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Moms In Their 30s Having More Babies Than Younger Women For The First Time

For the first time, women in their early 30s are having more babies than younger moms in the United States, The Associated Press reports. Health experts say the shift is due to more women waiting longer to have children and the ongoing drop in the teen birth rate. For more than three decades, women in their late 20s had the highest birth rates, but that changed last year,

Convicted spy Jonathan Pollard and his wife, Esther, leave the federal courthouse in New York Friday, Nov. 20, 2015.

U.S. Court Urged By Lawyer To Relax Terms Of Jonathan Pollard's Parole

The lawyer for freed Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard faced a skeptical three-judge panel Wednesday as he tried to ease his client’s parole conditions, The Associated Press reported. Eliot Lauer sought to win a relaxation of conditions requiring Pollard to submit to a curfew and the monitoring of his workplace computer and whereabouts before the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

ICE Immigration Enforcement Agents transporting suspects after a raid. Sex Trafficking/San Antonio—On June 1, 2007, a San Antonio woman and her two daughters were ordered detained without bond for engaging in sex trafficking of children.

Immigrant arrests soar but fewer are deported

Santa Ana, Calif. • U.S. immigration arrests increased nearly 40 percent in early 2017 as newly emboldened agents under President Donald Trump detained more than 40,000 people suspected of being in the country illegally — with a renewed focus on immigrants without criminal convictions. The numbers released by Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Thomas Homan

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks during an anti-imperialist rally in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, March 9, 2017.

2017-05-18
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Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro: ‘We are the new Jews of the 21st century’

Nicolas Maduro, the socialist dictator of Venezuela, thinks he and his cronies have a lot in common with Jews who suffered under the Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s. And the tens of thousands of people who are protesting his rule in the streets? In his view, they are a lot like the Nazis who murdered 6 million Jews in the holocaust. From Reuters: “We are the new Jews of

Amid a cloud of tear gas, an anti-government protester covers himself with a shield that reads in Spanish "Freedom," from jet of water shot from water cannon, during clashes with security forces in Caracas, Venezuela

New death in Venezuela puts toll at level of 2014 unrest

More SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela (AP) — Legions of national guardsmen and military helicopters began descending on a western Venezuela state Wednesday where an outbreak of looting and political violence left at least three people dead in as many days, raising the nationwide death toll in a wave of unrest to at least 43. Fifteen-year-old Jose Guerrero died in San Cristobal on

2017-05-18
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Putin jokes about Trump

Russian President Vladimir Putin poked fun at reports that President Trump had shared classified intelligence with Russian officials during a White House meeting last week, saying if they were true, the information had not been passed on to him. Putin, trying to hide a smile, told reporters he had already

Presidente Michel Temer participa de reunião Ministerial do Cone Sul sobre Segurança nas Fronteiras.

Brazil: explosive recordings implicate President Michel Temer in bribery

Street protests and calls for impeachment as prosecutors are handed tapes of discussions about hush-money payments to jailed powerbroker Eduardo Cunha

Senator John Cornyn speaking at the 2012 CPAC in Washington, D.C.

Senate Majority Whip Takes Himself Out Of Consideration For FBI Chief

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) removed himself from consideration to be the next FBI director Tuesday, becoming the latest high-profile possibility to bow out, The Washington Post reported. The second-ranking Republican senator announced his decision following two days of resistance from his Republican colleagues to the idea of him filling the post.“Now more than ever the country

Diabetes screening: Diabetes can be tracked with device for measuring blood glucose by pricking the finger

2017-05-17
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U.S. FDA warns of foot, leg amputations with J&J; diabetes drug

May 16 (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson is required to add new warnings to its diabetes drug, Invokana, about the risk of foot and leg amputations, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday. ...

Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, disembark from Air Force One upon arrival at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Fla., Friday, March 17, 2017.

2017-05-17
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Trump trade officials prefer tri-lateral NAFTA deal: U.S. senators

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration's top trade officials hope to keep the North American Free Trade Agreement as a trilateral deal in negotiations with Canada and Mexico to revamp the 23-year-old pact, senators said on Tuesday. ...

