MIAMI — TheU.S ...The move announced in a Pentagon statement is part of an effort by President Barack Obama's administration to release detainees considered low-risk while seeking to transfer the remainder to theU.S. "TheUnited States is grateful to the government of theKingdom of Saudi Arabia for its humanitarian gesture and willingness to support ongoing U.S ... The other prisoners in this release were identified as....
During a two-hour address to the twice-a-decade meeting of theCuban Communist Party, Castro recalled a conversation with a US official during President Obama’s recent visit ... “It’s as if we had two parties in Cuba and Fidel led one and I led the other.”.The remark prompted laughter from roughly 1,000 party delegates watching the speech, which was broadcast live on state television....
The anglers made one, hooking a large sailfish ... As the sailfish ... The crew continued to reel in the sailfish, but all that was left was its mangled body....
Despite citing a few qualms, the editorial board of theNew York Post endorsed Republican frontrunner Donald Trump in an editorial on late Thursday, the first major New York publication to do so, CBSNews reported ... But he reflects the best of 'New York ... better informed on policy, more self-disciplined and less thin-skinned," the editorial read....
PopeFrancis, widely regarded as one of the world’s greatest defender of refugees, flies into Lesbos on Saturday to highlight the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Europe. TheRoman Catholic leader will spend five hours on the island with the Ecumenical head of world Orthodoxy, Patriarch Bartholomew I, and Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, Ieronymos II...The idealists of Lesbos. volunteers at the heart of the refugee crisis....
With a sexually confused Putin and a Bond villainBlair, Corbyn theMusical has some pretty broad caricatures – but it’s even-handed in its politics. And it’s not the first musical to take on a Labour leader ... Among other holders of the post, I can find no archival trace of Gaitskell ... Most fringe political dramas in theEdinburgh tradition are implicitly leftwing, criticising Blair, Brown or Johnson from an Old Left perspective....
If New Democrats embark on a fight for the party’s soul over the course of the upcoming leadership race, they may also need to focus on wooing back the party’s soulmates as well — as polls suggest the party’s core constituencies have moved over to Justin Trudeau’s Liberals... ....
Analysis. The astonishingly low rate of support for Mulcair revealed a deep split in a party still reeling from last fall's unexpected election loss ... ....
He also won in Berlin, Germany! 556 US citizens here, a record number, participated in theDemocratic primary, and a full 79.5% voted for Sanders. In all such primaries in GermanyBernie won by 69%, in fact he won them in countries all over the world, for example with ex-pats in Israel by 249 to 160 or in Japan with 1190 to 176 ... 4 votes to 1! I wonder if the four are theUS ambassador and his family. But don’t dismiss the ex-pat vote....
Whateverthe circumstances surrounding United's arrival at White Hart Lane it was their manager who did the most damage to their top-four hopes ... ....
For the first time in a long time, both major party nominees for theU.S ... that the deal is actually bad for America...The reality could not be farther from the truth ... The internationalist left ought to be glad of these things ... In America, it is Bernie Sanders who really voices the infantile corporate conspiracy theories of theleft ... TheLeft and theRight should both support trade, even if the reasons are different....
ThePeace and Truce Of… ...Future of theLeft ... Like a Dadaist take on Shellac, The Peace and Truce of ... Indeed, this is arguably the toughest, ... the future of Future of theLeft looks bright....
After an agonizing back and forth, traditional rivals, theLeftFront and state Congress finally came together in an unprecedented alliance ... It is one of the two main issues being used by theLeft to attack the Mamata government ... TheLeft has so far said little regarding development issues in the state, or what they and their ally, the Congress, will bring to the table as far as development is concerned....
You might be confused as to why in open primaries some voters have a hard time choosing between Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Donald Trump. Well, they have lots in common. Take a look at this on trade deals. So I think we need trade. But I think it should be based on fair trade […] ... ....