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El Chapo' Guzman Pleads Not Guilty In Us To 17 Counts

... sentenced. Since then, he's successfully avoided arrest and extradition in Canada, France, Israel, Thailand and Switzerland. This year, prosecutors in Poland said they were reviving efforts to extradite the 82-year-old filmmaker. Hide Caption. 6 of 12. Photos: Famous US extradition cases. Cuba gave asylum to Joanne Chesimard, who's on the FBI's list of most wanted terrorists. Chesimard, who's also known by the alias Assata Shakur, escaped from a prison in New Jersey, where she was convicted of killing a state trooper. US lawmakers have called for Cuba to extradite her. Hide Caption. 7 of 12. Photos: Famous US extradition cases. Thailand extradited arms dealer Viktor Bout to the United States in 2010, drawing swift criticism from his native Russia, which called the extradition illegal. In 2012, Bout was sentenced to 25 years behind bars "for agreeing to provide a staggering number of military-grade weapons to an avowed terrorist organization committed ...

Defeated Leader Jammeh Says He Will Step Down

... said. The presidents of Guinea and Mauritania have been in Gambia since Friday as well, working to convince Jammeh to leave peacefully. An African Union statement welcomed Barrow's swearing-in as the legitimate president and expressed "the readiness of the AU to work closely with the new Gambian authorities to promote peace, security, stability and reconciliation in their country.". The South African government also called upon Jammeh to step down peacefully. Leader in waiting. Barrow has been waiting in Senegal - which surrounds Gambia - for the handover of power. In his first speech as leader, he hailed the "victory of the Gambian nation.". This is a victory of the Gambian nation. Our national flag will fly high among those of the most democratic nations of the world. #Gambia __link__/QRGZg 1 gzbs. — Adama Barrow (@adama_barrow) January 19, 2017. "Our national flag will now fly high," he said Thursday. "Violence is finished forever from the life of the Gambians. ...

Car Deliberately Plows Into Crowd In Melbourne

... condition early on Saturday. At least 20 people were injured in the incident, Victoria Police said , which unfolded around 2 p.m. local time Friday and ended when police shot and wounded the driver before taking him into custody. The car used in the incident. Video showed the driver being dragged from the car by several officers and hand-cuffed on the ground, dressed only in red underwear and white trainers. Read More. "People were running out of the way, they were going very, very fast. I saw him hit a few people," a witness told CNN affiliate Sky News. "I saw bodies flying into the air.". Stabbing and chase. The incident appears to have started with an argument between acquaintances several miles away. The driver of the car was allegedly involved in a stabbing in Windsor in south Melbourne early Friday morning, police said. He then allegedly took a woman hostage and sped off in a maroon red car. Police said the driver knew both the stabbing victim and the woman, who managed to escape from the car on the Bolte Bridge. The man had ...

Inflammatory Pastor Preached To Trump Before Inauguration

... night, Jeffress said his sermon centers on Nehemiah, a Trump-like figure from the Hebrew Bible, who helped rebuild Jerusalem in the 5 th century BC, in part by mounting a defensive wall around the city. "I'm going to use Nehemiah's story as an example of why God blesses leaders," Jeffress said, "and I want it to be a tremendous encouragement to our great new president and vice president.". Unifying or divisive. An official affiliated with Trump inauguration planning, speaking on background, defended Jeffress against critics who call him divisive. "Pastor Jeffress is a unifying figure representing a diverse spectrum of Americans. Any attempt to vilify this religious leader is deeply disappointing and misplaced.". The Council on American-Islamic relations disagreed. "Unfortunately, the ...

Senate Confirms Trump's First Two Cabinet Members

... and swiftly confirm the remainder of my highly qualified cabinet nominees, so that we can get to work on behalf of the American people without further delay.". Later Friday night, Trump signed papers confirming Mattis and Kelly's appointments, and both were sworn in by Vice President Mike Pence. In a statement to the Department of Defense Friday night, Mattis pointedly praised the intelligence community, saying that along with the Pentagon, they are "the sentinels and guardians of our nation." He also vowed to "work with the State Department to strengthen our alliances.". The comments were notable in their contrast to public positions taken by Trump, most notably his skepticism of the intelligence community's increasing belief that Russia meddled in the 2016 election to aid him and hurt Hillary Clinton's campaign. Democrats object. The two Inauguration Day confirmations ...

Trump Issues Executive Order To Start Rolling Back Obamacare

... Americans. The order does not change the law, but could have a significant impact nonetheless. Read More. Trump puts freeze on new regulations. It directs the secretary of health and human services, as well as other agencies, to interpret regulations as loosely as allowed to minimize the financial burden on individuals, insurers, health care providers and others. It stressed that agencies can "waive, defer, grant exemptions from or delay implementation of any provision or requirement" of Obamacare that imposes a burden "to the maximum extent permitted by law.". One possible example is the individual mandate, which requires most Americans to be insured or pay a penalty unless they can prove a financial hardship. The Trump administration could try to loosen the criteria for qualifying for a hardship exemption. That way, fewer people would have to pay the penalty, which would be in line with the executive order and the call to provide relief to Americans suffering from the Obamacare's high costs. "This will set the gears of the bureaucracy moving in a very different direction," said Larry Levitt, ...

