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Sunday, May 14, 2017
8:22 AM 5/14/2017 - Republicans who attended the national committees spring meeting outside San Diego this week defended the presidents actions and insisted that they would have little political impact on midterm elections next year.
Republicans who attended the national committees spring meeting outside San Diego this week defended the presidents actions and insisted that they would have little political impact on midterm elections next year.
The ransomware attack appeared to exploit a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows, which was identified by the U.S. National Security Agency and later leaked to the internet.
"The president has not made a decision yet on a course of action" in Afghanistan, where Gen. John Nicholson has requested a "few thousand" more U.S. troops.
United States Air Force officials said much of the work needed to prepare bases abroad to accommodate the fifth-generation fighter jets comes down to the different processes for maintaining stealth technology on the aircraft.
Former FBI director James Comey attended a Broadway musical matinee in Washington Saturday, marking his first prominent public appearance since being dismissed Tuesday by President Trump. Comey and wife Patrice saw "Fun Home," a true story about cartoonist Alison Bechedel, who explores her own sexuality as a lesbian, and the suicide of her father, who led a gay, closeted life.
France officially has a new leader: Independent centrist Emmanuel Macron was inaugurated Sunday morning as the country's new president. During his inauguration speech, Macron said, "we will take all our responsibilities to provide, every time it's needed, a relevant response to big contemporary crises."
Officers fatally shot an armed jail inmate who took two nurses hostage at a hospital in northern Illinois on Saturday, several hours after the inmate stole a gun from the correction's officer guarding him, authorities said.
George Stephanopoulos tells Good Morning America a solid pick for FBI Director is "absolutely necessary" for Pres. Donald J. Trump, but it's "not going to put this controversy away." http://abcn.ws/2re4DZj
Central Paris will come to a standstill on Sunday for the inauguration of Emmanuel Macron as president of France for a five-year term he overcame the odds to win and which he has said can unite a divided nation.
Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged $124 billion on Sunday for his ambitious new Silk Road plan, saying everyone was welcome to join what he envisioned would be a path for peace and prosperity for the world.
These venues were once places of glamour and grandeur.
Haunting images of abandoned theaters across the U.S. A photographer with a passion for decaying buildings has captured a hauntingly beautiful series of images from theaters crumbling across the U.S. after the final curtain has fallen.
The Asian officer raised his concerns on an internal complaints form to senior officers in 2013, but was consequently the subject of investigation amid allegations he concocted the story himself.
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