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Ambassador Nikki Haley blasted the United Nations Wednesday in a defiant speech to the 193-member General Assembly before it adopted a resolution calling for an end to the US economic embargo on Cuba. … ‘This assembly does not have the power to end the US embargo. … To those who are confused as to where… Read more.
The jury returned its verdict this afternoon: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 21-year-old who admitted he and his brother bombed the 2013 Boston Marathon, has been found guilty on all 30 counts against him, including conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction and bombing of a public place. The jury of five men and seven women… Read more.
Within 48 hours of being sworn in last week, President Barack Obama signed executive orders to close the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay and ban torture of terror suspects. These executive orders will do more to regain America’s moral high ground in the international community than one million US troops can do in either Iraq… Read more.
The Guantanamo Bay trial of Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden’s driver, was billed as the most important in the annals of international military justice since the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals over 60 years ago. Yet, with all of the media focus on the US presidential campaign (complete with this week’s surreal cameo by Paris Hilton), you can be… Read more.
