Julio Cortez/AP Democratic senators questioned Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen over an incident where President Donald Trump reportedly used “shithole” to describe African countries. Nielsen said she did not remember Trump categorizing African countries in a specific way. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, under intense questioning from Democratic senators, said on Tuesday she did […]
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Former Lebanon PM returns to Beirut after political fracas
Jamal Saidi Saad al-Hariri returned to Lebanon’s capital. He recently resigned as the country’s prime minister during a broadcast from Saudi Arabia. Rumors that he was forced to quit began spreading. BEIRUT (Reuters) – Saad al-Hariri returned to Beirut on Tuesday for the first time since he resigned as Lebanon’s prime minister in a broadcast […]
Who owns Snopes? Fracas over fact-checking site now front and center
Enlarge / David Mikkelson, the founder of Snopes, seen here at the US Embassy in Vienna, in June 2017. (credit: US Embassy Vienna) As of Tuesday evening, Snopes.com, one of the Internet’s most longstanding fact-checking websites, successfully raised over $ 600,000 in less than 48 hours—an effort to stay afloat while an ugly legal battle […]