Monday, March 6, 2017

Trump signs new travel ban targeting those from six majority-Muslim nations seeking new visas - Chicago Tribune - Monday March 6th, 2017 at 10:02 PM

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President Donald Trump has signed 15 executive orders so far. - Huffington Post

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President Donald Trump has signed 15 executive orders so far.
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Presidential usage of executive orders has varied wildly throughout history. George Washington issued eight. Wartime presidents have issued the most, like Franklin Delano Roosevelt (with nearly 4,000) and Woodrow Wilson (nearly 2,000). Modern ...

Republicans shrug off Trump wiretap claims - The Hill

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Republicans shrug off Trump wiretap claims
The Hill
While most GOP leaders are doing their best to move past Trump's wiretap remark, other Republicans say they can't be ignored. Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), a frequent Trump critic, called the allegations “very serious” and demanded the administration share ...
A top House Republican says he's seen no evidence to back Trump wiretap claimWashington Post
'No Evidence': Republican Lawmakers Want Answers About President Trump's Wiretapping ClaimFortune
Trump Has Royally Screwed Congressional RepublicansNew Republic
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Russian in hacking probe linked to alt-right stock fraud - MadCow Morning News

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Russian in hacking probe linked to alt-right stock fraud
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It's a rich stew: a hacker with ties to Russian security and organized crime; an American Mobster involved with an alt-right stock fraudster business partner of Steve Bannon; a Saudi fixer and friend of The Donald with decades-long roots in American ...

Comey's Cloud - U.S. News & World Report

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Comey's Cloud
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Comey asked DOJ to refute claim" was today's front page Washington Post headline, tantamount to a vehement denial of Trump's wild claim over the weekend that as president, Barack Obama requested a tap on Trump's phone. The FBI is part of the .... The ...

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News analysis: Trump's tested tactic — Distract, Deceive and Deny - ABC2 News

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News analysisTrump's tested tactic — Distract, Deceive and Deny
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Was the string of Tweets President Donald Trump shot out Saturday morning accusing former President Barack Obama of having “my 'wires tapped'” an attempt to divert attention away from questions about Russia campaign-meddling and ...
What to Make of Donald Trump's Early-Morning Wiretap TweetsThe New Yorker

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The Man Who Could Control the Russia Investigation - Slate Magazine

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The Man Who Could Control the Russia Investigation
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Currently, Sessions' recusal is narrow—only applying to investigations “arising from campaigns for President.” That means investigations into other potential Russia-related crimes by PresidentTrump, his administration, his associates, and family ...

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The truth about Russia - The Hill

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The truth about Russia
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And remember this: These talks were taking place at a time when, according to January's unanimous conclusion of all 17 intelligence agencies, the Russian government was actively interfering in the 2016 election for the express purpose of helping Trump ...

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Ex-CIA director on Trump's possible ties to Russia: 'There's a lot of smoke' - Yahoo News

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Ex-CIA director on Trump's possible ties to Russia: 'There's a lot of smoke'
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Former Central Intelligence Agency Director Michael Hayden isn't ready to say there's a direct link between Russia and President Trump or his campaign — but, he says, “there's a lot of smoke.” “This does deserve an investigation because there are just ...

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Poll: Two-thirds want special prosecutor to probe Trump-Russia ties - seattlepi.com

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Poll: Two-thirds want special prosecutor to probe Trump-Russia ties
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Two-thirds of Americans want a special prosecutor named to investigate connections and contacts between the Russian government and the 2016 Trump campaign and its associates, according to a new CNN/ORC national poll. In the poll, 55 percent of those ...
Most Americans want a special prosecutor to probe Team Trump's Russia tiesNew York Post
Two-thirds of Americans want special prosecutor to probe Trump-Russia tiesDaily Mail
Crossing partisan lines: More Democrats, Republicans want a special investigation into Russia-Trump tiesSalon
Washington Times -Washington Examiner -NJ.com -Turner
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Trump's claim that 'more than 300′ refugees are the subject of counterterrorism investigations - Washington Post

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Trump's claim that 'more than 300′ refugees are the subject of counterterrorism investigations
Washington Post
On March 6, President Trump issued an executive order temporarily banning travelers from six Muslim-majority countries, revising the version that led to massive confusion around the world and a federal court decision that halted the order from going ...
FBI 'terror probe' for 300 refugees, says US attorney generalBBC News

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To Fight Fascism, Our Resistance Tactics Have To Change - The National Memo (blog)

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To Fight Fascism, Our Resistance Tactics Have To Change
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Ordinary liberal prescriptions have no chance of success under a regime that has moved into an overt fascist mode; moreover, the unacknowledged continuities from the recent neoliberal past, which led to the fascist overture in the first place, mar any ...

