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A nearly 1,500 mile loop of hiking trails in Ohio could soon join the ranks of the Appalachian Trail and the Pacific Crest Trail.The National Park Service is evaluating whether to add the Buckeye Trail, which runs from Lake Erie to the Ohio River, to its National Trails System. Over the next several weeks, the service will share information about its feasibility study and hear from the public at cities around the state. One of those meetings will be held in Cincinnati on Jan. 16.The Buckeye Trail spans nearly 1,500 miles.The Buckeye Trail was built from 1959 to 1980 by…
The top diplomats of France, Poland and Germany reportedly want to send a signal of unity to Washington The foreign ministers of France, Germany and Poland are planning a joint trip to the US as a show of unity, Politico EU has reported.While the visit is still at the planning stage and no date has been set, the trio wants to arrive shortly after the January 20 inauguration of President Donald Trump, three EU diplomats told the outlet on condition of anonymity on Wednesday.Jean-Noel Barrot of France, Annalena Baerbock of Germany and Radoslaw Sikorski of Poland might even be accompanied…
Via Middle East EyeThe Palestinian Authority (PA) asked the United States to approve a four-year $680m plan to boost the training of its special forces and bolster its supply of ammunition and armoured vehicles, an American source and a source close to PA revealed to Middle East Eye.The request was made in mid-December at a meeting with US security officials at the PA’s Ministry of Interior in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. At the meeting, PA security officials expressed frustration over what they believed was the US’s failure to fulfil its commitments to the authority by replenishing arms supplies and training…
Add this story to the ‘Trump was right again’ pile. Just three months ago, when Trump appeared on the Joe Rogan Podcast, he talked to Joe about the ongoing issue of water dispersal in California and about how the state could stop wildfires by clearing dead trees from forests. He suggested that the state actually has more than enough water to deal with these and other issues such as farming, but progressive environmental policies are standing in the way. Transcript via the American Presidency Project: TRUMP:—Los Angeles, you can’t get proper amounts of water and it’s unbelievably expensive, and you…
Although ‘Squid Game’ remains popular, its second series has not had the same media impact as the … [+] first No Ju-han/Netflix © 2024No Ju-han/Netflix Streaming services and movie studios rarely take the sensible step of quitting whilst they are ahead. When they find a successful show or film it usually spawns sequel after sequel until interest in it is exhausted. Not Netflix. The creator of Squid Game, one of the most popular Netflix shows, has announced that its upcoming third season will be its last and there is good reason for this. Squid Game’s second season launched late last…
Senate Republicans are ready to begin delivering on President-elect Donald Trump’s historic mandate, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) said Wednesday in outlining the Senate’s path ahead. Thune is just beginning his tenure as Republican leader, but he’s already charting a path far different than his predecessor, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who often sparred with and belittled Trump while Leader. “The American people gave President Trump and Republicans a mandate,” Thune said in a Wednesday floor speech. “Now the time has come to begin executing on it.” Thune, who called the illegal immigration crisis “one of the most important issues…
Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, said Tuesday on CNN Newsroom that he is “concerned” the United States will not have another election after Trump takes office. Cohen said, “He’s not the same as you and I. I went to prison for, in part, many of the things that Donald Trump was found guilty on those 34 counts. Why does the justice system treat me differently? Because he’s President of the United States, or at this moment, President-elect, it’s a different system.” Host Jim Acosta said, “What would be your advice to the people who are going into this…
The government of Chad has insisted the situation in capitol N’Djamena is stable after gunshots were heard near the presidential palace.Foreign Minister Abderaman Koulamallah said in a video apparently recorded within the palace complex that there had been a “little incident” but that “everything is calm”.Sources close to the African state’s government said clashes had occurred between security forces and “terrorist elements”.The French news agency AFP quoted Koulamallah as saying that 18 attackers and a member of the security forces had been killed.Chad is a landlocked country in northern-central Africa which, since gaining independence from France in 1960, has seen…
In 2019, at the height of the anti-Trump resistance, several Democrats running for president staked out an unapologetically progressive position on immigration. Asked at a debate if they would support decriminalizing unauthorized border crossings, the vast majority of White House hopefuls on stage raised their hands, making the calculation that the fired-up liberal base was appalled at then-President Donald Trump’s handling of the border and wanted a radically different approach. The Washington Post reported at the time that White House hopeful Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.) supported repealing criminal penalties for people crossing the border illegally who were pursuing asylum, and…
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — There were no surprises in Virginia’s three special elections this week, but that won’t stop political observers from looking for clues about voter sentiment in the first official election since President Donald Trump’s sweeping victories in November.Democrats protected their slim statehouse majority by winning two overlapping, left-leaning districts in special elections that Republicans had hoped would help them gain legislative control and build on the momentum that came with winning not only the White House but both chambers of Congress.Still, Virginia is not likely to leave the national spotlight anytime soon. It’s one of two states,…