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GOP sees Rice as perfect villain

9 years 7 months ago
Since her time as a national security adviser and former UN ambassador during the Obama administration, Susan Rice had largely been out of the limelight until she was recently thrust into the snowballing White House surveillance controversy.

New 'Prison Break' goes too heavy on crazy

9 years 7 months ago
"Prison Break" had a great cast, thrill-ride pace and logic-be-damned quality when it premiered in 2005, which was fun, at least for a while. Fox's revival, alas, begins with a flawed blueprint, while suffering from a been-there, broke-out-of-that quality.

Opinion: Why McConnell won't hesitate to go nuclear

9 years 7 months ago
Behind the drama that will play out in the Senate over the next several days is the reality that Majority Leader Mitch McConnell took a big risk when he decided to block President Obama from filling the late Antonin Scalia's Supreme Court seat with a liberal justice. And it's likely to pay off for him in the form of the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch.

Pepsi pulls Kendall Jenner ad

9 years 7 months ago
In a Pepsi ad, Kendall Jenner joins a group of protesters and offers a soda to a police officer who accepts and smiles. The ad was quickly accused of appropriating the Black Lives Matter movement.

Haley suggests US is open to using military action

9 years 7 months ago
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley strongly condemned Russia and the Syrian government Wednesday over the chemical weapons attack on civilians, suggesting that the US is open to using military action to solve the country's ongoing civil war.

Cillizza: What Bannon's demotion means

9 years 7 months ago
President Trump's decision to remove chief strategist Steve Bannon from the National Security Council's principals committee suggests a potentially significant change in the power balance among the four top White House advisers.

Cillizza: Trump says Rice broke the law. His evidence? Nothing.

9 years 7 months ago
President Donald Trump made a big accusation on Wednesday in an interview with the New York Times: Former Obama Administration national security adviser Susan Rice likely broke the law in requesting the names of Trump campaign officials caught up in the broader surveillance of Russian officials seeking to meddle in the 2016 election.

Global Gag Rule: The result is life or death

9 years 7 months ago
Thandiwe, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, wakes up every morning at 6 a.m. to iron her school uniform in a township on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa. She times her walk to make it as quickly and safely as possible over the main artery of the township, through narrow alleyways and into her middle school.

Trump: My attitude on Assad has changed

9 years 7 months ago
When asked about his policy on war one day after a chemical attack in Syria, President Trump said he sees himself as a flexible person, adding that his attitude on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has changed "very much."
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