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Lawmakers from both parties welcome Trump’s decision to cancel livestream of firing squad execution – live
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Democrat Senator Elissa Slotkin called plan to broadcast execution of Nidal Hasan ‘sick’ and Republican John Curtis said it was ‘not an effective deterrent’ Q&A: Will Trump’s economy sink the GOP in the midterms? Sign up for the Breaking News US email The US government could spen
Democrat Senator Elissa Slotkin called plan to broadcast execution of Nidal Hasan ‘sick’ and Republican John Curtis said it was ‘not an effective deterrent’ Q&A: Will Trump’s economy sink the GOP in the midterms? Sign up for the Breaking News US email The US government could spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a media campaign in South Africa to figure out why more white Afrikaners are not applying to become refugees to the US , as Donald Trump had hoped. State department officials, according to an August proposal seen by the Guardian, outlined a roughly $335,000 research and advertising effort after applications to the refugee program “trended lower than expected” since Afrikaners were allowed to apply directly online in November 2025.
The document, written by the US mission in South Africa with a department research unit for the embassy in Pretoria, admits officials know little about why. Continue reading...
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