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Trump explains to Paul Ryan why US Republicans keep losing: they lack loyalty

US court upholds right of undercover reporters to lie about their intentions when trying to get access to farms in Iowa

Prisoners in Manhattan go on hunger strike after family visits were canceled due to US government shutdown

This obscure rule regarding US criminal trials is so dangerous police arrest activists who hand out fliers detailing it

Syrian authorities discover huge troves of Western-made weapons & ammunition abandoned by rebels in Damascus countryside

Record number of British children under 16 now identify as transgender

Salvini refuses to reopen Italy's ports, arguing stopping migration saves migrant lives

US Presidential candidate Kamala Harris abandons term "Latino" in favor of gender-neutral "Latinx"

Freedom of Information request shows one congressional visit in 2015 to Europe cost US taxpayers more than $180,000

The American public has lost trust in media because of out-of-control partisanship

As EU migration slows amid Brexit, employment and earnings rise in Britain

Walls & armed guards protect Davos elite meeting while they dismiss border protection

Australian author & critic of Chinese government has gone missing in China

Leaked info shows "family friendly" content is being filtered out of Google

Native-American at centre of fake news story about being harassed by Catholic teenagers may also have lied about Vietnam veteran past

Washington Post orders activist group which delivered fake newspapers declaring Trump's departure from White House to "cease and desist"

Marion Maréchal Le Pen compares Yellow Vests to Brexiteers, saying "We are in the midst of a populist movement"

Pompeo calls on Iran to act like a "normal nation" after Middle East trip saw him visit six monarchies

Map shows the proliferation of swastika graffiti in New York and New Jersey since 2016

Tech giant bosses like Bezos, Gates & Zuckerberg are worth one million times as much as the average American teacher - in cash terms

Arrest of black Muslim Press TV journalist Marzieh Hashemi by the FBI marks new heights of brazenness from agency that brought us COINTELPRO

What the US wants in Syria has become increasingly unimportant to regional players

Majority of Americans in 1960's thought protests hurt the civil rights movement & the push for integratio

Catholic MAGA students' face-off with Native American man a reminder to study the story instead of reacting with knee-jerk revulsion

Ex-BBC war correspondent Martin Bell explains his first taste of censorship at Britain's state broadcaster

Ex-Israeli Minister wonders if Tel Aviv now spies on its Western guests amid higher security fears

Foreign reporter in East Africa discovers United Nations & other international organizations are highly disliked

After Trump tariffs, China's economy is growing at levels last seen almost three decades ago

Polls reveal British people prefer clean break from EU over second referendum

Political turmoil in the West: when democracy fails to deliver violent revolution can become inevitable

Endless war in Syria will harm the United States: how has this lesson not already been learned?

Fifth circuit allows Texas to pull taxpayer funds from Planned Parenthood over abortion video controversy

Democrat US homeland security chair now welcomes the idea of a wall

How the romantic notion of "regime change" has gone wrong for American pundits

Human rights activists suspect torture in death of Saudi cleric after authorities told family he would be released from prison days before he died of brain hemorrhaging

Following airstrikes against Iranian targets in Syria, Israel taunts Islamic Republic with "silly-ass" tweet

Male 'Infowars' reporter claims he was sexually assaulted at 'Woman's March' - now pressing charges

Four black men convicted of raping a white woman in 1949 after accuser testifies in court 70 years later

US Secretary of State Pompeo is conducting a "careful review" on policy that would considerably bolster the economic blockade on Cuba

Pentagon's report on how to manage the "effects of a changing climate" fails to mentions military bases devastated or evacuated due to natural disasters

Academic finds 44 looted artifacts from Ottoman Empire in storage at British museum

World Health Organization declares that refugees do not pose undue risks of disease but become at greater risk themselves after migrating

Historians, journalists & family of assassinated 1960's US political figures use Martin Luther King day to call for new investigations into slayings

Brother of Catholic teenager present during alleged mocking of Native-American speaks out

Neocon Bill Kristol deletes Tweet maligning Covington "MAGA brats" who "absorbed spirit of Trumpism"

Egyptian court sentences TV host to one year in jail for interviewing gay man

American progressives are trying to stop Canadian oil extraction that could exceed that of Saudi Arabia

Britain's secretary for international trade warns blocking Brexit will unleash "political tsunami" with "unknowable consequences"

Former Imam from Pakistan who converted to Christianity in Germany says his family now wants to kill him

Federal judge allows $1 billion lawsuit against companies for their role in US experiment in the 1940's that saw Guatemalans injected with syphilis & gonorrhea

Venezuela's economic collapse is now deeper than Russia's and Ukraine's post-Soviet hyper depression

Native American elder in Covington Catholic students controversy seems to have a record of seeking out racially charged confrontations

Airbnb wants to pay guests to live in Italy for three months for free to kick-start new business venture

Iran dismisses accusations from German prosecutor of spying on German army, saying "enemies" aim to "sour relations" between Iran and Europe

Trump's shutdown may be about the wall, but it also endangers America's national security

Trump is the reason why Democrats turned hawkish & Republicans anti-war

Meet the scientist who helped ISIS get chemical weapons with a mustard gas supply chain

Marion Maréchal Le Pen compares Yellow Vests to Brexiteers, saying "We are in the midst of a populist movement"

