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US House passes healthcare bill in major Trump victory
The U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill on May 4 to repeal major parts of Obamacare and replace it with a Republican healthcare plan, handing President Donald Trump his biggest legislative victory but setting up a tough fight in the Senate.
Washington: The playbook is back
It was striking, in U.S. media coverage of Donald Trump's first hundred days in office, that most observers noted with relief that his foreign policy has turned out to be less radical than they feared. In fact, it's not radical at all. He has already fired cruise missiles at a Middle Eastern country, a ritual that has been observed by every American president since Bill Clinton.
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Barack Obama secures $800,000 for two speaking engagements
Former President Barack Obama has secured another $400,000 fee as he was interviewed for 90 minutes by cable network A&E Networks before an audience of advertisers. It is second speaking engagement for $400K announced in the same week.
Trump unleashes the generals. They don’t always see the big picture
When Adm. Harry B. Harris Jr., the military’s top commander in the Pacific, ordered the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson “to sail north” from Singapore this month, he was oblivious to the larger — and incorrect — impression that he was rushing a naval strike force to confront an increasingly belligerent North Korea.
EU Prolongs Sanctions on Iran Over Human Rights Violations
The European Union on Tuesday extended until April 2018 sanctions against Iran for "serious human rights violations", a narrower measure than restrictions the bloc had already lifted after an international accord on Tehran's nuclear programme, reported Reuters.
The new face of Trump
How fast things can change politically in three months. Donald Trump today doesn't particularly resemble the man who won the election and was sworn in as president.
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Hillary Clinton calls for US to bomb Syria
In her first interview since her stunning presidential election defeat by Republican rival Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton on Thursday called for the United States to bomb Syrian air fields.
Clinton, in an interview at the Women in the World Summit in New York, also called Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election a theft more damaging than Watergate.
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EU Leads Attacks on Trump's Rollback of Obama Climate Policy
The European Union has led criticism of Donald Trump's effort to unravel Barack Obama's measures to combat climate change, suggesting that Europe will now take the lead in global efforts, The Guardian reports.
Obama plans communist coup, according to Google device! (video)
Obama is planning a secret communist coup to overthrow the United States government.
At least, that’s what Google says.
Ryabkov: Russia-US relations are at their worst since Cold War
Relations between Russia and the United States are at their worst since the Cold War, a Russian Foreign Ministry official has said, placing the blame on the Obama administration.