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Republican lawmakers release text of legislation dismantling Affordable Care Act

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Overnight Cybersecurity: Comey, Trump at odds on wiretapping | Obama advisers press Trump to act on cyber - The Hill

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Overnight Cybersecurity: Comey, Trump at odds on wiretapping | Obama advisers press Trump to act on cyber
The Hill
Comey had reportedly pushed the Department of Justice to immediately refute the claims, which appear to have originated with a right-wing radio host parsing a number of news stories into a wider theory. The CNN story comes hours after Trump surrogate ...

DHS says 300 refugees are being investigated by FBI for terror ties - CBS News

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DHS says 300 refugees are being investigated by FBI for terror ties
CBS News
What we do know is that the 300 refugees they are referring to have not been convicted of acrime. Merely investigating terror ties is not the same as convicting someone for having terrorties. There has been some dissension within Homeland security ...

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Sen. Warren: Trump Trying To Divert Public From Russia Ties - CBS Boston / WBZ

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Sen. Warren: Trump Trying To Divert Public From Russia Ties
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Elizabeth Warren says President Donald Trump's tweets accusing former President Barack Obama of wiretapping his campaign are meant to draw attention away from questions about theTrump campaign's ties to Russia. The Massachusetts Democrat said ...
Trump accuses Obama of having ties to RussiaNew York Post
Donald Trump thinks he was pretty clever shifting the Russia focus to Barack Obama. He wasn'tThe Independent
Debate: Are Trump's Ties to Russia a Dangerous Security Issue or Critics' Fodder for New Red Scare?Truth-Out
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Donald Trump's Russia 'scandal' is no such thing - Sacramento Bee

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Donald Trump's Russia 'scandal' is no such thing
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What is noteworthy is that within the article is the oft-repeated claim that during the campaignDonald Trump invited the Russians to hack Hillary Clinton's emails. Anyone with a shred of objectivity would recognize that he was joking. But let us ...

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Our tantrum president: Donald Trump needs to watch “Inside Out” ASAP - Salon

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Our tantrum president: Donald Trump needs to watch “Inside Out” ASAP
Salon
This legacy is now under assault by Donald Trump and his revanchist, bigoted, xenophobic, nativist, racist promise to “make America great again” by destroying the political, social and economic progress charted in the decades following the adoption of ...

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DC's toughest gig: Defending Donald Trump - Politico

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DC's toughest gig: Defending Donald Trump
Politico
When President Donald Trump floats wild and evidence-free conspiracy theories — of massive voter fraud and illegal wire taps ordered by his predecessor — he typically does so from the relative safety of his phone's keypad, sometimes while weekending ...
'President for a Day,' starring Donald TrumpWashington Post
Did Donald Trump invent claim that Barack Obama tapped his phone?PolitiFact
Donald Trump's wiretap tweets raise his risk of impeachmentChicago Tribune
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Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions defends Russia testimony and says he didn't mislead Congress - Los Angeles Times

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Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions defends Russia testimony and says he didn't mislead Congress
Los Angeles Times
The FBI and the House and Senate intelligence committees are investigating whether anyone on then-candidate Donald Trump's team colluded with Russia's government while the Kremlin was hacking Democratic Party computers and seeking to disrupt the ...

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The web of relationships between Team Trump and Russia

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Sessions recusal puts Russia probe pressure on choice for top deputy

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The stakes are suddenly much higher for the veteran prosecutor nominated to be top deputy to Attorney General Jeff Sessions: Rod Rosenstein would shoulder all the pressure of the investigation into Russian meddling in the presidential campaign.
     

FBI Director Pressed On Agreement With Trump Dossier Author - Daily Caller

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FBI Director Pressed On Agreement With Trump Dossier Author
Daily Caller
The FBI's agreement to pay the author of the unsubstantiated dossier on Donald Trump while he was working for an opposition research firm tied to Hillary Clinton raises questions about the bureau's “independence from politics,” the chairman of the ...
Grassley probes FBI's ties to British spy who investigated TrumpThe Hill
Grassley rips FBI's reported plans to hire author of Trump dossierWashington Examiner
Grassley blasts alleged FBI plan to pay former British spy for Trump intelPolitico
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White House aides defend Trump's wiretapping claim

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White House officials on Monday defended President Donald Trump's explosive claim that Barack Obama tapped Trump's telephones during last year's election, although they won't say exactly where that information came from and left open the possibility that it isn't true.
     