Male 'Infowars' reporter claims he was sexually assaulted at 'Woman's March' - now pressing charges

Trump getting involved in culture battles like the Catholic teen vs Native American controversy is one of the main reasons he won US Presidency

US House of Representatives unanimously adopts bill to sanction anyone & everyone doing business with Syria

Vulnerability at GoDaddy, an internet domain name provider, allowed hackers to spread bomb threats for ransom from major online institutions

Trump explains to Paul Ryan why US Republicans keep losing: they lack loyalty

US court upholds right of undercover reporters to lie about their intentions when trying to get access to farms in Iowa

Prisoners in Manhattan go on hunger strike after family visits were canceled due to US government shutdown

This obscure rule regarding US criminal trials is so dangerous police arrest activists who hand out fliers detailing it

Syrian authorities discover huge troves of Western-made weapons & ammunition abandoned by rebels in Damascus countryside

Record number of British children under 16 now identify as transgender

Salvini refuses to reopen Italy's ports, arguing stopping migration saves migrant lives

US Presidential candidate Kamala Harris abandons term "Latino" in favor of gender-neutral "Latinx"

Freedom of Information request shows one congressional visit in 2015 to Europe cost US taxpayers more than $180,000

The American public has lost trust in media because of out-of-control partisanship

As EU migration slows amid Brexit, employment and earnings rise in Britain

Walls & armed guards protect Davos elite meeting while they dismiss border protection

Australian author & critic of Chinese government has gone missing in China

Leaked info shows "family friendly" content is being filtered out of Google

Native-American at centre of fake news story about being harassed by Catholic teenagers may also have lied about Vietnam veteran past

Washington Post orders activist group which delivered fake newspapers declaring Trump's departure from White House to "cease and desist"

Pompeo calls on Iran to act like a "normal nation" after Middle East trip saw him visit six monarchies

Map shows the proliferation of swastika graffiti in New York and New Jersey since 2016

Tech giant bosses like Bezos, Gates & Zuckerberg are worth one million times as much as the average American teacher - in cash terms

Arrest of black Muslim Press TV journalist Marzieh Hashemi by the FBI marks new heights of brazenness from agency that brought us COINTELPRO

What the US wants in Syria has become increasingly unimportant to regional players

Majority of Americans in 1960's thought protests hurt the civil rights movement & the push for integratio

Catholic MAGA students' face-off with Native American man a reminder to study the story instead of reacting with knee-jerk revulsion

Ex-BBC war correspondent Martin Bell explains his first taste of censorship at Britain's state broadcaster

Ex-Israeli Minister wonders if Tel Aviv now spies on its Western guests amid higher security fears

Foreign reporter in East Africa discovers United Nations & other international organizations are highly disliked

After Trump tariffs, China's economy is growing at levels last seen almost three decades ago

Polls reveal British people prefer clean break from EU over second referendum

Political turmoil in the West: when democracy fails to deliver violent revolution can become inevitable

Endless war in Syria will harm the United States: how has this lesson not already been learned?

Fifth circuit allows Texas to pull taxpayer funds from Planned Parenthood over abortion video controversy

Democrat US homeland security chair now welcomes the idea of a wall

How the romantic notion of "regime change" has gone wrong for American pundits

Human rights activists suspect torture in death of Saudi cleric after authorities told family he would be released from prison days before he died of brain hemorrhaging

Following airstrikes against Iranian targets in Syria, Israel taunts Islamic Republic with "silly-ass" tweet

Four black men convicted of raping a white woman in 1949 after accuser testifies in court 70 years later

US Secretary of State Pompeo is conducting a "careful review" on policy that would considerably bolster the economic blockade on Cuba

Pentagon's report on how to manage the "effects of a changing climate" fails to mentions military bases devastated or evacuated due to natural disasters

Academic finds 44 looted artifacts from Ottoman Empire in storage at British museum

World Health Organization declares that refugees do not pose undue risks of disease but become at greater risk themselves after migrating

Historians, journalists & family of assassinated 1960's US political figures use Martin Luther King day to call for new investigations into slayings

Brother of Catholic teenager present during alleged mocking of Native-American speaks out

Neocon Bill Kristol deletes Tweet maligning Covington "MAGA brats" who "absorbed spirit of Trumpism"

Egyptian court sentences TV host to one year in jail for interviewing gay man

American progressives are trying to stop Canadian oil extraction that could exceed that of Saudi Arabia

Britain's secretary for international trade warns blocking Brexit will unleash "political tsunami" with "unknowable consequences"

Former Imam from Pakistan who converted to Christianity in Germany says his family now wants to kill him

Federal judge allows $1 billion lawsuit against companies for their role in US experiment in the 1940's that saw Guatemalans injected with syphilis & gonorrhea

Venezuela's economic collapse is now deeper than Russia's and Ukraine's post-Soviet hyper depression

Native American elder in Covington Catholic students controversy seems to have a record of seeking out racially charged confrontations

Airbnb wants to pay guests to live in Italy for three months for free to kick-start new business venture

Iran dismisses accusations from German prosecutor of spying on German army, saying "enemies" aim to "sour relations" between Iran and Europe

Trump's shutdown may be about the wall, but it also endangers America's national security

Trump is the reason why Democrats turned hawkish & Republicans anti-war