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Mexico leader condemns Twitter, Facebook for blocking Trump
MEXICO CITY - Mexico's president on Thursday condemned the decision by social media platforms to block the accounts of U.S. President Donald Trump. President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador at the same time...
Jan 07, 2021
Publisher drops book by Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley
NEW YORK - A planned book by Sen. Josh Hawley, who objected to President-elect Joe Biden's win and backed baseless claims that the election was stolen, has been cancelled by its publisher in the wake ...
Jan 07, 2021
Black leaders cheer Georgia success, push for more progress
What started as a day of celebration for Black organizers, voters and other Georgians who helped deliver two historic Senate runoff victories was overshadowed Wednesday when a violent, mostly white mo...
Jan 07, 2021
Trump finally concedes - amid talk of ouster from office
WASHINGTON - With 13 days left in his term, President Donald Trump finally bent to reality on Thursday amid growing talk of trying to force him out early, acknowledging he'll peacefully leave after Co...
Jan 07, 2021
Conservative media decry Capitol riot, but grievances remain
NEW YORK - Media outlets that appeal to conservatives offered condemnations, explanations and deflections following the U.S. Capitol riot by President Donald Trump's supporters, but little introspecti...
Jan 07, 2021
Neil Sheehan, Pentagon Papers reporter, Vietnam author, dies
WASHINGTON - Neil Sheehan, a reporter and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who broke the story of the Pentagon Papers for The New York Times and who chronicled the deception at the heart of the Vietnam W...
Jan 07, 2021
Hurt feelings, anger linger after Pence, Trump clash
WASHINGTON - They were never a natural fit, the straight-laced evangelical and the brash reality TV star. But for more than four years, President Donald Trump and Vice-President Mike Pence made their ...
Jan 07, 2021
Indonesian cleric who inspired extremists freed from prison
JAKARTA, Indonesia - A convicted firebrand cleric who inspired the Bali bombers and other violent extremists walked free from an Indonesian prison Friday after completing his sentence for funding the ...
Jan 07, 2021
Capitol Police rejected offers of federal help to quell mob
WASHINGTON - Three days before supporters of President Donald Trump rioted at the Capitol, the Pentagon asked the U.S Capitol Police if it needed National Guard manpower. And as the mob descended on t...
Jan 07, 2021
Mob at U.S. Capitol encouraged by online conspiracy theories
CHICAGO - Every video the Louisiana man posts on Twitter and Facebook starts with a big smile and a wish for his thousands of followers to have a blessed day. But as he drove to the nation's capital T...
Jan 07, 2021