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Traveling through Sri Lanka is like venturing into a kaleidoscope, each piece shifting and separate. A Buddhist heartland, with verdant hills and saffron-robed monks, gives way to neighborhoods of mosques and men in prayer caps. Later, along the same road, comes a Hindu village, with its diversity of gods decorating homes. Occasionally, a cross juts out from a Roman Catholic or Protestant church or the windshield of a trishaw driver….

Captain Michael Connor, the commanding officer of NAS Jacksonville, described the passengers as a mix of military personnel and families, and a few civilians. While some were staying in the area, others planned to fly on to other parts of the country. ‘‘I think it is a miracle,’’ Connor said. ‘‘We could be talking about a different story this evening.’’ Passengers lined up on the plane’s wings before climbing into…

Columbia, South Carolina — Former Vice President Joe Biden rang the alarm that “Jim Crow is sneaking back” at a campaign rally in South Carolina, the south’s first primary state that is seen as key to clinching the Democratic nomination. Biden launched his third bid for the presidency on April 25 in Pennsylvania, and crisscrossed Iowa before heading to South Carolina this weekend.  Biden held a campaign rally Saturday in Columbia,…

Video President Trump tweets ‘deal will happen’ after North Korea test fires short-range projectiles Former Naval Intelligence Officer John Jordan reacts on ‘ANHQ’ North Korea’s launch Saturday of what appear to be short-range missiles is disturbing, but we shouldn’t overreact and conclude the move will end President Trump’s diplomatic efforts to get the North to give up its nuclear weapons and long-range missiles. In fact, Trump may still win his…

Captain Michael Connor, the commanding officer of NAS Jacksonville, described the passengers as a mix of military personnel and families, and a few civilians. While some were staying in the area, others planned to fly on to other parts of the country. ‘‘I think it is a miracle,’’ Connor said. ‘‘We could be talking about a different story this evening.’’ Passengers lined up on the plane’s wings before climbing into…

Former Vice President Joe Biden addresses a crowd at the Hyatt Park community center on Saturday in Columbia, South Carolina. | Sean Rayford/Getty Images 2020 elections By NATASHA KORECKI 05/04/2019 10:43 PM EDT COLUMBIA, S.C. — Joe Biden on Saturday referred to President Donald Trump as a “clown” after a supporter asked the former vice president whether he would return Trump’s insults. Biden, who is on the first swing of…

CLOSE After years of pressure to crack down on hate and bigotry, Facebook has banned Louis Farrakhan, Alex Jones and other extremists, saying they violated its ban on “dangerous individuals.” (May 3) AP, AP WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump attacked social media websites after a number of conservatives and extremist figures were banned from platforms, saying that he was monitoring the situation.  Trump spent parts of Friday and Saturday criticizing Twitter…

Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), the House minority whip, criticized Democrats on Friday for wanting to conduct oversight of President Donald Trump and his administration, saying they were obsessed with special counsel Robert Mueller’s nearly two-year long Russia investigation and “won’t give up.” His comments notably come as Trump continues to tweet around the clock about the investigation and as Scalise himself calls for a probe into the investigation’s origins. Attorney…

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The White House is ridiculing Robert Mueller’s Russia report, saying it reads like a law student’s paper while not following the law or regulation for a special counsel. The criticism comes in an April 19 letter from White House counsel Emmet T. Flood, President Trump’s new point man for the Russia legal battles ahead. Mr. Flood also accused Mr. Mueller’s team of Democratic-donor prosecutors of being political and lashed out…

Anthony Faiola May 4 at 5:01 PM CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó acknowledged Saturday errors made in attempting to stir a military uprising, and did not discard the option of a potential U.S. military option alongside Venezuelan forces — saying he would take any offer from Washington to a vote in the country’s National Assembly. After a dramatic week that saw a clandestine plan to oust President…

The Hanoi meeting in February abruptly ended when Mr. Trump rejected Mr. Kim’s suggestion that Washington lift the most painful of sanctions imposed against his country since 2016 in return for a partial dismantling of its nuclear weapons program. Mr. Trump wanted the quick rollback of the North’s entire nuclear weapons program. After returning home without badly needed relief from sanctions, Mr. Kim said he would give Mr. Trump until…

“If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything,” as an old piece of political folk wisdom holds. The Democratic Party has apparently not learned this lesson. This is why (among other reasons) Donald Trump will likely defeat the Democratic nominee — whoever that may be — and win the 2020 presidential election. On Wednesday, Attorney General William Barr testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee about his handling of special counsel Robert…

Video Kamala Harris to Bill Barr: You made the decision not to charge the president California Democrat Sen. Kamala Harris asks Attorney General Bill Barr whether or not Rod Rosenstein had been cleared of a conflict of interest in presiding over the Mueller investigation. Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., on Friday sent a letter to the Department of Justice’s inspector general demanding he investigates whether the White House had urged Attorney…

A plane carrying 143 people slid off the runway at Naval Air Station Jacksonville and into the nearby St. John’s River on Friday night, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Department said. The Boeing 737 was not submerged in water and everyone on the plane was accounted for, police said. The plane came to stop in a shallow part of the St. John’s River. Within 30 minutes, dozens of military and civilian rescuers…

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WAUKEGAN, IL (NBC NEWS) – At least four people are in the hospital after a massive explosion at a silicone plant. Four people were injured in a plant explosion in Illinois. It happened shortly before 10 p.m. Friday at the AB Specialty Silicones in Waukegan, Illinois. At least four people were taken to the hospital with unknown injuries; however…

Some Democrats say the idea of trying to predict electability and casting Mr. Trump as an “aberration” was tried by Mrs. Clinton in 2016 — and it failed. “I feel like the party went through this and the 2016 election showed that Trumpism isn’t just Donald Trump — it’s the entire Republican Congress, too,” said Rebecca Katz, a progressive Democratic strategist unaligned in the 2020 contest. “Until there is someone…

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea fired several “unidentified short-range projectiles” into the sea off its east coast on Saturday, prompting South Korea to call on its communist neighbor to “stop acts that escalate military tension on the Korean Peninsula”. The South Korean military initially described it as a missile launch, but subsequently gave a more vague description. The latest firing came after the North’s test of what it called a…

A Boeing jetliner with 143 people aboard from the U.S. outpost at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, slid off a runway into a shallow river in Jacksonville, Florida, on Friday while attempting to land at a military base there during a thunderstorm, injuring 21 people. There were no reports of fatalities or critical injuries. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said on Twitter that all 21 of the injured were taken to a hospital,…