Month: November 2019

Stephen Miller Targeted Marco Rubio In Breitbart Coverage, Emails Show

  Stephen Miller, a virulent white nationalist and senior White House adviser, worked in tandem with far-right publication Breitbart to smear Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), newly leaked emails show. The new trove of emails from Miller to Breitbart released Tuesday by the Southern Poverty Law Center reveal the behind-the-scenes influence Miller had over the outlet before and during the…

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Civil Rights Groups Call For Trump To Fire Stephen Miller Over White Nationalism

A coalition of civil rights organizations penned a letter Monday asking the Trump administration to fire Stephen Miller after leaked emails published last week confirmed the senior adviser’s already suspected alignment with white nationalism. The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights wrote to the White House saying that the administration will continue “to be responsible for the violence…

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls for ousting White House adviser Stephen Miller as a 'white supremacist'

WASHINGTON — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., called for the ouster of key White House adviser Stephen Miller after the release of emails that she says establish him as a “white supremacist” — a mindset she suggested President Trump shares.   The progressive congresswoman brought up Miller in an interview with Yahoo News Tuesday about the ongoing impeachment hearings. Ocasio-Cortez…

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Doubts raised over American Airlines ‘fume event’ that left two cabin crew unconscious

An inflight “fume event” so bad that two cabin crew were rendered unconscious may have had a more serious underlying cause than initially thought, according to a BBC investigation. On 21 October 2019 an American Airlines Airbus A330 departed from Heathrow at 11.14am, destination Philadelphia. Flight AA729 was about 80 minutes into the flight and…

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American Airlines admitted a mid-air accident that knocked out 2 flight crew and forced an emergency landing was not caused by spilled soap

Flickr/Oliver Holzbauer American Airlines admitted Tuesday that whatever knocked out two flight attendants and forced an emergency landing in October was not spilled soap, as the airline had previously claimed. On October 21, American Airlines flight 729 was flying from London Heathrow to Philadelphia, but was forced to land in Dublin, Ireland, when two staff members…

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Israel strikes 'dozens of Iranian targets in Syria in retaliation for rockets'

Israel said it struck dozens of Iranian targets in Syria early on Wednesday in retaliation for rockets fired by Iranian troops into the Golan Heights a day earlier.  Several Syrian regime air defence batteries were also destroyed after Bashar al-Assad’s forces fired on the raiding Israeli warplanes, the Israeli military said.  Syrian state media claimed…

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Israeli air strikes kill 23 in Syria: monitor

Jerusalem (AFP) – Israel said its warplanes carried out a “very intense” attack against Iranian forces and Syrian army targets in Syria Wednesday, in raids a monitoring group reported killed at least 23 people. In a rare confirmation of their operations in Syria, the Israeli army said they had carried out dozens of strikes against…

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Climate change is the most important issue in this election. The silence from Johnson and Corbyn says it all

In the 2017 general election, there was almost no mention of the environment in the Conservative manifesto. The Green Party had to march from government department to government department with a giant green question mark, asking: “Where is the environment in this election?” Since then, we’ve seen a resurgent climate movement put our natural world…

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Corbyn Catches Up With Johnson in Dramatic U.K. Election Debate

(Bloomberg) — Sign up to our Brexit Bulletin, follow us @Brexit and subscribe to our podcast. Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn defied his negative ratings to draw level with Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a crucial television debate ahead of the U.K.’s general election. The opposition leader, who’s been lagging behind Johnson in personal approval scores, effectively tied with the…

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