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President Trump fires FBI Director James Comey, rais...CNN reports a source within the White House told CNN reporter Dana Bash the President's office gave this reason intending to avoid controversy because many Democrats have also criticized Comey for mishandling the Clinton case, and some have blamed him for Clinton losing the election. Specifically, recently confirmed Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein ...
Yemen requests re-evaluation of U.S. ground operatio...The official government of Yemen issued a statement on Wednesday requesting a re-evaluation the role of the United States in antiterrorism ground operations on its soil, in response to a January 29 raid by United States SEAL Team Six that killed several Yemeni citizens. An earlier report alleged Yemeni officials told the White House their government had wit...
Anti-abortion March for Life draws thousands in Wash...Yesterday, thousands of anti-abortion protesters rallied in Washington, D.C. Unlike the half a million who walked to the White House waving signs last Saturday, these came to support one of the policies espoused by the United States president Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence: making abortion harder to come by. This event, called the March for Life...
Donald Trump elected US presidentOn Tuesday, Republican Donald Trump won the 2016 United States presidential election. Republicans also kept control of both houses of Congress. Trump is to take the presidential oath in January. Image: Gage. Trump won at least 290 electoral votes, while Clinton won 228, according to AP (Associated Press) — 270 were required vote to win the election — t...
On the campaign trail in the USA, August 2016The following is the fourth edition of a monthly series chronicling the U.S. 2016 presidential election. It features original material compiled throughout the previous month after an overview of the month's biggest stories. In this month's edition on the campaign trail: the vice presidential nominee of the Reform Party is revealed; those attacked in a high pr...
On the campaign trail in the USA, July 2016The following is the third edition of a monthly series chronicling the U.S. 2016 presidential election. It features original material compiled throughout the previous month after an overview of the month's biggest stories. In this month's edition on the campaign trail: two individuals previously interviewed by Wikinews announce their candidacies for the Refor...
On the campaign trail in the USA, May 2016The following is the first edition of a monthly series chronicling the U.S. 2016 presidential election. It features original material compiled throughout the previous month after an overview of the month's biggest stories. In this month's edition on the campaign trail: a former Republican congressman briefly joins the Libertarian Party and runs for vice presi...
Wikinews interviews Rocky De La Fuente, U.S. Democra...Businessman Rocky De La Fuente took some time to speak with Wikinews about his campaign for the U.S. Democratic Party's 2016 presidential nomination. The 61-year-old De La Fuente resides in San Diego, California, grew up in Tijuana, and owns multiple businesses and properties throughout the world. Since getting his start in the automobile industry, De La Fuen...
Time magazine names Ahmed Mohamed to 'Most Influenti...Time said of Mohamed in announcing the news: "Not many people make national news by bringing a homemade clock to school. But the ninth-grader's arrest, after teachers and authorities mistook said clock for a bomb, kicked off a national debate over racial profiling". The ninth-grader's arrest [...] kicked off a national debate over racial profiling —Tim...
Texas student Ahmed Mohamed inspires social movementMohamed brought the digital clock he made to school on September 14, and a teacher mistakenly thought it resembled a bomb. Police arrested and questioned the student. Images of the boy wearing a NASA T-shirt and handcuffed by the police were quickly posted and reposted online. Hoping that the #istandwithahmed movement translates into a substantive national...
'Birther King' announces 2016 campaign for U.S. pres...Via press release on Friday, Andy Martin, a perennial candidate for political office and self-proclaimed "Birther King", announced he is seeking the U.S. Republican Party's 2016 presidential nomination, his fourth bid for the White House. In his announcement and subsequent release, Martin expresses a desire to participate in Republican presidential debates and...
Beau Biden, son of US vice president, dies at 46After being diagnosed less than two years ago, Beau underwent treatment and was considered recovered, but was recently admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland due to return of the cancer. Biden released a statement through the White House. Noting the family was with Beau when he died, he said, "It is with broken hearts t...
Gyrocopter lands on US Capitol's west lawnDouglas Mark Hughes, a mailman for the United States Postal Service, landed his gyrocopter on the west lawn of the US Capitol on Wednesday. He told his friends he was going to do this. File photo of a gyrocopter. The mailman was flying his aircraft into restricted airspace when he landed on the lawn. He was immediately arrested. His stated intention was...
Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes into French Alps, 15...Germanwings Flight 9525, an Airbus A320 carrying 150 passengers and crew, crashed into the French Alps yesterday between Digne and Barcelonnette. Officials said there were no survivors. The plane was flying to Dusseldorf, Germany from Barcelona, Spain. An emergency recovery team made its way to the crash site and reportedly recovered one of the plane's flight ...
John Boehner re-elected as US House Speaker despite ...Representative John Boehner was re-elected as Speaker of the US House of Representatives on Tuesday despite a right-wing rebellion of 25 members. Boehner's appointment as Speaker passed with 216 of the 408 votes. Republican Senator Mitch McConnell was also sworn in on Tuesday as the Senate majority leader, marking the first time in eight years when Republicans...
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