President Bush opened it amid global protest, President Obama vowed to close it. After 15 years the Guantanamo Bay prison camp does not just remain open, it could even experience a revival under President Trump. What began on January 11, 2002, with the transfer of 20 prisoners suspected of belonging to the Taliban and al …
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A 10-year-old girl was infected with a sexually transmitted disease before she was allegedly raped, murdered and dismembered by her mother’s boyfriend. A newly released autopsy report revealed Victoria Martens died from strangulation and was suffering from human papillomavirus (HPV). Pathologists say this is evidence she suffered sexual abuse, before a death which has shaken …
Fast good giant Dairy Queen, famed for its soft serve ice cream, has closed one of its stores and ended its relationship with the owner after police said he “proudly admitted” using a racial slur to a customer. Deianeira Ford said the DQ outlet in Zion, Illinois, had mixed up her order at the drive-through …
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As President Obama enters the final weeks of his presidency, there will be ample assessments of his foreign military approach, which has focused on reducing U.S. ground combat troops (with the notable exception of the Afghanistan surge), supporting local security partners, and authorizing the expansive use of air power. Whether this strategy “works”—i.e. reduces the …
In the chaos following U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order to ban refugees and immigrants, a five-year-old boy was detained for hours at Washington Dulles International Airport. On Saturday, the boy, who is a U.S. citizen from Maryland, was travelling from Iran to Washington, D.C. with a family member to meet his mother, who is …
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Ann Coulter sending out dog whistles to show her solidarity with neo-Nazis? Several white nationalists seem to think that’s the case after Coulter mysteriously tweeted out the number “14” on Thursday morning without offering any explanation or additional context. Unfortunately, 14 happens to be a popular reference for white supremacists. That’s because the most popular …
At least 10 Yemeni women and children have been killed in the first US military operation in the country authorised by President Donald Trump, medics and local media have said. The US military said it killed 14 members of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in Sunday’s dawn raid in the southern province of al-Bayda …
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An international relations professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago was forced to teach statistics after being told he was most qualified because Asians, particularly Koreans, are very good at math, a recent federal lawsuit charges. The allegation is one of a number leveled by South Korea native Seung-Whan Choi, who is suing the …
President Trump on Friday closed the US borders to refugees from around the world, ordering that families fleeing the slaughter in Syria be indefinitely blocked from entering the United States, and temporarily suspending immigration from several predominantly Muslim countries. In an executive order that he said was part of an extreme vetting plan to keep …
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he Bayonne man charged with spray-painting anti-Muslim graffiti and writing “Donald Trump” on a church building used by the local Muslim community was sentenced to 12 months probation today. As a condition of his sentence, Jonathon Hussey, 20, of West 27th Street, wrote a letter of apology to the St. Henry’s Church pastor and to …
