World News: Pope Leo Visits Turkey

Pope Leo XIV's visit to Turkey reveals the growing weight of the former Ottoman Empire in international diplomacy because it is capable of addressing a number of actors. But this influence, recognized and proven, may be short lived.

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World News: Trump and Risk Diplomacy

President Trump's statements about Canada, Greenland, and Gaza are both worrying and amusing. They are the will of a man convinced that the consequences of his decisions push allies and enemies to respect and distrust the United States.

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World News: Chicago 1968, Chicago 2024

Chicago, a solid democratic stronghold, has long been a key convention city. In the years before the 2024 Democratic National Convention, the 1968 Democratic Convention that resulted in riots, and an historical infamy some 56 years later.

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World News: Kiev or Rafah

While Vladimir Putin's Russia seems to be deriving many benefits from the conflict between Hamas and Israel, it is also helped by the historical sensitivity of the Middle East and the upheavals of the bad actors in control.

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World News: Beijing, from East to West

While the war in Ukraine will still condition the content of international relations in 2023, the upheavals it is causing could still generate and revive Sino-American and European relations. At the expense of an increasingly lonely Russia.

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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Resigns

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, once a potential Presidential candidate, has announced he will resign his office effective in two weeks, after a bombshell report revealed he created a toxic workplace and sexually harassed and groped female staffers.

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California Squeezes The Unemployed

Millions of California's receiving unemployment are still left in shock at the catastrophic failure of state's Employment Development Department, which has been plagued by disastrous negligence which clearly shows the inability to manage in crisis.

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The CDC Plays Politics

The Center for Disease Control has bowed to the Biden Administration playbook announcing the abandonment of some coronavirus restrictions presenting an impression that the virus has somehow miraculously dissipated and everyone, now fully vaccinated, can drop the mask.

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Human Trafficking Ring Busted in Houston

Police in Houston, Texas, discovered a holdover home in a human trafficking ring when they arrived to investigate an emergency report of a possible kidnapping and discovered 90 immigrants, malnourished, and squeezed into two rooms.

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State Department Releases COVID Report

One year into the global Coronavirus pandemic The United States State Department has released a report charging Communist China of systemically engaging in a campaign to subvert a transparent and thorough investigation into the deadly virus' origins and initial emission.

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Tiger Woods Shatters Leg in Rollover

Golfing great Tiger Woods was lucky to survive the Tuesday morning rollover crash that left the legend crushed inside his mangled SUV, seriously injured, in need of emergency reconstructive surgery, and leaving his professional sports future in question.

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President Biden, VP Harris, Take Oaths

Joseph R. Biden, after more than four decades in public service and two other attempts to secure the democratic nomination, today, made history after a tumultuous election as the 46th President of the United States of America.

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U.S. Supreme Court Deals Blow to ObamaCare (Q&A)

The United States Supreme Court, in a 7 to 2 decision majority opinion written by Justice Clarence Thomas, the high court said employers do NOT have to pay for abortions or birth control for their employees.

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World News: Exuberant South America ...

The near-chronic instability of the South American continent irritates Europe and the United States in search of established economic and diplomatic partners. But the DNA of the continent hampers this wish to the point of pushing both actors away from the current upheaval.

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Exclusiva De Noticias Telemundo: Trump Rompe El Silencio Y Habla Por Primera Vez Con Una Cadena De Televisión Hispana

Noticias Telemundo anunció hoy la transmisión de la primera entrevista del presidente Donald Trump a una cadena de televisión en español desde que asumió la presidencia, pautada para el jueves 20 de junio a las 11 PM Este/10 Centro/7 Pacífico, en exclusiva por Telemundo.

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Israel on Holocaust Day: From Genocide to Freedom

The recent rise in anti-semitism in the US and worldwide has made Holocaust Day in Israel much more meaningful. The establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, just three years after the Nazi slaughter of six million Jews, was an incredible juxtaposition of events, unparalleled in history.   

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World News: Netanyahu Razor-thin Win Moves Israel Right

With 97% of the vote counted, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-of-center Likud party has sustained a razor-thin win, defeating Benny Gantz's left-leaning Blue and White party, receiving 37 seats to Gantz's 36, but the victory is actually much greater than it appears.

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20 Killed in Upstate New York Limo Crash

A group of friends, including four sisters and two brothers, traveling to Cooperstown for a celebration were among the twenty killed in an Upstate New York limo crash after the driver failed to stop at a highly dangerous intersection.

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  • Le droit d’exister

    Le président Français Emmanuel Macron, ainsi que l'Australie, le Canada et le Royaume-Uni, ont officiellement reconnu l'État de Palestine, au grand dam du président américain Donald Trump et du Premier ministre israélien Benjamin Netanyahu.

     
  • Business News: Bob Iger and The Magic of Disney Create Lifetime Loyalty

    Bob Iger, Disney's Chairman of the Board, has a new toy. His acquisition of the Star Wars franchise brought a treasure trove of exciting new gadgets which will soon be available to the masses. For now, he gets the toys all to himself.

     
  • World News: Macron Determined to Abolish The National School of Administration

    The National School of Administration, replaced by the Institute of Public Service, has long focused on a set of criticisms aimed at denouncing laureates accused of forming an elitist system, a stigma producing anguish fueled by societal changes.

     
  • The Lobster Review - Bold, Visually Aggressive, Smart Story Telling

    The Lobster, from A24, transports the viewer into a futuristic world, where singles face discrimination, freedom is refused, and those without mates are forced to find partners in a desperately limited society with time the enemy of all.

     
  • Critique: The Traitor, Mob Drama se Dirige Vers Les Oscars, Ouvre en Novembre

    The Traitor, entrée officielle de l'Italie à la 92e cérémonie des Oscars, présente la véritable histoire de Tommaso Buscetta, premier chef de la mafia sicilienne, qui a franchi la barrière de la confiance et accepté de devenir un informateur travaillant avec le procureur.  

  • Charles Manson, Satanic Cult Leader, Has Died

    Charles Manson, the ultra-violent, mentally controlling and deeply disturbing, 1960's Satanic Cult leader and head of the Manson family has died after a brief illness and a lifetime of incarceration in the California Prison system. He was 83.

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