New Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Tuesday that President-elect Donald Trump is “being really dumb” by taking on the Intelligence Community and its assessments on Russia’s cyber activities. “Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,” Schumer told MSNBC’s Rachel […]
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“The UK has lost “one of the greatest experts” it has on European matters with the sudden resignation of its ambassador to the EU, the former head of the diplomatic service has warned. Sir Ivan Rogers stepped down on Tuesday, weeks before the start of negotiations of Brexit, using a resignation email to urge fellow
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Gore is a compelling surrogate for climate action, and politicians know that having him as an ally is often a way to boost their own climate credentials. And while details of the Ivanka/Gore Climate Summit of 2016 have yet to emerge, it’s likely Ivanka — a savvy businesswoman — knows that simply meeting with Gore, regardless of substance, lends
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One of my best friends teaches English at a community college located in one of the Rust Belt-like towns along the Connecticut River, where good-paying industrial jobs long ago vanished overseas. Her students are working class and poor strivers. Many are immigrants. These several dozen students are white, black and brown. Most of them are
They want to essentially erode faith in the U.S. government or U.S. government interests,” said Clint Watts, a fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute who along with two other researchers has tracked Russian propaganda since 2014. “This was their standard mode during the Cold War. The problem is that this was hard to do
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A new study has revealed a spine-chilling development in Antarctica, with the potential to submerge cities such as Miami and New York during current lifetimes. The research suggests that a meltdown of a significant part of Antarctica, such as West Antarctica, could lead to a sea level rise of 200’. While this is unlikely to
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In a vintage return to his confrontational style, Sen. Ted Cruz indicated that Republicans could seek to block a Democratic president from filling the vacant Supreme Court seat indefinitely. Cruz was unlikely to vote for any Democratic nominee given his conservative ideology, but his remarks could indicate a broader shift within the GOP to halt
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Eight years ago, it was an honour to cover the US Presidential general election between two worthy candidates. Senator Barack Obama, compared to the iconic Jackie Robinson for breaking the colour barrier in America’s past time, was pitted against Senator John McCain, a former Prisoner of War. Despite their best efforts, Senator McCain’s campaign was
The ongoing saga of the 2011 meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant has cast a long shadow over the nuclear power industry, raising questions about its safety and reliability. The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has been unable to locate or remove the highly radioactive molten core or corium from the reactors, and
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Fifty leading GOP national security figures have declared their refusal to vote for Donald Trump, citing his danger to American national security. This follows months of concern over the President’s apparent affinity for foreign dictators who wish America ill, such as Benito Mussolini, Kim Jong Il and Vladimir Putin. Michael Morell, former acting CIA Director,
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