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Trump Blasts 'RINO' George W. Bush, Rep. Cheney as 'Warmongers'

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. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo. (Bill Clark/AP) After former President George W. Bush lined up to back Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., in her reelection campaign against former President Donald Trump's primary challenge, Trump has fired shots at "warmongering and very low polling" Cheney and Bush. Trump wrote in a statement Wednesday  from his Save America PAC , using the RINO (Republican in Name Only) moniker: "RINO former President George 'Dubya' Bush and his flunky Karl Rove are endorsing warmongering and very low polling, Liz Cheney. Bush is the one who got us into the quicksand of the Middle East and, after spending trillions of dollars and killing nearly a million people, the Middle East was left in worse shape after 21 years than it was when he started his stupidity. It ended with Biden's most embarrassing in history withdrawal from Afghanistan, a total surrender, leaving $85 billion dollars of equipment and many young Warriors lives behind." Trump noted Cheney

Biden Meets With Democrats as $3.5T Plan Faces Party Split

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(Getty) T ime growing shorter, President Joe Biden launched meetings Wednesday with House and Senate Democrats as Congress worked to bridge party divisions over his big “build back better” agenda ahead of crucial voting deadlines. The back-to-back afternoon sessions at the White House come at a pivotal juncture for Biden's $3.5 trillion package as lawmakers struggle to draft the ambitious effort. With Republicans solidly opposed, Democratic leaders are counting on the president to galvanize consensus between progressives and centrists in their party. Biden was conferring first with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and the White House's communications team headed to Capitol Hill to huddle with other House Democrats. “The time is now," Biden tweeted in a video Tuesday ahead of the White House sessions. The House faces a deadline Monday to vote on the first part of Biden's plan — a nearly $1 trillion public works measure that was alread

Biden Concedes To President Macron In Phone Talks Over Submarine Crisis

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French President Emmanuel Macron, delivers a speech during a collective award ceremony at the Elysee Palace, in Paris. RELLANDINI / various sources / AFP) (Photo by STEFANO RELLANDINI/AFP via Getty Images) Joe Biden appeared to admit to a diplomatic mistake by excluding France from the latest maritime agreement with the U.K. and Australia. During a phone conversation with President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday, Biden reportedly admitted he should have had “open consultations” with France before announcing the pact with Britain and Australia. Macron also insisted on a meeting with Biden next month and said the French ambassador would return to Washington in the meantime. Biden’s recent agreements derailed a $40 billion submarine deal between France and Australia, which has sparked fury in Paris. French government spokesperson Gabriel Attal went on to explain, “the next steps, the main one today being the discussion that President Emmanuel Macron will have with Biden, to clarify the cond

Exclusive-Echoes, Uncertainty As Afghan Pilots Await U.S. Help In Tajikistan

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FILE PHOTO: A member of the Afghan air force marshals in an A-29 Super Tucano at Hamid Karzai International Airport near Kabul, Afghanistan, January 15, 2016. Picture taken January 15, 2016. To match Special Report USA-AFGHANISTAN/PILOTS U.S. Air Force/Tech. Sgt. Nathan Lipscomb/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo A U.S.-trained Afghan pilot was talking to Reuters on a smuggled cellphone from Tajikistan, where he is being held, when something strange happened – his voice started looping, repeating everything he had just said, word for word. His fiancee, an American nurse in Florida, was on the line too and started to panic. She shouted his name, but his words kept cycling back. “I was freaked out,” she said, speaking on condition of anonymity to protect him. “The worst things came to my mind.” Whatever the reason for the telephone glitch, which only happened once, it added to a deep sense of anxiety for the couple. It also came amid growing feelings of impatience and uncertainty among the A

GOP Governors to Meet With Biden On Southern Border Crisis

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Migrants, many from Haiti, wade across the Rio Grande from Del Rio, Texas, to return to Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021, to avoid deportation to Haiti from the U.S. The U.S. is flying Haitians camped in a Texas border town back to their homeland and blocking others from crossing the border from Mexico in a massive show of force that signals the beginning of what could be one of America’s swiftest, large-scale expulsions of migrants or refugees in decades. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez) A group of more than two dozen GOP governors fired off a letter to Joe Biden in which they requested a meeting at the White House regarding the crisis at southern border. In the open letter, signed by 26 governors Monday, they said the crisis now extends beyond every state and requires immediate action before it gets even worse. The governors also said the situation has endangered public health and safety in their states by opening the floodgates to human trafficking as well as drug smuggling. Acc

Rivals Allege Mass Fraud As Russian Pro-Putin Party Wins Big Majority

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Moscow's Mayor Sergei Sobyanin visits the Moscow Public Election Monitoring Center on the second day of a three-day long vote in parliamentary elections in Moscow, Russia September 18, 2021. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina Opponnents accused Russian authorities of mass fraud on Monday after the ruling United Russia party, which supports President Vladimir Putin, won a bigger than expected parliamentary majority despite unease over living standards. With 99.9% of ballots counted, the Central Election Commission said United Russia had won nearly 50% of the vote, with its nearest rival, the Communist Party, taking just under 19%. The scale of the victory means United Russia will have more than two-thirds of deputies in the 450-seat State Duma lower house of parliament. This will enable it to continue to push through laws without having to rely on other parties. United Russia, a party that Putin helped found, had always been expected to win. Its most vociferous critics, allies of jailed Kr

Fulton County, Ga. Ballot Inspection Hearing Underway

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FILE – A worker at the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections works to process absentee ballots at the State Farm Arena on November 2, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File) The battle for election integrity in Georgia is moving full-speed ahead. A court hearing in Fulton County is set to begin Monday to determine whether attorneys can investigate mail-in ballots. According to Georgia state Sen. Burt Jones (R), taxpayers deserve to see if the 147,000 absentee ballots in the Peach State’s most populous county were counted dishonestly. “We’ve got to get people’s confidence back in the election process and the only way to do that is have a mass overhaul of how, particularly the 2020 election was was run,” he stated. “And it should be a partisan issue.” In Fulton County, at least 385 absentee ballot transfer forms are still reportedly missing, which would account for about 18,901 votes. This came after Joe Biden won this state by less than 12,000 votes. “I thin