Hillary Clinton's Gut-wrenching Day

... each taken away Clinton's dreams of becoming president - Obama and Trump. Clinton wore a white coat - something she did often on the campaign trail to represent the color women wore during the suffrage movement. She and Bill Clinton were introduced to the inaugural stage by the announcer as "the 42 nd president of the United States, William Jefferson Clinton, and the honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton.". For Clinton's supporters, both were painful reminders of how close Clinton - the first woman to clinch a major political party's nomination for president - had come to becoming to the president of the United States. With the exception of when she exchanged pleasantries with other dignitaries on the stage, Clinton, for the most part, appeared stoic. Trump, with his former political opponent ...

What Happened To Obama's White House Website

... digital properties were started fresh for the Trump administration. "Similar to the Clinton and Bush White House websites, President Obama's White House.gov will be preserved on the web and frozen after January 20 th and made available at Obama White House.gov," former White House digital staffer Kori Schulman wrote. "The incoming White House will receive the White House.gov domain and all content that has been posted to White House.gov during the Obama administration will be archived with NARA.". Trump's new White House website already had several policies posted on it, including about trade, law enforcement, energy and foreign policy. The National Records and Archives Administration preserves documents and material from the US federal government of historical significance going back to the nation's founding, including the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. Obama, his wife and advisers created new Twitter ...

Isis Destroys Part Of Roman Theater In Palmyra

... How ISIS ravaged Palmyra's world treasures. Destroyed statues are seen inside the damaged Palmyra Museum on March 27. Hide Caption. 7 of 15. Photos: How ISIS ravaged Palmyra's world treasures. Many statues in the museum had their faces chipped off - in keeping with strict Sharia interpretations of the depiction of human forms. Hide Caption. 8 of 15. Photos: How ISIS ravaged Palmyra's world treasures. Before ISIS invaded, authorities took what they could from the museum. But larger items and those fixed to walls had to be left behind. Hide Caption. Photos: How ISIS ravaged Palmyra's world treasures. Destroyed statues inside the Palmyra Museum. Hide Caption. 10 of 15. Photos: How ISIS ravaged Palmyra's world treasures. The Syrian directorate-general of antiquities and monuments was positive that the condition of artifacts meant that they could be restored and their "historic value" returned, according to a translation of an article on the department's website. Hide Caption. Photos: ...

7 Survivors Rescued From Buried Hotel

... Italian hotel. An aerial view shows the roof and top floor of the three-story Hotel Rigopiano buried in snow after an avalanche at the foot of Gran Sasso mountain in central Italy on Thursday, January 19. Officials believe 30 people are trapped inside the hotel. Hide Caption. 9 of 9. Difficult access. Rescue efforts have been hindered by deep snow, combined with the earthquake and the possibility of more avalanches. Italian rescuers prepare to join the operation near the village of Penne on Friday. Access to the hotel had been difficult, but road crews cleared much of the snow and fallen trees by Thursday night, allowing heavy rescue equipment to reach the building. Communication issues are also complicating efforts. Authorities are hoping to bring power back to as many as 90,000 people who were left in darkness overnight from the extreme weather. Many people slept in shelters overnight Thursday to Friday despite the bitter cold and continuing snowfall because of the fear of more avalanches. CNN's Barbie Latza Nadeau and John Fiegener ...

Indiana Ymca Bans Cnn After 'fake News' Complaints

... President Trump has not yet formally resigned from his business empire. 112 Shares. Trump to tap Republican Ajit Pai. President Trump will tap Republican Ajit Pai, a commissioner on the. 111 Shares. Trump takes reins of divided nation Donald Trump was inaugurated as the president of a divided nation on. 108 Shares. Trump puts Churchill bust back in. The bust was removed from the Oval Office in 2009 by then-President Barack. 108 Shares. Hillary Clinton under microscope. Clinton will be at the Capitol to watch Donald Trump sworn in as president. 101 Shares. The Trump era begins Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the 45 th president of the United. 101 Shares. Sanders backers take over. It's the largest Democratic Party organization outside of Washington, D. C. 100 Shares. Trump vows to 'keep the Twitter. "Keep it going? I think so," Trump says. 100 Shares. Bush letter to Obama made public. The letter ...

The Obamas Say Goodbye To Washington

... They stood on the East Front steps of the Capitol with their replacements, he chatting amiably and she stoic. They stepped for a final time into the military helicopter, known for this flight as Executive One without a sitting president aboard. The former president and his wife decamped for the West Coast, flying for a final time on the presidential aircraft to Palm Springs, California. They're expected to remain for a time in the desert oasis at the home of Michael Smith, who decorated their private living quarters and designed Obama's Oval Office. His aides said they didn't expect to see Obama at least until next month. Obama has spent the last two months bidding farewell, sitting for lengthy media interviews, delivering a prime-time address in Chicago, and using the White House's social media channels to tout his presidential record. His final acts in office hewed closely with the legacy he hopes to leave as president: On Thursday, Obama commuted the sentences of more than 300 non-violent drug ...