In a dark and provocative address with nationalist overtones, President Trump argued that Western values are increasingly imperiled by terrorism and extremism. “Do we have the confidence in our values to defend them at any cost?” Trump said during a speech in Poland.
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Thousands of anti-capitalist protesters massed in a harborside square and engaged in small-scale skirmishes with police ahead of massive demonstrations planned as an angry counterpoint to a summit of the world’s top industrialized powers. This year the protests have gained added momentum as a stand against President Trump and his brand of “America First” populism.
Coming on the eve of the Group of 20 meeting of global leaders in Germany, the announcement appeared to be a calculated rebuke of both the United States and Great Britain.
The International Gay Rodeo Association has seen its numbers dwindle over the years, with more chapters now defunct than operating. The remaining members wonder: Is general interest in rodeo dying? Or has growing acceptance of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community rendered their organization less essential?
As head of the independent Office of Government Ethics, Walter M. Shaub Jr. was the federal government’s most persistent critic of the Trump administration’s approach to ethics.
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The complaint accuses the Education Department of violating federal law by halting updates to a regulation that wipes away federal loans for students whose colleges used illegal or deceptive tactics to get them to borrow money to attend.
Between Rob Kardashian’s social media rant and the “Bachelor in Paradise” controversy, viewers have seen a rare glimpse at what can happen to people’s psyches when they agree to live on camera.
