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Visitors to the U.S. may have to hand over social media passwords
People who want to visit the United States could be asked to hand over their social-media passwords to officials as part of enhanced security checks, the country's top domestic security chief said. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly told Congress on T ...[Read more]
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Echoes Of Iraq Heard In Latest Threats Against Iran
Tehran and its proxies are currently engaged in fierce battles against ISIS militias in both Iraq and Syria is immaterial to the secretary. Mattis evidently sees the sinister hand of the Islamic Republic behind every affront to U.S. military predominance ...[Read more]
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LA rules against sleeping overnight in cars will be enforced starting today
Enforcement of new regulations targeting homeless people who live in their vehicles will start today, reports KPCC. The new rules dictate where people living in RVs and cars can park. For example, parking “for habitation purposes” on residential stree ...[Read more]
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‘I didn’t think of Iraqis as humans,’ says U.S. soldier who raped 14-year-old girl before killing her and her family
Steven Green, a former 101st Airborne soldier, is challenging the constitutionality of his conviction, claimed that his crimes were fuelled in part by experiences in Iraq's violent 'Triangle of Death'. Prosecutors sought a death sentence, but a federal ju ...[Read more]
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“You think our country is so innocent?”€™€“ Trump asks after O’Reilly calls Putin “€˜a killer€”
The US is not as innocent as it may seem, according to President Donald Trump. When Fox News host Bill O’Reilly called Vladimir Putin “a killer,” Trump responded: “We’ve got a lot of killers.” In an interview to be aired ahead of the Super Bow ...[Read more]
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US deploys guided missile destroyer off Yemeni coast after attack on Saudi warship
The US has deployed an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer off the coast of Yemen, according to media reports. The battleship will protect US interests in the region following an attack on a Saudi military vessel which killed two sailors. The USS Cole, which wa ...[Read more]
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Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner Behind White House Extension of LGBTQ Protections
Daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner were reportedly behind US President Donald Trump's decision to uphold the previous administration's workplace protections against discrimination based on gender or sexuality. Early this week, the White House is ...[Read more]
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US wealth inequality – top 0.1% worth as much as the bottom 90%
Not since the Great Depression has wealth inequality in the US been so acute, new in-depth study finds Wealth inequality in the US is at near record levels according to a new study by academics. Over the past three decades, the share of household wealth o ...[Read more]
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New Book Details US Attempts to Topple Correa
Norwegian journalist Eirik Vold identifies current vice presidential candidate for the right-wing CREO party as a key U.S. contact in the country. In his new book, "Ecuador In the Sights: The WikiLeaks Revelations and the Conspiracy Against the Government ...[Read more]
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Stanford Study finds Fake news did not influence 2016 election
In a study released on January 18, titled “Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election,” NYU economics professor Hunt Allcott and Stanford economics professor Matthew Gentzkow conducted a series of tests to determine which fake news articles were ...[Read more]
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New CIA deputy director used to run black site€™ torture prisons
The CIA has announced its new deputy director as Gina Haspel, who took part in covert interrogation programs on Al-Qaeda suspects, and even ran a ‘black site’ prison in Thailand that used torture for questionings, the Washington Post reports. Haspel m ...[Read more]
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