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Trump keeps praising international strongmen, alarming human rights advocates

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It’s no longer just Vladimir Putin. As he settles into office, President Trump’s affection for totalitarian leaders has grown beyond Russia’s president to include strongmen...

After hard-left turn under Jeremy Corbyn, Britain’s Labour Party on course for historic defeat

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LONDON — In 2015, Britain’s Labour Party tacked to the left, repudiating the middle-way philosophy that had won it three elections under Tony Blair. Voters...

Demos to close some streets in C Budapest Monday

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From 9.30am until 10am, the two lanes of Andrassy Avenue between Kodaly Korond and Heroes’ Square will be closed, in the direction of the square,...

America’s most authentic dive bars

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The dive bar’s obituary has been written a thousand times, and yet: The ratio of dive-bar listicles to dive-bar obits must be about 10 to...

Marine Le Pen’s narrow path to French victory: Get opponents to stay home

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PARIS — With a tense battle for the future of France underway ahead of a presidential runoff election next month, the far-right insurgent Marine Le...

Trump scrambles to show progress as the 100-day mark approaches

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The final frenzy at the White House began Monday, with a private reception for conservative news publications, a tariff on softwood lumber imports from Canada...

A reelection challenge (almost) as big as Texas

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TORNILLO, Tex. — Midterm elections are known to be brutal on the party in power, and if there is an anti-Republican wave in 2018, look...

Warring cousins, a grisly execution A Tunisian family torn apart by ISIS

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One evening last fall, the Islamic State fighters came down from the mountains. Fadha Ghozlani shows a portrait of her brother Sayed, who was killed...

‘Fearless Girl’ ignites debate about art, Wall Street and the lack of female executives

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NEW YORK — After the 1987 stock market crash, sculptor Arturo Di Modica spent two years and $300,000 secretly working on a gift he hoped...

Roger Stone helped Donald Trump get elected president – now he’s helping himself

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OAKLAND PARK, Fla. — The directions to Roger Stone’s worldwide headquarters of conspiracy theories, self-promotion and Nixonian arcana are — like much about Roger Stone...

On Russia, Trump and his top national security aides seem to be at odds

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The message was defiantly optimistic, like a suitor determined to hold a relationship together despite mounting obstacles. “Things will work out fine between the U.S.A....

Facebook wanted ‘visceral’ live video. It’s getting live-streaming killers and suicides.

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SAN FRANCISCO — The massive growth of live-streaming everything from Little League games to a giraffe’s birth has developed a sinister edge as murderers, rapists...

In Kiron, Iowa, pop. 229, the meaning of a life, a death and another cup of coffee

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KIRON, Iowa — Russell Paulson had already heard by the time he arrived at the Quik Mart for his afternoon coffee. Walt Miller had died....

Car bomb kills scores of Syrians evacuating town after two years of siege

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BEIRUT — A car bomb in northern Syria killed more than 100 people Saturday when it ripped through buses evacuating residents from a town besieged by...

Ponta on M1: Educational institutions to educate, not politicise!

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forrás? M1 George Soros organizations are harmful and against the nation, former Romanian prime minister, Victor Ponta told in an exclusive interview for Hungarian state...

Ponta on M1: Educational institutions to educate, not politicise!

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forrás: M1 George Soros organizations are harmful and against the nation, former Romanian prime minister, Victor Ponta told in an exclusive interview for Hungarian state...

Tesla’s ‘crazy’ climb to America’s most valuable car company

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The luxury electric-car company Tesla has yet to turn a profit, losing hundreds of millions of dollars last year alone. But on Monday, the darling...

How Bannon’s multimedia machine drove a movement and paid him millions

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Stephen K. Bannon could barely finish his sentences as he implored the listeners of his Breitbart News radio show to see the new movie “Clinton...

‘Horrible’ pictures of suffering moved Trump to action on Syria

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When President Trump began receiving his intelligence briefings in January, his team made a request: The president, they said, was a visual and auditory learner....

Bannon removed from security council as McMaster asserts control

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President Trump on Wednesday removed controversial White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon from the National Security Council, part of a sweeping staff reshuffling that...

Advertisers flee ‘The O’Reilly Factor’ amid sexual-harassment claims against host

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An advertiser boycott against Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly picked up dramatic speed Tuesday in a rapid-fire reaction to the news that the outspoken host has...

She voted illegally. But was the punishment too harsh?

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GRAND PRAIRIE, Tex. — Rosa Ortega stirred herself awake at the sound of a prison guard yelling in her dreams. “It’s just a nightmare,” Oscar...

Trump’s budget would hit rural towns especially hard — but they’re willing to trust him

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DURANT, Okla. — At the Boys and Girls Club in this rural city in southern Oklahoma, the director is unsure how he will stay open...

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson spends his first weeks isolated from an anxious bureaucracy

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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson takes a private elevator to his palatial office on the seventh floor of the State Department building, where sightings of...

In historic break, Britain gives formal notice it is leaving the European Union

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LONDON — A little over nine months after British voters chose to withdraw from the European Union, Britain took a decisive — and likely irreversible...

Karen Pence is the vice president’s ‘prayer warrior,’ gut check and shield

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During the first of Vice President Pence’s two unsuccessful races for Congress, he rode a single-speed bicycle more than 250 miles around his district, much of...

Duterte plays a winning hand with foreign policy, but will his luck run out?

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MANILA — Rodrigo Duterte does not need your money. But he will take it. Since his electoral triumph last summer, the man famous for cursing foreign...

Carolyn Hax: The one-night stand and the long-standing problems

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Carolyn Hax is away. These letters are from April 11, 2003. Dear Carolyn: I just got married to my girlfriend of 11 years (high school...