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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2019 06:40:04 +0000

US congressman Raul Ruiz, a California Democrat, is facing a challenge for his seat by a Republican businessman named — wait for it — Raul Ruiz. The 47-year-old representative for the state’s 36th district, a Harvard-educated physician, has handily won re-election every two years since entering Congress in 2013. But the 2020 race might erase, […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2019 06:08:22 +0000

Former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe has died aged 95, the country’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on his official Twitter account. Mugabe died in Singapore, where he has often received medical treatment in recent years, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. “It is with the utmost sadness that I announce the passing […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2019 04:49:21 +0000

US President Donald Trump showed a map of Hurricane Dorian’s projected path on Wednesday that appeared to have been altered with a Sharpie pen to include the state of Alabama, which was never in harm’s way. In a White House video released on Wednesday Trump points to an official weather chart dated Aug. 29 showing […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2019 04:39:28 +0000

Bangkok ranked first in 2018 for the fourth straight year as the city with the most international visitors, according to an annual report by Mastercard released Wednesday. With almost 23 million international visitors last year, the Thai capital outpaced both Paris and London, which were second and third with just over 19 million visitors. Other […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2019 04:33:51 +0000

The Pentagon said on Wednesday it would pull funding from 127 Defense Department projects, including schools and daycare centers for military families, as it diverts $3.6 billion to fund President Donald Trump’s wall along the US border with Mexico. Schools for the children of US military members from Kentucky to Germany to Japan will be […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2019 04:48:55 +0000

Exorcists advised a Nashville school priest to ban the Harry Potter books, over fears the popular children’s novels could be used to summon spirits. Reverend Dan Reehil contacted exorcists in Rome and the US, who recommended removing the fantasy novels from St. Edward Catholic School’s library in Tennessee. Launched in 1997, the series of books […]