President Barack Obama has called on lawmakers to take action after a weekend that saw two separate mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio which left 31 people dead and scores more injured. Alongside this, he encouraged all Americans to make their voices heard at the ballot box and beyond, to foster accountability…
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(WASHINGTON) — A landmark arms control treaty that President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed three decades ago is dead, prompting fears of a new global arms race. The United States and Russia both walked away from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty on Friday. If they choose not to extend or replace the…
(DUBAI, United Arab Emirates) — Saudi Arabia issued new laws early Friday that loosen restrictions on women by allowing any citizen to apply for a passport and travel freely, ending a long-standing and controversial guardianship policy that required male consent for a woman to travel or carry a passport. The changes are a potential game-changer…
Robert F. Kennedy’s granddaughter, Saoirse Kennedy Hill, died at the Kennedy Compound in Hyannis Port, Mass., the family announced Thursday night. Kennedy Hill was visiting the compound where her grandmother and Robert F. Kennedy’s widow, Ethel Kennedy, lives, reports the New York Times. She was the daughter of Courtney Kennedy Hill and Paul Michael Hill.…
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James Comey Won’t Be Prosecuted for Memos Detailing His Uncomfortable Trump Interactions
by News 24(WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department has declined to prosecute former FBI Director James Comey over his handling of a series of memos he wrote that documented personal interactions with President Donald Trump, a person familiar with the matter said Thursday. The memos, some of which Justice Department officials later determined contained classified information, were written…
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Ronald Reagan’s Daughter Says Audio of Her Dad Calling African Diplomats ‘Monkeys’ Made Her Cry
by News 24Patti Davis, daughter of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, has spoken out after audio emerged of her father calling United Nations diplomats “monkeys” during a taped 1971 conversation with then-President Richard Nixon. In a segment of the tape published in a July 30 article in The Atlantic, Reagan, who was then the governor of California,…
(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump intensified pressure Thursday on China to reach a trade deal by saying that beginning Sept. 1, he will impose 10% tariffs on the remaining $300 billion in Chinese imports he hasn’t already taxed. The move immediately sent stock prices sinking. The president has already imposed 25% tariffs on $250 billion…
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The Fed Just Cut Interest Rates in Hopes of Extending the Longest Economic Expansion on Record
by News 24(WASHINGTON) — The Federal Reserve is cutting its key interest rate for the first time in a decade to try to counter threats ranging from uncertainties caused by President Donald Trump’s trade wars to chronically low inflation and a dim global outlook. The central bank cut its benchmark rate — which affects many loans for…
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Two Women, Members of Community Group Dedicated to Stopping Violence in Chicago, Killed in Drive-By Shooting
by News 24Chicago police say they have developed “some goods leads” in an investigation into the murders of two women who were gunned down in the city’s South Side on July 26. Chantell Grant, 26 and Andrea Stoudemire, 36, were on the 7500 block of S. Stewart Avenue around 10 p.m. when an SUV drove past them…
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President Trump Condemned Baltimore as ‘Disgusting.’ His Administration’s Policies Aren’t Exactly Helping
by News 24President Donald Trump slammed Baltimore as a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess” over the weekend in a series of racist tweets and suggested that he could fix the problems if only Democrats gave him a chance. “I am in a very beautiful oval shaped office waiting for your call!” he wrote on Twitter. But…