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Roy Moore, the controversial former judge and a leading contender in Alabama’s Senate race, has said “maybe Putin is right” and “more akin to me than I know” given the Russian leader’s stance on gay marriage. Moore, who was propelled to fame in 2001 over his refusal to remove a monument to the Ten Commandments that he’d installed in state …

Donald Trump has issued another provocative warning to North Korea, suggesting that his threat to unleash “fire and fury” on the country was not “tough enough”. The US president told reporters that North Korea “better get their act together or they’re going to be in trouble like few nations ever have been in trouble in this world”. Trump was speaking …

By Victor Ofure Osehobo Benin City, Nigeria – Edo-Delta organization, known as the Midwest Movement has demanded a structural deconstruction and reconstruction of the Nigerian Federation as presently constituted in order to survive its existential problems. Structural deconstruction and reconstruction was part of an eight-point demands the organization made from the Nigerian government to ensure the integrity of the nation, …

By Terri Moon Cronk – DoD News WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will visit Washington state and California this week, a Pentagon spokesman announced on Monday. Mattis will visit Naval Base Kitsap in Seattle and the Defense Innovation Unit-Experimental in California’s Silicon Valley among other stops before he returns Aug. 11, Navy Capt. Jeff Davis said. Kitsap will be …

By Terri Moon Cronk – DoD News WASHINGTON — The increased use of commercial and privately owned small unmanned aircraft systems has raised Defense Department concerns for the safety and security of its installations, its aviation and its people, a Pentagon spokesman told reporters on Monday. Guidance was sent Aug. 4 to the services and to installations about the use …

Chicago will sue the Trump administration on Monday over threats to withhold public safety grant money from so-called sanctuary cities, the city’s mayor, Rahm Emanuel, announced on Sunday. The federal lawsuit, which escalates a nationwide pushback against a federal immigration crackdown, comes less than two weeks after the US attorney general, Jeff Sessions, announced that the justice department would strip …

The US vice-president, Mike Pence, has denounced a New York Times article that suggested he is considering running for president in 2020 as “disgraceful and offensive”. Pence said in a statement released on Sunday: “The allegations in this article are categorically false and represent just the latest attempt by the media to divide this administration.” The article said some Republicans …

The crowd erupted as John Denver’s 1971 song filled the arena. Behind a black curtain, beneath a blue “Make America great again!” sign, Donald Trump was preparing to make his grand entrance. “I know when he’s waiting to come out his heart is pounding because he’s coming to a field of love,” said Gene Huber, 47, a former used car …

By Alltimepost.com Washington, D.C. – Israeli authorities should abandon efforts to close Qatari broadcaster Al-Jazeera’s offices, revoke its journalists’ credentials, and censor its transmissions, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Communications Minister Ayoub Kara today repeated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s allegations that the station supports terrorism, and said the government wanted satellite and cable companies to stop carrying the …

By Victor Ofure Osehobo Benin City, Nigeria – As Nigeria faces an existential threat through growing agitation for a break-up, the people of the nation’s old Midwestern Region, otherwise known as Bendelites have vowed to remain one nation, should it disintegrate. A leader of an organization, known as the Midwest Movement, now the new voice of the region, Dr. Don …