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US Ambassador Contradicts Trump, Insists US Committed To Two-State Solution

Haley also attacked the United Nations in general terms, insisting Israel is the “one true democracy in the Middle East” and that the US is “determined to stand up to the UN’s anti-Israel bias.”

Jason Ditz
بواسطة Jason Ditz
United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks to reporters after a Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017 at U.N. headquarters. (AP/Mary Altaffer)

(REPORT) --- The Trump Administration does not appear to all be on the same page with respect to the US stance on the Middle East, despite President Trump only yesterday very publicly scrapping the two-state solution stance of United States, announcing he was “fine” with a one-state solution in a joint conference with the Israeli premier. US

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FBI Thwarts Attack By South Carolina White Supremacist Planning “Dylann Roof-Type” Act

According to a sworn FBI statement, agents began investigating the man after he threatened a synagogue on Facebook and told an undercover agent he wanted to commit an attack in the “spirit of Dylann Roof.”

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McDowell is charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm. According to a sworn FBI statement, agents began investigating McDowell after he threatened a synagogue on Facebook and told an undercover agent he wanted to commit an attack in the "spirit of Dylann Roof."

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A white supremacist with felony convictions in South Carolina bought a gun from an undercover FBI agent, telling the agent he planned an attack in "the spirit of Dylann Roof," authorities said Thursday. Benjamin McDowell, 29, was arrested in Myrtle Beach shortly after buying the .40-caliber Glock and ammunition for $109 from the

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US Labor Unions Push Back At Trump On Pipelines And Environmental Deregulation

As Trump wages a ‘shock and awe’ campaign of rolling back climate and environment-related rules, many organized labor unions are speaking out against projects like Keystone XL and the Dakota Access pipelines, which they say will bring environmental chaos and not many jobs.

Seth Sandronsky
بواسطة Seth Sandronsky
Jeff Holland takes a picture of some of the 300,000 computer-controlled mirrors that reflect sunlight to boilers that sit on 459-foot towers Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014 in Primm, Nev. The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, sprawling across roughly 5 square miles of federal land near the California-Nevada border, will be opened formally Thursday after years of regulatory and legal tangles. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

WASHINGTON --- President Donald Trump claims that his energy policy creates high-wage construction jobs. Some of organized labor in the United States agrees with him, including North America’s Building Trades Unions, which is affiliated with the AFL-CIO, the country’s largest federation of unions. On Jan. 24, NABTU released a statement in

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What Wikileaks Reveals About America’s Role In Ecuador’s Elections

In the final days of Ecuador’s presidential campaign, WikiLeaks republishes U.S. diplomatic cables related to the three major candidates.

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Ecuador's 2017 presidential candidates. (Photo: TeleSUR)

(ANALYSIS) --- As Ecuador's leading presidential candidate of the governing Alianza Pais party, Lenin Moreno, wrapped up his campaign with a massive rally in the nation's capital, Quito, on Wednesday, WikiLeaks tweeted out portions of the U.S. diplomatic cables related to the three major candidates in Sunday's election. While the documents

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Survey: Majority Of Americans Increasingly Stressed About The Country’s Future

Survey finds ‘stunning’ level of anxiety is being caused by nation’s political climate and prospects for the future.

Jon Queally
بواسطة Jon Queally
A man dressed in red-white-and-blue sits on the curb during a protest against President-elect Donald Trump, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016, in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

(REPORT) --- Americans have been taking to the streets in record numbers since the inauguration of President Donald Trump, but amid that uptick in resistance something else has been rising within the nation's electorate: personal anxiety and stress caused by the nation's new political reality. According to a new survey by the American

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In Just Two Years, The Company Behind DAPL Reported 69 Accidents And Polluted Rivers In 4 States

The company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline racked up 69 reported accidents in just two years — leaking hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil products.

Claire Bernish
بواسطة Claire Bernish
The spill discovered Monday, Dec. 5, is located approximately 16 miles northwest of Belfield. (Photo: North Dakota Department of Health)

(ANALYSIS) --- Although it obstinately insists pipelines are safe, the company responsible for the Dakota Access Pipeline racked up 69 reported accidents in just two years — leaking hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil products and tainting rivers in four states. That averages nearly three spills each month. A new report from the Louisiana

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