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Voters Toss Out City Council Members for Removing Veterans Memorial

On November 2, the city council in a small Iowa town voted to remove a temporary memorial to fallen soldiers from a city park. The memorial was removed because an outside atheist group complained to the city that the memorial featured a Christian cross. Only a day after the council voted to remove the memorial, the town voted to remove the council members.

Turkey's vote

From AKP To HDP: The Main Parties In Turkey’s Vote

(AFP) – More than 54 million Turks are eligible to cast their votes in a snap election Sunday called following an inconclusive vote in June. After a deadly bombing in Ankara and a resurgence in the Kurdish conflict, opinion polls

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Hillary Clinton Staffers Drove ‘Ordinary Americans’ to Photo Op

As reporters literally ran to Hillary Clinton’s “Mystery Van’” campaign stops in Iowa on her first day of campaigning, what many did not report was that the “ordinary Americans” with whom she met for purportedly spontaneous discussions were actually plants. The meetings were scripted, pre-arranged affairs filled with people transported to the events by Hillary staffers.

AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici

Clashes Between Turkey and Kurdish PKK Threaten Fragile Peace Talks

A clash between the Marxist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and Turkish armed forces (TSK) left five militants dead and wounded four Turkish soldiers. The fight occurred despite the PKK leader’s call for a ceasefire in March. Now the fights threaten to end fragile peace talks while pro-Kurdish groups accuse Turkey of staging the attacks.

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Chicago Mayor Emanuel’s Deep Pocketed Republican Donor

As Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel makes his first bid for re-election in the Windy City, his opponent is running a populist campaign against Emanuel’s connections to the one percent. It is an easy argument to make with the big money donors Rahm has, especially his deep pocketed Republican backer, Billionaire Kenneth Griffin.

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Chicago Mayor Emanuel Desperate for Help from Republicans for Re-election

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has been one of the more famously partisan left-wingers in recent memory, but despite that reputation, he has been the happy recipient of millions in donations from Republicans in this political fight of his life. And desperate for support, Emanuel is turning to the city’s small GOP contingent to regain office.