Grassley rips FBI's reported plans to hire author of Trump dossier - Washington Examiner

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Grassley rips FBI's reported plans to hire author of Trump dossier
Washington Examiner
"The idea that the FBI and associates of the Clinton campaign would pay Mr. Steele to investigate the Republican nominee for president in the run-up to the election raises substantial questions about the FBI's independence from politics, as well as the ...

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The CIA forgot about a bunch of classified documents stashed in the Rockefellers' barn - MuckRock

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The CIA forgot about a bunch of classified documents stashed in the Rockefellers' barn
MuckRock
That December, CIA officers surveyed the property and made several recommendations regarding security. After these recommendations were implemented, CIA's Director of Security, Robert Gambino, certified that the vault met “the minimum physical security ...

FBI Director James Comey was 'incredulous' over Trump's tweets - CNN

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FBI Director James Comey was 'incredulous' over Trump's tweets
CNN
(CNN) FBI Director James Comey was "incredulous" over the weekend after President Donald Trump's allegation via Twitter that former President Barack Obama ordered a wiretap of his phones during the campaign, a person familiar with the matter told CNN.
White House Rejects FBI's Denial Of Trump's Wiretapping ClaimsHuffington Post
Trump Escalates His War with the FBI Over Unsubstantiated Wiretapping ClaimVanity Fair
FBI head 'incredulous' at Trump wiretapping tweets: reportThe Hill
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US armored column at Manbij to block Russians

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March 6, 2017, 10:13 PM (IDT)
The Pentagon announced Tuesday, March 6, that a US armored convoy was deployed around the disputed northern Syrian town of Manbij, As Russian units geared up to enter the town, the Trump administration warned Moscow that if they did move in, they would face American forces. This was the administration’s first direct military action in Syria to cut of Russian military expansion.
 

Grassley probes FBI's ties to British spy who investigated Trump - The Hill

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Grassley probes FBI's ties to British spy who investigated Trump
The Hill
In a Monday letter to FBI Director James Comey, Grassley asked for records pertaining to any agreements the agency may have had with Christopher Steele. The MI6 agent wrote an explosive memo on behalf of Trump's political enemies alleging that the ...
Grassley blasts alleged FBI plan to pay former British spy for Trump intelPolitico
Grassley rips FBI's reported plans to hire author of Trump dossierWashington Examiner
FBI Director Pressed On Agreement With Trump Dossier AuthorDaily Caller

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Trump Administration Creates Plan to Deport All Illegal Immigrants to Mexico 

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A new immigration enforcement plan crafted by the Trump administration includes a provision that would allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to deport all illegal immigrants—regardless of nationality—to Mexico.

George W. Bush’s Former AG: Trump ‘Right’ There Was Surveillance on Trump Tower 

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Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Sunday on ABC's "This Week" that President Trump is "right" that Trump Tower was monitored during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Muksaey, who served under former President George W. Bush, added that he does not believe the surveillance was directed by Barack Obama himself.
"I think he's [Trump's] right in that there was surveillance and that it was conducted at the behest of the attorney general–at the Justice Department," Mukasey said.
"This is the difference between being correct and being right. I think the president was not correct certainly in saying that President Obama ordered a tap on a server in Trump Tower," he added. "However, I think he's right in that there was surveillance and that it was conducted at the behest of the Justice Department through the FISA."
Over the weekend, Trump accused Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower in Manhattan before the presidential election in November.
Mukasey said that his belief is based on new reports and comments from Rep. Adam Schiff (D., Calif.), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.
"I also base it on a kind of inadvertent blurting out by Adam Schiff that his committee wants to talk to the counterintelligence agents at the FBI who are involved in this," Muksaey said. "Now what that means is that this is part not of a criminal investigation, but of an intelligence gathering investigation."
President Obama's spokesman, Kevin Lewis, released a statement over the weekend saying that Obama never ordered surveillance on American citizens.
"A cardinal rule of the Obama administration was that no White House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the Department of Justice," Lewis said. "As part of that practice, neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen."
Lewis did not say whether the Justice Department specifically ever ordered surveillance on Trump or other citizens.
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Will Comey's request push Trump over the edge? - Albuquerque Journal

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Will Comey's request push Trump over the edge?
Albuquerque Journal
The Post reports: “FBI Director James BComey asked the Justice Department this weekend to issue a statement refuting President Trump's claim that President Barack Obama ordered a wiretap of Trump's phones before the election, according to U.S ...

