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NASHVILLE, Tenn. 鈥?Tennessee won ;t stop resettling refugees, Republican Gov. Bill Lee said Wednesday, rejecting t
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JERUSALEM 鈥?Israel on Monday claimed responsibility for a series of airstrikes on Iranian military targets in Syria, drifting further away from its longstanding policy of playing down or covering up its military activities in the war-torn country.For years, Israel has remained largely silent about its attacks against Iran and its Shiite proxies operating in neighboring Syria. But in recent weeks, military and political leaders have become increasingly outspoken about these activities.This policy appears to be aimed at sending a message to key players i
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jordan air force chief, for instance, said his forces are ready for a fight.WATCH: After deadliest day for U.S. forces in Syria, withdrawal could get more complicatedIsrael considers Iran to be its greatest enemy, and as Syria civil war winds down, it has repeatedly warned that it will not allow Iranian troops 鈥?who have been fighting alongside Assad forces 鈥?to maintain a permanent presence in postwar Syria.While Israel has largely stayed out of the fighting in Syria, it has carried o
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During a White House news briefing on Monday, PBS NewsHour correspondent Yamiche Alcindor asked Press Secretary Jen Psaki about the conditions in child migrant facilities along the southern U.S. border.Watch the briefing in the video player above.Alcindor cited a report from watchdog lawyers, which says children are sleeping on the floor, going hungry and not seeing the sun for days. How is the administration not stop
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LONDON AP 鈥?U.K. Prime Minister聽Rishi Sunak聽faced a rebellion from restive lawmakers over his聽signature immigration policy, while fending off tough questions Monday about his judgment during the COVID-19 pandemic.The twin pressures add up to one of the toughest weeks of Sunaks 13 months in office, with both his present authority and past record at stake.Legislation intended to salvage Sunak blocked plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda faces a vote in the House of Commons on Tuesday. While disparate groups of Conservative lawmakers met in Parliament to pick holes in the bill, Sunak was undergoing a six-hour grilling at the U.K.s聽pandemic inquiry, where he denied taking risks with public health.Sunak was Treasury chief to Prime Minister聽Boris Johnson聽when the pandemic hit, and backed a discount initiative that encouraged people to go back to restaurants in August 2020 after months of lockdown.The governments scientific advisers have told the judge-led inquiry that they weren ;t informed in advance about the Eat Out to Help Out program, which scientists have linked to a rise
jordan in infections. One senior government science adviser referred to Sunak in a message to colleagues at the time as Dr. Death. Sunak denied
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Amid all the headlines of U.S. soldiers coming home from Iraq, it tempting to think of military communities filled with happily reunited families preparing to pick up where they left off.That been a dominant story of the p
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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?The Justice Department has added new criminal charges against Chinese tech giant Huawei and two of its U.S. subsidiaries, accusing the company in a plot to steal trade secrets from competitors in America, federal prosecutors announced Thursday.The company is also accused of installing surveillance equipment that enabled Iran to spy on protesters during 2009 anti-government demonstrations in Iran, and of doing business in North Korea despite U.S. sanctions there.The case comes as the Trump administration is raising national security concerns about Huawei, the world largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer, and is lobbying Western allies against including the company in wireless, high-speed n
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stanley cup plotting to steal the trade secrets and intellectual property of rival companies in the U.S. In some cases, prosecutors said, Huawei directed and provided incentives its own employees to steal from competitors by offering bonuses to those who brought in the most valuable stolen information.The company also used proxies, including professor
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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?The Federal Bureau of Investigation searched President Joe Bidens home in Wilmington, Delaware on Friday and located six
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Hendersonsaid the new GM will be faster and more focused on customers as ittries to rebound from years of billion-dollar losses.We recognize that we ;ve been given a rare secondchance at GM, and we are very grateful for that. And we appreciate the factthat we now have the tools to get the job done, Hendersontold a press conference in Detroit,as quoted by the Associated Press.Business as u
stanley cup sual is over at General Motors, Henderson said.In one of the fastest turnarounds for a company of its size,it took just 40 days for lawyers to straighten out the automaker
stanley cup debt andcontracts. Hendersontold reporters GM would repay about $50 billion in government loans ahead of a2015 deadline.The bulk of the company assets, including core brandsChevrolet and Cadillac, were transferred to a company controlled by the U.S. government,Reuters reported. Lawyer
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