Month: December 2019

A Virginia state commission released a report Thursday calling for the official repeal of “deeply troubling” state laws still on the books that contain “explicitly racist language and segregationist policies.” The Commission to Examine Racial Inequity in Virginia Law published a lengthy report saying that the outdated laws should not “remain enshrined in law” despite no longer being…

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[email protected] (Mark Matousek)December 6, 2019 Tesla has changed the production timelines for the most and least expensive trims of its Cybertruck pickup truck. It said production for the three-motor, all-wheel-drive Cybertruck, which starts at $69,900, would begin in 2021, a year earlier than Tesla first announced. The single-motor, rear-wheel-drive Cybertruck, which starts at $39,900, will…

By Joanna Plucinska WARSAW (Reuters) – Angela Merkel will make her first visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial on Friday after 14 years as German chancellor, bringing a 60 million euro donation to help conserve the site where the Nazis ran their largest death camp, the museum said. Merkel has not shied away from admitting Germany’s…

Click:star tracker New York (AFP) – As German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Auschwitz for the first time on Friday, 96-year-old survivor Frederick Terna will be at home in New York worrying about a resurgence of anti-Semitism. Terna, in America since 1952, isn’t trying to be “the conscience of the world,” but said he is concerned…

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel voiced a feeling of “deep shame” during her first-ever visit on Friday to the hallowed grounds of the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, where Adolf Hitler’s regime murdered more than a million people. Merkel noted that her visit comes amid rising anti-Semitism and historical revisionism…

Rep. Duncan Hunter to resign shortly after the holidays originally appeared on abcnews.go.com Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter of California will resign shortly after the holidays after pleading guilty earlier this week to one count of conspiracy in a case surrounding his alleged misuse of $250,000 in campaign donations for personal expenses such as family vacations…

(Bloomberg) — Republican Representative Duncan Hunter of California said he will resign from Congress “after the holidays” following his guilty plea to a conspiracy charge this week and a warning from the House Ethics Committee not to vote. “Shortly after the holidays I will resign from Congress,” Hunter said in an emailed statement Friday. “It…

PTI In a press statement, the Nagaland government said that it requires immediate funds, an estimated Rs 800 crore, for the relief and restoration work. So far, over 12 people have lost their lives, more than 5,000 houses damaged and over 600 people have taken shelter in camps. Read more Here’s more top news of…

By Dan Whitcomb and Jill Serjeant (Reuters) – U.S. Representative Duncan Hunter will resign from Congress following his guilty plea to a federal charge of conspiring to misuse campaign funds, he said on Friday. Hunter’s announcement that he would step down came days after the leading California lawmaker, a former U.S. Marine Corps combat veteran,…