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How Americans see illegal immigration, the border wall and political compromise

A standoff between President Donald Trump and Democratic congressional leaders over how to address unauthorized immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border has led to a partial shutdown of the federal government – one that soon could become the longest on record. ...

source: pew research



Goodbye winter - Never snow again?

Clashing cold winters are a thing of the past in Germany: "Winters with heavy frost and a lot of snow like twenty years ago will no longer exist in our latitudes," says scientist Mojib Latif from the Hamburg Max Planck Institute for Meteorology. ...

source: spiegel 2000-04-01 translate

source: spiegel 2000-04-01



This is how Kramp-Karrenbauer includes Merz into the party work

The head of the CDU has agreed with her former adversary Friedrich Merz: he should become a member of a circle of advisors on the social market economy. And he should accompany a further topic at a leading position. ...

source: welt translate

source: welt



Macron – No taxation without representation

The mass protests on the streets of French cities recall the first years of the American War of Independence. In the years before and during the American Independence Movement, the resentment that independence advocates harboured was that the Thirteen Colonies were obliged to pay taxes to the British Crown without being represented in the British Parliament by their own elected deputies. The slogan of the founding fathers of American democracy at the time was “No taxation without representation”. Nowadays it could be inscribed on the flags of the Yellow Vests, the movement that opposes additional taxation by Macron’s government. ...

source: gefira



Christophe Castaner denounces the "imbeciles" who have degraded nearly 60% of fixed speed cameras

The Interior Minister, Christophe Castaner, on Thursday called "fools" saboteurs road radars, which are recruiting particular, according to him, among the "Yellow Vests". ...

source: l'independant translate

source: l'independant

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