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Joy Behar told her co-hosts Wednesday on ABC’s “The View” that the American voters will “get rid” of former President Donald Trump in the November election. During a discussion about Trump’s video message on abortion policy, co-host Whoopi Goldberg said, “50 years I have had this right, and here you’ve snatched this right out of my hands. You’ve taken my right as a woman to make decisions about myself and you’re bragging to me, and you want me to give you my vote?” Behar said, “You know, anything that he says could be translated to the following because he doesn’t...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen says she doubts that President Donald Trump has a good grasp of economic policy or even knows the Federal Reserve's mandates. "I doubt that he would even be able to say that the Fed's goals are maximum employment and price stability," Yellen said in an interview with radio program "Marketplace." She said Trump has made various inaccurate remarks about the Fed such as that the central bank has an objective for the exchange rate for the dollar that is aimed at supporting the president's trade policies. She said comments like that...

How Do I Get Rid Of An Email? I believed there was no sure way to eliminate an embarrassing Email or Internet posting. However, according to some recent news reports the IRS has discovered a way to eliminate select Emails.

Less than a month after reopening, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is full of algae, a sea of green overshadowing the nearly two-year, $34 million renovation of the famous site. [snip] “This is a direct consequence of the fact that this is a green project,” Johnson said. “The conditions are pretty good for algae, once it gets in there.”

BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Jan. 29, 2008 – Villagers in Afghanistan have helped coalition and Afghan security forces recover numerous weapons caches over the last two months, military officials reported. Villagers reported a weapons cache consisting of 30 rocket-propelled grenades and five anti-personnel mines Jan. 27, 2008, in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province. U.S. Army photo  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. By telling their nation’s security forces where weapons are hidden or turning them in to government authorities, the citizens are fulfilling a civic responsibility and showing that they’re tired of insurgent activity in their region, said Army Maj. Chris...

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Young guns conspire to get rid of Chirac By Philip Delves Broughton in Paris (Filed: 17/07/2004) President Jacques Chirac's ambition to run for a third term as president, when he will be 74, has provoked a crisis at the heart of his government and party which has now flared spectacularly into the open. A younger generation, led by Nicolas Sarkozy, the finance minister, is flagrantly conspiring to end Mr Chirac's political career on their timetable rather than his, ahead of the 2007 presidential election. Rebels say they are tired of his moderation and cronyism and that France desperately needs more...

HEAD lice prevented a family from entering a court room yesterday to face charges that they breached a ban on owning pets. Rachel Wetzig, 24, her mother Judith, 52, and brother Andrew, 27, were quarantined at the Brisbane Magistrate's Court yesterday. They have previously been accused of keeping kittens in a budgie cage and starving dogs of water despite a ban which prevented them from keeping animals. The family's Legal Aid lawyer, David Law, said his clients were at the courthouse yesterday but were not in the room because they had a contagious medical condition. When pressed for an explanation,...