Lauren McCauley

US Airstike Hits Syrian Mosque Killing Dozens

While rescuers continue to search rubble for civilian victims, the attack has been widely condemned as war crime.

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Ppeople try to rescue survivors trapped under the debris of a Mosque after an aerial attack during prayer in the Cina village of Etarib district of Aleppo, Syria on March 16, 2017. (Photo: İbrahim Ebu Leys/ Anadolu Agency )

U.S. military officials have confirmed that a U.S. aircraft struck a mosque outside of Aleppo, Syria during evening prayers on Thursday, killing dozens of civilians, in an attack that many are calling a war crime. Airwars' Samuel Oakford reported that U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed that a raid "took place in the vicinity of al-Jinah

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New Leak Puts « Stake In The Heart » Of Trump’s Muslim Ban Rationale

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow revealed a telling internal document which proves that extreme vetting is ‘bull-pucky.’

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(REPORT) --- In a major scoop said to put a "stake in the heart of the Muslim ban," MSNBC's Rachel Maddow reported Thursday evening on a new leaked Department of Homeland Security (DHS) analysis which essentially shreds the Trump administration's rationale for banning travel from seven Muslim-majority nations. The document, prepared by DHS'

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Senators Urge Trump Administration To Investigate Wave Of Attacks As Hate Crimes

Twenty-five senators sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions highlighting the ‘alarming increase in bias-motivated violence.’

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Sunaina Dumala grieves near the body of her husband Srinivas Kuchibhotla, a 32-year-old engineer who was killed in a racially motivated shooting in a crowded Kansas bar, at their residence in Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, Feb.28, 2017. According to witnesses, the gunman yelled "get out of my country" at Kuchibhotla and Alok Madasani before he opened fire at Austin's Bar and Grill in Olathe, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City, on Wednesday evening. Both men had come to the U.S. from India to study and worked as engineers at GPS-maker Garmin. (AP/Mahesh Kumar A.)

(REPORT) --- Responding to a recent wave of violence and threats against minority communities, more than two dozen senators on Thursday urged the Trump administration to take a stand and reaffirm the federal government's role in prosecuting hate crimes. Addressed to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the letter highlights the "alarming increase in

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Republicans Block Effort To Obtain Trump’s Tax Returns

GOP members of the House Ways and Means Committee voted against using an obscure law to obtain the records.

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Marching protesters hold up a sign demanding that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump release his tax returns, in Miami on Sept. 16. (AP/Lynne Sladky)

(REPORT) --- Ignoring the vast majority of Americans who say they want President Donald Trump to release his taxes, GOP lawmakers who have the power to obtain the records on Tuesday blocked an effort to do so. Republican members of the House Ways and Means Committee voted unanimously against using an obscure law which leans on the body's legal

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West Virginia National Guard Cancels Town Hall, Sanders Vows To Hold It ‘In The Streets’

As the former presidential candidate continues to draw thousands in red states, officials pulled the plug on Monday speech in impoverished McDowell County, West Virginia

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Sen. Bernard Sanders, I-Vt. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

(REPORT) --- Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said he will not be "intimidated" from speaking in West Virginia's McDowell County, "one of the poorest areas in one of our poorest states," after officials pulled the plug on a Monday town hall event. "If anyone in West Virginia government thinks that I will be intimidated from going to McDowell County,

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Trump Claims Media Conspiring To Ignore Terror Attacks

« And in many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesn’t want to report it. They have their reasons, and you understand that. »

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President Donald Trump salutes a Marines honor guard as he disembarks from Marine One upon arrival at the White House in Washington, Monday, Feb. 6, 2017 from a trip to Florida. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Whether it is the "coordinated strategy-du-jour" or just more "alternative facts," U.S. President Donald Trump's claim Monday that the media is conspiring not to report on terror attacks has left many observers "speechless." Speaking to military leaders at the U.S. Central Command and Special Operations Command headquarters at MacDill Air Force

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Trump Imposes Media Blackout At Federal Agencies

Moves come amid growing concern that Trump and his appointees will suppress scientific innovation and research to advance their own ideological agenda.

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White House press secretary Sean Spicer calls on a reporter during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017. Spicer answered questions about the Dakota Pipeline, infrastructure, jobs and other topics. (AP/Susan Walsh)

(REPORT) --- Though the majority of President Donald Trump's controversial cabinet nominations have not yet been confirmed, his so-called "beachhead" teams have arrived at their respective agencies, carrying out orders that make clear that the "War on Science" has begun. On Tuesday, BuzzFeed broke the news that scientists at the U.S. Department of

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