Uniformed Secret Service officers clear Pennsylvania Ave. after a person allegedly attempted to jump over the North Lawn fence at the White House, Tuesday, May 16, 2017, in Washington.

Person who jumped barrier near White House in custody

The Secret Service says a person who jumped one of the bike racks used as barriers in front of fences at the White House is in custody. The agency said on its Twitter account that the person jumped the rack along the North Fence Line of Pennsylvania Avenue on Tuesday afternoon. The agency offered... ...

A Rwandan soldier stands guard at an airfield near a refugee camp full of displaced citizens at Bangui M'Poko International Airport in the Central African Republic

2017-05-17
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UN: New CAR Fighting Sets Off 'Alarm Bells'

Fresh fighting in the Central African Republic should set off “loud alarm bells,” the United Nations human rights chief said Tuesday. More than 100 people have been killed and thousands forced to flee their homes in

Hacker group threatens to release more malware

The group also threatened to dump data from banks using the SWIFT international money transfer network. ...

FILE - In this undated file photo provided by the U.S. Army Pfc. Chelsea Manning poses for a photo wearing a wig and lipstick. A U.S. Defense Department official said that Manning, an imprisoned transgender soldier formerly known as Bradley Manning, was hospitlaized Tuesday, July 5, 2016, in Leavenworth, Kan.

Chelsea Manning prepares for freedom, as a woman

WASHINGTON: After seven years behind bars, Chelsea Manning will walk out of the security gates of the Fort Leavenworth military prison on Wednesday, finally able to complete her transition as a free, openly transgender woman. When she first arrived at the military barracks, the petite Manning was a male soldier -- then known as Bradley -- who stunned the world by

In this photo taken May 31, 2011, republican forces troops allied with President Alassane Ouattara drive through the village of Keibly, just outside Blolequin in western Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast soldiers agree to end mutiny, return to barracks

The uprising exposed President Alassane Ouattara’s tenuous grip on an army patched together from former rebel and loyalist fighters ...

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, left, and King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia attend the opening session of the Arab League Summit in Doha, Qatar

Sudan President, Charged With Genocide, Is Invited to Saudi Summit with Trump

If President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan attends the meeting with Mr. Trump, it would be a major breach of longstanding American policy. ...

Philippine troops disembark from their Philippine Navy LCU (Landing Craft Unit) to conduct security while their US Army counterpart prepare to conduct humanitarian assistance to test their readiness in disaster relief

Most U.S. Troops Discharged For Misconduct Had Mental Illness, Study Finds

A majority of U.S. troops discharged from the military for misconduct during a four-year period ending in 2015 had been diagnosed with mental health conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury, a new study found, Reuters reports. The report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office will likely add to scrutiny over whether the U.S. military is

2017-05-17
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Hackers Mint Crypto-currency with Technique in Global 'Ransomware' Attack

A computer virus that exploits the same vulnerability as the global "ransomware" attack has latched on to more than 200,000 computers and begun manufacturing digital currency, experts said Tuesday. The development adds to the dangers exposed by the WannaCry ransomware and provides another piece of evidence that a North Korea-linked hacking group may be behind the attacks.

A man watches a TV screen showing a file footage of the missile launch conducted by North Korea, at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, March 18, 2016.

2017-05-17
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Seoul: North Korea missile program progressing faster than expected

South Korea's defense minister says that North Korea’s latest missile test was detected by the recently installed THAAD missile system. On Tuesday, Han Min-koo told the country’s parliament that the Pyongyang’s missile was successful in flight, adding that "It is considered an IRBM (intermediate range ballistic missile) of enhanced

Kellyanne Conway speaking at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland

MSNBC host: Conway said she disliked working for Trump

New York • President Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway said statements made by MSNBC hosts that she was only working for Trump for the hefty paycheck are untrue. “Morning Joe” show hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski said Conway told them she secretly disliked working for Trump and was only “doing it for the money.” On Monday’s show, Brzezinski said Conway would shill for

EU confirms Philippines has refused European grants

Japanese princess becomes commoner to wed college sweetheart

Can South Korea and China patch things up over THAAD?