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by Paul Handley Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump added a top impeachment attorney to his legal team Wednesday after the lead White House lawyer for the Russia meddling investigation stepped down. The recruitment of Emmet Flood, who represented President Bill Clinton when he was impeached by the House of Representatives and tried by the Senate in 1998-99, signaled that the White House is going on the offensive as […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — An aging US military cargo plane carrying nine troops was destroyed in a fiery crash Wednesday as it made its final scheduled flight before being mothballed, officials said. The C-130 “Hercules” cargo plane from the Puerto Rico Air National Guard crashed around 11:30 am (1530 GMT) near the Savannah airport. Footage of the crash showed it falling from the sky then exploding in a fireball. Officials at first said five […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump hinted Wednesday that there would be imminent news about three Americans detained in North Korea, after sources said they had been relocated ahead of their possible release. The development comes as Trump is preparing for a historic summit meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. “The past Administration has long been asking for three hostages to be released from a North Korean Labor camp, but […]
(Eagle News) — Tom Bennett, Senior Vice President of Community Impact, and the Literacy Program Coordinators from United Way, Sacramento contemplated on the following: “How do we get books into communities that don’t have it?” With this single thought, Little Libraries were brought to life in the state capital of California. The concept of the Little Library was a sustainable and easy model, where you take a free book to read and when you are […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump lashed out Tuesday at the “disgraceful” disclosure of questions Special Counsel Robert Mueller has sought to ask the US president about potential obstruction and other matters as part of his probe into Russian election interference. Compiled by the president’s lawyers, the questions lay out detailed lines of inquiry by Mueller into whether Trump may have tried to obstruct the Russia probe, The New York Times reported. The questions […]
(Eagle News) — Tulips in full bloom at the Abbotsford Tulip Festival. Abbotsford is located about an hour drive east from Vancouver, British Columbia. (Eagle News Service)
OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — Canada is pressing Catholic pope Francis to apologize to children who were plucked from indigenous communities and put in Catholic boarding schools where sexual abuse took place. Canadian MPs by a large majority passed a motion Tuesday asking the pontiff to apologize personally to Canadian aboriginal children who were torn from their families and sexually abused at residential schools. Voted in the House on Tuesday, 260 MPs voted in favor and […]
By Melissa Allen EBC Florida Bureau TAMPA, FL (Eagle News) — Over 4,000 volunteers hit the sandy shorelines and parks of Hillsborough County to help with the community’s annual beautification effort, The Great American Cleanup, which was hosted by the local organization, Keep Tampa Bay Beautiful, an affiliate of Keep America Beautiful. Alan Donn, a Board Member for Keep Tampa Bay Beautiful, said that their primary mission is to educate people about the environment […]
WASHINGTON DC (Eagle News) — The Lincoln Memorial is a reminder to the American people to always strive toward an equal, united, and free society. The Memorial overlooks the National Mall in Washington DC and the US Capitol, where the Worldwide Walk Against Poverty will start off on May 5, 2018. Some onlookers say that Lincoln’s hands suggest his demeanor. One is clenched suggesting strength and personal determination, the other one is open and relaxed […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump opted Monday to hold fire on imposing steel and aluminum tariffs on the European Union, Canada, and Mexico for 30 days, the White House announced — offering key allies a reprieve during ongoing negotiations. Washington has also reached a deal with South Korea on steel imports, and “agreements in principle” with Argentina, Australia, and Brazil, “the details of which will be finalized shortly,” the White House […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The number of sexual assaults reported in the US military increased last year by 10 percent, Pentagon officials said Monday, attributing the spike to the fact that victims feel freer to come forward. The number of sexual assaults brought to the attention of military authorities was 6,769 in 2017, up from 6,172 in 2016, according to the report from the Defense Department’s sexual assault prevention and response office. For the […]
by W.G. Dunlop Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump said Monday he was confident his landmark summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will go ahead, as he talked up the idea of holding it in the Demilitarized Zone between the two Koreas. Trump revealed last week that two or three locations were under consideration for the historic meeting — which would be the first between a […]