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Ex-Trump Adviser Vows To Preserve Russia Records For Senate Probe

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A former foreign policy adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign says that the Senate Intelligence Committee has contacted him concerning its investigation into alleged Russian interference during the election campaign.

Slovenian Leader: Invitation for Trump-Putin Summit Still Stands - Voice of America

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Slovenian Leader: Invitation for Trump-Putin Summit Still Stands
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Slovenia's president said Monday his invitation to host a summit between U.S. President DonaldTrump and Russian President Vladimir Putin still stands despite the talk of the Kremlin's meddling in the American elections. Borut Pahor told The Associated ...

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Donald Trump’s allegations: how wiretap warrants work

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Trump is straining the system of government

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CIA, DOJ sued over leaks of classified info about former NSA Flynn - Fox News

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CIA, DOJ sued over leaks of classified info about former NSA Flynn
Fox News
... Departments of Justice and Treasury are being sued by a prominent legal organization for their role in leaking highly classified material as part of an effort to undermine the credibility of former Trump administration National Security Adviser ...
US Watchdog Sues CIA, Justice Dept, Treasury Dept Over Flynn-Russia Ties ProbeSputnik International

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Gutfeld: Remembering Andrew Breitbart -- Random Thoughts on the Fifth Anniversary of His Death - Fox News

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Gutfeld: Remembering Andrew Breitbart -- Random Thoughts on the Fifth Anniversary of His Death
Fox News
We conspired hourly for weeks at a time — from our start at the Huffington Post (yes, kids, he launched that site, and I wrote for it) to the Anthony Weiner episode — almost entirely and accidentally choreographed by Breitbart himself. He graced my ...

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Trump-Russia deal taking place over North Korea - Washington Times

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Trump-Russia deal taking place over North Korea
Washington Times
We wrote recently over the significance of the Trump administration relaxing sanctions onRussian officials tied to the Russian security services, in a little publicized move a few weeks ago. The Kremlin takes care of its inner circle and the easing of ...

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Republicans are becoming Russia's accomplices - Washington Post

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Republicans are becoming Russia's accomplices
Washington Post
U.S. intelligence services have stated that the Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election with the intention of swinging it to one side. Knowing how cautious the intelligence community is in making such judgments, and given the ...

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Trump's new travel ban still won't keep out anyone from countries responsible for deadly terror attacks in the US - Washington Post

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Trump's new travel ban still won't keep out anyone from countries responsible for deadly terror attacks in the US
Washington Post
The revised ban keeps out people from six countries that the Trump administration says pose certain “national security risks.” There have been 10 fatal attacks tied to Islamist extremist ideology or otherwise deemed international terrorism since 2001 ...
Trump's 'Muslim Ban 2.0' is still the same flawed, un-American messThe Hill (blog)
New Travel Ban Exempts Iraqis, Could Target More CountriesU.S. News & World Report
Trump issues revised travel ban for six majority-Muslim countriesUSA TODAY
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The former British lawmaker at the heart of the Trump wiretap allegations 

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Louise Mensch’s article was among the sources cited by the White House to justify his claims.





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Turkish Reports Say Russian Woman Arrested In Connections With Ambassador's Killing

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Turkish media reports say a Russian woman has been arrested in connection with the killing of the Russian ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, in December.

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Trump's new travel order applies to those seeking new visas

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump's revised travel ban will temporarily halt entry to the U.S. for people from six Muslim-majority nations who are seeking new visas, though allowing those with current visas to travel freely, according to a fact sheet obtained Monday by The Associated Press....

Trump a new test for German-Israeli 'special relationship'

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BERLIN (Reuters) - In 2008, the 60th anniversary of the state of Israel, Angela Merkel delivered a speech in the Knesset in which she described relations between Germany and Israel as "excellent".
  

Terror on the Mosul front line

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MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Both screaming in terror, a father and the young daughter he cradled in his arm fled through the rubble-strewn streets of Wadi Hajar, transformed in a flash into a battleground between Islamic State fighters and Iraqi special forces.
  

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