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Brief Capitol evacuation as small plane reported in airspace
The White House and the Capitol were on lockdown briefly Tuesday morning after an airspace violation in Washington . Many members of the White House press pool were reportedly ordered into a briefing room for a brief period. Fighter jets are believed to have been scrambled amid reports of an airspace violation in Washington DC. The jets have been scrambled from Air Force Base Andrews. [Full Article...]
Argentina convicts two priests of sexual abuse
Nicola Corradi, an 83-year-old Italian, and the Rev. Horacio Corbacho, a 59-year-old Argentine, who worked at the Antonio Provolo Institute for Deaf and Hearing Impaired Children in the Mendoza municipality of Lujan de Cuyo. Apart from the gardener, a 42-year-old Japanese nun Kosaka Kumiko was also charged with complicity with the priests. The trial began on August 5 and 42 witnesses, including ... [Full Article...]
Judge Rules Former White House Counsel Don McGahn Must Testify Before Congress
McGahn, who left his post in October 2018, last May defied a subpoena from the Democratic-led House of Representatives Judiciary Committee for testimony. "We don't live in a world where your status as a former executive branch official somehow shields you or prevents you from giving information", Jackson said. [Full Article...]
Taiwan probes two executives amid China meddling claims
The espionage saga has been dismissed by Beijing as "a clumsy farce", with Chinese authorities accusing Mr Wang of being a convicted fraudster. Taiwan has arrested two executives of a Hong Kong-based company accused of acting as a front for Chinese intelligence agencies working to undermine democracy in Hong Kong and Taiwan, the official news agency reported Tuesday. [Full Article...]
U.K. Chief Rabbi Suggests Voters Should Avoid Corbyn’s Labour
The UK's Chief Rabbi has strongly criticized Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn over his handling of allegations of anti-Semitism , in an unprecedented intervention during the final weeks of the election campaign. Rabbi Mirvis said that while convention dictates that the chief rabbi stays away from party politics, challenging racism went beyond politics. It is a failure of culture. [Full Article...]
Carbon Dioxide in Earth's Atmosphere Reaches New Record High
A woman walks past an anonymous billboard, with the headline " Global Warming " with the "m" crossed out to make it "Global Warning" urging people to "Unite behind the science" and acknowledge the challenges posed by global warming, in Berlin on November 13, 2019. [Full Article...]
Capitol Christmas tree arrives in Washington ahead of unveiling
According to the New Hampshire Vermont Christmas Tree Association, there were a few Christmas tree farms in northern Vermont that were hit hard by the rainstorm on Halloween night, but as a whole the two states are on track to produce enough trees for the upcoming holiday season. [Full Article...]
General election 2019: Lifelong Tories should back Lib Dems, says Heseltine
Mr Grieve, the former attorney general, is reported to have said: "I'm sorry, my party's gone bonkers", while Ms Milton, the former skills minister, likened Prime Minister Boris Johnson to a "spoilt child". In a wide-ranging speech, the Lib Dem foreign affairs spokesman said the PM had chosen to align himself with "right wing, authoritarian nationalists" on the world stage. [Full Article...]