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Judge orders Trump removed from Illinois primary ballots
New York Times, Published on 29/02/2024
» CHICAGO — A state judge in Illinois ruled Wednesday that former United States President Donald Trump had engaged in insurrection and was ineligible to appear on the state's primary ballot.
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Greece becomes first Orthodox country to allow same-sex marriage
New York Times, Published on 16/02/2024
» ATHENS — Greece legalised same-sex marriage and equal parental rights for same-sex couples Thursday as lawmakers passed a bill that has divided Greek society and drawn vehement opposition from the country’s powerful Orthodox Church.
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Marcos win prompts protests in the Philippines
New York Times, Published on 10/05/2022
» MANILA: Angry young voters gathered in the Philippines on Tuesday to protest against Ferdinand Marcos Jr, the son and namesake of the former dictator, who clinched a landslide victory this week in one of the most divisive presidential elections in the country’s recent history.
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US House passes $1tn Infrastructure bill
New York Times, Published on 06/11/2021
» WASHINGTON: The House passed a $1-trillion bill Friday night to rebuild the country’s ageing public works system, fund new climate resilience initiatives and expand access to high-speed internet service, giving final approval to a central plank of President Joe Biden’s economic agenda after a daylong drama that pitted moderate Democrats against progressives.
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‘Be There. Will Be Wild!’: Trump all but circled the date
New York Times, Published on 07/01/2021
» NEW YORK: For weeks, President Donald Trump and his supporters had been proclaiming Jan 6, 2021, as a day of reckoning. A day to gather in Washington to “save America” and “stop the steal” of the election he had decisively lost, but which he still maintained -- often through a toxic brew of conspiracy theories -- that he had won by a landslide.
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Trump hails 'historic' US tax reform
New York Times, Published on 21/12/2017
» WASHINGTON: The House planned to move quickly to hold a final vote on the tax bill after the Senate gave its approval early Wednesday. The House Rules Committee held an 8am (8pm Thailand time) meeting on the bill, a procedural step before the full House was set to vote later in the day.
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US lawmakers pass sweeping tax bill
New York Times, Published on 20/12/2017
» WASHINGTON: Republicans took a critical step toward notching their first significant legislative victory since assuming full political control, as the House and Senate voted along party lines Tuesday and into early Wednesday to pass the most sweeping rewrite of the tax code in decades.
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US vice-president casts tie-breaking health care vote
New York Times, Published on 26/07/2017
» WASHINGTON - The US Senate narrowly voted Tuesday to begin debate on a bill to repeal major provisions of the health care law, taking a pivotal step forward after the dramatic return of Senator John McCain (Republican, Arizona) who cast a crucial vote despite his diagnosis of brain cancer.
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As the French go to the polls, uncertainty is the only sure bet
New York Times, Published on 23/04/2017
» PARIS - For at least the last three French elections, voters in the town of Louviers, about 97km north-west of Paris, have cast ballots for the candidate who ultimately won the presidency. So who are they voting for Sunday, in the country’s closest race in memory?
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Internet attack spreads, disrupting major websites
New York Times, Published on 22/10/2016
» SAN FRANCISCO - Major websites were inaccessible to people across wide swaths of the United States on Friday after a company that manages crucial parts of the internet’s infrastructure said it was under attack.
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