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Biden Wants to Keep Special Ops in the Mideast. That Doesn’t Mean More ‘Forever Wars,’ His Adviser Says Barack Obama

Biden Wants to Keep Special Ops in the Mideast. That Doesn’t Mean More ‘Forever Wars,’ His Adviser Says

As the so-called Islamic State captured eastern Syria and marched across northern Iraq in the late summer of 2014, then-U.S. Special Forces Maj. Gen. Michael Nagata promised then President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden that he would turn raw Syrian recruits into an effective fighting force to decimate…
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September 23, 2020
Brazil’s Bolsonaro blames indigenous people for Amazon fires in U.N. speech Bolsonaro

Brazil’s Bolsonaro blames indigenous people for Amazon fires in U.N. speech

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro told the United Nations on Tuesday that indigenous people in the Amazon were to blame for fires in the rainforest this year and attacked the media for spreading panic about the coronavirus pandemic.President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro speaks during the 75th annual U.N.…
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September 23, 2020
Citing family friendship and character, Cindy McCain endorses Joe Biden Joe Biden

Citing family friendship and character, Cindy McCain endorses Joe Biden

Yvonne Wingett Sanchez ,  Ronald J. Hansen   | Arizona Republic Praising Joe Biden as a longtime family friend and an ally to military families like hers, Cindy McCain, the woman Republicans wanted to make first lady in 2008, is endorsing the Democratic presidential nominee.McCain on Tuesday avoided directly criticizing President Donald Trump,…
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September 23, 2020
House Makes Deal With Steven Mnuchin, Passes Continuing Resolution Thwarting Shutdown Nancy Pelosi

House Makes Deal With Steven Mnuchin, Passes Continuing Resolution Thwarting Shutdown

On Tuesday night, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a "continuing resolution" (CR) bill to avoid a government shutdown on October 1. The deal involved Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi working directly with Republican Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to reach a compromise for the CR, a short-term spending resolution.The bill…
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September 23, 2020
U.S. blacklists Venezuelan lawmakers, alleging election manipulation Maduro

U.S. blacklists Venezuelan lawmakers, alleging election manipulation

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on Venezuelan lawmakers it accused of supporting the country's leftist leader, Nicolas Maduro, and his planned legislative elections that Washington has said will likely be rigged.The Treasury in a statement accused the five blacklisted individuals of having acted as part…
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September 23, 2020