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December 24, 2024
House Ethics report finds evidence Matt Gaetz paid thousands for sex and drugs
WASHINGTON — Former President Bill Clinton was admitted Monday afternoon to a Washington hospital, where he is undergoing testing and observation after developing a fever, his spokesman told CNN.“The president is fine,” Angel Urena, deputy chief of staff to Clinton, told CNN in an interview, adding the former president is hopeful to be home by Christmas. “He remains in good spirits and deeply appreciates the excellent care he is receiving.”Clinton, 78, was at his home in Washington when he was taken to MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. He is expected to remain at least overnight in the hospital, an aide said, describing the former president as “awake and alert.”Word of the former president’s hospitalization two days before Christmas spread quickly among the vast...
December 24, 2024
Bill Clinton hospitalized with fever
December 23, 2024
Biden commutes 37 out of 40 federal death sentences
December 23, 2024
Ex-US fighter pilot accused of training Chinese military to be extradited to the United States
December 23, 2024
Woman dies after being set on fire on New York subway, suspect arrested
RIO DE JANEIRO — Ten members of a family have died after a private plane crashed into the city of Gramado in southern Brazil.Brazilian businessman Luiz Claudio Galeazzi, who was piloting the plane, was killed in the crash alongside his wife, three daughters and other family members, a statement from his company said.The small plane reportedly hit the chimney of a building, as well as a house and a shop as it fell.Local authorities say 17 people on the ground were injured in the accident, including two in a serious condition.Galeazzi, 61, was taking his family on a trip to Jundiaí, in the São Paulo state, according to reports in Brazilian media.All 10 victims of the crash were members of Galeazzi's family, Rio Grande do Sul state governor Eduardo Leite told a press conference. He...
December 23, 2024
Private plane crash in Brazil kills pilot and his family
WASHINGTON — The question has loomed over Democrats and their allies since Donald Trump was elected to a second term: Do party leaders and liberal, pro-democracy activists have the juice to launch a passionate, organized opposition to Trump and the Republican congressional trifecta?The early takes, in the days and weeks after the election, were gloomy, bordering on defeatist. But less than a month now before Trump’s second inauguration, a picture is emerging of Resistance 2.0. It’s out with the “pink pussy hats” and often performative pop culture gesturing and in with strategic confrontation, from the halls of Congress to the courts and, when called for, the streets.That, at least, is the plan.“We don’t have rose-colored glasses. This is going to be a hard fight. They are...
December 23, 2024
Liberal leaders say they have a plan for a new, more effective anti-Trump resistance
December 23, 2024
Trump threatens to try and regain control of Panama Canal
December 20, 2024
Warning signs for Trump as Republican rebels defiant
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon announced the US currently has “approximately 2,000” troops in Syria, more than double the previously disclosed number of 900, a Defense Department spokesperson said at a press briefing on Thursday.“There are diplomatic and operational security considerations oftentimes with our deployments and some of those numbers, and [that is] certainly the case here,” said Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder, who said that the 2,000 troops are all in Syria to fight ISIS.“As I understand it, and as it was explained to me, these additional forces are considered temporary rotational forces that deploy to meet shifting mission requirements, whereas the core 900 deployers are on longer term deployments,” Ryder said on Thursday.On the same day, CNN...
December 20, 2024
Pentagon concedes US has double the disclosed number of troops in Syria
