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Cuba's Communist Party convenes unscheduled session to debate new economic measures
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (256+ words) HAVANA " Cuba's powerful Communist Party, or PCC, called an unscheduled session Wednesday, a rare occurrence that comes days after President Miguel D'az-Canel announced an economic reform package aimed at opening up the struggling island's economy. Also Wednesday, in a surprise…...
Trump says war-ending deal with Iran reached
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (1225+ words) Details to be released, pact to be signed Friday in Switzerland President Trump and the prime minister of Pakistan said Sunday that the U. S. and Iran had reached an agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end more than three…...
Letter to the editor: Our republic is barely hanging together
1+ week, 2+ day ago (309+ words) On Sept. 17, 1787 Elizabeth Willing Powel asked Benjamin Franklin: "Well, doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" His answer: "A republic if we can keep it." Two-hundred-and-fifty years later, have we kept it? I've been fortunate enough in…...
Letter to the editor: America's greatest threat may be within
1+ mon, 7+ hour ago (349+ words) As America approaches its 250th anniversary, much of the national conversation focuses on threats from abroad: China, cyber warfare, terrorism, economic instability. Those concerns matter. But our Founders feared something else even more dangerous: the erosion of a nation from within....
Letter to the editor: Weak, leftist leaders
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (136+ words) So the communists tried to assassinate the president again, now for the third time. They killed a healthcare CEO, they killed Charlie Kirk, and they want to kill the president. This tactic is not uncommon in the history of communist…...