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Friday on MS NOW’s “Deadline,” network host Al Sharpton said Republicans were ripping the country to shreds over race while discussing the redistricting battle across several states. Sharpton said, ” I think that we are seeing the end of the second reconstruction. The rudeness and insensitivity that is being done shows that these people are deliberately saying that, as we call on the world to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the very principles that we claim the country is started, because everybody in the country was not same status. Blacks were slaves 250 years ago, women…
Washington has hailed the operation as a major security victory amid its standoff with Iran over a far larger stockpile The US has triumphantly announced that it has removed highly enriched uranium (HEU) from Venezuela in what the US Department of Energy (DOE) hailed as a victory for America and “the world.”In a statement on Friday, the DOE said it had completed the “removal of all remaining enriched uranium from a legacy research reactor” in the South American nation and transferred it to the US for processing and reuse. The quantity removed was 13.5 kg (30 pounds).The move “sends another…
Socialist President of Portugal António José Seguro urged the European Union this week to become more self-reliant, warning that the bloc cannot continue to depend on the United States to defend its own territory. President Seguro issued his calls for a greater “strategic autonomy” of Europe’s defense on Thursday during an official two-day visit to Italy to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the European University Institute in Florence. Speaking in the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino theatre, the Portuguese President criticized the “inertia” of the 27-member state bloc in preparing for rapid response to international challenges, saying that the EU “barely…
Friday on MS NOW’s “Deadline,” Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) said the Republican Party had brought the country into “Jim Crow 2.0.” Host Nicolle Wallace said, “I wonder what your thoughts are today and what your message is to the country.” Frost said, “My heart is heavy for the country because we see that this is going on all across the South. And it’s important for people to realize that this isn’t happening in a vacuum. This isn’t a plan that just came up because Donald Trump said to go redistrict. This is the product of a 60-plus-year plan to bring…
In an age when faith in most institutions has cratered, Americans still love Social Security. But they’re anxious about the future of the 90-year-old retirement income program and how changes to it might affect their own personal finances and those of their parents and children.With good reason. Around 2033 the Social Security Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund (essentially a credit balance at the Treasury) will run dry. At that point, the Social Security tax dollars flowing in will not be enough to pay all the benefits. If Congress doesn’t act, retirement checks would have to be sliced 23% across…
MADRID (AP) – Spanish authorities on Friday were preparing to receive more than 140 passengers and crew members on board a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship headed for the Canary Islands, where health officials have said they will perform careful evacuations. The vessel is expected to arrive Sunday at the Spanish island of Tenerife, off the coast of West Africa, and passengers will be taken to a “completely isolated, cordoned-off area,” said the head of Spain’s emergency services, Virginia Barcones. Both the U.S. and the U.K. have agreed to send planes to evacuate their citizens from the cruise ship. While three people…
Friday on MS NOW’s “The Weeknight,” Tennessee State Rep. Justin Pearson (D) said President Donald Trump is the “biggest white supremacist in the United States.” Host Symone Sanders said, “You had some very impassioned words on the floor, from the state House yesterday. I know, you were barred from they tended to bar you from reentering. What is your message to not just other elected officials and state legislatures across the country, but black and brown voters in some of these states across the South, across the country, about what it’s going to take, because we are, I believe, in a…
Staff have not observed attacks near the facility amid reported violations of the US-Iran ceasefire, Rosatom CEO Aleksey Likhachev has said Iran’s only operating nuclear power plant in Bushehr continues to function normally despite reports of renewed US-Iran military exchanges, Aleksey Likhachev, CEO of the Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom, has said.Russian personnel have not observed any attacks near the plant in recent days, and the situation there remains “generally calm,” Likhachev said in an interview with the Strana Rosatom corporate newspaper published on Friday. Unit 1, currently the plant’s only operational reactor, continues to run at full capacity, he…
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) shot back at California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) for making a misleading claim about his state’s renewable energy usage while calling the agency’s secretary an “oil shill.” Newsom directed his ire at DOE Sec. Chris Wright on Wednesday after he criticized California’s energy policies during a Fox Business appearance, saying “They’ve destroyed their electricity grid” and pointing out that they went from producing 40 percent of U.S. oil to just two percent. “They’ve done everything possible to make themselves more fragile to external shocks, to make energy more expensive, to drive the highest adjusted…
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, accompanied by his teenage daughter and presumptive heir Kim Ju-ae, inspected the Communist regime’s first naval destroyer this week. Kim said he plans to order two more destroyers, as well as a new class of long-range artillery pieces that could strike the South Korean capital of Seoul. Kim and his daughter paid a visit to the destroyer Choe Hyon on Friday where they were photographed inspecting the bridge and eating with the crew. According to North Korean state media, Kim pronounced himself satisfied with the maneuvering capabilities of the ship after a cruise of about…