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US President Donald Trump has denied using crude words attributed to him about Haiti, El Salvador and African countries. Reports that he had called them “s---hole countries” in an Oval Office meeting generated a backlash worldwide. One UN official called the remarks racist and said they opened “the door to humanity’s worst side”. But Mr. Trump has tweeted that “this was not the language” he used in a meeting about immigration. He wrote that the language he used was “tough, but this was not the language used”. The Washington Post, the New York Times, Politico and the Wall Street Journal...

But part of the phenomenon long precedes YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and social media dictating the news. It's the American cult of victimization You’ve been snookered folks! By that poor elderly doctor who was involuntarily dragged from his seat, had his face smashed in, and was beaten unconscious by the evil airport security at the behest of United Airlines. Because there’s no evidence any of that was true. It was in fact a premeditated temper tantrum gone viral, comprising one 69-year-old Vietnamese-American David Dao, a medical doctor who lost his license, planning a lawsuit from the moment United first politely asked...

It is hard to believe, given that the Nazi term Lügenpresse has recently been repopularized by the far right, but the media has never been as trusted in Germany as now, a new study claims. Every Monday in Dresden, angry demonstrators march for the anti-Islam movement Pegida, holding up signs denouncing the mainstream media as the Lügenpresse (lying press) for its alleged covering up of crimes committed by immigrants. The term Lügenpresse was a favorite description of Hitler’s propagandist Joseph Goebbels for the non-German press. But an annual study conducted by the University of Würzburg last week shows that German...

According to new figures released by The Associated Press on Saturday, Clinton received more than 1.5 million votes more than her Republican rival. As of Saturday, Clinton had received 63,390,669 votes, while Trump received 61,820,845 votes -- a difference of 1,569,824, according to The AP. Rounded off to whole numbers, that translates to 48 percent vs. 47 percent.

Germany has endured its worst few weeks of civil unrest and politically motivated violence since the days of the Nazis. Police officers, politicians, journalists but above all refugees have been the target of thugs protesting the country's open-door policy towards migrants. The refugee crisis has changed Germany and, while Chancellor Angela Merkel believes it will be ultimately for the better, the dark parallels with the past continue to mount up.