not censor people’s comments if they provide an opportunity for this, said Facebook founder and head Mark Zuckerberg in an interview with Fox News. Thus, he criticized Twitter for
The head of Russian diplomacy called the legislative issues of Hong Kong an internal affair of China and sharply criticized the US position. The Chinese leadership supports and appreciates the statements of
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